Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-21

FiOus points north, south, east and west
and all center in this office at the switci
board, from which they pass through tn
several instruments to the battery, ant
thence 10 the ground. During the storm
the overcharged clouds poured upon tn
nine wires eenteFing in the Office such 81
electrical stream as to produce som
rather startling phenomena, though non
of the operators were injured seriously
Most OF the instruments were saved b.
being cut out. The instruments con
nected with the wire leading TO Memphi
had not been cut out, and the operator
Mr.. LOnergan, was transmitting mes
sages to that point, but fortunately has
opened his "key," Thereby breaking
the circuit to ask question regarding
message. Doubtless his life was thu
providentially spared. As it was, he re
ceived stunning shock, starting bacl
in terror and amazement at the binding
flash and stirring report, and affordint
no little amusement to his comrades, by
! Jendeavoring TO back over the next table
Il From the brass points in the switct
board, lightning stIeamed six or eighl
feet into the room,- causing genera
I stampede and scattering among the
lightning boys.n Outside Of the Office
q ball of fire about foot in diameter
was seen to leap from one Of the wires tC
another. a distance of several feet. The
zines Of the main battery, upon examin'
alton, were found to be "as black a;
your hat.p
Farmers fear that the heavy and
| continued raiTfarsill cause the wheat tC
sprout in the shock.
The Union and Dispatch says: Mr..
! BrOwnlOw is in Knoxville editing the
Whig, and Gov. Fletcher has gone of
on an electioneering tour, to be absent
several days He is impressed very
strongly with the belief that the people
of East Tennessee have had their heads
turhed by Etheridge's facts and elo-
quenee, and that it is necessary for him
to HE to the mountains to set matters
right. Citizens of the state having
business with the governor VIII ilnd
both the ostensible and real in East
! Tennessee.
A swarm of bees settled on lamp
post opposite the postOffice in Nashville,
| Saturday, and were bagged by Herr
Plinke, a keeper of a lager beer saloon
near by, who, in securing the booty, re-
oeived scar one hundred stings, but yet
persevered until he had hive Of bees.
"A large rattle snake is the attraction
[ IN q SDOp WlldOW OppOSAbC eA4C ma '" SAA
/ house in Nashville.
The Press and Times says that on
Monday evening Nashville was blessed
with such a heavy fail of rain the streets
were washed quite clean. 1t would be a
special interposition of Divine Provi-
dence could a similar event happen in
Memphis; for with the apathy of the
present city officials, the streets will be
put in a cieenly condition by miracle,
or such an awakening by the ravages of
disease as will live in the memory Of the
surviving people for all time to come.
The Daily Gazette mentions the fol-
lowing instance of attempted bullying
by some of Brownlow's attaches: Last
evening some of Brownlow's minions
set on Joe Williams in Mr.. Menifee's s
store on Broad street, on the plea that
they wanted a discussion with him. The
clerk informed them that he could not
allow Of such thing in his store. Still
they persisted, and gradually becoming
more wrathy, they betrayed their real
intent and declared that they a0dnted
blood! The clerk said he didn't keep
the article-they couldn't get it there,
perhaps they might find it on the street.
Williams, appreciating the situation,
prepared himself for them, and made it
evident that they could have it. On see
ing this the towards simmered down,
ingloriOusly, and sneaked OF.
MISSISSIPPI ITEMS
The Herald and MisSissippidH an
nounces the arrival of Bishop Pearce in
Vicksburg on Saturday last, and says,
though too much overcome by the fa-
tigue of travel 70 preach on that day, he
would deliver a sermon on Sunday.
BY the registration in Scott county,
it appears there are thirty-tWo white and
sixty-eight black voters, or total of
just one hundred who elect to avail
themselves of this privilege, so-called.
The Corinth Nelgs quotes Mr.. Yam
cey Of Gainesville, as their authority for
saying the cotton and corn crops of
Tisho4ingo county are very promising.
They have been well worked, and the
gentle rains are causing them to promise
q rich yield in due season.
"A Mr.. Smith, OF Chawaila, re,
ports the farmers of that section as be-
ing Of good cheer, as their fields are
waving with vigorous looking corn,
and cotton is quite promising, save in
exceptional "a ,Ies where the lice show
themselves fr a cotton patch A good
deal of the wheat in some A.ng A. has
been harvested, and it econ At tn,
ever before raised in that
The Columbus SeRtj-ar'S y fol-
lowing in Fegard to the, 4 The
freedmen on the pgned By Miss II the
opinion that it is something of mcre inn
portsWaA to. them TO cultivate the soil,
andar, swemething to eat, than to quit
theh eresfk to participate in political
matters, which they freely admit they
are not intelligent enough to eompre-
bend, and many of them won't reg
ister. Tn
Gen. Forrest was in Jackson on Mon
day Of the present week on short visit
The registration in Chickasaw fOots
up as follows: Whites, lQ2; negroes, SO.
The Hazlehurst Weekly Rel0S is the
title of new paper recently started in
the fourishing town Of Hazlehurst, by
Rev. n. J. Harris as editor and publisher
The Ripley advertiser of the 18th
inst. has been presented with summer
turnip grown in that vicinity which
measures nineteen and quarter inches
in circumference. The same paper says !:
We we're visited by storm on Wednes-
day evening lest that was the most Sc
we're we remember to hRve had for many
years. There was very heavy fall of
Inc new IO6u icNGt
across the bottom east of town at no in
considerable cost and a corresponding
amount of labor, was materially
damaged by the flood, as also the
bridge across the creek, both Of which
we thought TO be impregnable against
the assaults of high water. But it ap-
peared that the levee served as q dam
for the water, and the channel at the
bridge not affording a sufficient outlet
for the accumulation of water, the con-
sequence was the levee was overfowed
and much of it carried away, whilst the
bridge, being undermined, fell in. The
wind blew very hard. The large two
story building Of our friend W. W. Rob
insOn, by the effects of it, eaFeened
several inches to one side. We have
heard of no other damage being done Of
much nnnsRnnanca.