Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-19
II E'EIES APPEAL
WEDNESDAY MORNING, :: MAY 10, 1869.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
WEBS or TIE DAY.

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Georgia has planted about half and
half of corn and cotton.
Trout two feet long are caught in
the mountain streams of California.
The Knoxville Iron Company have
commenced the manufacture of nail plate,
with complete success.
A Quaker appeared at Topeka, Kan
sas. lately, and created a great furry.
They took him for an Indian agent.
The Emigration Society Of English
Workingmcn has sent pioneers 10 sclert
lands for them i'll Nebraska.
The ground rents paid for some Of
the lots near the Boston Coliseum for the
season range from S2DOto $500.
Two London clergymen stole the
same lately. and both were print
ed simultaneously in a Monday morning
paper.
\ large crop Of corn has been plant
ed in Southern Georgia, where il IL large
enough 20 have been narrowed and plowed.
The Athens lTenh.) Post says that
part Of Tennessee was visited by a heavy
storm of rain and hail ON Wednesday
evening last, Eth inst
Letters which left San Francisco on
the evening Of the 9th Of Nav were dis
dributed at the New York p%nstofiice SAT-
urday morning.
The Episcopal Synod and House of
Bishops, after three days balloting, have
chosen Rev. +. Ashley Oxden. OF Kent,
England, a. Bishop Of Montreal.
White men are being discharged
from the Government Printing Office az
Washington. dnd negroes employed in
their places. This is making color Odious.
The President has not yet taken pre-
liminary action for submitting the GOnsti-
tuition OF Mississippi and Texas to those
states respectively,
A cattle disease has appeared in Nir-
ginia. The disease is thoughttO be a Kind
of cole, caused by eating too much green
clover and grass.
In a note to us, says the Nashville
BaHAer, Henry q. Smith. of Memphis,
says: = Please that 1 ann not a
candidate for the Office OF Judge of the
Supreme Court OF this State
The first through passenger train
from Sacramento, with about five hundred
passengers, arrived at Omaha On Satur-
day, The travel west. from omaha, is
very heavy.
In Virginia the crop prospects are
reported the wheat growth is the largest
on recordl to De fine from one end OF the
Shenandoah valley 70 the other, and the
anticipated Yield is enormous. Tobacco
is hOuriShiHg.
Mr.. John +. Jcup has purchased, in
White county, Teen, twelve squaTu miles,
about 1910 acres, Of table lands suitable for
farming and vineyard purposes, from
Mrs. Brown, widow or ihe late Coy.
Brown.
The Deputy Commissioners of In
temal Revenue has decided that under
the act Of April 10, 1866, dealers IN liquor
who sell ia quantities of five gallons aud
upwards, must pay special tax both rs
srhoiesole and rct01} liquor dealers.
\ medium in Springfield, Mass, an
nOunces "a sfunce 10 ip given 10 ladies only, |
when the spirits are 10 write them love !
letters. Those who have not found an
opistolary " affinity = among mortals, Will
probably InprovGf his opportunity TO open
a correspondence~ith amatorv imrnor-
tails.
A negro on q plantation in jefferson
county, Miss, after charging another ne
gro with stealing wood, deliberately shot
him through the heart, killing him almost
instantly. The murderer was arrested and
taken 10 fayeJtc, but WIS subsequently,
discharged ON bail Of small amount. The
magistrate was one Of the military ap-
pointmcnts.
1it AtA5 AlItiLtt the lIiial-
tary in Georgia to inquire into alleged |
outrages in that state. As she j. nov in
the Onion, and entitled To all the priv
ileges Of other States, the President has |
no authority 10 make any such direction. |
II there be- law ieSsncss there. il Ought 10
DC stopped, lmt it ought not to DE- stopped |
by the exercise Of uubawful authority.
Oliver Dalrymple, of Minnesota, is
said to be the largest wheat grower in The
States. The saltwater ReguabfiraH /
GAYS he has sOwn this season. in addition |
to his other crops, 2000 acres Of wheat. |
which. with n good yield, will give him
10000 bushels. Last season Mr.. Dalrynl-
pie employed one hundred men and one I
hundred horses in harvesting and thresh-
ing his crop.
The Nashville Bduie' says the
prospect Is favorable ia Tennessee. This
summer, forthe most l~fottnfiful harvest OF
wheat ever in that section. From
one end Of the Stateto the other the pa
pers bring the most encouraging reports.
The imports Of dry goods and gen
eral merchandise AT New York for the
past week amount to S7,6T2, O0a, whiclIis
an increase Of S8.AJ6.0Oo upon the cores
ponding week OF 1855. :
The action Of the Indiana legislative
rump. constituting less than a quorum in
both Houses, in declaring the negro suf-
amendment ratified by that State, is
called BIZ one Radical newspaper sheet a
" double-back-action." This phrase is
from the technology of mounte
bank performer in the circus" II il
extremely appropriate 10 the performance
n Indiana, which was the most absurd
exhibition Of mOuntebank performers
hat has lately occurred.
A gentleman who has recently pass
a through the country, between louis
lille and NeW Orleans, gives the result Of
lis observations - follows: There has
,aan much damage and delay from rains
nd overflONs IL West Tennessee. Missis-
and Louisiana; cotton crop three
weeks behind, and much Of i not yet
prospects for fruit goVd through
M the South; people patient and hope
nj. AIississippians don't Ike negro JuIless /
mi have resolved to give no occasion for
on that score; negroes in louis
ma and Mississippi quiet and weil-be-
aved. few of them being born and num-
ers Of them diving.