Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-24
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

The Yazoo Valley Railroad viii
soon be under way.
The Columbus blde1 of the 18th
inst. contains the valedictory of Col.
T. II. Baker.
The Senate on Friday last confirmed
E. II. Harmon, Esq, as Chancellor Of
the district composed of Tunica, Co
ahoma and Bolivar counties.
A duel is said to have been fought
on Thursday last opposite Vicksburg,
the principals being Messrs. Adams
and Pritchard, of Madison county.
wv. Brown, near Utica, has dis
covered a grass which is green for ten
months during the year. The grass,
no doubt, viii prove invaluable as a
winter pastuIage.
Ex-President Davis has consented
to deliver the Grafton on the occasion
of the next annual fair OF the ChOc-
taW and Carroll Agricultural and Me-
chanics Association.
The laying Of the cornerstone of a
new Jewish synagogue at Vicksburg
on Friday was made the occasion for
a demonstration not only new and
novel to the people of that city, but
imposing and grand.
E. P. jacobson, Esq, of Washing
ton City, has been confirmed by the
United States Senate as Attorney for
the United States for the Southern
District of Mississippi, vice Hon. A.
Burwell, of Nicksburg, resigned.
In the Legislative proceedings of
LTrTIavy rrvo HnA a manly nrnfnlf Inv
the noble little band of Conservatives
in the Legislature and some liberal
Republicans against the social
equality clauses of the railroad bill.
The town of Bovina was somewhat
damaged by the storm of Tuesday
night. The two churches in the course
of erection were blown down; and
also the Masonic Lodge, which was
carried away bodily, and the side
bursted through.
The Jackson Clarion of Friday
says: On yesterday a small .detach-
ment of Scandinavian emigrants con-
sisting of young men and women, in
telligent and w~ell-to-do, arrived here
through the agency of Messrs. Barks-
dale. They embarked at COpenha-
gen for America on the 24th of April.
The Vicksburg Herald of Friday
says that at a meeting of the directors
of the Brunswick and Vicksburg Rail-
road, held at Eufaula recently, a con-
tract was closed with Messrs. Bradley,
PappOt d Co., for the building and
equipping the entire line of the Bruins
wick and Vicksburg road west of Eu-
E,,,ln f-aDa LfufaU1la 10 MnrihI0n Misc
The Raymond Gazette says; A Con-
federate soldier died near the resi-
dence of MI. E. Glover, in this coun-
ty, on the 9th of D~eceelber, 1868, and
was buried by his comrades in arms
on MI. CloWer'5 plantation. The
grave has been cared for, and a board
still stands with this inscription:
"Died-A. L. Newton, Co. @, 18th
Miss, Dec. 6, 1863" Perhaps the
sleeping soldier has a friend, a
brother, a sister, OF a mother, who
may not be advised of his resting
place. Our brethren of the press
may confer a great favor by copying
this notice.
The Pamela Star says that Mr.. Green
Finch, a planter near Batesville, was
much imposed upon by three scamps,
named respectively Henry Pearce,
James Gibbins and Fred. WOodcock.
The men were brought from Chicago,
as immigrants, seeking labor on the
farm and contracted to make a crop
on the plantation of Mr.. Finch, who
paid their transportation here. After
they had worked two months, or
about that long, they went to Mr..
Finch and requested that he advance
to them each a suit of clothes, which
he was kind enough to do, they APP
pearing to be well satisfied and pleas
ed with the prospects of a crop. But
after they got the suits of clothes they
left between supper and breakfast,
and the last MI. H&nch heard of the
u~ngrateful wretches, they were in
Memphis. They went off in such a
hurry that they forgot to leave the
blankets that Mr.. Finch had furnished
them to sleep on.
"CoL. M. G. GALLAwAY.-We are
much gratifed to see that this distin-
guished journalist and chivalrous gen.
tIeman, has again put on editorial
harness. 1t will be remembered that
he retired a few weeks since from the
Avalanche because the principal pro-
prietor differed with him as to its pO-
fiticaI course. He is nov connected
with the APPEAL. The AUaIGnche
without Galloway is like the play OF
Hamlet with Hamlet left out. We
predict that the APPEAL will soon be
to the Democracy of Memphis and of
Tennessee, and, we may add, of
North Mississippi, what the AUa-
L0nche has been. The South could not
well spare from the helm of journal
ism at this time so gifted and expe-
rienced a writer as Colonel Galloway,
and we extend to him a cordial well
come upon his return to his place
among the editors of the Democratic
press" This-we extract from the
Jackson Clarion of Friday. 1t is only
one of many similar compliments
Aom the Mississippi press, all of
which are heartily r~eciprocated by
Colonel Galloway and the rest of the
APPEAL editorial corps.