Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-22
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

NIcksbuig Will nave street IaiNoy9'
The smallpox ravsges Honey Island.
james Hays is census taker for HOLMES
county.
Iuka wants the Grenada and Houston
road to come to that place.
The general railroad law vetoed by the
Governor, can't get over the veto.
The repairs on the Governors mansion
foot up the pretty little cost of SSS,O0O.
J. D. Werles, ir., has been appointed
State Librarian and keeper Of the Capitol
An Exchange and Banking Company's
charter for Macon is lending in the Leg
islRture.
Douglas Walworth again assumes
charge Of the NatcheZ Courier, J. ). King
retiring.
A multitude Of Savings Institutions
have been incorporated by the Mlssis-
sippi Legislature.
&c. Prewett rst4res from the editorial
ssnctum Of the Yazoo Bonner, and Is sue
ceeded by Robert Campbell, jr.
Iii is stated that seventy-ive miles OF
the Nicksburg and Shreveport railroad
will be in operation in few weeks.
The miscreants who committed the muir
der OF TWO negroes recently have been
caught, and are in jail at kosciusko.
A negro woman in Pike county gave
birth TO six children at one time. The
Spectator thinks she takes on too many
airs.
President Murdock, Of the Mobile and
Ohio road, wants a civil engineer, 10 sur
vev the branch road from Artesia 10 Stark
vile.
Tbirtv-nine thousand two hundred dol
lars ,hali tha5 is reqUired) has bsen sub
scribed for the erection Of 4 cotton mill at
Canton.
Under the appointments to be made
under the census to be taken this year,
Mississippi viii gain one, if not two, mem-
bers Of Congress.
Goodman rejoices in a negro cOuPD1-
man and constable, neither OF whom, it
is said, can read or write. Yet " society
will not presume to ignore them"
General Lorng writes to General Low
~, OF Brandon, that he likes the service
of the Niceroy Of Egypt very much. He
is a brigadier general in the Egyptian
army.
Persons sending or accepting a chsl-
lenge, or any second carrying a challenge,
or sny person going out of Mississippi to
fight duel are, according to the new COR
stItutiOn, forever disfranchised.
Frank and Elijah Wood, who are impli-
Gated in the murder of Joel Harmon and
little boy in Attala county, were arrested
in Opelika, Ala, and will be carried to
KosciuskO for trial.
A rencounter took place at Brandon
Friday night. between Thomas H. John
son and J. !. Anacker, in which pistols
were freely used, and both men killed.
II is said that the difficulty occurred over
a game of cards.
The Holmes County AdUertiSer wants a
pump in a well and tells its readers that
Old-fashiOned well buckets have played
out, There's progress for you. Holmes
will vet stand for the regenerate, disen-
thrslled, redeemed.
Mr.. John Hawkins, conductor on the
Mississippi Central, recently broke in
upon three gamblers who were following
their profession" " on his train. He
stopped the train and deposited the light
fingered gentry in q swamp.
The Orphans Banner is printed twice
each month on a hand press. They want
an orphan run by steam to do the work
and propose thar each newspaper con-
tribute 50 cents and each printer of the
South 10 cents for the purchase Of steam
press.
One-half Of one per cent. was paid last
wear by the taxpayers of Lexington, the
place where the first battle OF the old
revolution wasn't fought, in Holmes cOun-
~, Mississippi. The AdUertiSer wants TO
know what became of the money, aud no.
body answers.
The city ordinances of Iuka prohibit
public blaSphemy. a negro was jugged
who staggered snd swOre like sOnie Vul-
gar white men. Five dollars settled the
account here, but whether the ministering
spirit that hew up to heavens chancery
with the oath blushed ss be gave il in, and
the recording angel that wrote it down
dropped tear upon the word and blotted
it out forever, this deponent sayeth not.