Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-16
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

THE pillow is much used implement IN
the country places just now.
KkoxvILLE and Marysville, East Tennes-
see, are to be put in telephone connection.
The Bonner says the few bicycles that
used TO show in their streets have dissp-
peared.
MoRMoNs about in the South, look after
your daughters that are triflpg and your
sons that are fools.
THERE is Mozart Society at Nashville,
and it gave the Legislature free concert at
the beginning OF the week.
A PULASKI paper wants to know how q
negro gets a living who has nothing, never
works, and never looks hungry.
THERE ia a member of the Legislature at
Nashville that is always spoken of as "Tke
member from the seed-iick district"
KNOXVILLE library is going on well, six-
teen citizens subscribed $500, and a large
addition has bsen made TO the number of
books.
FIVE saw-mills at Chattanooga can turn
out 100000 feet OF lumber every ten hours,
yet the supply is not equal to the home de-
msnd.
are that the fruit crop is going to be a fall
mornings has been too low"
The Nashville Board of Health recon.
mend a supply of wholesome wafer as u
necessity for that city, and they do not drink
Wolf river mud soup either.
CAPT. MAT. G. WILSON, now at Sch ubert's
European Hotel, will manage the famous
Moutvale Springs the coming season. He
will open in the middle OF May.
NJ Il
lately of New York, is now proprietor OF
manage them the coming summer.
AT Chattanooga, on Monday, Richard
Howard was shot By Geo. W. Ooha, local ed
itor of the Chattanooga Times The wound
was slight. Howard assaulted Ochs about
something he had written in the Times.
Chattanooga Times: "Forest fires were
ridges we're etreaked with bright lines OF
fame Famed by the high wind, the fires
burned fercely and at times became very
dangerous"
The Knoxville Tribune tells of dog run
ming the streets there with tin kettle to his
tail. He ran against a horse that, thor.
oughly frightened, kicked the dog in the air
who was landed, tin kettle and all, inside a
BARRIERS shop through a smashed window.
NASHVILLE is troubled with smallpox
vet the Banner says: THE yellow flags thai
have been so thick in the vicinity of the
Third Baptist church, on Jefferson street, are
growing sgreeably lees in number" More
vaccination and fewer fags are wanted il
Nashville.
CHATTANOOGA tried its hand at a Sunday
law last Sunday, and made a mess of it. The
butchers and grocery stores, where good hu
man provision were to be had, were Inexora
bly, closed; the saloons, where the devils
punch was flowing, went hellward on undis
turbed. 81 will have sacrifice and no
mercy" as the new edition says.
The Historical Society at Nashville has I
gavel from q sycamore tree In Lauderdals
county, on the Forked Deer river, known a
| "the corner" because Henry Rutherford, tn,
| first surveyor in West Teunes see, cut tn,
| figure of a key on this tree when The Choctav
| and Chickasaw Indians were the sole posses
sors of that county.
EAST NASHVILLE has been 90 haunted will
| snesk-thieves and burglars at nights tina
| every house has set up pistol or two, anc
| the resolution to shoot is strong. The couse
| quence is that if a man is out late from home
| he dare not enter until daylight, and not /;
| creature in the house dare step from on
| room to another the night through.
In Nashville man has been parsdirl
| the streets turning the handle of an organ
| that peals out music so hesd-splitting anC
| eSr-rendiug that the folks collected a littl,
| sum, gave him his dinner, and with tn,
| money bribed him to leave town, with
| promise OF less gentle treatment if he eve
| relurned. He may go 10 Memphis, but it
| high water in the Mississippi, and IL he play
4 ~ q sill saftia him
An East Tennessean proposes that eacl
| new year, instead CT beginning at midnight
| shall begin at o'clock in the morHing
Then say January has thirty day
/ ami February tuenty-niee, We hay
exact equal time, DO gain ncr los
in each year. This division OF tim
gives each year 800 days, and will never
/ vars a second, only as time may be fast Of
slow, caused By the variation OF the poles O
the earth 10 the plane of the ecliptic.
The Mormons have real love for Chat
lanooga. The Times there says: "Elds
Morgan, leading light Of the Mormo
| Church, Is ia the city. He is arranging 70
the semi-snnual emigration of Mormon con
yerts 10 the Western colonies. They vii
leave about the 18th instant. Mormonism
| gaining many converts IN this section con
| SANITY, and rscentlyNthey have met wiIh.suc
| encouragement that twenty additional mil
siona les have been put 10 work in til
field"