Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-21
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

BlackperfleS aDOunu III NlckSDuIB
The Yazoo Valley Railroad charter
will pass.
Aberdeen has an Incorporated hOtel
company.
Kinds will have no Circuit Court
until October.
> Vicksburg Knight Templars go to
Jackson on the 24th inst.
II. A. Hill (colored), has been APP
pointed postmaster at Raymond.
CalhoOn, of the Holly Springs Con
SerrdtiUe, is very sick at Canton.
Canton has shipped nearly $4,000
bales of cotton during the past season
ii. c. Blackman has been confirmed
as District Attorney for the Tenth
District.
The Southern Railroad Association
is incorporated il Governor Alcorn
dent veto it.
The next State Fair will be held at
Jackson, commencing the 10th of Oc-
tober and closing the 10th.
Stanton says he will have his road
running through from Chattanooga TO
Meridian in seven months.
Jackson is to have street railroads.
The people are too lazy to use them
unless they run on the sidewalks.
Marshall county has a calf eleven
months old which has done service as
a plsw horse for several months.
a law compelling everybody to
keep their cattle in their own inclOs-
ures will be enacted, and most wisely.
The citizens meeting at VickS5urg
failed 10 come to any terms with the
railroad about its having access to the
river.
Z. W. Cabiness has been confirmed
Chancellor for the Sixteenth district,
and w. w. Porter for the Fourth dis
trict.
The House OF Representatives passed
a resolution by vote of 81 to % to
take a recess on the second Tuesday
OF July until the third Monday Of Oc-
tObeT.
The Pilot reads strong lecturers TO
the party, limiting at dishonest men
concerning new villainies in the Legis-
Iature and suggesting the penitienti-
AIRY as their destiny.
s colored citizens packet company
is to be incorporated. No white man
shall sit at the first table, sit in the
barber shop, or drink out of anything
but tin cup at the bar.
The bill affecting the organization of
the public schools has passed the !
House, also the Governor is author |
hed to negotiate with Alabama for a |
part of the territory of that State.
James Blair, known of all men who |
ever visited Columbus, Mississippi, |
famous for his infinite humOr and for /
his deafness, was killed by a lOcomO- |
tive while walking along the track
way of the NJ. and o. railroad, at |
Br0oksviile, Miss.
The judiciary Committee sustain
Governor Alcorn in his message in
reference TO the delinquencies Of the
Jackson, New Orleans and Great
Northern Railroad. Alcorn will COB
BILE that road or compel il to build a
branch from Canton to Aberdeen.
From the HandsbOro Democrat we
learn that about eighteen miles of the
New Orleans, Mobile and Chatta-
direction OF PascagOula, is finished
and an engine running. 1t is thought
by those who seem to know, that the
trains will be running to PascagOula
river within six weeks.
The Vicksburg Herald says: at is
devOutly to be hoped that a rumOr
which prevails in this city TO the ef-
feet that "the Stantons" have finally
succeeded in effecting a purchase Of
the North Louisiana Railway may
be confirmed. The news, however,
would be almost too good to be true.
The old Wings of the State will
beGE in mind that it is proposed to hold
a Wing State meeting at Nicksburg
during the latter part of the summer
or early III the fall. Gentlemen of
that noble old party in any part of the
State, who may wish to express their
opinions on the subject, are offered
uSe use of our columns for that pur-
pOse.-BGymORd Gazette.
Jackson has now a Mayor, a Mar
shal, a full Board of Aldermen, and
it is to be hoped that measures will at
once be taken TO correct abuses that
have crept in during the quasi inter
regRlnH Of the city government. New
streets need to be laid out, sidewalks
and bridges repaired, and various
nuisances abated.
For Carroll county there have been
appointed and cOnhrmed-Sheriff, NJ.
III. futile: Chaucery Clerk, John p.
Circuit Clerk, Robert c.
Assessor, w. S. Mcrrill; |
Benjamin f. Marshall; !
Surveyor, Benjamin Merrill; Coroner,
John NJ. McMurryn. Town Cf
Vriden-MayOr, James l.. Cane.
For Calhoun cOunty-Sheriff, c. +.
Circuit Clerk, VIM. r.
Sims; Chancery Clerk, J. S. Ryan; /
J. G.. Ryan; Assessor,
Issac T. BlOunt. Town Of Pittsboro
Mayor, Hunley Vaughn. |