Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-14
SOUTHERN NEWS.

In JUNE the Tennessee Press Associa-
tion meets at Knoxville.
"RoADs impossible" is a standing SEN
tence in the country press just now.
Polk COUNTY, Tenn, is doing 9 good
business in shipping tan-bark south.
On Tuesday week there were 132 mules
and horses for sale at Joaesboro, Tenn.
KNOXVILLE is enforcing the Sunday law.
Twenty offenders were arrested last Sunday.
A GOOD many East Tennessee farmers
report the wheat damaged by severe weather.
HotsEs are in much demand at Chatta-
nooga. The population there is always growing
larger.
GREENvrLLE, Tenn, has one lawyer to
every 100 people, and one doctor to about every
800 people.
GREENEvILLE, Tenn, has three newspa-
pers, and there is not house in the place without
an occupant.
THE East Tennessee Rifle Association has
just received six-by -four feet iron target weigh
ing 1000 pounds.
A FACTORY for the manufacture of smok-
ing and chewing tobacco has just been started at
Springfield, Tenn.
THE people of Charlotte, n. c., are feast
ing robins, which are killed by the thousands
at a robin roost near the city.
THE young ladies of Cleveland, Tenn,
are to give lcap-year ball this week-the bache-
lors had better be little afraid.
nOSSElLNlLLh, IENN, 10 uOW u TcSptCta-
bic town it has a commodious new schoolhouse,
and will have and grist-mill.
BRIsToI,, on the Tennessee and Virginia
line, is prospering. 1t has 5000 population, ten
churches, five factories and three colleges.
The Chattanooga Democrat, of Tuesday,
announces that the German Sunday-school there
Is about to give "a dramatic performance.
AT Rock wood, Tenn, the temperance
people are so Incorporate rs TO smash saloons up
that won't stop business when they ordered.
MoRRIsrowN, TENN, is one ofthe go-ahead
towns of the State; it has opened its library,
which is well attended,and debating society has
been established.
A JOINT stock company has been ofgaii-
ICED to operate the Touring mill at Jonesboro,
Tenn. 1t is the intention of the company to
make the patent-process dotr.
SOME sacrilegious wag posted on church
door at Knoxville card bearing the following in
scription: .'All dudes in the city are requested
to assemble in front of this church immediately
before the congregation is dismissed
A CITY that does not attend to its duties
sometimes has to pay for the neglect! At Knox
viue 81, Monday, the Court awarded negro 5l0N
DAMAGES for injuries .1stained by falling from u
mule, the foot of which was essght In the defect
i've floor of a city BRIDGE
THE Little Rock Democrat brags that
there was CLEAN Of sunshine there on Tuesday
and adds Me haze had RAIN t, or nj. INST Almost slmSs,
which time 6.0i ineies Cf rafer bas, fallen. Tho
river has been rising all the month.
The Knoxville Chronicle makes the
scarcely admissible statement that in that city
an Saturday they had sunshine in the daytime
and moonshine after night Both the long-ree- re
membered articles appear to have got leave OF ab-
senee as far as Memphis is concerned.
KNOXVILLE Tribune: at is not known
how, Judge Baxter will decide the suits pending
decision will be adverse to the Railroad C6plnis,
sion. If so, without doubt the suits will be aken
to the Supreme Court of the United States
The following specimen Of the inimitable
in With eaehss Of
bricks, which only need to be stepped upon to
squir; gill of grout up the pants leg: This Is
dies dies -''' ms '''''''
ps. MsTrHEws; of Jasper, Tenn, was
| put, in jail at Chattanu6sa MSnaay; ghs doctor
is about fifty years of age elegantly dieesef,
| said to, possess II handsome property. He go
married once. too often. it is charged and then
/ seduced the sister of wife No. 2.
Miss ANNIE ALLEN, No. 9 Cumberland
street, and Miss Wilena Roberts, No. So VIM
street, Knoxville, have both been cross-eyed oyel
ten years Dr.: Wilbur made them happy o.
beau vet, but one of them received ioYe-ietteI
as soon as the news was known,
| DRAKE, who has become editor of the
| Knoxville Chronicle, appears to have two quail
dress rs in that paper; sBdt two great faadaGenia
| law of the land-that a m6n shall. be homes
enough to keep out of Jail. and sane enotgh T.
escape the restraints Of an insane asylum"
THE Dardanelle Post says of our olt
| Memphis citizen, Frolich: 'Mr. Frolich is not
| man to take a bull by the horns snake b.
| the tail and hence is not the man for Governor.
| The Little Rock Democrat, in reply to this, says
| ''Frolich is anything but timid or irresslut
| man, and he could be counted to take a bul
by the horns or a snake by the tall in an emer
| gency."
LITTLE Rock appears to have such street
as Memphis had when it was green enough t
| pave them with river gravel. The Gazette of tina
| place says IA CHASTITY grin would spread owe
| the countenance of the pedestrian IS he wake
| along Main street yesterday. Some enterprisin
| joker had stuck two boots in hard spot in tn
mud as could be found. and placed a placard Q
| Man Drowned over them