Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-12
SOUTHERN NEWS.

The crops in Texas are all that can
be wished.
James Morrow, a noted North Caro-
lima desperate, has been killed.
New Orleans is to have the daily
delivery of letters. Thescarriers have
all been appointed, and the boxes will
be put up in the course of a few days.
KimbaII, Bullock & Co, carpetbag-
gers, want to sell the Atlanta (Ga.)
Opera House to the State for a capitol.
They hope to make a handsome thing
out oft.
The claims of VIM. p. Chiffon, jr.,
Esq, of Montgomery, Ala, for Gov
| ernor, have been presented to the peo-
pie. He is well known as a lawyer of
the first class.
Mr.. William Lloyd, of Huntsville,
Alabama, who was shot by James
Edwards, last Saturday night, will
recover, it is believed by his physi-
clans. Edwards has not been ar
rested.
Davidson, who had been appointed
Adjutant General and Chief of Police
in Texas, is, or was until recently, a
lieutenant in the army. He is not a
Texan, but has been stationed in
some of the distant counties of that
State.
Texas papers of the Radical sort
have killed one Bell, of the late detec-
tive police, a traitor and spy for both
armies. He is not literally killed, but
only in the newspapers, for moral eff
feet in the North.
General B. F. Cheatham, of Ten
nessee, has invented a method of
stacking hay. The apparatus costs
only three or four dollars. With it a
given number of hands can stack five
times as much hay As by the old
process.
"Think," says the Houston I6le-
graph, cot five millions to one rail-
road, eight millions to another, one
to pay for the support of the frontier
troops, a large sum for arms and am
munitiOn, another for the Governors
police, and all the other leaks, and
then estimate what the public debt
of Texas will be-"
The militia officers of the parish of
Baton Rouge, La, one white man
and several negroes, have received
their commissions from Governor
Warmoth, duly signed by General
Longstreet as Adjutant General. They
are being exhibited around to the adj
miring privates. One negro wants to
know "if dat ar paper is fur de mule
and land"
On Mondau a parro man DaDnad
Tom, servant to one of the officers at
the garrison in Huntsville, Alabama,
was shot at the spring by a white
man named w. J. Edwards, from
Tennessee. An examination was had
Tuesday before Esquires Wilson and
Figg, who, after the testimony, ac-
quilted him. 1t appears that the
quarrel was provoked by the negro,
in accusing Edwards of trying to run
his horse oyer him and attempting to
shoot him. Edwards wrenched the
pistol from him and shot as he ran
of, the ball taking effect near the
spine and probably injuring it.
Colonel Joseph HanIon, of Louisi-
ana, a gallant and high-spirited gen.
tleman, breathed his last Sunday fore
noon, the Sd inst, at ROckbridge
Springs, Va. AT the outset of the
war, Colonel Hanlon went to Virginia
as Captain of the Emmett Guards, 9th
regiment of Louisiana volunteers. In
all the bloody conflicts of Lees and
StOnewall Jackson's campaigns, he
was noted for his valor and his eff
cheney. He was found worthy to sue
coed Colonel Monaghan and Colonel
Nolan-two of Jackson's most trusted
and cherished oficers-after their
death upon the field of battle; and at
Charlottesville, whilst leading his
regiment into the thickest of the fight,
he vas stricken down and desperately
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