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around Nashville.
Nashville will soon have a republs
can afternoon daily.
School commencements are cpl
demic all over the state.
The Nashville baseball clubs gets
defeated frequently Of late.
James Bennett killed himself. with
a pistol near Paris last Saturday.
1t is said that Col. Heating, of the
Appeal, will get the Memphis postof-
fee.
Joseph E. Jesus was arrested in
Nashville this week for peddling with
out license.
Pleas Green, a negro preacher, was
arrested in Memphis, charged with
numbering his mother. in.law.
Prince, the worlds champion bis
cyclist, beat a horse in a FIVE mile
trotting race in Chattanooga a few
days since.
Hugh Harkins, Jr., prominent
young man of Bolivar, who thought
his life a failure, committed suicide
by taking morphine Sunday.
Alice Angle, white girl, % years
old, who had an unfortunate love af-
fair in Memphis, tried to drown hers
self in the river Saturday, but was
pulled out.
The business men of Nashville en-
dorse Judge Aliens crusade against
the gamblers. The Memphis business
men have not yet made public an
nouncement of their views ON the evil.
Jackson Dispatch: The Postmaster
General has appointed Mrs. M. I.
Britton, postmaster at Andrew Chap>
ell in this county. Her husband who
was postmaster died about two months
ago.
The monthly statement for April
of the Louisville and Nashville Rail>
road shows: Gross earnings, 81, 1857
698; net earnings over operating ex-
penses and construction charges,
$435,S57.
The State Bar Association will meet
at Nashville on Wednesday and
Thursday, July LIST and I'd. Judge
T. M. Cooley, the editor of Black
stone and the author of Constitutional
Limitations, will be present.
Amos Woodruff, of Memphis, has
brought suit for S25, 900 damages from
Whitmore & Mathes, proprietOrs of the
Evening Ledger, for libel IN publish
ing that he had Incorporated $40,
900 belonging to an orphan girl.
At Memphis Saturday, the Wood
ruff. Oliver Carriage Company, one Of
the largest concerns in the south, made
an assignment. Liabilities $4,000
assets $3.50, 900, consisting of goods
This is a result of the failure Of Amos
Woodruff, who owned most of the
stock of the carriage company.
Union City Anchor: We lesrr
there is a pretty general feeling
among the bar of the State that oul
. present supreme court has done it
share of hard work, and that it would
be wise to release the entire bench
next year and substitute a bench o
Younger men. If such policy SHOULD
be adoptedwe believe public sentimen
in this end of the state points strongl.
to Waller G. Caldwell, Esq, once
Union City boy, but now member o
the Trenton bar, as eminently quail
fed for the place. His services upoI
the referee bench at Nashville hav
won golden opin ions and demonstrat
ed his fitness in the highest degree 70
the exalted honor.
Nashville Union: As the mort
bound train on the l.. ~ n. roa
neared the depot at Mckenzie Mon
day morning, Perry Weems, 0
Brownsville, a colored man, was nc
tced to be nearly dead, and he eS
pired in few minutes after bein
taken from the train. He had bee
in feeble health for year, and b
house and contents were burned fe