Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-20
ALABAMA.
Corn In MONTGOMERY 81 10.

Corn in Montgomery 81 20.
Montgomery is very healthy thi:
season.
FOrey-eight interments in Mobile
last week.
The wheat crop Of Calhoun county
/ is reported as very fine.
Mr.. John Mathews died in Tuska.
Ioosa or the 10th, aged seventy-eighi
years.
Mr.. T. @. Crenshaw, jr. has resigned
the Office of Register in Chaneery for
Butler county.
A negro attempted to kill his wife
in Montgomery, the other day, by
putting poison in her s"chicken pie. "
The Montgomery Advertiser
says that James L. Parish, who is
well known in that city, is in the jail,
raving lunatic.
On Saturday, Henry FOrbish, EN-
plOyed on the Alabama and Chatta-
nOOga railroad, was run over by a
train near Jones Bluff, and killed.
Professor G. w. Pierce, President OF
the Tus'Iegee Female College, is men
llguCA MAtll Lllt
tion for Superintendent of Public In
structiOn, on the Democratic ticket.
A young man named Henry White,
fireman on the Alabama and Chatta-
nOoga railroad, on Monday week, got
his foot under car wheel, by which
it was so badly smashed as to require
amputatiOn.
TaIladega Lodge has elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing Mason
ic year: J. II. Joiner, W. NJ; J. NJ.
Thornton, S. w; r. R. Asbury, J.
w; John B. Huey, Treasurer; H. III.
HamiIl, Secretay.
The Montgomery Advertiser says
the young and growing corn in that
vicinity and throughout the adjacent
country looks remarkably thrifty,
green and vigorous. With continued
good weather the corn crop of this
country will be good, what there is
of it.
Says the Meridian (Miss.) Gazette:
Rails, spikes and fish bars come in
almost daily for the Alabama and
Chattanooga road, via Charleston. A
large quantity of English iron has
just reached Mobile for this road. 1t
will be 'boated' to Tuscaloosa at
once"
The Mobile and Girard railroad is
now in regular running order from
Columbus, Georgia, via Union
Springs, to Troy, Pike county, Ala
bama. On Friday last social ban
quet was given at Troy in honor of
the completion Of the road to that
place
The Gadsden Times suggests Hon.
S. K. McSpaddon, of Cherokee COun-
ty, known throughout North Ala
bama as an able jurist, a gallant Con-
federate soldier, and a man who by
his individual exertions rose from an
humble position ia life to wear the Ju-
dicial ermine, which he graced with
great honor to himself" as North
candidate in the Conven-
tiOn for the position of Attorney Cen
eral.
The Selma Times says: Our friends
at PerryvilIe can congratulate them
selves on having established electric |
with Japan. The |
shock of an earthquake, which was |
"a III AA1aA Ol kAlC lLlH
Of May, was felt at Charleston, South |
Carolina, Shreveport, Louisiana, and |
then again, but more severely, at a |
point in the north OF Mexico; and our
telegraphic dispatches this mort Nng
report d terrific earthquake in Japan,
and volcanic eruption in the Island /
Of Nippon, all on, or near the same |
parallel, thus showing that our Perry
Vile neighbOrs are in close electric
with that far of country.
The Selma Times, Of the 18th, re-
ports that young white boy, about
years old, who was living at
u near the GOhlson plantation,
Ound a negro boy in possession of a
lair Of drawers which had been stolen
rom the white boy, and which he be-
anne satisfied had been takenSey the
negro. The boy thereupOn mad an
with the negro, which re-
ulted in his giving him whipping.
The matter was reported to the
negroes employed on the plantation,
who gathered in force, and took the
10Y and whipped him numerically
our times, aud afterward took him
ntO the woods, where it is supposed
hey killed him.