Temperature at Nashville: winter, 37° to 48°; summer, 75° to 81°. Rainfall at Memphis, 45 inches.

Nashville, capital and metropolis, also most wealthy and prosperous city; population, 43,350. Memphis, principal grain and cotton market between St. Louis and New Orleans; pop., 33,592. Population Chattanooga, 12,898; of Jackson, 8,377; of Knoxville. 9,693.

First railroad; a portion of the Nashville & Chattanooga, between Nashville and Bridgeport, 1853; mileage, Jan. 1, 1886, 2,178.

Number farms, 165,650. Value per acre, cleared land, $13; woodland, $7.28. Corn crop of 1884, 65,723,000 bu.; wheat, 9,320,000 bu.; cotton, 314,000 bales; potatoes, 1883, 2,404,647 bu.

Salaries of State Officers.
Governor $4,000
Secretary of State 1,800 & fees
Treasurer 2,750
Comptroller 2,750
Attorney Gen. 3,000
Supt. Pub. Inst'n. 1,800
Adjutant Gen. 1,200
Com'r Agr. 3,000
3 RR. Comm'rs 2,000
Librarian 1,000
Chief Justice 4,000
Senators,
Representatives

 $4 a day &
16c. a mile.
3 Dist. Judges 3,500
Pension Agent 4,000
3 Colls. Int. Rev. 4,375 to 2,250

Presidential P. O.
Bristol $1,700
Brownsville 1,300
Chattanooga 2,800
Clarksville 2,000
Columbia 1,800
Dyersburgh 1,000
Gallatin 1,400
Jackson 1,900
Jonesborough 1,000
Knoxville 2,900
Lebanon 1,500
Memphis 3,300
Murfr'sborough 1,600
Nashville 3,300
Pulaski 1,500
Shelbyville 1,400
Union City 1,500
6 Post Offices 1,200
4 Post Offices 1,100

Most valuable minerals are iron, copper and coal; area coal fields, over 5,000 square miles; product of pig iron, 70,873 tons; copper region in southwest, producing, from 1870 to 1880, nearly 13,000,000 lbs. ingot copper; excellent marbles and limestones, $131,700 being invested in quarries.

Ranks second in peanuts, average yield being 40 bu. per acre; third in mules; sixth in tobacco, yield being 707 lbs. per acre; seventh in copper; seventh in hogs; ninth in corn and cotton. Hemp, broom corn and flax are also valuable products.

Population, 1,542,359: male, 769,277; female, 773,082; native, 1,525,657; foreign, 16,702; white, 1,138,831; colored, 403,151; Chinese, 25; Indians, 352. Slaves, 1860, 275,719.

State, congressional and presidential elections, Tuesday after first Monday in November; number Senators, 33; Representatives, 99; sessions biennial, in odd-numbered years, meeting first Monday in January; limit of session, 75 days; terms of Senators and Representatives, 2 years each. Number electoral votes, 12; number voters, 571,244; native white, 240,939; foreign white, 250,055; colored, 80,250. Non-payers of poll-tax excluded from voting.

Legal interest rate, 6; by contract, any rate; usury forfeits excess of interest and $100 fine.