Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-15
TENNESSEE TOPICS.

Coal Creek coal is retailing at twenty
| three cents a bushel in attanocga.
| Franklin Review: "Rev. Oh. NJ Grey has
been inaugurated rector of st. Paul's church
here"
Smallpox is reported to be spreading over
Knox county, but as yet there are no cases
in Knoxville.
A Tennessee paper before us says: "Mrs.
Jackson was right sick last week" What
was the fright" involved?
! Lusby, who pursued, shot and killed Will
Mabry Christmas eve, was committed to jail
at Knoxville, and an application to let him
out on bail was refused Tuesday.
Belleville Progress: "There is move on
| foot TO abolish the corporation of Gadsden
| for the purpose of getting rid OF the saloons.
....-.... The new academy at this place is
about completed, and it is a substantial
structure"
The Knoxville Chronicle says that T. F.
Walker, an ex-printer, formerly known in
Knoxville, but more recently an ex-police-
man in Chattanooga, attempted to kill HIM
self by cutting his throat, Monday night
while confined in Jail for assaulting his WIFE
His life was saved however.
Hogs appear TO fare luxuriously in East
Tennessee. A correspondent of the Middle
ton NetCs writes: 81 will suggest the import
ance of farmers raising plnmbs and peaches
for their hogs. By having great variety of
each hogs can be keptin thriving order"
A Jasper dispatch says South Pittsburg in
that county, has now population of fifteen
hundred, and the iron furnace there puts out
seventy tons of pig a day. The Victoria
works, eight railes from Jasper, are making
friedrich and mining coal. These are the
sort of enterprises to make Tennessee pros
porous.
Nashville Banner: "a man. whose name
is suppressed. stepped into the First National
Bank the other day and presented forged
check for a small amount of money-say
$50 or $40. The teller cashed the check, for
reasons known to himself. To-day the same
man presented another forged check for
$500. The bank officials were prepared tor
him and invited him into their parlor, where
he was confronted with his guilt. He con-
fessed and plead for mercy, which was
granted. He has settled up the affair .........
Suffering from attacks on the lungs and
throat is common in Nashyile.........T Ten
prisoners confined in the Rutherford county
JAIL at Murfreesboro, succeeded in making
their escape from that institution Wednesday
evening by cutting their way out with an old
knife. The alarm was given soon after their
departure, and the citizens turned out and
recaptured all of them"
Nashville Americn: miss Champnay,
sent among the colored people by the Ameri-
can Missionary Society, left the company of
some ladies with whom she had been shop
ping saying she would be back in fifteen
minutes At midnight she had not been
seen and fears were entertained. james
Fite Brooke, who has spent eleven out of
twenty-five years of his life in the peniten-
tiary, went to the race-track Tuesday and
burned six stacks of hay, valued at $780, |
Brooks lay in a fence-corner and compla- |
Gently watched the efforts of citizens to ex-
tinguish the fire. He told Policeman Nc
Kinney that he was sent TO the penitentiary |
for having burned house in East Teunes- |
see. Brooks said he did not know where he |
was from and could neither read Dor write |
49,. Six colored men were arrested for |
stealing large amount Of goods from three |
railroad cars. Rev. Joel Jones, Baptist, |
died on Wednesday 49,. A cigar factory has |
been added to Nashville enterprises"
Nashville World: Nashville needs a So
ciety like the one at Memphis, for the sup
preston OF cruelty to animals. 80. Nash
villeis lumber sales last year, IN round num-
bers, foot up something like one hundred |
million five hundred thousand feet oak, ash,
hickory, poplar, cherry, gum, cedar and wal
nut, principally poplar, amounting TO little
over two and half million dollars. 49,.
Governor Hawkins states that in the event
of another meeting of the legislature, he
viii call attention to the subject of removing
the State penitentiary.. A survey of
Nashville Is ordered with view 10 improv-
ing the sewerage. At the trial Of the
negro, the Rev. T. Nightingale, the testimony
showed that Nightingale was called before
the congregation on the charge of seduciDg
a female member OF his flock, named Amanda
Carpenter. A vote was taken az to whether
the erring sister should be retained in the
fold, which resulted in her expulsion The
witness said that the congregation then voted
whether not the pulpit should be declared
vacated Inconsistent as il may seem, the
question was decided in the negative The
manifest injustice of this course Is said to have
so enraged the sisters of the congregation
that they murmured. shrieked, and finally
bolted out of the church in the highest state
of righteous indignation. -. Nashville ia
arranging to have a free bridge over the
rivArD l..