Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-05
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Knoxville is sick and sorry-Houk il
| going to make speech there.
The Paris huteNigencer reports a prospec
of the best wheat crop ever made in tina
region.
The Dresden Democrat reports a good pros
! pect for wheat; fruits uninjured and prom
ising fair yield.
The number of bales of cotton shipped
from Pulaski this season is 1000; last season
it was 1900. This was the effect of the
drouth.
The students in Vanderbilt Collegs, Nash.
vile, have adopted the "mortar-boarf
caps, and have created quite fitrore on the
streets.
The Chattanooga Times and the Knoxville
Chronicle are carrying on lively dispute a:
to which of the two towns is the "iron GEN.
ter" of Tennessee.
At dayton the fruit crop is badly injured
by The last cold snap, only scattering or
chard 10 be found that will yield any fruit
peaches especially.
Bolivar Bulletin: ''The wheat and oai
crops are looking very promising, and more
corn has thus far been planted than at this
time in any previous year."
Kingston East 7enressean: "a colored girl,
aged about twelve years, living near Bullett's
branch, deliberately walked into the river
near that point and was drowned Saturday"
Pulaski Citizen: "Farmers have taken the
opportunity offered by the pretty weather
and have planted nearly all their corn crop,
and are now ready TO prepare their cotton
land. If nothing prevents crops will be
planted at least one month sooner this spring
than last. Planting of corn is at least one
month ahead"
jackson Wig: "The Ladies of the Sill
yer Thimble had broom drill in contest
with the dry goods clerks; the latter wait
upon the ladies in the stores and understand
their tactics, so they won. 49,. "A profess
sional rat-kilIer would find good business at
Jackson. Buffalo gnats have killed sew
eral head of stock ..... The literary So
cieiy is fourishihg and prosperous.
jackson has extended itself to the breadth of
two fire-engines, and appears determined to
get into line with other fiourishing towns
it is actually talking about getting water
works Humboldt was TO have a balloon
ascension on Saturday; the temperance
cause is looming up there"
Knoxville Chronicle: "The most popul ar
theme OF conversation On the streets and in
business and social circles now is the Knox
vile Cotton Mills, the company for the
establishment of which was formed Thurs
day, with a capital stock of $3.50 900, nearly
half of which was subscribed on the spot.
.. The stone-crusher was operated yes
terday, and the longer 1t works the more
satisfactory it becomes. 1t is now conceded
by all that it will crush 100 cubic yards in
ten hours. -......It is said that Major H. NJ.
Aiken, proprietor of the Rogersville and
Jefferson railroad, contemplates the extern
sion of his line from Rogersville TO the mar
bic quarries in Choptack, as far as John
Hasson's quarry. The Anderson family
are kept IN smallpox quarantine, and the
city provides them with food. -. The
revival among the negroes is beginning to
manifest itself out of church, and We learn
of several instances of converts becoming
temporarily unbalanced and imagining that
they see the divinity at every street corner,
and that every doorway is an entrance into
paradise"
Jackson Tribune: ''The Mormon elder for
Tennessee and adjoining States left last week
for Utah with about $50 converts, most
ly young unmarried men and women, from
East Tennessee and North Georgia. ........
Good tidings OF the wheat CROP. Too
much dog in this city; woman bitten in
the arm by ne.........A man beat this city
out of about 500 some two weeks ago by
representing himself az an agent to collect
money for the relief OF the sufferers by over
flow in Lake county ....... Cotton came in
lively this week, and prices were good The
receipts were heavier than for several weeks
past. Some nights ago dogs killed sew
eral sheep for Mr.. George NJ. Robinson.
Thursday night watch was kept, but still
the dogs got in their work, killing three or
four fine lambs. -Four dogs were killed, and
we hope many more will bite the dust.
A good prospect at present for peaches.
Old farmers report more corn planted this
month than on any former one. $50 far
frosts have not injured fruits OF any kind,
and the prospect for large yield is good.
- The fruit crop in East and Middle
Tennessee is almost entirely destroyed, but
as yet in West Tennessee all fruit is sound
and promising"
Nashville Banner: "The Ladies' Broom