Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-08
MISSISSIPPI


Postmaster Northcut was robbed of
nine hundred dollars last Sunday by
a negro boy.
billiard Burnside, tried last week
at Carr0llt0n, on a charge of murder
ing his father, was acquitted.
Stafford, Alcorn's Major General
and editor Of the Pilot, Is said to be a
Hrst-rate gentleman In social life.
If you would send an inmate to
the lunatic asylum at Jackson write
first to DR.. Compton. The concern Is
full.
More car loads of Cinnamon passed
through Corinth on the oath ult. for
the Memphis and Selma General
Forrest's) railroad.
Two Thousand six hundred and
twenty-five dollars will be won by
some Mississippian, the Beacon says,
for the best cotton at the Memphis
Fair.
We sincerely regret to hear of the
death Of Inr. Charles Bancroft, of
Osyka. He was a useful man, and his
loss has created a void in the commu-
nifty where he lived.
James Ross, a colored man, was
killed last week by A. S. Howell, a
citizen of YaZ0o. MI. Howell is yet
at large. A Mr.. Berry was arrested
81 accessory to the murder.
John Gully and Ben Bush killed
each other with shot guns in DeKalb,
Mississippi, last Saturday. 1t was a
fair fight, as we hear the story told.
Both men were honest, good citizens,
so esteemed.
Mr.. McShane, late road-master OF
the Vicksburg and Meridian railroad,
died at his residence in Vicksburg
Wednesday morning. He was well
and favorably known in railroad cir
cles in this State and Pennsylvania.
The convention of the old-line
Wings, which will assemble in Jack
son next month for the purpose, SO
stated, of takinga survey of the pc,
litical field, seems to draw the fire OF
the Democratic journals all over the
State.
Kosciusko has three churches, Pres
byterian, Methodist and Baptist; 8
Sabbath school, Masonic Lodge, ODD
Fellows Lodge, Bible Society, Agri'
cultural Society, Farmers Club,
Debating Society and Young Mems
, Christian Association, and is talking
about organizing a temperance so
ciety.
General II. w. Barry, member o
Congress from the Columbus district
is still suffering from the effect of hi:
|, wound. He is now under medica.
treatment at one of the minerai
springs in the State of New York
The General is well known in this
city, where he has many friends. The
? Congressional Directory of the forty
|, first Congress informs US that he is the
!, youngest member in the House, being
only thirty-One years of age.
The Central railroad stands to-day
| as a proud monument to the genius
Y energy and capacity of Colonel Sam
I Tate. The track has been completely
repaired; every trestle on the road
has been made new, and every bridge
: has been put in splendid repair. Sub
q stantial and at several stations absO
lutely superb depot houses have beer
, erected. AT Water Valley, they have
D erected machine shops, where every
g species of work necessary about tn,
road is donein a frst-class style. Tit
rolling stock of the road has beer
greatly increased and the passenge
coaches are, in point of elegance anC
comfort, equal to those of any road il
! the Union. The management of tn,
road is perfectly satisfactory to tn
people. Its conductors are first-clas
( gentlemen, and know precisely how
l to run a train. The praises OF ColOne
Tate and his assistants may be heart
} on all sides. The people have full
| confidence. and they OUGHT to have.