Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-12
MISSISSIPPI.

The cotton crop in Yazoo is excellent.
There are twenty guests at Cooper's
Wells.
Crop prospects in Adams county are
magnificent.
John Owens. of Fulton, Mississippi, is
Ill years old.
Col. Habeas Corpus McCardle, famous
editor, is in Columbus.
Jackson, Miss, sadly needs and will
soon have a decent hotel.
The Senatobia Times is a first-class
Memphis advertisement.
Orr is Judge and MuIdran District At
torney in the Starkville District.
All of Alcorn's appointees are pledged
to support the Republican party.
Scott, black as the neither extremity OF
midnight, is Sheriff of Issaquena.
A, son of DIR. Ayres of Salem, Miss,
shot himself fatally on the 5th inst.
The Legislature of Mississippi costs $1,000
daily, and no hopes of an adjournment.
G. c. Chandler has resigned his place as
member of the Mississippi Legislature.
Holly Springs is growing rapidly,
though the smallpox is prevalent there.
General A, NJ. West proposes to build
a branch road from Durant to Lexington
Oxford is raising money to divert For
rests road from Holly Springs 10 that
place.
Meridian is absorbing Marion and En-
terprise, while the great Gazette man is
absorbing in New York.
The West Point Herald calls DR.. Burns.
OF the First Baptist Church of this city,
the - Chesterfieldian Orator."
The Vicksburg Republican wants to
know whether the Mississippi Press Con-
Ventlon Is to be exclusively Democratic.
There are over 6OOO negro voters in
Warren county, and only fifty-two ever
paid a tax. They shape laws and tax all
others.
The Holly Springs Reporter says the
made by the Stonewall Mills, at Enter
prise, Mississippi.
The extension of the Vicksburg and
Meridian road to the river still worries
the people of Vicksburg. What a silly
subject for quarreli
DR.. HOugh, Governor Alcorn's nominee
for the mayoralty of Jackson, was not
The Governor and Senate
often quarrel of late.
J. C. Stanton, the Alabama railroad
king, who seeks to Outrival McCombs &
20, was very sick few days ago, and
Meridian was deeply panied.
Mississippi will probably furnish can
didate for the Presidency in the person of
Revels, and Brick PomerOy rides behind
for the Vice Presidency, says the Herald.
The defeat of Forney's candidate Bow
en-, in Washington, for the mavoraltv is
deemed as fatal a blow as the recent
State elections which have uniformly
gone against the party in power.
Luke Lee, nominated for a District At
torney's place by Governor Alcorn, is a
well known Tennesseean, who has recent
ly returned to Mississippi. Quitman beat
him for Governor in 1852.
The expulsion of bawds from the CITY
of Vicksburg drives them into the sub
urbs, and there is great row brewing
about 1t. Licenses regulate and control
an evil that cannot be excised.
The Gazette defends Stanton. of railroad
fame, and deems him the greatest bene-
s. Gr of the Gulf States. We like your
ifsiick and your declarations, and wish
there were many Stantons in the South
Governor Alcorn had all the members of
the Legislature at his palace night before
last, and " bright lights shone over fair
women and brave men," This "levee"
of the Governor is the first of the sort he
ever built-streaked.
The Eye of Mississippi, the vigorous pa
per at Durant, thinks the stockholders of
the Mississippi Central were victimized
by General West when induced to lease
the road to McCombs, Tate q Co. The
public gained what the company lost.
The time for taking the census is lin
tied to three months. 1t must be ex-
tended that the job may be finished. and
the Senator from Oxford counted. How
can they find him in three months? and
when they think they have found him.
where the devil will he be when thew 90
to set him down and count him?
No inland town in Mississippi does a
more thriving trade than POntotoc-six
groceries, eight dry goods houses, two
drug stores, two saloons, one printing
Office, tin shop, gun shop and tailor, court
house, where justice is said to be dis
pensed, and the remains of a classic Jail.
in the midst of which is an iron cage.
where two persons are at this time care
fully lodged by generous public. The
Equal Rights man was outside long
enough to write the above paragraph.