Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-18
ALABAMA.

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man from the Fifth District. .-Lsa-.
Murfee's Alabama Subsoil Plow took
a gold medal at the Louisiana State Fair.
Mr.. Boiling w. Stark, a. prominent citi-
zen of Tnskegee, died a faW days ago. ".
Mobile owes one million two hundred
and thirty-three Thousand five hundred
dollars.
The Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
is expected to reach EutaW by the LIST OF
August. .a a4l
The Selma ArgUS says that Colonel
Grove, of Marion, has been appointed
Secretary of Utah.
Montgomery has issued $780, 600 of eight
per cent. bonds TO pay for the city hall
and market-hOuse. u - -"-
Passengers from Selma to Mobile now
go by Montgomery, instead of going by
Meridian, as formerly.
A degree lodge of the Order Of Rebe-
ksh was instituted at Greenville on the
evening of the 9Th inst.
Nproiect is ON foot in Jacksonville to
erect water works, misunderstanding water
from the springs, as at present. ~
Bugs are playing sad havoc with cotton
near Centre. Some farmers are blowing
it up and planting corn. Rather sensible.
A prize fight for $500 a side, between
Donelly and Turner, is to take place in
the neighborhood of Mobile, on the 21st
inst.
In Perry county there are 2S,545 acres
of land advertised for sale for non-pay-
ment of taxes, and in Marengo 100000
acres. ~
George " ashington Townsend, Esq,
of Montgomery, was admitted to the bar
nv tha SnnrRma IOnTt at MnnfUOmarU on
Monday.
The Democrats in Colbert county, in
convention at Tuscumbia last week, pre-
sent the named of Hon. r. D. Lindsay for
Governor. .s
Chattanooga papers report the contin-
ued illness Of Mr.. J. O.. Stanton, General
Superintendent of the Alabama and hat
taDOOga Railroad.
A man in Decatur adYertises for an in
telligent and respectable woman to be-
come a candidate for Congress in the
Sixth District of Alabama,
They have ice machinesin Mobile which
sell tor forty-ive dollars, and win make
a pound and a quarter of ice in ten min
A good thing for country folks.
Busteed is a candidate for Spencer's
place in the United States Senate, and
every lawyer in the State supports him as
the only means of getting him off the
bench.
The Solicitor of Coosa county is in
trouble under the bastardy law; and the
Probate Judge OF the same county is
charged with conversion of money" All
'lOil."
The Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
is running to Sprihgvills, thirty miles
from Elyton. The grading force are all
now several miles this side of the aDove
named place.
Mobile has refused bya majority of 5000,
tokhave the 'NicolsOn pavement The
NicolsOn, while the Tribune has as
warmly opposed it.
The South and North road will be rum
ming through from Limekiln to Mont
gomery, certain, by the first Of Septem-
Der e Montgomery will then have
coal at 81 per ton.
Pike county has voted largely in favor
of a subscription to the Vicksburg and
Brunswick Railroad, which will shorten
Forests Memphis, Selma and Brunswick
road sixty miles.
Mr.. Julian 7. Johnson, living nine miles
south of Montgomery, on the old Green
willie road, was killed by lightning while
in his house during the storm on
Wednesday afternoon. q
The DemOpolis Exponent says the crop
prospects of Marengo are very cheering
so far as the cotton goes, but that it is.
distressing to see the small amount
of corn planted in The county this year.
The annual report of the Insane Asylum
at Tuscaloosa, states, that of the inmates,
eighteen were sent there by whisky, sew
snteen by religious excitement, nineteen
by political excitement, and one by TO-
haccO. . l.
The grand jury OF Piekens county re-
the bond of the Superintendent of
the incorporate habits of that
officer ~disqualify him for 50 responsible q
position. ,tl- -
The crop reports from almost all parts
Of the State. are satisfactory. The cater
pillar has, however, made its appearance
10 Lowndes cOunty. Around Wilcox the
crops have been seriously injured by the
1rOuth.
Colonel j. J.. Giers, of North Alabama,
has been appointed a delegate to the Lou
.sVille Immigration Convention, at the
of the city authorities of Milwau-
and the President of the Central AS
ISOLATION there.
1t is estimated that not less thar four
cen thousand actual laborers are at work
the different railroads in Alabama.
this number, the majority are on the
south and North, and The Alabama and
Chattanooga Railroads. ,-t
Hon. s.. K. McSpadden, of Cherokee
county, known throughout North Ala
1ama as an able jurist, a gallant Confed-
rate soldier, and a man who by his indi-
,idual exertions rose from an humble
position, will be Attorney General in the
5adsden District.
The Montgomery Journal says that the
ofcountry south Of that city was
by a fearful storm Of hail and
Wind IN Wednesday afternoon. In many
places the fences were completely de-
nollshed for hundreds of yards. Trees
houses were blown down, stock
killed, n the crops, Of courss, seriously |
The Montgomery and Mobile Railroad
Company, at a recent meeting of the
stockholders, elected the following Board
If Directors: c. T. Pollard, J.. w. Durr,
Goldthwaite, Montgomery; W. II. |
Jrenshaw, Evergreen; W. D. Dunn, L. N.
John Reid, J.. M. Muldon, Mo-
1ile. Colonel Pollard was elected Presi-
lent, Mr.. L. n. Wilson Vice President,
md Mr.. John j. Beasley Secretary and
Treasurer.