Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-23
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The Oneida Coal Company, of Scott coun
ty, has received a charter.
The Brush Electric Light Company, o.
Nashville, is commencing operations.
Cleveland is jubilant over the prospect o.
the Western North Carolina railroad being
built to that place.
Work ia still progressing on the narrow
gauge railroad leading from the foot OF Wal
denis Ridge to Dayton.
The recent heavy rains have caused los:
of fully $4,000 by slides, etc, on the Ten
nessee and Sequschee Valley railroad.
Commissioner Hawkins is making arrange
ments TO hold a series of farmers institutes
at various points of the State this year.
Knoxville is rejoicing in the possession of
a civ clock which is forty inches in diam
eter. Memphis has not one city clock.
The Brownsville Democrat says: "a hall
a dozen welI-conducted drinking saloons
would decrease drunkenness in this town.
Mr.. J. L. Hoge, of Pikeville, has bank
of camel coal about two miles from that
place, which is pronounced equal to any in
the famous Schuylkill regions Of Psnnsyl-
vania.
The Dyersburg Gazette says the river at
that point is higher than 1t has been Tor
many years, and all communication with the
people across the river is entirely cut Oft ez-
cept by use of ferryboats. All the low land
between Dyersburg and the mouth OF the
river is entirely submerged and much stock
has persisted.
Dversburg Clipper "What Dyersburg
needs is more money and more religion.
We recommend to our City Board the ex-
pedieucy of appointing committee to walt
on the devil and request his Satanic Majesty
to hold up on Dyersburg till We get the
railroad 49,. Mrs. Sarah j. Hampton, OF
this county, committed suicide on the 9TH
instant by hanging herself with arope."
Chattanooga Times: "Two moonshiners ar
rested and brought in ........Our merchants
state that trade was much more satisfactory
during the past week than for several months
49,. There is not a whisky dIstillery in
this the sixth division of the Fifth district
The latest accounts from the explosion
at Gainesville report ten deaths in all up to
date. The remainder, with the exception OF
a coiored man named Bob Patterson, will
ultimately recover. Superintendent Lucas
is improvipg -. The road to Lookout has
been SO bad as to stall and damage the hacks;
men are at work on it.........A An Ohio sheep
raiser has opened a sheep range at Rock
wood, Roane county"
Nashville American: Nashville boasts a
lotus circle; the Memphis sunfower psral-
telegram Is not yet completed. NO" tue
price of corn has fallen, many of the sus-
pended distilleries in this district will soon
be again put into operation. The river
has continued over thirty feet above low
water mark for the past six weeks, and con-
sequently a number OF houses are still under
water. North Summer and North Vine
streets have been submerged and impossible
for weeks .Diyest the streets on Sunday
of the young men, and the pilgrimage OF the
Young ladies to church would be a forlorn,
dreary and desolate affair. 1t is now
thought that the only oil in Cannon county
is above, and not below, the surface OF the
earth, but the boring is downward -.
Private masquerades are Just now the fash
ionable thing at Nashville. 80. Whoeping
cough is troubling the little dears. There
is too much cruelty to animals and too many
dogs. -. Rents of small houses are too
high"