Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-10
ALABAMA.

Cotton caterpillars have made their
appearance in LOwndes.
Died, in Mobile, on the 31st Of May,
Mrs. ). r. Williamson.
The Oat crop Of Hale has been very
much injured by drOuth.
b. W. Spark, an old citizen Of Tus-
kegee, died on the lst instant.
The Exponent is in favor of a rail-
road from DemOpolis to Eutaw.
The taxable property of Mobile, as
per Auditors report, amounts to ST.
900, 600.
Mr.. Samuel Nash, ST., an old citi-
zen of COnecuh county, died on the
30th ult.
Mr.. Ebenezer NJ. COWles, an old cit
iZen and long a merchant at Hunts
vile, died last week.
John Hall, Esq, one Of the Oldest
and most esteemed citizens Of Greene
county, died on the 3lst ult.
The Marion Commonwealth boasts
Of a subscriber who has paid for his
paper thirty years in advance.
A project is on foot in Conecuh to
erect a monument to those who feQin
the late war from that county.
Sixty-seven deaths in Montgomery
during the month of May-twenty-
three whites and forty-four blacks.
Mr.. D. H. Cram has resigned his
position of superintendent of the
Montgomery and West Point Rail
road.
Mr.. c. T. Pollard has been reelected
President, and J. 7. Todd, Secretary
and Treasurer of the Montgomery
and West Point Railroad.
At New Orleans, the 18th, the first
train on the Mobile railroad, loaded
with crOss-ties, passed down the levee,
creatingn no small excitement.
The Montgomery Nail says that the
South and North road will be running
through from Limekiln to Mont
gomery, certain, bythe lst Of Septem-
Der next.
a young man named Bryan shot a
negro near RuJledge, Crenshaw cOun-
ty, on Sunday of last week, for indie
cent and outrageous advances toward
one Of his sisters.
Demopolis has organized a hook and
ladder company, and the town au-
thOrities have appropriated one thou
sand dollars TO buy a truck and neces-
sary apparatus,
Ex-Governor Parsons made a
speech to the Fifteenth Amendments,
at Talladega, on Saturday. The Shell
by GUIDE says he was admitted to full
fellowship in the "happy family"
Goods to the value Of one thousand
were destroyed in the store OF
j. c. Smith q Co., Mobile, a few days
ago, by the falling Of the shelving,
filed with bottled liquors, preserves,
etc.
A correspondent of the Montgome-
~ AdUertiSer suggests NJ. B. WelbOrn,
Of Barbour, as a candidate for Con-
yres5 from the Second District. Max |
imilian Bethune can command our
services.
The widow Of General John Coffee,
Old HickOry's bower, now seventy
years old, still resides in Lau-
1erdale county, at the place where
she and her husband settled on remOy-
to Alabama in 1918.
The grand jury Of Pickens county
exported the bond Of the Superintend-
cut of Education worthless, and that
n their opinion the Incorporate hab-
It's Of that officer disqualify him for
90 responsible a position.
The following gentlemen were re-
elected directors of the Mont
5omery and West Point Railroad for
ensuing year: Charles 7. Pollard,
NJ. Wadley, John P. King, b.
;. Bibb, VIM. Taylor, Josiah Morris
and r. d. Ware.
Judge Busted has refused 10 an
point the Receiver for the Nashville
md Decatur railroad, on the petition
If Orr, one Of the Limestone county
)Ond creditors, residing in Mississippi.
The petition was fled ia the Northern
District Court, at Huntsville.
The Livingston Journal says that a
legrO named Perrin, who was the in
tigatOr of the BurtOn's Hill tragedy
Greene, surrendered himself to the
authorities a few days ago, having
previously eluded arrest. His reason
Or surrendering was that he thought
{ safer to be in Jail than to be outside.
The Evergreen Observer Of the ID
avs: "a preliminary investigation
# the case of Major Bill Loveless,~hO
Killed /. d. Johnson, was had in Pol
ard, last week, resulting in Major
lOveless being remanded back to Jail
o await the action Of the Grand Jury.
The evidence on the investigation
.h0wed no redeeming feature to palli-
tie the terrible deed committed by
Major LOyeless."
A fatal difficulty occurred in Pol
ard, Escambia county, On the 21st
nst., between two well known citi-
5ens, formerly of COnecub county, in
which 1. D. Johnson, ex-Sherif, found
his death by the hands of Major Bill
IOveless. We have not learned the
,ause of the homicide, only hot words
passed, when Major Loyeless stepped
nto his house, got his gun and shot
Johnson through the heart, killing
Inn instantly.