Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-08
MISSISSIPPI.

The Legislature, it is thought, will
take a recess after next week.
Engineers are at work surveying the
branch railroad from Artesia to Stark
Vile.
Executive clemency has considera-
bly, reduced the working force in the
penitentiary.
The United States Circuit and Dis
trict Courts opened yesterday; Judge
Hill presiding.
Corn is doing well, and promises a
large harvest, in every portion OF
Marshall county.
James T.. Fitzhugh justitably shot
Lemuel Hall, a negro, near Brandon,
Miss, last Saturday.
A desperate effort was made ON the
Fourth with a twelve pound howitZer
to shoot a spark of loyalty into the
lazy people of Jackson, but it was no
go.
A negro, called John Newman, now
living upon the place near Crystal
Springs occupied by l.. NJ. Wells, Sc
verely cut another negro a few days
since.
The looming man. in the shape OF
a wealthy Chinese merchant from San
Francisco passed through Jackson on
a prospecting tour through the South
last Saturday.
On Monday, June 9th, a heavy
wind and hail storm passed over the
country, fifteen miles northwest of
Holly Springs, doing much damage
to both corn and cotton.
We regret to learn from the SpectG-
tor that the splendid dwelling house
of Hon. o. Y. Nicely, of Kemper
county, was burned to the ground last
week. The loss was $4,000.
The Fourth was celebrated by a
white member of the Legislature roll
ing his trunk through the streets Of
Jackson on a wheel-barrow. Twenty
Ave cents saved from some imam and
brOther.'
A son of d. w. Jones, living near
Oxford, attempted to kindle a fire
with kerosene oil on Saturday last.
The result was, the boy was badly
burned and the house took fire, but
was extinguished before much damage
vas done.
A negro man by the name of Mariet
| Booker was committed to Jail on
Wednesday last, charged with the
murder of James Armstead, another
freedman. The 5tabbing occurred on
Saturday last, on the "BurrelI Scott
place." near Satartia.
In the row that occurred at the
town of Wesson, in Copiah county,
between some negroes and white men,
three negroes were killed and two
white men wounded. The names o.
the white men were BOstwick and
Mcmillan. From the information we
have, it appears that a negro had been
cursing and abusing a white boy. A
white man interfered in behalf of the
boy, when the shooting occurred a:
| above.
The Columbus Inder says: "ThC
news came yesterday that Mr.. |. NJ
Knapp and MI. Geo. B. Tucker haC
been removed from the Board of Pc
lice Supervisors. They were the two
most conservative and economics
men on the board, and we cannot SEA
why they were superseded unless a
the instance of Van Hook and hi
clique. Mr.. Knapp was President o
the Board, and is a man of mOderati
views and good sense. Mr.. Tucker i
a plain farmer, with none of the hifa
lutin of our Board of Aldermen"
Democratic papers in Mississippi
Clarion, Jackson, Power 4 Barksdale
Democrat, HandsbOrO, p. K. Mayors
Democrat, Winona, j.. w. Booth
] HrraTA NfaI-oAnpr nv u Gnaaru
Mississippi Central, Water Valley, II
N. Browne; Nallonian, Water Valley
F. w. Merlin; Gazette, Meridian, J
j. Shannon; Flag, Meridian, j. 5
Morris; Register, Forrest, A. j. Clan
Vile; Republican, Brandon, A. ]
Frantz; Star, Goodman, E. G. Harris
Mail, Canton, Singleton Garrett; Sen
tinel, Grenada, j. A. SignaigO
News, Charleston, ]. B. Booth; Star
Pamela, freeman Randolph; Times
~Senatobia, q. d. Stands; Reporter
Holly Springs, Kinloch FalcOner
Conservative, Holly Springs, join
CalhoOn; Falcon, Oxford, Sam. NJ
Thompson; News, COTinth, JEFF. Vol
ford; GOzette, Iuka, DIR. j. s. Davis
Examiner, Aberdeen, 5. A. Jonas
Index, Columbus, j. A. Stevens
Democrat, Columbus, w. H. Worth
ingtOn; Herald, West Point, w. j.. A
Estes; Spectator, ScOoba, Or. j. ID
Woods; Times, Summit, L. T. Coop
er; Copiahan, HaZlehurst, j. +
Vance; Chronide, Fayette, Pad
dock; Jouran, BrOOkhaven, Casa
day; Democrat, Natchez, Pau
A. BOtto; Courier, Natchez
Times, Durant, j. n. Bowen; ChrOni
Gle, Kosciusko, S. Z. Wilson; Ney
Era, S~tarksville, Lee Stillman; Jour
nal, MeadVilIe, - Burke; Adver
tiser, Ripley, J.. f. Ford; 81
Radical Professionalism, Oxford
9. n. Wilson; Star, Holly Springs, b
ID. Nabers; Equal Rights, POntOtOC
FlOurnoy; Republican, Columbus
--; Chronicle, Meridian, Josl
Smith; Republican, Canton, A. S
Wood; Republican, WoOdville, II
A. Gibbs; Republican, Hazlehurst
Wilkerson; Gazette, Bay st
Louis, Peres Bonney; Repub
lican and Times, Vicksburg
Frederick Speed; Pilot, Jackson, L
Stafford; Citizen, Canton, II. +
Smith; Conservative, Carrollton, J
P. Marshall; Advertiser, Lexington
Lee Packer; Sentinel, Greensboro, ID
p. COffey; Valley Farmer, Pamela, r
j. Alcorn Delta, Friar's Point, = San
derson; Eye, Durant, G.. p. NJ. Turner
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