Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-06
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Chattanooga, Tenn, has new daily
the Citizen.
The Iron Mountain and Helena railroad
is being surveyed.
Shreveport, La, will ship 10000 bales
of cotton this season.
Three thousand goats perambulate the
streets of Savannah.
The Varieties New Orleans) closed for
the season Wednesday.
> Strawberries are plentiful in Macon,
Ca, al 25 cents per quart.
The Southern Baptist Convention is
now is session in Louisville.
The county in which COrinth, Miss, is
situated, is now called AlcOrn.
Nashville has over 250 taxpayers as
sessed for more than $4,000 real estate
each.
The Jacksonville (Ala.) RePubIieaH
recommends Hon. Geo. GOldthwaite for
Governor.
There are 497 army pensioners in Ar
kansas, to whom the sum of SS5, ,3S5 4S was
paid in 1863.
DR.. NJ. Woodruff, botanic physician of
Columbus, Ca, thirty years, died on
Wednesday last.
Colonel Lee Crsndall is mentioned as a
candidate for ths Legislature from Nor
gan county, Ala.
A colony Of Michiganders that went to
Virginia are anxious to get back 10 their
cid homes again.
The principal Georgia cities are bidding
for the location OF Mercer University.
Alfalfa offers 100000.
Excellent coal has heen found in the
forks Of the Elm river, Texas. The mine
j. 10 he worked at once.
g-I.F ar0l- r,1ana in, H.rFI,korf
Ga, last week, between negroes OF the
Methodist and the Baptist persussions.
Farmers and planters in Arkansas are
busy putting in their crops, conspicuous
among which is a very large area ofat5tn.
A Texas paper states that the Southern
Pacihc railroad will be extended twenty
or twenty-five miles west of Hallyille
this summer.
That eminent surgeon, DR.. D. W. Yam
dell, Of Louisville, now in Washington,
As announced as Nv. D. Zandle." And
this is famei
Keen Richards, Captain Moore. J. B.
Clay, H. P. McGrath and General BufOrd,
Of Kentucky, have entries for the races
Al Long Branch.
The right Of way for the Iron Mountain
and Helena Railroad has been secured to
the intersection Of the Memphis and Lit
lie Rock Railroad.
The final examination of the present
senior class Of the University OF Georgia,
will commence on June 18th. There will
be forty-twO graduates.
A very disastrous fire occurred in
Union Springs, Ala, on Friday morning,
consuming cotton warehouse, together
with large lot OF cotton.
Florida reports the most encouraging
activity throughout the entire State in
"a ms nf Gf "a IA iGhf hfrfE-
reconstruction is commendable.
Rubini, the cOnjuror, coniured himself
oat of Atlanta on Thursday night last,
leaving behind him some bogus iewelry
and several heavy unpaid printers bills.
Gov. Senter's private secretary thinks
that nearly enough commissions have
been issued from the executive Office to
make every other man in Tennessee a
justice of the peace.
Hildebrand, the notorious Missouri
arpst-bagger killer, has passed through
Nebraska on his way to the Red River
country, 70 take a hand in the coming
fight with the Britishers.
Captain J. Z. Gowan, distinguished
engineer, is enlightening the Calves
ionians on the practica5ility Of carrying
loaded vessels over shallow bars by the
use Of nsts or floating docks.
Hon. Robert J. AlcOrn, the genial clerk
ofthe Mississippi House of Representa-
lives, has sold out the Friar's Point
Delta TO Mr.. Sanderson, who has been
connected with that journal for some
time past.
At Lynchburg and other Virginia
towns is proposed to collect money in
aid OF the families of the victims Of the
Richmond catastrophe. Indeed all the
Southern towns ars taking a similar
practic1l interest IN the case.
The Senate OF Mississippi on Tuesday
confirmed DR.. W. NJ. Compton, Superin-
Iendent OF the Lunstic Asylum: DR.. w.
81. DeasOn, Superintendent of the State
Hospital, Natchez, and DIR. J. r. Hicks,
superintendent Of the Hospital at Vicks-
burg.
The Texas State Fair commences at
Houston on the 18th inst, and will con-
tinue four days. Efforts are being made
20 secure large attendance of exhibitors
from all parts of the United States. Del
egstes have been sent TO other State fairs
70 induce representation.