Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-26
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The laboring people, white and colored,
in Columbia are doing better than IN any
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have employment at good wages.
Columbia is proud of its new operahouse.
....... Citizens there are looking with much
interest for the appearance of the frs. num-
Der of Ralph S. SAunders's new journal. He
was for many years a citizen and sn editor
in Maury county.
writer from Knoxville says that in that
very religious city the women who are put
in the city prison are set to work ''on rock
piles" whatever work that may be, in pub
lac view on one of the principal thorough
fares. This is disgraceful to Knoxville.
Cotton mills are popular institutions in
Tennessee; there is one now building 10
Memphis, one building in Franklin, $25 900
raised toward one in Jackson; Paris has one
in project; at Pulaski the mill pays thirty per
cent. The Hickman county Pinewood mill
is doing we'll.
Norristown Gazette: "WiIlie Humphrey,
boy twelve years of age, met with shock
ing death on the railroad near johnson City
last Thursday. He was in a stock gap pit.
and while endeavoring to climb out had his
head severed completely from his body by a
passing freight train"
Paris Post: "During the storm last Fri
day evening the east dome of the county Jail
was struck by lightning. The building was
damaged considerably. The prisoners were
not disturbed in the. least Mr.. Cook had
some bacon hanging on the wall where the
lightning struck, and it reduced 1t to a
jelly"
Troy (Obion county, Bonner. "On Sunday
night Miss Dida Callcot started to church on
horseback. The horse became frightened
from some cause, and in his terror reared
up, throwing his rider to the ground. She
fell backward, partly alighting on her feet,
bruising her up considerably, but not hurt
ing her seriously. In the fall, the horse
struck his head against some object, breaking
his skull and dying instantly"
The capitol grounds at Nashville were
lighted up on Thursday night by electric
lights placed on the cupola. Several lights
were burning in various parts of the city
also. The capitol grounds became a fairy
scene, gszed upon by 10000 pairs of eyes.
The American says: at has as light for
street purposes many points of excellence
over gas. 1t does away with the constant
expenditures Of SO many posts, all obnoxious
odors, and gives such an increased volume
of light over that of gas that the difference
is astonishing"
Brownsville Democrat: "There are seven
cases OF smallpox on Mr.. Pat Mann's farm
among the negroes. They caught it from
the pesthouse in some way-.--...Captain
Stokes, an old river man, was killed by buf-
falo gnats, last week on Hatchie river, near
Henning's Station. He had been fishing a
trot line all the evening, and he was so in
tent upon his occupation he did not pay at
tention to the millions of gnats biting him.
That night his face and head was so badly
swollen from the poison that he died after
intense suffering. 1t was sad case.
Nashville B1lner: The electric lights
blazed again last night. The light is sue
cess and perfectly practicable. III There
will be another extra session and the legisla-
tors will be with us a month yet. 49,. One of
our street railroads is for sale. There is
no doubt that Jesse James formerly lived in
Nashville under the name OF Howard -.
Large numbers of fine fish, such as trout,
perch, cat, ETC., are daily caught from the
streams of West and Big Harpeth ia Will
Hanson county, little baby daugh-
ter of Mr.. Guthrie, of Gallatin, got hold of a
cup with some concentrated lye in it and
drank it; the little thing is in great danger.
-. The boys are all in fever Of walking
matches; good exercise for them"