Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-31
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Chattanooga began shipping peaches on
Thursday.
Lauderdale county in now shipping vast
quantities of sawn lumber.
Cotton receipts at Covingtoa up 20 Wednes-
day night, inclusive, 4035 bales.
Nashville has a steam saw-mill which is
fixed on a boat, and will go above the falls
on the upper Cumberland and there saw up
the thousands of waiting saw-logs.
Paris InteLigeneer, 25th: "On Monday
morning last DIR. Wilson's tobacco factory at
Cottage Grove was consumed by IRE, the
work of an incendiary. 1t contained large
amount OF tobacco. Loss, S50OO."
Nashville American: "Dr. Whittemore,
the Jail physician, has been put under bonds
on the charge of taking bride of s. 10 give
a certificate OF ill-health to a prisoner by
which he got into the hospital and escaped.
Nashville American: "A man named
Craighead was found dead in house on
Vine street, between Line and Crawford,
having died of smallpox. Also boy was
found near Judges Spring who had escaped
from the pesthouse."
After the adjournment of the convention
at Knoxville Saturday last, F. G. Heiskell
and J. w. Caldwell, two prominent citizens.
had fight, which at one time promised TO
be serious, but friends interposed and the
fireworks were postponed.
Lebanon: At the Circuit Court person
who had sold liquor within four miles of a
church or school, contrary to law, was fined
500 and sentenced to thirty days in Jail be-
side ......... The young ladies of the broom
brigade are drilling vigorously.
Knoxville Chronicle, 26th: "On Wednesday
near House mountain, sixteen miles from
Knoxville, Ed III. Evans stabbed to the heart
and killed John Walker, youth OF eighteen,
whom he accused OF having spoken disre-
specially of his sister. The murderer is in
Jail"
At Waverly, on Tuesday, Rev. I. Davis,
colored, was arrested on the charge of rape;
he was an Ohio echool teacher formerly.
Two persons happening to pass the store OF
S. N. Williams, at Huntingdon, on Wednes-
day night, frightened off burglars who had
drilled hole near the safe lock and placed
a cartridge in it ready to explode.
A lockwood correspondent of the KNOX
Vile Chronicle writes: son Saturday night
we could have believed the cowboys had
possession of the town. The firing of pistols,
whoopiDg, etc, made night hideous. DIR.
Stewart had horse killed, and Mr.. Gardner
a mule wounded in the shoulder. Mr.. Gard
ner is a poor man, and can i'll afford to lose
the use Of the animal. Law and order,
which has seemed to be at a discount here
tofore, Is now enforced. Mr.. Norman and
Mr.. Myers were arrested for selling crooked
whisky. A few men employed by the Roane
Iron Company have been dismissed for their
participation in Saturday nights orgies, and
others are spotted"
Nashville Banner: "The Woodland street
railroad has Issued a notice that their fare
is reduced to two cents. Ii is more than mile
long. The respectable uptown bloods'
are preparing Nashville for a Cincinnati
Sunday law. They visit the gardens on Sum
days, getting drunk and acting in adipgrsce-
full manner az they return up town. They
insult ladies, swear and yell with impunity.
...... Another case Of smallpox was sent to
the pesthouse on Sunday .......-- The fare On
the Fatherland street railway is three and
half cents A little negro child on Sum-
mer street was severely bitten by rats on
Tuesday night, seven Of which were killed
before they could escape"
Columbia Herald: "Dan Kannon, a negro
who murdered his wife and her child in
1870, was arrested last week. He told the
Herald reporter that be had been separated
from his wife three years, during which time
she had child; they went together again,
when he Reproduced her about the child.
This is how he killed them: He placed
stick across the child's neck and he put both
of mis- feet on the stick, at the same time
catching the child by the feet AMI pulling
them, which broke its neck. He then killed
his wife with fence-rail, and started TO a
thicket nearby with a rope in his hand, say
ing he was going TO hang himself He
thinks his wife was eaeieHte at the time"