The age-herald., 1898-02-04
OVER THE LINE,
 IN TENNESSEE

lasI. lie IS OS years or age anu ls cohcSueu
 to be one of the best lawyers in Tennessee.
 Until the present senatorial race, he may
 be said to have never run for office, for
 he was appointed senator by Governor
 Taylor without previous knowledge or soli- citation. His public record before the ap- pointment was that of a soldier. He was wounded twice, and he was captured in the battle of Nashville and held as a pris-
 oner in Ohio until the close of the war.
 His record in the senate has been, and
 doubtless will continue to be, that of a
 conservative and capable representative.
 and there is feeling throughout the state
 that the legislature judged wisely. The senatorial contest will leave no
 wounds difficult of treatment. Governor
 Taylor will continue to be governor. with perhaps aspirations to fill Senator Bates
 seat three years hence. Congressman Mo- Millin is serving his tenth term and doubt less he will strike out for another decade
 of terms. And the district will be apt to
 satisfy his desires. It could not well do
 better.
 Senator Hurley is a farmer well as a | lawyer, and during the senatorial campaign his gin was burned to the ground, together
 with forty bales of cotton, and all the seed cotton that had been picked It was a case of clear loss, there Dslng no insurance | on either mill or cotton or buildings. 1 The legislature is now actively engaged | in considering the Memphis bills that de- | mand immediate action. Memphis desires | to render sanitary and fever proof a large l district round about 1t, and so 1t has been 1 decided to extend the limits of the city. The Greater Memphis will include sixteen square miles, the present area being only | four miles. Two incorporated towns, Idle
 wild and Madison Heights, are scooped in | without giving them a voice in the mat | ter Sewers are to be laid in the annexed 1 district. and preparations made against an- l other visit of Bronze John.
 | It is said that the annexation bill will carry Memphis population up to 10000, l as against Nashvilles 105, ,OOo. These figures, it should be remembered, are in each case directory figures. The figures of 1900 will turn them down considerably, but the rela- tive rank of the two towns may not be changed It is one of the unsettled ques- tions in Tennessee, which of the two is the larger town?
 1 Knoxville and Chattanooga are also run ming a close race for the leadership of
 East Tennessee Knoxville has annexed
 all the Knoxvilles and other towns within 1 sight, and Chattanooga is estopped by a l state line on one side and a mountain on the other from keeping step with the an- nexation movement. Greater Knoxville | claims a population of 50,000, and Chatta- | nooga says that it has 10, 0,0OO more, whatever | Knoxville's total may be.
 | Knoxville certainly has novel pest l house. It is a boat anchored near the | mouth of Second creek. If the people of l one locality object to the proximity of the | boat it is readily moved to some other 1 point and if it should be turned loose al l together it might not be recaptured until | it reached Chattanooga, and even then
 the people of Knoxville might not tumble 1 over themselves in their efforts to bring | it back.
 | The legislature is considering a ten l year exemption bill for the benefit of fac- | tories hereafter established The bill pro- vides that all permanent factories estab- l lished before Jan. 1. 1901, for working cot 1 ton, jute. ramie, wool, furs, metals, and l all implements and articles of use, shall | be exempt from taxation for a period of | ten years. There is some opposition to | the bill, but it is believed it will go | through.
 The state is engaged in heavily increas- | ing the assessed valuations of its rail- roads, but the authorities struck snag when they took up the matter of taxing | the Mobile and Ohio railroad. Under it's | charter this company is exempt from ad valorem taxation for 800 years, or until dividend of per cent Is paid on it's stock. l The charter exemptions have been upheld l by the United States supreme court. But
 the whole subject has been amicably set l tied. The railroad in question is to pay
 $7,OOo a year for ten years in lieu of all
 other taxes. After ten years the road is to 1 go upon the tax books to be taxed as l other railroad property is taxed. Every | road in the state is now paying taxes. |
 l The annual dinner of the New York alumni of the University of the South was 1 held not long ago. This institution, situ- 1 ated at Sewanee, was recently the recip- 1 tent of $50,000, the gift of MT. J. Pierpont l Morgan, of New York; Just previous 10 | the war, the university consisted of a cor | ner-stone only. A regiment from Illinois | came along one day during the war and | blew the cornerstone into bits. Pieces | of the marble and of the coins shut up | inside the block were carried back by the l Illinois troops as souvenirs; and now l hardly month passes that the faculty of | the university does not receive from va-
 rious parts of the country some of the
 relics once held in the ante-bellum cor | ner-stone.
 l One of these curious agitations that are | characteristic of rural communities has l sprung up in the little town of Newmarket,
 Jefferson county It is all over the opening l of the postoffice for an hour on Sunday.
 The Christian Endeavor people presented
 a petition that is said to have reached from l fha river to tho denot acIxinp that tha