Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-29
IRE NEWS.

Pensacola, Fla, is to have a new
hotel.
The Raleigh IN. c. Sentuae, is evil
IDENTIFY in favor Of GOV. Holden for the
Vice-Presidencv in 1872.
Mr.. Leroy Templeman is about to
erect a Cotton Seed Oil Factory near the
beef landing in Shreveport, La.
Miss Florence McCarty, a native Of
Jackson, Miss, has been appointed tele-
graph operator at Magnolia.
The band of the Second United
States Infantry performs every Tuesday
and Saturday in the Courtyard of Hunts
Vile, Ala.
Miss Nellie Harlan and another
Young lady have taken up farms for
ibenseFyes. under the Homestead Law. in
the Northwestern part Of Iowa.
The crop reports from Southern
Georgia and Florida are very cheering.
Numerous specimens Of the new crop
nave been received al Savannah.
Charles A. Cone, of Kinds county,
Miss, shot and killed a negro woman,
near Clinton, in Kinds county, on the
18th. He was arrested by the military.
Judge Sharkey is in Washington,
and called on Judge Dent a few days ago
10 guarantee a hearty cooperation from
the people of Mississippi in the Novem-
Der contest.
The Pine Bluff Weekly Press of
Thursday V " From every portion of
this county, and of Southeast Arkansas,
the most cheering accounts are received
of abundant crops.
The Louisiana Telegraph says: The
corn ctSp is made, or at least, is out Of
danger, and planters speak hatteringly Of
~ rsanI No HrneFarn 1orn for tho nuu-
chita valley next year.
The Palatka (Ela.) Herald says:
"a From all that we can learn. the crop Of
cotton bids fairiR this section to be a good
one. We hear nothing of caterpillars, al
though we occasionally see in our ex-
changes notices of their appearance"
The Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat of
Tuesday saws that United States troops
was sent 70 Somerville on that day, in re-
Spouse to a complaint from the carpet-bag
Radical, Sheriff Thomas, that he could
not execute civil process there.
According to Washington letter
writers. a high Treasury official estimates
the amount of money in the Southern
States at present at about $4,000, 900, and
expresses the opinion that the South IS
better OFF financially to-day than it was
before the war.
The great needle mandatory of
Carl Schleicher. in Sehonthal, near Buren,
on the Rhine, exported in the year 1868
no less than $40, 00O, 900 of sewing needles,
which were disposed of in various parts
Of Europe, in North and South America,
and in Africa.
A citizen of Philadelphia who used
weak solution Of caTbOiic acid as a wash
to ~neutralize the offensive Odor arising
- from a cancer. discovered that the latter
----ss-~T~ 1900 h. Thn o..w1s.o-s..
The solution consisted of One-fourth Of
an ounce Of acid diluted in a quart of
water.
On Wednesday last a fatal afiray oe-
CURED at New Albany, Miss. A man
named Brewster stabbed a freedman, an
other named Foster was shot and instant
" killed by one Swift, who in three hours
after was laid out on a cooling board.
quite dead from the effects Of a pistol shot
fred by one Of Fosters friends.
The DIR. j. g. Marshall who some
months since taught q negro school at
Lexington, No, where he married a wOr-
thy widow lady, and having obtained
some 5000 Of her money, d~ecamped, was
recently heard Of in Gonzales, Texas,
where &c bad married another lady.
The Shreveport la Netcs, of Fri
dav last. saws: Reports from ali sections
in regard to crops are favorable. Cotton
is doing well. and but little fears enter
taiged of the worm. Fine rains have
been general, and river crops viii give a
greater yield in all probability than last
year.
The Supreme Court of North Caro-
lima decided that, so far as that State is
concerned, emancipation was accom-
plished by the action of the state Con-
yention % 1885, and not by the proclama-
ton Of President Lincoln January 4,
1868, or the order of Gen. Sherman in
May, 1865.
The Tallahassee (Fla.) Sentinel Of
the 24th says that for q several DAYS past
we rave had severe and continued rains.
Fears are expressed that the rainy season
has set IN with unusual severity. and
that the crops VIII suffer in
We trnst, however, these apprehension
viii prove 1Tlfounded."
The Key West lF1a.) Union Of the
22d saws: The yellow fever reported some
weeks ago in the Government barracks at
Key West sim prevails AZ that place. The
wife Of Capt. W. J.. Vance, Collector Of
Customs fof that port, has died of the
epidemic, and Capt. Vance is reported
dangerously i'll with the fever.
A Richmond dispatch of the 9th,
TO the New York Herald, states that the