Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-20
SOUTHERN NEWS.

The Texas papers are reporting
roasting-ears of corn in abundance.
The Rev. J. @. Maple, late of Owens
boro, KY, has taken charge of the
First Baptist Church of Kansas City,
Mo.
Mr.. w. B. Perry, who emigrated
from Tennessee to Texas in 1899, died
in Colorado, Texas, on the 7th, Of
consumption.
General T. l.. Price, who has been
lying dangerously i'll at his residence
in Jefferson City, Mo-, for several days
past, is now eonvaleseent.
The Mount Carbon Coal Company
have purchased the farm belonging TO
Mr.. Kerman, Of st. Louis, located
near Wittenberg, Perry county, Mo.
The price paid for this farm is some
5000
! 1t is generally understood in Jack
son and New Orleans, that an ar
rangement will soon be consumated
between the State authorities and the
present controlling interest in the N.
| o. J. x G.. n. r. r. that will result in
the immediate completion Of the
road.
From a business letter from Smith
vile, Miss, of the 10th, we gather
| the following news items: The farm
ers are busy harvesting, and bring in
good reports from all parts of the
county. The crops are better than
usual. The recent rains have put their
corn considerably in the weeds.
The death of Hon. J. T. Lamkin,
who was Grand Master of MasOns in
Mississippi during the years 1867-S, is
announced. Mr.. Lamkin had at
tanned to the 33d and last degree of
Masonry, an honor which has not
been conferred upon any Mississippian
for a number of years past.
The Qe6aTRe Chronicle of johnson
county, Texas, says: "The number
of cattle driven from Texas this
spring is almost beyond calculation.
Our friend Coltharp, living seventeen
miles north of this place, informs US
that over 200, 900 head Of cattle have
passed his house this spring, going
north"
The proposition to build a great air
line railroad from Columbus via La
grange and Rome, Ga, connecting at
Chattanooga with the great airline
from Cincinnati and the Northwest,
thus making the shortest route from
that section of the country to the sea-
board, extending down by Bainbridge
into Florida, is creating unbonded in
terest among the intelligent people
and capitalists along the whole line.
A successful fair closed at San An
tonic, Texas, last week. The Eys, seSs
Of that city has a glowing accouns of
the display. Potatoes, three to the
pound; cabbages, four pounds each;
onions, nearly a pound each; pine
apples, tobacco, Norway oats, Texas
hams, preserved fruits, clOver-seed,
wild flowers, beautiful needle-work, |
pictures, boots, shoes and saddles, |
gold and silver work, very fine; !
Guinea pigs, silk worms in every |
stage, hedge-grass and lager, and ''a |
thousand other articles" were on ex- |
hibition.
The Caddo Gazette, of the 11th, says:
''The crops, both on the bottoms and |
uplands, are suffering for want OF |
work, the ground having been for ten |
days too wet to plOw. The intensely /
hot weather which afflicted US a few |
days since has been followed by clear
pleasant days and cold nights. The
fields of cotton are green with grass
and weeds, and unless we have dry
weather for the next week, many I
plantations will be sodded with grass
and a portion of the crop will be lost,
The rains have been very injurious.
but the damage may yet be repaired
by good weather, provided proper
energy is displayed .in working the
crops"