Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-11
GEORGIA..

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Macon is about to build water works.
The chicken cholera is epidemic in Geor-
gia.
There are two Good Templar lodges in
Americas.
A conservatory OF music is proposed in
Savannah.
The blackberry crop in Georgia is re-
ported short.
l. Savannah grumbles at paying two cents
per pound for ice.
Emory College at Oxford is in a -four
ishing condition.
Tomatoes ave appeared in Savannah at
fifty cents per quart.
The German Emigrant Aid Society in
Georgia is a fixed fact.
Mrs. HarrietiBeecher Stowe left savan-
nah for New York Monday.
The clergymen of Macon have had a
temperance revival in that city.
A big railroad meeting and barbecue is
proposed in Rome on July 25th.
Americas needs temperance lectures to
save her young men from ruin.
A cane o at the Savannah Catholic
Fair has been sent TO General Lee.
The San Salvador carried one hundred
cabin passengers from Savannah last Sat
urday.
Tommy Evans. of Madison, put aSmith
and Wesson bullet through his toe a few
days ago.
Madison had a bloody affray Saturday,
in which three men were severely
wounded.
The Augusta and Savannah Railroad
I L. lo.Ta~CI n IT-r1anI rF fhran and q
half per cent.
Six negroes tried to break Jail in Macon
Sunday night, but were prevented, and
one of them killed.
Ten thousand dollars have been sub
scribed for the building of the Hibernian
Hall in Savannah.
The ship Rival cleared at Savannah for
Liverpool, on Friday, with 1877 bales cot
tor, worth $4,000.
Governor Bullock is quite il-confned
to his bed. The AndersOnville speech
must have gone back on i'm.
Macon keeps a halt naked white wo-
man, a l~unatic, confined III Jail. That
place needs missionaries badly.
Mrs. Senator Sprague will spend next
winter in Georgia, where her husband is
about to establish a large cotton mill.
The Savannah Free Masons will ceIe-
brate st. Johns Day, 24th inst, by a pic
mic at Turner's Rocks, on Whitmarsh
Island.
The Columbus cotton market statement
up to Saturday, June 4, shows total re-
ceipts, g 1898 bales, shipped 60,23S bales,
leaving stock on hand, 6I55 bales.
According to the Atlanta CoHstitu ton,
Blodgett has depleted his private for
tune, 1. {. the State road, to the tune of
$3.50, 900 in o u months.
Since the LIST of September last, the
Montgomery and West Point railroad has
brought from Montgomery to Columbus,
en- route TO Savannah, 1884 bales of cot
ton.
A company from Nashville have pur-
chased the right for Georgia to manufac-
ture machinery for the granulstion and
erystallizing of syrups from sorghum
cane.
A white man and negro woman were
married, in violation of the laws of GeOr-
gia, at Columbus last Wednesday, andS
the pair have since occupied separate
rooms in Jail.
Robert j. Caughey, of Belfast, Ireland, /
fell from his hotel window in Atlanta,
Thursday night, and was killedA He had
been a cotton dealer in Savannah for
twenty years. Whisky!
Bishop Lynch returned to Charleston
Friday afternoon. A very large on
gregation assembled to see and hear this
eloquent and reverend prelate, just re-
turned from the Ecumenical Council at
Rome.
A rowing band of gipsies is on its way
to Atlanta the Constitution says, to tell the
fortunes of the investigating committee.
If Bullock is properly w~hitewashed they
count the tOrtunes of the members
Of the COMMITTEES instead of telling them.
A mortgage from the Wilmington, Co
lumbia and Augusta Railroad to George
). Brown and Enoch Pratt, of Baltimore,
for s., 200, 600, was probated in Wilmington
Friday. The stamps alone amounted
lot 5000. This is the largest transaction
has ever been recorded there.
Gov. Bullock has paid out for clerk-hire
~, SOL 10 more han Gov. Jenkins did,
S23, T4S 80 more than Gov. Brown.
one of the ways he is depicting
he calls his L" private fortune" AS
he Governor is said to call the State road
: my road" it is natural to suppose that
he thinks the State funds his personal
property.
A bill is before the Senate of the Uni
States to admit free of duty cotton
manufacturing machinery to the extent
# 10, 600 spindles to each importer. The
tariff is about 10 per cent. on
IL GLASS VI AulBOEtSs W z earnestly nUD6
hat the bill may pass. 1t would give a
trOng impulse to cotton spinning in the
and Georgia will be the great bene-
of this enactment.
Dave Walton 1.-THE colOred barber. at
be 4-mile post on the Georgia Railroad,
ear Atlanta, has cotton measuring full
wenty inches in hight, and we'll flied
nth squares, produced on land heretofore
sgarded as sterile and Improbable for
1ltUre. a limited supply of guanO, /.
with ashes and salt, and down I
Ight earnest work, accomplished the re :
1lt attained.
Columbus, Georgia, having one fourth
population of Memphis. invests $780,
70 in a road to LaGrange, Ga. What !
.upid asses must govern Columbus, and !
ow little they must know of ruin
rought by railways. If it were pro-
Osed to Columbus to take stock in a
eat Dad three hundred miles long in
cad of forty or fifty, and which would
ten millions to the city's wealth,
hat sum would be too vast for Column
is to invest ?