Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-07
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

A COLLEGE of bishops meets 10 Nashville
in May.
The new waterworks mains at Knoxville
are nearly complete.
Coal CREEK is sending in immense trains
OF coal to Knoxville.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala, has four murder cases
set Tor trial next term.
ROADS in bad condition is now the stand
ing complaint in the country.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle says there is not
now smallpox case in their county.
THERE is an outbreak OF smallpox at
Cooperstown, Robertson county, Tenn.
KNOXVILLE has eight cases OF smallpox in
the pesthouse; six were from the country.
THE temperance ladies of Little Rock
hold regular meetings and are winning con-
veris.
G. W. CABLE, the most attractive Ameri-
can novel writer Of the day, lectures at Nash
vile next month,
THEY have temperance coffee-house at
Clarksville, and the ladies give pleasant
oyster suppers there.
REVENUE officers cay that good deal of
illicit whisky is manufactured in the country
about Huntsville, Ala.
THE 0uchita and Choctaw railroad has
been surveyed to Washington, Ark, and is
to pass through that town.
An Arkansas paper accuses Van Buren, oil
"becomiug more bsrberous." A new shaver
had opened his shop there.
THERE is hourishing stsve factory at
May flower, Ark, which is shipping its work
to all parts of the Union.
EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark, now reached by
railroad, is preparing to become formidable
rival 10 Hot Springs next summer.
GAINESVILLE, Tenn, has organized dane
ing club. The Tobacco Waltz and Cigar
Qaadrille" are expected TO be popular.
The Clarksville (Tenn.) people congratu-
late themselves upon their fireworks; the
FIRE plugs prove efficient in extinguishing
fires.
TIE Nashville American describes svac-
cine farm" FIVE miles from that city, where
heifers are kept and virus obtained from
them.
ToDD county, KY, and Clarksville, Tenn,
are in conference respecting the construction
of q narrow-guage railroad from Elkton to
GAINESVILLE.
AT Henderson, Tenn, they are taking a
vote as to who lie the ugliest man in the
place-the girls are canyassing for their ia
vorite candidates.
In GAINESVILLE, Tenn, physicians are en-
ployed to 60 from house to house, vaccinat-
ing all who may require. That is the right
kind of quarantine.
AT the Chattanooga shops . workman " as
lying under a car repairing it; an engine
was run against it and the car-wheel passed
over his neck and killed him.
VICTIMS to the toy pistol are continually
sacrificed, as our country exchanges show,
but nobody calls upon the Legislature to
prohibit the sale of those articles.
JAMES SUTTON, of New York, is in East
Tennessee collecting information respecting
the summer resorts of that delightful part
| of our country; he intends publication.
A DORSEY county, Ark, correspondent of
| the Little Rock DeaoGat writes that the three
mile local option law works well there; it
checks drinking and has but few opponents.
AT Hope, Ark company is putting up
buildings and machinery for the manufae-
| ture Of refrigerators and wooden cutters.
No wonder immigrants flock to Arkansas.
TIE directors OF the Brownsville Manu-
facturing Company are winding up the BUSH
mesa The Brownsville Stqtes says the dirsc-
tors are liable and wealthy, and all debts
will be paid.
THERE were no new cases OF smallpox at
Nashville on Wednesday. Quarantine and
vaccination keeps it down. Many OF the
children have been Withdrawn from the
public schools on account Of it.
TIE Purdy (Tenn.) Independent says the