Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-27
MISSISSIPPI.
Fine wheat crop in Lowndes.

Fine wheat crop In Lowndes.
The I1de5 approves Judge Orr
charge to the Grand Jury.
Provisions, the Lider says, will b
very high in the prairies Of Missis
sippi.
Scotch farmers are highly apprOveC
and very successful in Oktbbehi
county.
The worm and wet weather have
injured cotton in East Mississippi
Corn fiOurishes.
The papers OF Mississippi are vel
pleased. They say a good corn CROP
and small cotton crop are anticipa'
ted.
Hamilton McGowan an old, well
known and estimable citizen, died on
the 18th inst, from injuries received
from a fall in Enterprise.
DR.. Woods, of the lS5ectator, couldn't
attend the Press Convention, the IN
der says, because he had the gOut-to
which editors are peculiarly liable.
A eolored member Of the Missis-
sippi Legislature is the correspondent
of the New York Tribune. His name
Is Speiman. de is a very good
speaker if the author of piece as
cribed to him by the Pilot.
There will be a meeting Of the 18th
Mississippi Regiment, at the court
house, in Holly Springs, on Wednes-
day, August 30, 1870, AT Il IN. Every
surviving officer aud enlisted man of
that gallant regiment, it is hoped,
will be present at the meeting.
No Chancellor has been confirmed
for the Meridian District. The slate
hss been frequently made up and
rubbed out again. Finally the Gov
ernor fixed on Mr.. Porter, of Kinds,
but the Senate refused to confirm, be-
cause he was not Radical in the1ast
canvass. Who next?
In Judge OrT's Circuit Court last
Wednesday, Alderman Van Hook
and Supervisor Tucker were each
fined filty dollars for being absent
from Court when the Judge charged
the Grand Jury. Alderman Jim
More ,(darky) was also fined, but got
OF on the ground that he had not
been sworn into office.
Cowper wrote six lines about swear
ing that a Mississippi editor should
memOriZe:
cit chiIls my blood 10 hear the Blest su-
RadeIy appealed 10 on each triding theme:
Maintain our rank. vuiEarly Cespise-
To swear IS neither brave, polite nor wise,
Hou would not swear upon q bed Of death:
Reflect! Your Maker may now stop your
breath"
The Shaw University Of Holly
Springs owns about $4,000 dollars
worth Of property, and has at this
time more than one hundred pupils
within its walls. General A. NJ.
West, president; Hon. W. L. Jones,
secretary; Rev. r. s. Rust, treasurer.
Rev. a. G. Mcdonald was uuani-
mOusly elected paesidentOf the Board
OF Trustees.
To show why the city Of Mobile is
willing to be annexed 10 Mississippi
the appended facts are given:
1. Direct trade with the Mississippi
would be interested in directing trade
to Mobile, instead of diverting it to
some place on the Mississippi Sound,
like Biloxi, Pascagoula, Pass Chris
tiau, Ocean Springs, Mississippi City,
Bay st. Lsuis or ShieldSborO.
>. The trade would cause the build
ing of road from Nicksburg direct to
Mobile, running through the counties
OF Warren, Hinds, COpiah, Simpson,
COvingtOn, Jones, Perry and Greene, |
touching at Spring Hill on its route to |
Mobile.
3. There would no longer be any
necessity for opening Bayou Manchac |
as a means of bringing trade to Mobile |
bay from the Mississippi river by |
way of Lake POntchartraiu, Lake /
BUrgne, and the Mississippi Sound.
4. The annexation Of Mobile to Mis- |
sissippi would open to Mobile the re- /
sources Of the country drained by the /
Mississippi river, and this circum- 1
stance would enable Mobile to COM /
pete with New Orleans in population,
wealth and commercial Importance. |
The TOmbigby river has long since |
been regarded as the proper dividing 1
line between Alabama and Mississip- /
nj. The convention which passed the /
for Mississippi, in De- |
cember, 1917, adopted a petition to |
Congress praying that body to en-
large the limits of Mississippi by re-
those Of the Alabama
territory to the TOmbigby river.
(See Pickett's History OF Alabama,
volume ,, page 1866.
With the TOmbigby river as the di-
viding line, the following counties of
Alabama would be thrown into Mis-
sissippi: Mobile, Washington, Choc-
taW and Sumter, and portions of the
following counties of Mississippi
would be thrown into Alabama:
Monroe and IttawamDa.