Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-27
ALI OVER THE STATE.

Merchants throughout the State report
business very dull. 81
Twelve feet eight inches of rain fell at
Nashville from January LIST to 21st.
Over five thousand sufferers by backwater
were furnished with food at Nashville FRI
| day and Saturday.
VIM. Deadrick, colored, was arrested Sat
urday for trying TO wreck an East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia train at Athens.
The work on the new penitentiary build
ing at Nashville has been suspended on ac-
count OF the brickyards being overlooked.
Al sh4I tS on Saturday during Gght
| spected citizen, on the head with billet of
wood. Scruggs died and Brown fled.
Five convicts escaped last night from the
works at the Indian Gap tunnel, about three
miles below Jonesboro. The floods give no
chance OF following them successfully.
The Elk Valley Coal Company is now out
on the line of the Knoxville and Ohio rail
road, securing tracts of coal land. This
company was formed at Louisville, Ken
lucky.
AT Chattanooga, on Monday, another case
of smallpox was developed in the hospital.
1t was contracted from the tramp who came
about three weeks ago from Cincinnati with
the disease, and died about week since at
the hospital.
At Knoxville, the Cincinnati Commercial
says, civil-service reform has been at work
Commissioner-ofP Pensions Dudley has, with
in the past few days, requested the resigna-
ton OF the Board of Pension Examiners
there. No reason for this action of the COM
missioner is assigned. All three are well
known and consistent Republicans and men
of good character. The change is attributed
to Representative HoHk.
Al
day of sunshine this year. -. No further
deaths from smallpox in the infected regions
near Graveston and House mou ntain, sixteen
or eighteen miles from Knoxville, since the
last report and no further spread of the dis
ease outside of the infected families all of
which are closely and carefully guarded.
Four new cases are reported in those fam
lilies, one of which proved fatal"
During the past two weeks two mysterious
attempts have been made to assassinate Dr. |
Simmons, one OF the most prominent ply
sicians of Walker county. The first time |
the bullets OF the assassin were buried in the |
wall, just above his head, and the second |
time, while visiting patient, his horse was
stopped and the assassins took good sim,
pulled the trigger, but the gun missed FIRE,
and the doctor escaped by putting spurs to
his horse. He does not know why his life is
sought.
NdauNiilt <1MeTtcUH. H. an, IN
charge of the bridge at Johnsonville, caught
a floating house yesterday morning. 1t was
found to contain twenty-four live hogs,
about two hundred pounds each.
Drake, colored man, was
drowned in the backwater, near the corner OF
High and Line streets, yesterday afternoon.
Drake was in canoe, and when the accident
happened was attempting to save a house,
which he feared would float away 49,. The
project for free bridge over the Cumber-
land is still eagerly discussed"
Nashville Banner: 1--WE are now in the in
cipient stages of revival of religion in our
city. -. The river is rapidly falling ........
Only one life has been lost in the city from
the hood-a negro who was accidentally
water was on Sunday night, when the Bread
street gauge read 50 $40 feet, showing this
rise OF 1882 to be the highest known in the
B istory of the Cumberland Many of the
poor have to be assisted, and Contributions
are actively collecting. -. The flood has
kept business very duh for two weeks"
Nashville Bonner: "The news that the
liver is falling causes rejoicing. In the
midst OF the direst distress the small boy
will be happy, he is to be seen in boats or on
ats of every conceivable shape.
The citizens living in the vicinity of the
bottom on Front, Market, College, Cherry
md Sumner streets have, many of them,
,iven up portions of their houses to those
Fho have been made homeless by the water.
Some timeago the First National Bank
II this city issued check to james b. Rob-
nson, Of Texas, for SIS. The check fell
nto other hands and it was raised TO $500,
}obinson's name was erased and another sub
tituted in its stead. The Continental Bank
f New York cashed the check for Texas
'ank, through which it was drawn. Recently
he Fourth National Bank of Nashville
ssued its check to a man in Galveston for
is; the check came into possession Of james
3. Robinson, and he had it cashed in bank !
n Galveston for $500, it having been raised |
0 that amount"