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

Work on the Brunswick and Nieks-
burg railroad will commence in a few
DAYS between Meridian and Euiaula.
On the 1st inst, at Huntsville, Ala,
Milton Humes was married to Ella
Lee, daughter of Ex-Gov. Chapman,
DIR. Lyon, of Columbus, breaches
the commencement sermon at the
University of Mississippi, June 26th.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Building
and Loan Association sold its money
at COZ per cent. premium the other
day.
Col. Thomas II. Galloway, President
of the East Tennessee, Georgia and
Virginia road, has recovered from his
late illness.
A new reaper with rakes and side
delivery, weighing 900 pounds, for the
harvesting of rice, is on exhibition at
Savannah, Georgia.
The Greenville (Tennessee) Union
supports Nelson and Deadrick as can
didates for Judges of the Supreme
Court from East Tennessee.
a planter near Columbus, Georgia,
had cotton squares on the 10th Of last
MAY. The seed was planted on the
18th of April, five weeks previously.
A Radical sheet in Charleston,
South Carolina, charged the State two
thousand dollars for publishing, as an
advertisement, the new code OF pro-
cedure.
John Baxter has commenced a suit
for libel against the proprietor and
editor of the Knoxville Ehig. Dam
ages are claimed to the amouEsi of
$50, 900.
The Choral Association of Savan-
nah, Georgia, will give a miniature
Jubilee in that city this evening. The
Boston affair will, of course, undergo
complete annihilation.
The New Orleans Times predicts
that the " mixed school " pressure in
that city will break up the free schools
of the metropolis Of the South. This
is just what the Radicals want.
Mr.. f. J. Judah, the editor of the
Monitor, published at Quincy, FlOri-
da, committed suicide in that place on
Friday last, by shooting himself
through the head with pistol.
The annual report of the Insane
Asylum at Tuscaloosa. (Ala.) states
that, of the inmates, Is were sent there
by whisky, II by religious excite
ment, I9 by political excitement, and
one by tobacco.
The Austin correspondent OF the
Galveston NelCS tsays that the people
of Austin are suffering with sail
ments of the bowels" attributed by
the physicians to the too free use Of
Manufactured ice.
A man down in Pickens, Alabama,
where the people never heard Of Abe
Lincoln, of the war, or Of the other
deluge, was bald and had a sore head. |
He rubbed il with coal oil and his
hair is a foot in length.
The Augusta (Ark.) Sentinel says |
there are enough eaterpillars in that |
county to treat all the early birds in |
the State to worms. They have ac- /
tually eaten many Of the trees, and /
the gum trees.
1t Is said that fifty thousand tons of
have been shipped from
Charleston to various parts of the |
South during the last twelve months,
and that they have produced two mil
lion FIVE hundred thousand dollars.
The Victoria, (Texas) Adr0cate says
two freedmen were recently found
dead in Victoria county, they were
hung by a mob of unknown men, for
their many iniquities, such as killing
and branding other peoples cattle.
Corn is selling at five dollars a bar
rel at the crib in Dyer county, Ten
nessee, and five dollars and fifty cents
has been refused, so scarce is the ar
ticle. This would argue that more
attention should be paid to the raising
Of breadstufs throughout the State.
The Sumter Is. c. Uatchnlan of the
lst inst. says corn is growing prettily.
In the earlier planting of cotton the
stands are good, and the recent rains,
il is hoped and believed, will bring
up considerable portion Of the seed
which was put into the ground later.
Mr.. J. c. Stanton, desiroUs of con-
lining his attention entirely to the
work of reconstruction, has appointed
]. b. Weaver, of the Memphis and
Charleston road, General Superinten-
lent of the Alabama and Chattanooga
to take effect on the lst prOX.
A citizen of Columbia, Tenn, re- IS
,ently died, leaving his family S25, 600
insurance. We will wager our repu-
alton, as a Judge of human nature,
md almost anything else we may pos
,ess, that he was a good citizen, a kind
husband, and an affectiOnate father.
They are the kind that insure.
The Methodist Church building in
JOnesbOrO, Tenn, which has been Oc-
,upied by the ministers of the MethO-
list Episcopal Church since 1865, and
or the recovery of which the Church /
south instituted a suit in Chancery,
mas been voluntarily surrendered TO |
Is owners, and will hencefOrth be OC-
,upied by them.
In Fayette county, (Ala. on or near
he line Of the ElytOn and Aberdeen 1
Railroad, there is bed Of stone slabs,
many Of which are ten feet square, and
varying from two to ten inches in
thickness. These stones are as smooth !
Is if dressed by mason, and are ready
or use without further dressing. !
The Tuscaloosa OJSerrer makes q
trong appeal for the resurrection Of ,
he Alabama State University, at :
and earnestly assures all ! :
,arties that il viii never succeed so
Ong as il is run in the interests Of
radical politicians. 1t is a burning
hame that the Alabama University !
) dead.
The Huntsville Democrat, of Thurs n
ay, says: "Just to think of such a
rice for corn in the county Of Madi-
on, where we have known, years
90, corn to be so abundant as to go !
egging at fifty cents a barrel. at ;
Oints Is or 20 miles from Huntsville! :
'lanters, many of them, in our coun- :
y, are actually compelled to buy corn y
Ow at 81 80 a bushel, or 81 50 a bar Z
eli
A correspondent, writing from Q
'hOmpSOnville, Texas, on the 18th y
It., says: " A bloody scene occurred y
ere to-day between two young men 4
this vicinity, w. l.. Statham and :.
r. Ward, in which the latter was II
illed on the ground and the former d
eriOUsly wounded. Statham received Il
gO shots in the breast, and Ward was
-abbed three times in the left side q
18th a bOwie-knife." =
We learn from the OpeIika (Ala.) =
'eeOrder, of yesterday, that a tele- y
ram has been received from Col. y
amuel g. Jones, announcing the =
and signing of the con- ~
act with Messrs. Bang, Walker 4 ~
o., Of New York, for the building of :,
he Savannah and Memphis rail road, =,
nd that contractors will enter at -
nee on the execution of the work. L