Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-16


The Augusta Sentinel of the 18th
says : "Crops are looking finely. Corn
and cotton look splendid; wheat headed
well and ripening-some already being
harvested. Vegetables and poultry are
swfully scarce and prices high" Tell
your farmers TO have q vegetable garden,
every one of them, and let their wives
and daughters raise chickens and ducks.
Negro cholera viii not be so bad another
year. The Sentinel Gays: Not q
bushel Of pOtSt0es, peas or any vegeta-
bies have We known to be offered here
fEOm the country this spring. II some
old Pennsylvania D1tchman would i'm
m ,,."rate here, purchase a few acres Of
land ne~r this place, and turn his stten-
lion TO the raiaing Of poultry snd vegeta-
bles. hs would, witts three or four hands,
make more clear money than some of
our large cotton planters with their
thirty or forty bands.n Some of your
people, who live in the town, might very
well raise all the vegetables they need,
and also supply their neighbors.
L. B. Cunningham, Esq, State
Treasurer, addressed the people of Ar
kansas relative to the safety OF their
State funds, and demonstrates very
clearly that they ars not safely deposited
in the Merchants National Bank. The
Little Rock Gazette of the 18th saysi
The address of Treasurer Cunningham
recites facts which can be applied kto
show that the public funds Of the State
have been employed to propagate party
which proposes to disfranchise and pO-
litically outlaw ninety-nine out of every
hundred tax payers OF the State. Be-
fore we nave done with this matter, We
expect to make it appear that the State
fluids have been further used TO advance
private interests and for purposes Of pri,
vate speculation at the risk of the State.
On Monday of last week, st Helena,
8 fire took place in the grocery store of
D. II. Fisher, (colored) occasioDed by
the explosion of a lamp. Loss, $500 !;
The Little Rock Gazette says: At
the last meeting Of the military council,
we notice from the published proceedings
that 8 resolution was passed iDstrueting
the city attorney to demand from Noah
II. BRdgett, Esq, q title to the Fowler
property under the conditions proposed
by him in his offer of sale made some
time ago. We are gratified to notice the
fact that the city is not likely to COM
plete the purchase. The property was
not suitable for school purposes, and the
purchase of it by the city would have
been q grievous wrong to an already
oyertaxed community. When the tax
payers Of the city decide to go into spec
ulatiOn in the city property, it is proba.
bic that they will commit the manage
ment of their business to others than 8
body which is to be selected annually by
3 crowd Of rsgsmuffiu negroes, from
among those who carry all their real
estate about their person.
Little Katie Gilbert was to appear at
the Little Rock Thester on the night of
the 18Th, for the benefit OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Gray.
The Little Rock Gazette of the IIth
says: We are pleased to learn that all
the stock in the Arkansas Stste Agricul-
tural and Mechanical Association has
been taken. This assures beyond all
doubt the holding of State Fair on the
first Tuesday in November next.
The Helena Clarion Of the l1th says:
Gen. I. c. Hindmsn has been suffering
from a severe attack of erysipelas. We
are gratified to report him better.
AT Helena, says the Clarion, on FRI
day evening, ef last week, two negro
girls went to the Jail to see some one of
the prisoners confined there, and whilst
waiting for admission, took their seats
beneath high perpendicular embank-
ment near by. They were hardly seated
before huge slice Of the embsnkment
csved OF and was precjpitsted upon
them with swift and crushing weight,
killing them instantly, falling also upon
q hOFse-csrt, the eartmAn himself barely
escaping. The earth swas cut away and
the lifeless bodies of the two girls found.