Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-12
THE STATE AT LARGE.

Mr. d f Caldwell is about to establish
dramatic paper in Knoxville.
Shelbyville i, going to vote az to whether
the town shall surrender its charter.
Cotton receipts at Covipgton depot, up 10
Wednesday night inclusive, 1906 bales.
TIE General conference Of the Methodist
Church, South, meets at Nashville in May.
The Chat anooga iolks are in glee at the
prospect OF having an operahouse built there.
TIE propagation OF fi,h ia becoming an
important industry i'll Tennessee. All the
best and most productive foreign varieties
have been introduced into the State within
the past five years, and the reams are now
plentifully supplied.
Madison, Monroe county, boasts oil having
five churches, no saloons and no druakards,
something worth boasting of. The farmers
are behind-wheat looks we'll, but they have
not done sowing oats, and have done but lit
tie blowing for corn and Gotten.
An Athens correspondent of the Chatta-
nooga lines writes: THE wheat fields pre-
sent an unusually promising appearance,
and we learn the acreage is immense.
We we're surprised to find many emigrat-
ing from this section OF the State. Even
from SweetHater Valley, that land Of Goshen,
they are leaving in great numbers. Some
forty or fifty have left on the dOwn-train at
Philadelphia, some bound for northern Iowa
and others for the boundary line between
Kansas and Missouri. A good number OF
young men, the bone and sinew of the coun-
Upton Record: zone of our livery men
informed Us the other day that he was now
paying 81 per 100 pounds for fodder and
81 80 for oais ......... Monday morning the
passenger train on the Chesapeake, Ohio and
Southwestern railroad was passing over the
levee, few hundred yards this side of Wolf
river, the IRE in the engine was put out BY
water running into the fre-boI. The
train coming up from Memphis to Coving-
ton, in crossing Wolf river bottom, ran
through water 100 feet at a time in some
places; and Tuesday morning going down
the water in LoOsahatchie bottom was about
a foot over the track"
Nashville Banner: "The East Nashville
mills have shut down on account OF flood.
......... Nashville amuees itself Just now by
trips on skiffs and dugouts, taking their
pleasure, or gathering wood. -. a Boston
Psychologist says kissing is not healthy, and
some OF the Nashville girls are testing the
matter by experiments st. Anne
church foundation ia now building from
stone taken from the old Tennessee Bank.
1.-Two removes are bad q FIRE,
and very many of the Nashville people are
compelled by water to move q second time.
......... 1t is probable that the governor will
commute the death sentence of Andrew
Jackson White, for the murder of James P
Cloudy in Dickson county, in January, 1881,
on account of his weak mind"
Chattanooga Times: ave have several
cases of pneumonia. Mr.. Cracker, who
was robbed of Sl016 by a confidence man. has
left town hopeless of recovering it. Emil
grafton is at present unprecedented. Nearly
every day from 100 to $50, and sometimes
more, pass through this city and leave for
points West by the various lines. 1t is also
very evident that they constitute better
class of farmers than have customarily Left
this vicinity. They come principally from
western North Carolina AMI southeast Ten
nessee. $50. The East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia railroad recently paid their 1881
taxes, amounting to about Sl027, but back
taxes to the amount of S1043 still remain
unpsid; likewise back taxes of the Western
and Atlantic railroad amounting to SSl95,
and OF the Alabama Great Southern railway
amounting TO Slopes SO with interest. 800.
DIR. Hope had bright little negro errand
boy, and the little fellow was discovered to
have obtained s. or 81 worth of articles on
orders forged by him in the doctors name.
The forgeries were executed in q very skill
full manner. Nelson is very bright and in
telligest, and learned to initiate DR.. Hopes
chirography by examining receipts which he
had given the boys father in business
transaction between them He escaped"