Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-05-29
DAILY APPEAL.
SATURDAY MoRETEG, My %, ISIS
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.


BRoKE JArL.-On the night Of the 18th inst
three prisoners, T. Watson, T. S Bowen and
J s. McDonough, escaped from the Jail in this
place. The Sheriff has offered a reward ol
~ 90 for their appTshension.-AaeoE StaT
Nay p.
Wednesday morning a negro was brought
10 Jail for shooting at a Mr.. Sloan near
Scooba. The negro had been run away several
months, and being about to be taken dslibsr-
ately shot at Mr.. S. with a rife, the bail pass
/ ing through the sleeve cuff he was examined
BY Esq. Lipscoub. He belongs to Mr.. Cline,
Of Macon.-KsmPsr DsmOcraf.
SUNFLowEH RIVER, DEER CREEK, IssAeUENA
CoUEr.-As everything that pertains to the
rivers is Just now matter Of interest we gather
from friend, recently from the sunhower and
Deer Greek, some items upon the subject. So
Tar all the plantations above the Rolling Fork,
on the snnhower, smorg which are those Of
our friends and ncighboTs G. L. Buck, Esq.,
DR. H. R. Back, Of Jackson, and Col. NJ. L.
Cook, Of Kinds, are secure, having now
from five to eight feet baBk-with scarcely
perceptble rise in the river. On the east
side Of Deer Greek " all is well - but we can
not say quite ss much for the west side. By
the break in American Bend few places have
been injured, one or two almost wholly, others
partisily-not more however than six or eight
IN all-the damage not being very great. ae-
cording to the best information We could OBJ
tain--Vi VieksbHTg Southron, Nag 25.
MAIL IRREGULARIrIEs.-Ths Oxford Afer-
osry Of the 27th, has the following:
The indignitiss, Injustice, and arbitrary op-
preston which our citizens have to subL3it TO
l. regard to their postal rights, from naughty
and supereilious railroad directory, requires
something more than human f0rbearsnce. TAe
Post Office Department has Gecreed a regular
HI n-a-. -. - A.
and gave the contract for carrying 1t to the
railroad companies between the two places.
It is five or SIX hours run between the places.
six days Of the week our mail is delivered ex-
sctly eighteen heurs after 1t is due, and the
seventh there is no effort whatever made 10 de-
liver it. From Sun FAY uatil Tuesday morning,
We are without a solitary ray Of intelligence
from the North. No, nor is there even 80
much as poor apslogy made to US for such
injustice.
Such is characteristic Of monopoly. The
parties to whom we are indebted for such foul
injustice, know thst we have no choice but to
patronizsssthei road and their city. But there
Is an aveDging day day coming quickly, zap
idly, on times heeting wings ats approaches
and then the records Of the past will be ad
justed."
AN INHUMAE OUTRAGE.-Mr. William Dug
ger, who resides some six miles southeast OF
Pamela. bad three horses and a mule poiBone1
with glass, on Sunday or Monday last. Two
OF the horses died, and the othoT horse and the
mule are still very sick and cannot recover
Mr.. Digger sent the stomach Of one of the
horses to town on yesterday, and Drs. Young,
Lester, Moore and Leland examined it aud found
large quantities of glass 10 it. No clue has
yet been obtained as TO the person who perpe-
tratsd This inhuman outrage upon these dumb
brutss. We hope Mr. D. may be able to find
out who did it, and that the severest penalties
of The law may yet overtake the eowardly mis-
eTeant.-PdHola Star.
RAILROAD MKETINs AT OAKLASD.-The
NEE ting which was held recently at Sardis,
adjourned to meet again to-day at Oakland, in
YallObusha county. The citizens Of Grsnsds
have appointed delegates to attend it. It is
thought that Panola county will also be fully
Our Oakland friends have made
ample preparation to accommodate their visit
ors. The effort will be renewed to obtain bonds
enough to finish the Mississippi and Tennessee
Railroad 20 Grenada. A large amount have al
ready been disposed OF For that purpose. Sue
cess to these praise-worlhy objects.