Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-02
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Mr.. Christian, of Columbus
has been confirmed as Chancellor o
that district.
Thad. Brothers shot and wounded
dangerously John Coil, near Aber
deem, last Tuesday.
There is a gentleman living neal
Natchez who has d churn that has
been in constant use for ninety-five
years.
Outside OF Galveston it is stated that
there have been a few cases of yellow
fever in that city. The Galveston pa
pers say nothing about 1t.
The best conundrum of the day is
what would Congress have done il
Andrew Johnson had appointed an
eX-rebel, Ackerman, to place IN his
cabinet.
The freedmen's school house at
BrOoksville was burned down the
other night by an incendiary. The
property had been previously sold to
an old citizen.
Though Mr.. Toombs never called
the roll of his slaves on Bunker
Hill, he has detailed from his military
staff the chief law officer of Grants
administration.
Henry Williams, near Cofeeville,
Mississippi, has Information ofinterest
| to the minor heirs OF Thomas G.
| Williams. These children were last
! heard from in the vicinity of Corlnth,
! Mississippi, named respectively
| Thomas, Ishman and Fletcher.
Grass worms have made their ap-
| pearance in Guadalupe county, Texas,
and in portions of Others in immense
numbers. They have destroyed all
| the grass and stripped off the fodder
| from the corn. Some think this the
forerunner OF the cotton worm.
1t is said that Summers next bill
on the negro question will abolish ne
gro minstTelsy, on the ground that
the performances tend to throw con-
tempt upon the cOlored population,
and to poison the youthful mind
against them.
The Savannah Neacs says "a negro
woman, while picking huckleberries
in the vicinity OF the city, was bitten
by a rattlesnake, and death ensHed in
ten minutes aiterWard." Whether
it was the snake or woman that died
we sre not advised.
Mr.. John Ruhm, ca Nashville, has
received a communication from Bel
mont county, Ohio, informing him
that the tennessee Homestead AssOz
citation will reach here about the 9th
of July, for the purp Csc Of purchasing
Ii, 900 acres of land. There are 100
members, each of whom is to have
$50 acres.
DIR. Sears, general agent of the Pea
body fund, has made the following
offers toward Florida schools: ST.
Augustine, $1,000; Jacksonville, $1,000;
Tallahassee, $1,000; Monticello, 500;
Apalachicola, $500; Barlow, $500;
Lake City, $3.50; Quincy, 500; Madi
Sun, $500; Mariana, S400. A grant
from the fund OF $500 volumes Of text
books has also been pledged.
The Somerville Falcon says that
crop prospects in Fayette county
still continue to be very promising.
The growth of cotton was somewhat
retarded by the cold snap week before
last and the heavy rains which fell
during last waek, btt,the warm sun
shine of the past few days has set it to |
growing finely again. We hear of
several planters who have cotton |
more than knee high.
The Knoxville Press and Herald, of |
the 25d, says that General J. Il. Wilder |
has brought 10 that city one OF she |
finest specimens OF iEOn; made from |
the lockwood pig, at Cincipaad, By |
improved machinery, whereby the |
pig can be manufactured to the best |
advantage, without the use of char |
coal blast. So our bituminous coal
can be brought to work an end hith-
erto unknown in our midst,
The agricultural interest in the |
North and West is reported TO be in a |
depressed condition. Farmers are
crying out "hard times at the top of |
their voices. While the products of
farm labor are plentiful eGcygh, the |
prices are low, but wages remain st a |
figure but little reduced. Farm labor |
is not only high but scarce. And all
this with the tide of immigration !
fairly flooding the West. Surely the
South should not complaint
The Radicals at Austin, Texas, have
given it out that the Ku-kluX have |
eonspired to a5Sassinate the Ethiopian |
Senator, Matt Gaines. This has made |
the sable Senator quite lion. Now, |
room with costly furniture has been |
fitted up in the Capitol building for |
the use OF the Lieutenant Governor. +,
Nightly is the Senator placed in this |
room and upon the bed Of the Lieu |
tenant Governor, while grave Senators !
guard The doOrWays with double bar |
relied shot guns. We have no doubt |
but this is all bosh, trumped up to
pass the militia bill.
Nebraska is the only State that was
born with a gold spoon in its mouth, |
that il with four hundred miles OF |
completed railroads. There pre- emf |
nently railroads pFacede settlement |
instead of. following in It's tain. The |
result must be that a million people /
will enter il as much swifter than |
they did in Wisconsin, as a lOcOmO- |
tive moves faster tiian lazy OK, and |
a car than cart There are old |
fogies in this county who will go in |
debt Sl00 for q mule, and yet will not,
in order to compel all Others TO help |
pay, incur a debt of slD0 for rail
road to Selma-Who won't help put |
a gold spoon in the mouth of Shelby |
county?
Mr.. Sherman made an interesting
remark, recently, in the course of the
financial debate in the Senate. He |
opposed the reduction of the duties
on sugar on the ground, as we under
stand him, that any reduction of the |
duties would be followed by an in
crease in the revenue, which is doubt
less true, and that any increase in the |
revenue would be followed by Sn in
crease in the expenditure, which we
fear is not less true. In other words, |
we understand this leading Radical |
Senator to admit that the administra-
ton which his own party has forced |
upon the country, is not TT to be
trusted with the treasury. A preg- |
nant admission, which comes, how
ever, only after all tie world, not |
given up to party, has made the same
discovery.
Reduction Of Postage Between the |
United States and the kGrth