Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-13
SOUTHERN NEWS.

] CAANeAAA1s
Troops have all been withdrawn
from Nicksburg.
Oil has been struck in Lincoln
county, Tenn.
The wheat crop of Montgomery
county, Tenn, is superb.
East Tennessee is blessed with mag.
nificent crops. Radicalism is dying
out.
Reapers and mowers are sold by the
score in Nashville and here in Mem
phis.
The Columbus Miss Lader has
caught a sturgeon weighing 122
| pounds.
The custom house in Nashville will
| probably be at the corner of Broad
and Spruce streets.
A house for inebriates is to be es-
tablished in Nashville. We have too
many of them in Memphis.
John Cradle will be hung at St.
Joseph, Missouri, on the 22d of July,
Tor the murder OF Joel Drake.
A court house is being built at 7
pelO, Mississippi, the seat of govern
ment of the new county of AlcOrn. n
The Augusta, Georgia, police are to
have new summer uniform of white
pants, gray flannel blouses and straw
hats.
Three hundred Chinese Iaborers
passed Nicksburg on Monday, going
up White river for distribution among
the planters.
The house at Haysville, Clay
county, North Carolina, was burned
recently, and all the records, papers,
etc, destroyed.
The cornerstone of the first Jewish
synagogue in Texas was laid in Gal
weston on Thursday, by the Grand
Lodge of FreemasOns.
The Gazette says the editor of the
Nicksburg Times is a decent, liberal
gentleman, and will be welcomed to
the press convention.
Geologists have been in Union
township, Mason county, West Vir-
ginia, prospecting for silver, and
company has been formed for testing
the matter.
The act defining the duties of the
Commissioner of Immigration, Just
passed the Mississippi Legislature, al
lows a salary of $500 and $1,000 trav-
cling expenses.
AS an inducement to permanent
residence in Gainesville, Georgia,
building lots are given away to actual
settlers, and Memphis hesitates to in
vest in a railroad.
Colonel Egbert, formerly chief of
police of Richmond by military ap-
pOintment, has received an appoint
ment in the secret service of the
Treasury Department.
Jesse c. Wagner is a "defauIter'' to
the Texas Central Railroad company
for or S50,0 If 'he had only COB
bled couple of thousand like our
Ahrens, he would be "thief."
In Monroe county, Ga, the wheat
has been harvested and turns out un-
eXpectedly well. The stalk is dimin-
utive but bright and free of rust, and
the heads are uncOmmOnly well filled
with plump, heavy grain.
A meeting is called in Parkersburg,
W. Va, for the 10th inst, for the pur-
of organizing a colony for emigration
to Texas "Or some other Southern |
State where land Is productive and |
cheap" Come to West Tennessee.
An adjourned meeting of the men,
be-s OF the 18th, 10th, 10Th an6 4Sth |
regiments of inf try, |
which composed Harris brigade at |
the close Of the war, was held in
Vicksburg on Wednesday.
At a meeting held recently in Gal
latin, No, to make arrangements for
a soldiers reunion on the 4th of July |
it was agreed to have a general cele-
bration, open to all citizens irrespec-
tive Of past political affiliations.
General J. T. Wilder left Chatta-
lOOga on Tuesday night, for Cincin-
natl, to investigate the new mode of
iron, now used in one of the
there, with VsSW to its
if found available, at his
own mill.
The Austin (Texas) Republican
says; On Saturday last nineteen
Swedish immigrants, consigned to A.
B. Palm, arrived in this city. They
eft Sweden on the 18th inst, and ar
rived as above. They were contracted
5Or different persons in and around
he city Of Austin"
The death of Hon, J. T. LIZ u,....u,
who was Grand Master of MasOns in
during the year 1S67-S, is
Mr.. Lamkin had at
aimed to the 33d and last degree of
an honor which has not
)een conferred upon any Mississippi
IN for a number of years.
One hundred and tWenty-one dol
ars were rooted few days ago in a
lig-pen near Sparta, Buchanan coHn-
Y, Missouri, which proved to be the
of Samuel Gam, who buried
{ during the war. He thus invested
ibout 5000 ia gold, and is still out
200, of which he has forgotten the
ocality.
4 mad dog passed through Water
own, Virginia, 2 few days since, and
bit several other dogs, Whereupon the
Mayor of that town issued his procla-
nation ordering the immediate de-
itruction of every animal of the ca
line species which has the temerity
o make its appearance on the streets
a muZzle.
Mississippians should be very proud
f their Senator. They have but one,
0 far as the world knows, and he
will be President or Vice President.
phillips is for Revels against the
World. Collax and Grant are extin-
uished by the black gloom of Revels
vershadoWing immensity, and he
yhO pelts off Grant is the country's
reatest benefactOr. Go it Revels!
There has been quite a muss among
he cOlOred members of the Texas
because the use of the (
all was given for great State ball at | I
he capitol Ou the Sd of June, which
he sable Lawmakers were not in
tied . TO attend. When they found ]
Ut(]hat they were excluded they :
-4de strong effort to repeal the per- !
mission, but failed.
A correspondent furnishes the :
knoxville (Tenn.) Press and Herald
With the following piece of natural !
history: Zone day last week James
Laymanee and his son were max
lg rails of large Spanish oak, about
JuF feet through; when opening the1 :
utt cut a toad frog was found in the
cart Of the log, and about five feet
rom the stump end. A perfect bed
7as formed in the log where the frog t
iy, but there was no hollow, wind {
iake or worm-hole in the log, which
'as perfectly sound and very hard"
The War Department has sent a
to the City Council at {
offering to surrender the l
'avis mansion to the city authorities E
n condition that all claims for rent !
r damages shall be relinquished. For \
)me time the Government has been |