Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-17
SOUTHERN NEWS.

KNOXVILLE is about building a new
fouring-mill.
DYNAMITE is used for fishing purposes
on the Satilla river, in Georgia.
PROHIBITION carried the day at Clanton,
Ala, by a majority Of l3j to s..
NASHVILLE has no clearinghouse, and
Nashville is not often behind the times.
A SORGHUM sugar-refining stock COM
pany is to be organized at Hillsboro, Tenn.
MONTGOMERY, ALA, has a city dog law
requiring all dogs in the streets to be muzzled.
THERE is talk of a new hotel, cotton fac
tory, and spoke and hub factory, in Manchester,
Ton NEAL, whom everybody knows,
claims that Dyer county is the farmer county of
Tennessee.
The constitutionality OF the railroad
regulation bill passed by the Mississippi Legisla-
ture is doubted.
NASHVILLE is extending the number of
its electric lights. It appears resolved to cease
being "gassy.'
A CHATTANOOGA telegram, of Thursday,
said; "A negro woman gave birth to a child on
the street to-day
THE Anchor, Spoke and Felloe Com
pany, of Covington: Tenn, contemplate rcmov-
ing their factory to Kingston.
THREE young men took an old man out
of his house in Bqpeombe county, N. C., Sunday
night, and robbed him of 5000.
SMITH, OltFOhD " w., VI NdSilNlllc, ndN6
organized a sorghum sugar refinery, with a cap
ital of $50 000, at Franklin, Tenn.
SMALLPOX shows itself here and there
ut intervals, and the Knoxville Chronicle says,
there the measles are raging on the hills.
THE new Union City Manufacturing
itaI of SIC, LOCO to start their furniture factory.
HIGH WATER in Clinch river has pre-
vented the mails from being carried from Nor
ristown, Tenn, to farewell for over two weeks.
4 FACToRY for the manufacture of sugar
from sorghum cane at Tullahoma, Tenn, is talked
Of by some of the enterprising citizens of that
town.
THE Nashville Mechanics and Manufac-
turers' Association and the Lumberman's Asso-
citation are arranging terms for the consolidation
of the two.
NORTH GEORGIA was visited by a regular
food last week, and the water-courses in Whit
field county were higher than they have been in
several years.
THE colored people OF Lafayette, Ala,
refused to allow the body of the rapist, JEFF
Rogers, who was hanged recently, to be buried in
their cemetery.
NASHVILLE Americdn: cover 1000 valen-
tines are detained at the p~ostofice here because of
insufficient postage-one cent. For sealed letters
two cents is required"
A LAND SLIDE near Bristol, Tenn, de-
layed trains on. Thursday. During the wet
weather there has been a number of such slides on
various roads in Tennessee.
Two lllltdl utctCIluSiiS Vi 1IODldS Jti-
ferson, author of the DECLARATION, of Independ-
ence, Messrs. G. e.. and I. J. Randolph, are win
terins in Thomasvillc. Ga.
NATHAN EMANUEL, an Atlanta drummer,
was arrested in ChattanooSa on Thursday on a
telegram from the chief Of police of Atlanta
charging him with larceny. y
HoT SPRINGS Horse Aioe: "The senior
of the Ne,c, attemps to deny his defense of Flynn
in the Matthews trouble. But he public of Hot
Springs knows where he stood
Mr.. JOHN CLINTON has purchased the
property of the Brownsville CTenn.A Manufacture
ing Company. and will endeavor to organize a
company TO rebuild the cotton factory.
QUITE a heavy slide came in the Rock
wood CTenn.) Furnaces, on saturday week, COM
polling the shutting down OF No. / furnace, and
all hands were set to work removing the earth.
THE Loudon TENN Sun learns that
1000 bushels Of grain; between that place ard
water because railroad freights were considered
high.
Mr.. CHELs. McCALLA's barn, near Tun-
mel Hill, Ca, together with its contents, was de-
stroyed by fire last week. It is thought the FIRE
was caused by a little boy lighting a match in'the
cotton-room.
Mr.. SAM II. CHARLTON, of the Pittsburg
pa Daily Chroniols Telegraph, is making a tour
Of all Southern mining districts, and writing up
a complete history Of the same for the benefit of
Northern capitalists.
The Nashville Board ofHealth admitsth the
presence of smallpox in that city, but there was
danger. Things we're worse, however, in the
country outside of Nashville.
WILLIAM WALLACE, a young machinist,
settled in Knoxville a year ago and was well-be-
lady there and this week he left Knoxville, bride,
and creditors for nobody knows where.
Mn. T. NJ. BRANTLEY, of Nashville, has
presented to the Tennessee Historical Society a
gonrd used as powder-horn ut the battle of New
Orleans, by William Brsntley, /. soldier under
Gen. jackson and grandfather of the donor.
THERE are In Tennessee thirty-three cot
l46t looms, and 7s,sT spindles. By
the WAY, the hasfern mills are going on it looks as
il their hands wouldhave to come South for work:
with such men we could make kne goods as well
as coarse.
HoT SPRINGS, ARK, is a hard place.
ing, which is issued by the chief Of police Wis
itors, beware of ropers and steerers, and doctors
and elsewhere. Pay no money in sdvsnce until
satisfied as to the responsibility of the PARTIES"
NASHVILLE 4mericdn: The criminal
docket of Davidson county will be taken, up in
the Supreme Court on next Monday, FEBRUARY
18th, The Polk case is the twenty-hfth on the
docket. Those which precede il are mostly mis-
demeauor cases. and IL IS probable that the cdnse
cotebre will be reached Tuesday or Wednesday"
THE Hot Springs Press appears to be as
81 Spes a. ea ahsai bSy u. G. Harris. said on Friday;
NJ Harris has the consolation of knowing that
that depth OF depravity that he would lie in wait
to a.sassinate his own father, as the senior of the
Nsrs did
TIE dairymen of Tennessee held a con-
yentiOn at jackson last week, the Northw stern
Dairysen,s Copsention beng in session at Man
kato, Mlnn., the following salutation was sent:
THE fret D%rymen'sC Convention Of Tennessee,
500 strong, End greeting TO the Northwestern
Dairymen'sl Association, at Mankato, MIMI We
pluck the yioets while you keep time to the mu3
sic of the sleigh bells. May you milk the COW ana
prosper. We viii follow suit soon, but not with
Geld angers."