Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-18
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Deaths by lightning have been of ire
quent occurrence of late.
The water supply is an important ques-
ton in Atlanta, Georgia, just now.
The crops throughout North Carolina
have suffered great injury by recent
heavy rains. .l- -3 Au.-. -
Two mules were stung to death by bees
at the residence of Mr.. Brown, near
Thomastown, Mississippi. a few days
since. u 4.I.4s ID
(. 1. Bullock will be q. candidate for the
vacancy in the Kentucky State Senate,
caused by the resignation of Captain
Lindsay.
The new Methodist Church in Atlanta,
Ga, is designed to seat 1000 persons, and
will measure 90 by 81 feet. Its estima-
ted cost is $4,000.
The paying teller of a Macon (Ga.j bank
paid Windsor Hill $500 for a two dollar
check. Windsor was interviewed and
compelled to disgorge. g4 faiI...
Mr.. ii. L Kimbsll, who is erecting a
magnificent hotel in Atlanta, Ga, is OK
peoted to offer a handsome prize Tor a
suitable name to be given it. III
Bishop Wigbtman has transferred Rev.
S. w. C~ottingham from East Texas to
w est I6AbS COnior6uC6, anu appointed
him agent of the Corpus Christi Academy.
The Rome Daily says: "a lot of new
wheat, the first of the season, was brought
up by the Etowah from the plantation of
Mr.. Jos. Blackmore, of Cherokee county,
Alabama. II was sold to J. j. Cohen for
81 70 per bushel." I
DIR. Bard's printing material has ar
rived in Atlanta. and the True Georgian
will be issued at an earlier day han was
anticipated. The Doctor viii soon enter
the ring, and then wen see the fur fly.
1t seems that W. P. NJ. Gilbert, post
master at Tuskegee, Ala, was the insti-
gator of the late riot. He "a, but was
pursued and arrested, and afterward re-
leased on condition of leaving the State.
"A citizen of McCracken county has i'm
vented a stump extractor, which will cost
only IS or SO. Another citizen has in
vented a process to mske shot out of cold
lead-in a very quick time and at very
small cost. 't
Crop accounts from Missouri are ex-
tremely favorable. In some portions OF
the State the farms, gardens and orchards
are from ten to fifteen days in advanced
any season for several years, while the
corn is up and ready for the ~cultivator.
Wheat and oats promise well.
The Marlin (Texas) Pioneer learns from
a gentleman who recently interviewed
the Governor of Texas at Austin, that he
determined to signalize his administra-
ton by the appointment of a pure and
able Judiciary. The Corsiosna Observer
also had an article to the same effect,
based ON information received from re-
cent visitor to the capital. e.
Charlotte papers announce that Mr.. P.
p. Dickinson, of New York, has taken the
entire contract for the construction of the
Air Line railroad from Atlanta to Char
lOtte, N. c., and proposes to let sub-con-
tracts for sections to. parties along the line
of the road. He adyertises for proposals
for the grading, masonry and bridging of
sixty miles of the road extending from
Charlotte to S~partanburg, on which work
will be commenced immediately.
The Greensboro BedeonMys: General
Forrest was on a visit to Hreensboro last
week, looking after the interests of his
road. He expresses the cOnidentopinion
that the road will be completed to this
place by the first of September at farthest.
And he is quite sanguine hat he can
have it completed from Selma to Column
bus, Miss, by the first of March next.
He says that he will o o have at least
five hundred hands on this end of the
line, which win cause the work to pro-
gress very rapidly" Is 10
The BatesyiHe (Ark.A Times says that
Cobb, engineer of the Memphis and
Kansas City railroad, was in the city sev
eral days during the past and present
week. He examined the route between
J-acksOnport and this place, and WAS
pleased with the topography of the
country. He says a road can be built be-
tween these two points at much less cost
thanis generally supposed by persons I'M
familiar with the country. He also exam
ined the route betwt en- B~atesville and La
Crosse, and expressed like qualification at
the feasibility of the route.
A Texas correspondent says that a
from the Indian border, in
Wise county, invented, patented and
wrought by Texans on the frontier, had
travelled on its own wheels three hundred
miles to the Houston Fair to bear away
blue ribbon from the New York and
Ohio contestants. with bOis dare
spokes and fellees, and with mezquite
apd hubs, that never crack or con
OF rot from exposure, these frontier
Dlows and gangs come with unpublished
square before the best results of mechani-
saf skill, however s~ustained-by paint and
Thesrefusal of Governor Yarmouth, of
Louisiana, to sign the bill creating Kel-
great levee corporation, the New
Orleans BdlLetiR says, twill cause the de- |
reat of Senator Kellogg'sy bill in the United
States Senate, authorizing a loan of S10,-
700, 900 to this company and otherwise
contributing to the building and main
of the levees in the Mississippi |
All ofthese immesse advantages
% the people of our State are, however,
secondary in Importance to the pecuniary
interests of the so-called Governor of this
and a few of his favored pets" Gov
Alcorn said in a speech, a few days
that Yarmouth never would sign
.zellogg's corporation bill.
Yarmouth succeeded in lining his own
at the expense of the people of
Louisiana. But then it must be remem-
that he is ''loyal" to the Govern
or. at least, 70 the Radical party:
he would lose standing in his party
f he did not prove himself a success as a
hief and scoundrel, and the greater thief
md villain he proves himself to be. the
honors will be- conferred IN him by
lis Radical brethren. The principal
of the Radical platform now-a-days,
" at least one Of their cardinal principles
" articles OF faith is, to rob the public
whenever an opportunity presents itself.
members of State Legislatures /
must initiate the example set by Radical
members of Congress- who accept brides,
ell their votes to give way millions of
.cres of the public lands, reversing the
theory, and practicing the new
Glands for monopolies7 and not
Hands for the landless."
1t is not Mrs, Harriet Beeeher
but distinguished American
cholar," who is writing a story for
hiIdren, to be called "John Whop-
Unlike Mrs, Stoves story of
1ord Byron, it is 70 be a wbopper