Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-06

/ From the Houston Journal we learn
the Houston Telegraph Office and ma.
terial was sold at sheriff's sale, and was
purchased by ]. G. Tracy at $500, cur
Tencyi in whom the proprietorship now
I exists. Who will hereafter control the
/ editorial de"Irtment We have not learned.
+ The Rusk Observer SAYS We regret
Z to hear that the growing cotton, in many
I parts of this county, has been attacked
| by the caterpillar, and large fields of il
| totally destroyed. There is a good stand,
| however, in many localities, which, not.
/ withstanding the frequent and heavy
rains, promise even more than an aver.
age Yield. The amount planted this
{ year is less by one-half than usual-our
farmers generally having directed their
/ energies to the raising Of corn.
The Dallas Herald Of the 9th ult.
says: 1t is estimated by some that there
has not been less than 6000 head Of cattle
passed through this place the present
week. We saw, ourself, one drove OF
1900, and the road is filled with them
every day.
The RdHcberO promises to issue Very
shortly a first class steel engraving,
twenty-four by thirty-six incnes, repre-
senting " the murder of MaximiIian and
his generals at QueretarO, June 10, 1867
The Observer says Besides the Carton.
the Jefferson Times, Marshall Republican
and Marshall Flag, three of the largest.
most influential aud best conducted Jour
mails of Eastern Texas, oppose the hold
ing Of convention under the military
bill.
The Carroll Parish Record is respon-
sible for the following: " Wanted.-A
Long street that has no turn in it.n
Another jail delivery, the second
within four months, took place at Waco,
on the 26th ult. Three prisoners made
their escape, notwithstanding the jail
was guarded by file of soldiers. The
register calls loudly for a more substan-
tial Jail.
The Liberty Gazette very sensibly
says: The cotton worm has made its ap-
pesrance in the cotton fields in this vi
cinity, and the result is cotton planters
look little bItie. II will be a serious loss
to this section Of country If the present
crop should prove a failure, and will
doubtless exercise q considerable infiu-
ence in changing crops in the future. 1t
msy be that the prosperity of the coun-
try will not be materially damaged by a
production of more corn, bacon, peas,
pumpkins, potatoes, etc; and we shall
rejoice when the time comes that not a
bushel of corn, pound Of bacon, nor 3
barrel Of potatoes, produced outside Of
the county, finds sale in it,
The Houston journal says: We have
just learned of most unfortunate occur
renee at the town of Washington. Mr..
Lewis Emil Edward and Oliver Watrous,
a freedman, both members of the regis
tering board for this county, were shot
by John B. Gee.
The Jasper NetUs6Oy has this digni-
fled mOrceau: II the United States con-
gress don't like our running johnson and
Lee for the presidential chairs of i6S, they
can make an Individual thing out Of it,
aud We will fight them all, one at time,
and we bet six bits against a ginger-cake
on whipping them sll except MOrrisey.
The jefferson Times supplies the fol-
lowing; An affrsy took place at War
ren, in this county, on Monday July 1st,
in which a Mr.. johnson was shot, and
thought to be mortslly wounded by one
Mr.. Perry Lenney. We did not hear
the particulars.
The Galveston NetCs thus comments
on the recent radical (negroj convention
at Houston: The closing session of the
African mass meeting, at Houston, es-
tsblished the fact that the ALT time union
men of Texas will not affiliate with the
negroes in political assembly. Ex- Gov.
Pease and Judge Bell drank in this sor-
rowful idea, and Mr.. Sabin, of Houston,
one of the exhOrters was wounded be-
yond all healing. The result Of this mig
gerizing attempt may subject the union
men Of Texas to charge of disloyalty
and doubtless the fact will be paraded
before the north as evidence that every
body in Texas, and his wife, are rebels
and traitors.