Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-12
MISSISSIPPI.

The old Baptist church at Wahslsk was
burned on last Sunday morning about
O'Clock.
Stanton Cromwell, a first rate negro
man, keeps the railroad eating house at
Artesia, Miss.
A Mississippi paper says we will have
quiet election in Tennessee, because
6Quarles" is out of the ring and we are
going to do it up Brown.
A colored man known as Bully Jack
was called out Of his house near Brook
lyn, in NOxubee county, last Thursday
night, and killed by some one unknown.
A new trial has been granted Mrs.
Mitchell, recently convicted of the muir
der Of her husband, in the Adams County
Circuit Court; and to Maurice Marsh,
also tried for murder.
A convention of all the chancelOrs in
Mississippi has been called to meet in
Jackson on Monday, the 18th inst, for the
purpose of adopting uniform system IN
al the Chancery Courts OF the State.
Kosciusko has three churches, Presby-
terisn, Methodist and Baptist, Sabbath
school, Masonic and Odd Fellows Lodges,
Bible Society, Agricultural Society. Far
mels' Club, Debating Society, and Young
Mems Christian Association, and is talk
ing about organizing temperance society.
The Holly Springs Star states that an
extensive Eastern company viii sstaollsn
an agency in that city, at an early day, for
the purpose of purchasing land for parties
desiring to settle In that county, and also
20 furnish laborers in such numbers as
may be desired. Let them extend their
agency TO this prairie country.
DR.. s. B. Davis, of Ocean Springs, was
drowned last week in Bluff Creek, at
old ratmTnlnQ
home from a visit to patient; when he
arrived at the ferry the boat was on the
opposite side, and he attempted 70 swim
across. When about half way he sank
| but rose again, and again he disappeared
never to breathe any more.
Last Tuesday night J. Q. Bowen, Esq,
/ who was stopping at the hotel in Good
/ man, Holmes county, was assaulted IN
| the bar-roOm by two brothers named
/ Rayford, Bowen shot and killed both oi
them. II IL believed that the killing was
! iusti6able, although Bowen was yester'
Siav examined and committed to Jail for
trial on a charge of murder.
The Natchez Democrat, Of the Sd inst.
saws, "That up to that time the grand
Jury had found nearly hundred and fifty
Indictments, and was still grinding them
out" We suppose that grand luries, az
torueys general and clerks in Mississippi
as in other countries, constitute sort o
ring, and indictments are only multiplied
to multiply bills of costs. County COURT
should think of facts suggested yer,
vaguely, but definitely enough for men
strong common sense.
The Plot says If there Is State In tn
Union which needs every encouragement
to education, it is Mississippi, where o.
out of every 100 ofthe adult population
can neither read nor write. This fac
alone, startling in its very announce
ment, and franRht with all manner o
evil consequence, if allowed to continue
ought 10 arouse and unite the people a
one man in favor Of education and educa
tional institutions OF every kind.
Governor Alcorn's organ, referring !
duels fought in the StaJe OF Mississippi
insists that under interstate extraditiol
laws that all the participants in these a.
fairs Of honor should be brought into tn
State and punished. Ii further says: u
this be not promptly done and it become
known that Mississippi Territory can 3
desecratsd with impunity and made th
common ground OF the settlement
, wounded honor In other States, by mol
taI combat, We have In vain adopted
, constitution and passed laws In pursuanc
thereof. which denounce the baroari
practice of dneling a. murder"