Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-30
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Captain Tom feathers is sojourning
in Natchez. =,
Mary Thompson is on trial for muir
der, at Natchez. ~
Baseball is the Sunday amusement
of Vicksburg youths.
Congressman Pierce, of Mississippi,
is at his home in Chicago.
The new Natchez viii appear at
Natchez about the 10th prox.
Several persons have died of con-
gestive chills recently at Toccapola.
Tom Cook brought the first bale OF
cotton to VicksbuIg on the 18th inst.
Mrs. ia Dyson, of Natchez, wants
to know what has become of her
husband.
One hundred more Cinnamon passed
through Meridian last Wednesday for
Stanton's road.
John T. Honeyeutt, of Scooba, had
the good fortune to secure a cadetship
at West Point. .zsR aoE
Green Dorrah, negro, is to be hung at
Macon, October z, for the murder of a
man of the same color.
If the general policy Of the Missis-
sippi Legislature be adopted there
will be white and black universities.
Bishop Elder, of the Natchez Do
cese, is in excellent health, and will
leave Rome during the week for home.
A raving lunatie, recently escaped
from Alabama, has been running
about Jackson, Miss, in a state OF
nudity.
The Natehez Courier congratulates
the place because a shark was caught
there a few days ago. Natchez is a
seaport town"
The True OrOnidn, a genuine Demo-
cratic paper, will soon be published at
Oxford by one of the best newspaper
men in the State.
The Scooba Spectator says Tuck
Watt was killed on Noxubee river re-
Gently, by being thrown and stepped
upon by a mule which he was riding.
The Vicksburg Times says the city
is so healthful that the doctors look
blue, and that the city hospital costs
the city about fourteen thousand a
year.
The Clarion, of Jackson, implies
that firemen are exempt from the
operation of the militia law. A care
ful reading of the law convinces us OF
the contrary.
The first bale of new cotton was
received at Columbus on the 26th. 1t
was raised at Miller's mill, three miles
west of Columbus, and was purchased
by NJ. w. Taggart, at twenty cents.
The Jackson Pilot, Radical, admit
ting the total rout of Radicalism,
'hOrse, foot and dragons" in North
Carolina, condemns Holden for cali
ing out the militia, in very severe
terms.
The North Louisiana railroad is in
excellent running condition from
Delta, opposite Wcksburg, to Monroe,
a distance of Seventy-tWO miles.
The trains run regularly each way
daily.
In the case of the State vs.. James
M. Swords and w. r. Spears, pub
Usher and editor of the Vicksburg
! Herald, Judge Burwell has bound the
parties over in the sum of $1,000 to the
Circuit Court. -s ~
Continuous rains for several days
past have caused the forms to fall
from the cotton stalks In great guam
titles. The cotton has begun to grow
afresh, and farmers say there is too
much weed and too few bolls and
squares afs 90 4lA
The Meridian Gazette Says: eve
gather very unfavorable reports of the
progress of the boil worm. Within a
few days since its appearance there
has been as great a shedding of squares
as not long since when there was such
a dearth of rain"
The Iuka Gazette sas: 'tThere will
be, unless something better turns up
in the interim, a meeting of the cheap
Old-line Wings, on or about the first
of October, in the Plot Office, or in
the parlor of Jim Lynch, at jackson,
Mississippi, for the purpose of ascer-
tanning the amount necessary to pur-
chase the allegiance of such members
of that grand old party as are up to
the highest bidder. The very best
talent of the Radical party will be
present and chief fuglemen. AIcorn
will manipulate the meeting. Flo
quent speeches will be delivered by
Jim Lynch, Mygatt and Morgan, if
the latter returns, in time, from his
bridal tour to participate in the servi-
ces. Any Wing who can be bought
for a small Office need feel no hesita-
ton in presenting himself, as all such
are pYDaatad -