Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-06
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erer.
1t is less than six years since the frs
six miles of railway were opened in Min
nesOta. 1t now has 474 miles in actus
use.
The late Agricultural Fair, at Gal
latin, Tennessee, Notwithstanding tn
unfavorable weather, is regarded as
succefs.
The back waters on the creeks be
tween Gallstin and Huntsville hav;
stopped the regular running of the Garth
age stage line.
In an occasional jsunt through tht
woods, We find trees loaded with mast
The beech and white oak trees are espee
tally tull.-H1atiRgtOn Vest TsnnesSean
September "A.
The farmers are now busy grinding
the Sorghum cane, and boiling down tbs
molasses. 1t is feared that the long rain,
may have shortened the yield. 1t sells
st seventy five cents per gallon Gala
tin Examiner.
According to the st. Joseph Dahl
Gazette the Registrars Of that part OF
Missouri are re-enscting the scenes that
have immortalized the wEetches who, in
Nashville, manipulate the registration ol
voters in the interest of Brownlow.
The Phoenix building, Atlanta, Ga,
fell with e great crash on the 1st inst
Fortunately no lives were lost and no
person injured. The loss ia building and
stock is plsced as high as rSl5 900. The
building was the property Of the Misses
Clarke.
We are fast assuming the proportions
Ofs city. The confidence game was sue
cessfully played here on several OF eur
| citizens last week. One attempt at bur
glary and robbery, several street fights
and numerous drunks, form the report for
the week.-F0rt Smith, Ark, Herald.
1t now transpires that the mysteri-
! Gus steamer Dsnubsrton, which left New
! York few weeks since with o cargo of
warlike stores, was the property OF the
Spanish revOlutionists, aud vas the
steamer in which Gen. Prim recently
made his appearance OF the Spanish
coast.
Bridget Edith O'Gormsn alias Sister
Teresa de Chantal, is out in esrd in the
New York Tribune denying her alleged
seduction by Father Walsh. She exon
crates that gentleman fully, aud hopes
her denial will find as general circuls-
ton as the scandal. We hope so for the
sake of the church.
Our farmers are now busy gathering
their corn and fodder. It is said that the
present is the heaviest corn crop that
East Tennessee has produced for many
years. Not only is the quantity without
precedent, but it is also Of the most ex-
cellent duality. The grass crop is also
unusually hesvy.-RiHgston East Ten
neSedTl, September "A.
The Cincinnati Commercial, of Sat-
urday, has an account of the death of
noted RyDlph da pdUe, Kate Starting,
who, in 2 tit Of delirium, swallowed a
dose of morphine and died from its
effects. She wGs for years noted for her
beauty, and was, at one time, rescued
from infamy and assigned place in So
ciety, becoming the leader of fashionable
church choir but her passions were too
much for her, and she fell away, and al
last filed an unhonOred grave.
j. NJ. Newton, of Lee county, who
wRs confined in our jail on charge of
setting fire to the town of Verona last
spring, escaped last Sunday night by
scratching q hole through :ths wall. Up
to last accounts he has not been heard /
from. He left polite note to the jailer,
giving his reason for vamOosing, and /
saying that be would be on hand 10 at |
tend his trial, but did not like confiue- /
ment.-Our OlUR Newspaper, POat0t0c, /
Hiss.
September, '68, will long be remem-
bered in Columbus. Members of nearly /
every household have been stricken with |
many of them, alas have |
felt the icy presence Of the reaper, death. |
Craped doors have become so familiar 1
that they hardly excite comment, and /
in the house Of God the minister takes .
a olpnnlnf gay-E frnFf0 "a tYAnhlad fanEa
of his hearers and from benches that /
look mournful for their absent occu-
Columbus, Miss, LndeI.
Prof. Lirseomb, of the University Of
Georgia, now travelling in Europe, writing
from Berlin, says: "rhe dogs are put to
work and kept at work. They are race
of business dogs-educated dogs-polite
dogs. / watch them daily. How de
murely they pull their little carts along
toiling in the harness Hundreds OF
them nsy be seen in the streets. making
money and saving money. I have g
great liking for these dogs. And l wish
some dogs / know were sent over here
and taught German"
"A child of Rev. James NJ. Lsnnard,
who lives near Bethel Church, eight or
ten miles from Columbus, was drowned
It's age was in the neighbor-
hood of four years. Ii had fallen into a
well. The body was lifeless before it
could be recovered. The father de-
scended into the well to save his child,
but he was soon made insensible by The
gases which had collected over the water.
With great difficulty he was rescued.
Mr.. L. is an estimsble Baptist minister,
who lost leg while fighting for our
He has the deep sympa-
thy Of many friends. Columbus, Ca,
Sun.
The Weekly OoGhon}iaB OF Saturday
last says: /: AS Louis Thomas, colOred,
WAS on Saturday night last returning
from Friar's Point to his home on Hop.
son bayou, he stepped at the house of a
3 friend on Sheriff ridge. Alta late hour
Of the night the house was surrounded
by body OF armed freedmen, who gave |
rs their reason for being under arms
that they were hunting Democrats. Tns
man in whose house Louis wss, placed
himself at the door with double-bar-
relied shot gun, and held the would-be y
ssssssins at bay until Louis escaped
through . bEck window. This occur
renee is one of the most forcible com.
upon the times to which the
public mind can be called.
-Wehsve been through the cotton fields
10 some of the best upland cotton plan
.ations in Dallas county, and have talked
with some of the best planters in this
and we know that anything
lie an average yield will be an exception
10 sn almost universal rule. The drought,
the caterpillar, snd the boil worm, follow
ng each other IN rapid succession, have
also destroyed the crop in this section.
The bolls are all exposed, and are opening
very rapidly. On the upland places in
his portion of the country, the picking
gia be pretty well over by the first Of
next month, IL the main, the places we
nave visited will not yield o2s bale to
scres, or 10 acre., the usual yield being
me bale 10 q or s acres. Aud similar
'eports reach Us, we'll authenticated,
rom other portions Of Dallas and the
sdjoining eOuntles.-SeLDld Times.
The Nashville Banner OF ofSaturdsy has
IN account OF the shooting Of Mr.. Pur-
,ell, house carpenter Of that city, in
Pulaski, last Monday, by an ex-Federal
Ioldier, whose name ia Burns. Purcell,
with others, was building house in !
Pulaski, and by some means had become
with Burns; that they en-
cred saloon together, and joined in
IOciRl glass. Neither, 1t seems, was sc-
Iuainted with the others antecadents /