Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-01
REEs Of OUS EEIGHBORs.
ALABAMA.

ALABAMA.
Montgomery elects a msyor esriyin De
cemb5r.
Montgomery wants to become q coal
market.
The Mobile thester has bseu closed, and
existing engagements cancelled.
Mule-thisves have been operating in the
neighborhood s6iscent TO Tuskegee.
Mobile luxuristes in two variety shows,
several lotteries, and s sksting-rtnk.
stsuton's bail, 1900, was promptly fur
nighet on his arrival at Montgomery In
custody.
Night traffic with negroes by unscrupu-
lous whites is uIfsparingly denounced by
the Montgomery Advertiser and Nail.
In the sbsence Of Colonel John Forsyth,
Colonel ". T. Wslthsll ably fills the pc
sition OF chief editor OF the Mobile Reg
lister.
For b week ending last Saturday the
number OF deaths in Mobile WSs only
twenty. The city has entirely escaped
yellow fever this season.
A meeting Of the bar OF Opeliks was
held on the 18Th to pay a suitable tribute
70 the memory of Hon. John g. Lswis, OF
Russell county, lstely deceased.
Hugh Allison Lee, murdered by a mob
Of Radical negroes at Artesia a few days
served in the Third Alabama regiment 81
that city during the war.
The Montgomery Advertiser offers q
special premium of twenty-five dOllers
for the best msal, cooked on the fair
grounds, during the State fair, by a young
lady under eighteen yssrs OF age.
Lasi Saturday ground was broken, on
Spring ELL, meas Mobile, on the Mobile
and Northwestern railroad. FJrty-one
speeches, according to the Registers &C
count, were mGde within an hour, and ali
sorts of good lnck wished the enterprise.
ARKANSAS.
Forrest City is 70 have a conservative
newspaper.
Pins Bluff has & new and handsome
high-schOol building ready for occupancy.
The Csiro and Fulton railroad hiss late
ly received, at Dsvalls Bluff, three loco
motives.
Beer again flows in its accustomed
channels in Little Rock, and the Geolo-
gists are happy.
Professor Roberts, State ~gsologist, is
prosecuting his researches in the Law
renee county quertz mines.
The island opposite Bstesville, in White
river, for q long time q subject OF litiga-
Eion, is likely 70 settle the suit by disap
pssring.
Sesrcy giorifss son boat dsysp over a
red hack. The sanguinsry vehicls bid
fair 20 seriously interrupt the education
of the youth of hat burg.
Colonel Frolich, of the Sesrcy Record,
goss for General Piercsis new Radical
paper at Fort Smith, and for government
p~zp-sucking organs generally.
t. Hha- Ra-a n h1.rn. .-s-s-- - H.,
8 without "cussinR" the knots of sd
scent pine trees, s~trsightwsy jake Fro
nch lays claim 70 morality for Sssrcy.
Colonel Frohch, OF the White county
Record, has thieves to the rear; honest
ms3 for Cfice," flying in the faces of the
Radical thieves OF his section Of the State.
Speaking of the "Hng Of Rocks" q rel
ic OF g people no longer OF this earth,
found in the White river country, & cor
respondent of the Sesrcy Record says:
SIT is q wall built of loose rocks, piled
up with hands, and il evidently once en-
closed 3 city or place of defense. The
stones are placed somewhat lengthwise,
showing design, and the area enclosed is
about two miles and q half in circumfer-
ence, and the walls are built Of the sand
stone common 20 these mountains. Some
soldier built this stronghold, for, all
around l. is on the very verge Of q hill
commanding the outside descent and the
valley below. In the whole enclosure
there is Lot upon the surface OF
the ground a single stone Lii
those OF the walls, and there are
none for some distance outside. The walls
enclose a high and comparatively level
space, containing an everlasting spring, |
whose waters make the only outlet there
is In his fortress. In PLACES where the
cliff was not far OF. the bOulders are inn
msnse; in others the walls consist OF
smaller stones, such IS seem 70 have bsen
most convenient. The stones must have
been piled together by human agency; ]
but who did if, or how Il was done, no one
knows. l. was not the Indians we imme-
distely succeeded, but some a~ntecedent
race-abOrigiues indeed-ancieuts of The
sartb. who lived In the morning of time"
MISSISSIPPI.
Jackson has a negro city marshal.
Tho fever At Yicksburg and Natchez is
slowly sbatiDg.
A detachment Of United STAGES soldiers
i~s,ssstioned at Columbus.
The election for State officers viii
take place on the 7Lh inst.
A revival was in progress last week in
b Grenada Methodist church.
Colonel L. D. Lefore is q candidate for
b senate from the thirtieth district.
The jackson Clarion is doing faithful
services for the Conservative party of The
State.
Monday, 18Th inst, is fixed as the open
ing day OF the Mississippi State fair at
Jackson.
To-day. 70 morrow and Thursday are
the lsst chances for registration before the
election.
YelOcipsdists il the type-setting line
are 70 contend for q silver stick and gold
composing-r1le al the State fair.
The Meridian Mercury, in view Of the
Kn klux prosecutions in Mississippi, sees
1.-THE greatest lurking danger nos TO the
life. liberty and property Of the white
man" in perjury.
The board Of CONTROL OF ths Mississippi
State fair association deems it due TO par
ties interested TO that all carced
cotton, or cotton from which the seed has
been picked by hand, or otherwise pre-
pared for composition in any unusual
way, will be excluded from competition
for the premiums offered by the sssOcis-
tiOn.