Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-20
THE NEWS.

The Washington ark Telegraph has
suspended.
The French contract for Kentucky to-
baceo this year Is ZOO hogsheads.
The hemp market in Lexington, KY,
IS reported dull, and sales sre made at s.
Kentucky Radicals are talking Of ask
ing for Congressional interference in their
state.
The Tombigbee at Aberdeen was full to
its banks on Monday, having risen four
feet in twenty-foUr hours.
The Reporter says: In future the Metho-
dists Of Holly Springs, Miss, viii wor-
ship in t6eir own church.
The Right Rev. W. NJ. Green, Bishop Of
the Diocese OF Mississippi, is at presentOn
q visit to the Parish Of Holly Springs.
The Swedes recently brought to Water
Valley, Miss, propose giving a series Of
concerts, TO raise money 10 build a
church.
The first number of the Fest Tennessee
Republican, published at Huntingdon,
Tenn, has reached this Office. 1t is too
Radical 20 be readable.
The people Of McNairy county, Tenn,
voted down, by a large majority, the
proposition % m0v8 their county site
from Purdy to Bethel station.
The drst steamboat ever builtat COlum-
bus, Miss, has just been completed. She
carries three hundred bales Of cotton, and
draws four OF i've inches light.
The whole cost Of the recent Tennessee
Convention amounted to 81 ,242 20. The
Convention Of 1884 cost So, 7e2 0G; and
that ofI798 cost the State $S,OO7 O8.
On Friday last about forty immigrants,
consisting Of men, women and children,
arrived al the Holly Springs depot, for
warded by Capt. Charles H. Townsend.
The Boston EUeHiRg Post says that the
portraits Of all the governors Of Rhode
Island are 20 be painted, and hing, II
there is room, on the borders Of the State.
The Upton county Tenn jail seems 70
be insecure. Clements, Bradford and
others escaped some time sgo, aud last
week a negro thief broke and escaped
jail there.
Mr.. J. n. KimbEough says that he viii
establish broom factory inHolly Springs,
Mississippi, before fall, and that he will
be prepared to buy a large quantity Of
broom corn.
The Franklin Weekly ReVieO says the
Tennessee Constitutional Convention
made Jory-JoNT changes and additions TO
the old constitution, each one Of which
is a decided Improvement.
Mr.. Jenckes, Of Rhode Island, chair
man Of the Committee on Patents, states
that one hundred thousand American
patents had been issued since 1886. That
number was reached about a fortnight
since.
Miss Dix, who has been on q tour among
the asyIums for the insane in the South,
is reported by q Northern paper as sd-
vancing the opinion that snun-dippng is
tie pr-sdominating Of insanity
among Southern women.
Beast Butler don't like to be told that
he voted for Jefferson Davis in the
Charleston Convention as a candidate for
President. IfButler is anymores ashamed
Of Il than Mr.. DAVIS is be could not long
survive the feeling.
A false report that the Kentucky Cen
tral Railroad had been leased to the Penn
Eylvauia Central Railroad for an unlim-
tied term Of years obtained circulation
last week, but was refuted by Mr.. Pen
dleton, the President Of the Kentucky
Central
J. B. Dumble, Esq who, during the .
war, was the managing editor Of the raw
cling Memphis APPEAL, has Just ASSUMED
editorial control Of the new paper at Ma
con, Ga, the Daily Journal. He is one Of
the best journalists in the South.
Musical criticism out West is some
times, 70 say the least OF it, peculiar. One
Of the village diIletanti on the plains
thus discourses about the singing Of his
choir: 1t is ike driftwood in a stream
IL drags on the bars, Jet don't 0 to
a dam"
The peach crop, says the Jacksonville
lFla) Republican, may turn out not TO be
entirely destroyed, after all. Some report
q pretty good stand left, if they do not
vet fail OF. The crop wa killed lower in
the bud than ever before known in tins
section. |.
The Knoxville Press and HsraId nays:
sssix yellow men from Tennessee have
made a black report to the Reconstruction
COMMITTEES. One hundred and sixty
thousand white citizens say their report
is false, and offer proof that it il a tissue Of
f~alBehoeds.
VIM. c. Hawkins was struck bird in
Ehzsbethtown, KY 8 few days ago. This
Is the elimination Of a series Of misfor-
tuneA he was burned u Of his home
during "A sonnsgrstien in that place =