Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-26
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There is a probability of war betweel
Persia and Afghanistan.
The italian Chamber has assented 4
female suffrage st municipal elections.
Two negroes were knocked of
freight car on the Chattanooga Railroad
on Monday, and killed.
Grant. Colfax and Secretary Fish havt
written letters to L0ndOn to the secretary
OF the American Christian Conference
approving the action Of that body.
Harris distillery, in the Seventh Ten
nessee District, with 100 barrels of whis
ky, valued at 5000. has been seized fol
alleged violation of the internal revenue
law.
The farmers of Middle Tennessee are
preparing to commence harvesting be-
tween here and the Alabama line. The
crops promise an unusually abundant
yield throughout the South.
The English House of Commons re-
iected the proposed dis-establishment OF
the English Church in Wales. Gladstone
opposed il as equivalent 10 a crusade
against the Engnsh Church of Great
Britain.
The Fayetteville NeiCS has been shown
from the mills al that place samples OF
-csrpeting and cassimeres that are equal,
in northern factories, whose regulations
have become famous through long years
of experience.
The editor Of the Murfreesboro Monitor
has met with a catastrophe. de eN-
pressed wish for q cat in his paper, and
one of his lady friends, full Of generosity,
sent him bag full of felines OF all cOlors.
He was thunderstruck and expressed his
thanks in rather doubtful terms.
The Jackson Tenn Wig favors fhe
holding Of State convention in Nash
Vile ON the first Monday IN July 10
nominate candidates for Judges OF the
Supreme Court. The Paris IHteitigeRcer
TaTors the convention, but suggests the
second Monday as the time for holding il.
A covered fiatbOat passed down the
Cum berland by Nashville owned and con-
trolIed by a combination OF negro min=
strels. As the performers are the genuine
African article, the expense or burnt
cork will be avoided. They intend giving
entertainments at all available points on
the Cum berland and Mississippi rivers.
Macon, Georgia, has extensive armOry
buildings, erected for the Southern Con-
federacV. They have somehow become
the property of that city. Her authori-
ties have Just completed an arrangement
bV which they are transformed into
great cotton factory, with capital OF
$500, 900. The city puts in the buildings
and grounds twenty acres), and takes
therefor SO, 600 in stock; the S425, 900 cash
capital is subscribed in and about the
city.
The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin of
Monday SAYS: Mr.. &. &. Haley, the
news dealer on Commercial alley, sold on
Saturday revenue stamps TO the amount
of S6sOO, which were bought for one act of
mortgage, in consideration for which six
millions Of dollars are TO be loaned to
construct what is known as the Back
Bone Railroad, " to run from New Orleans
10 Baton Rouge and thence TO the Jackson
railroad, ana also 10 be projected TO
Shreveport.
An Englishman, ALEX. Charles. Ewald,
r, s. A, and OF Her Maiesty'E Record
Ofice. mas compiled reference book OF
history, containing a table Of chronology,
lists Of sovereigns, dictionary OF battles
and seiges, etc. His citations in regard
"a the late rebellion are very amusing.
he Locates Fort Pillow in North Carolina,
and on psge 3lS we are told that "tort
McAl lister was captured from the Ameri-
can Federals by the Confederates under
Sherman, December l3, 1864"
Hon. Dorsey B. Thomas is announced
as a candidate for Congress in the sixth
district. now represented by Mr.. Samuel
NJ Arnsli, Mr.. Thomas was elected by
the qualified voters Of that district in 1866,
but Brownlow threw out enough votes TO
q" elect " Arnell, and tbs House OF Repre-
sentatives made itself a party 70 this out
rage by giving ArnelI the seat. Mr..
Thomas friends now claim that his cleo
tion is due TO him that truth and justice
may be vindicated.
SIr. James Miller, of the editorial staff
Of the Cincinnati Commercial, was as
IL Ii 4,
sive article. He reDublisbed the same
to-day, with additional remarks, was
again called on by Gr. Disney, and sum-
moned to the office thFsa times, but re-
fused to respond. The last message being |
couched in very offensive language, Miller
confronted him, andv commenced the at |
tack with loaded cane. Disney wrested |
this from him, and the two had a severe |
eight.
In a recent debate in the United States |
Senate, Messrs. Warner, of Alabama, and /
OF south Carolina, both carpet |
baggers, strongly advocated universal |
Mr.. Morton, of Indiana. twit- /
ted Mr.. Warner with a reference 20 his /
recent application for military force to |
be sent to ALABAMA to keep the ku-Alux |
Ia cnOck, 10 which the latter replied, that 1
il the respectable, influential people of |
that State were restored 10 their civil and l
public sentiment that there would be ne |
further use for an armed sOldiery to pre-
serve order. After this center shot from /
this Southern carpet bagger, Morton let /
him alone severely.
The Knoxville Press and Herald Of the /
I'd has this about a murder at Athens,
Tenn: "a wedding at the Methodist
Church had attracted a large /
number Of the young people of Athens,
and among the number was Mr.. Woody,
4 student Of the Wesleyan University. /
sIr. W. kept bachelors hall about two
miles from the town. While on bis way
from the wedding, and just passing the
college, be was fired at by some unseen
person. lie Wss struck in the right side,
The bail cutting his coat sleeve about the
elbows and coming out Of the back on
Lhe left side Of the spine, making hole
p the back large enough, as orr Informant