Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-15
TENNESSEE TOPICS.

A number of persons, principally from the
| North, are settling in Knoxville.
Dyer county is overlooked from the Missis.
sippi river and its tributaries. 1t cover.
about sixty miles of territory from east tc
west.
Union City's sanitary condition is fan
from good. A glance down its alleys will
disclose an unsightly mass OF filth and rub
bish. So says its paper.
At Gleason meat is out of the question
-four is low in the barrel, gravy is thin ana
watery, wood piles look like a coon's nest
and the devil is to pay generally.
Forward corn in Dyer county was nearly 3
failure last yesr-the average yield being
| four to iys barrels per acre; it is now worth
50 per barrel, and meal 81 per bushel.
The farmers i'll some sections Of the State
are very uneasy lest their wheat crop be in
jured by the spring frosts, as it is heading
out. Otherwise, crops are looking fine.
George Cowan, thorse-thief, walked into
Fayetteville and informed the city marshal
that he intended stealing a horse before he
left town. He carried out his intention and
is now in Jail.
Dresden Democrat: THE people in this
neighborhood are making larger prepare
lions for crop this season than ever before
known. There will be a large acreage of
tobacco planted in this vicinity. Wheat
looks promising"
Lake county differs from every other
county in the State in several respects. 1t
is the smallest in West Tennessee, and the
richest in the State. 1t has no hills; it is
wholly bottom land, and ii land can be too
rich, this county is.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen of
Union City taking some steps to put
down the midnight revels of drunken row
dies They have passed law making it q
misdemeanor for person to be on the street
after II o'clock unless he can give satisfac-
tory evidence that he is on lawful business
Dyersburg Clipper: "The colored cabin boy
on the Mark TWAIN, John Parker, who was sent
to the country last week with the smallpox
died Thursday. The authorities were trying
to get him buried which they thought would
be done Friday. Friday night the house in
which the corpse was lying, on the Connel
farm east of town, was burned with the corpse
in it."
Alamo Sentinel: "The continued, almost
incessant, rains have disheartened the farm
ers in their preparations to pitch their
crops. .Thieying is getting to be rather
too common in this county. In a tenn
perance address the Rev. J. d. Birch, from
the statistical reports, showed that the people
of Tennessee pay S3S per c1pitG per annum
annum for religion and g OF for education.
Gallatin Examiner: "The city is crowded
with tramps and Migrants. Some OF our
young men are in trouble; the grand jury
have been looking into gamblinghouse af-
fairs. -. Farmers have commenced sowing
oats but owing to the excessive wet weather,
are making poor progress. Wheat has never
looked so well within the memory OF the old
est inh abitants' at this season of the wear.
Since the illicit making and selling of
spurious liquors has been suppressed in Mad
der Hill We have quite different times In
stead of our young men going to church in
toxicated and disturbing public worship as
was often the case, they now attend churches
and social gatherings, and seldom if ever the
least disturbance OF any character"
Chattanooga Times: Fourteen women are
in Jail, and the woman's cell is only ten feet
long by five broad. Inhuman. A great
revival in the Methodist church, corner of
Sixth and Chestnut; fifty additions and
sixty conversions. The city marshal
reports: I'VE need more room or cells. To
contine fifteen or eighteen persons IN a room
twelve feet square is unhealthy lanes
Ayres was brought in custody from Marion
county. He is charged with agreeing to
permit man named Allen TO marry his sis
ter on condition that Allen permitted him
was accepted, and both weddings took place.
The parties were at once arrested for bigamy,
but Allen succeeded in escaping. Mira. Allen
night, and Ayres is now the only one remain
ing to suffer the penalty. 80. The city is en-
Joined from using its pesthouse; it is not
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