Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-03
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

The K0sciUsk0 Chronicle, according
10 tne Brandon Republican, has Joined
the Radicals.
EatcheZ is infected with thieves,
vagrants and suspicious characters,
So says the NatchCZ Democrat.
The farmers Of LOWndes county in.
tend TO put in more corn, and raise
more stock feed, the present year.
The Republicans have elected J. Z
Everett, in place Of A. S. Wood, as
a representative in the House from
Yaz1O county.
The lands along the Mobile and
Chattanooga railroad in Hancock
county are peculiarly adapted to the
raising Of fruit. Oranges thrive well.
The North HiSsiSstDDiau says that
on last Saturday night an attempt
was made 20 assassinate Mr., Bowen,
who shot the RaifOrds.
The WiuOna Democrat saws we are
TejOiCed to announce that DR.. A. j.
Hemphil, was elected by a majority
Of sixteen votes over Mr.. Pool, the
Republican nominee.
James II. FrizzeII fell from a plat
form, in NazOo City, on the 18th ut,
striking with his breast across a plank,
iuiuriug himself so severely that he
died in a few minutes.
The hogs In the neighbOrhOOd OF
Crystal Springs have been strangely
affected Of late with a disease, most OF
thesymptOms resembling that dread
fUl disease called ''trichin8."
A diabOlical outrage was done on
the 81 inst, upon the person Of a
young widow woman, Mrs. Jones,
who lives in Leake county, lust over
the line. Peter Con, a pedler, was
the brute.
The people Of Natchez and Vidalia
are moving in favor Of a railroad from
kldalla 10 Alexandra, and from
thence 20 Shreveport, Louisiana, for
the purpose Of connecting with the
Southern Pacific.
Mr.. John Riley, Of Gadsden, form
erly a member Of the FOrtieth Ala
bama infantry, was relieved on Mon
day Of a ball which has lain in his
hp-bOne ever since 1863, when he
received il in defense Of Jackson.
The Governor has offered a reward
in the Pilot Of $1,000 for the arrest of
any Of the party who murdered A. II.
Prewitt, the sheriff of Pike county.
while on the train conveying a prisO-
ner to NicksbUrg.
In the broad daylight last Sunday
afternoon, some burglar forced an
entrance by the back way into the
millinery and dTess-making establish
ment Of Mrs. Ogden, under the Ma
sonic Hall, in Natchez, and stOleFthere-
from about eighty dollars in money.
On Wednesday night last, at Shan
non, Lee county, a Mrs. GarmOn and
little girl, Willie Wicks, were so
badly burned from an explosion of a
lamp, that they died in a few hours.
Mrs. Dick Long, ct whose house it
occurred, was also badly burned.
The Brandon Republican says: son
Saturday morning we received the
sad intelligence that MT. Cannon
Myers had died at 10 o'clock on Fri
day night, and his wife at a quarter
70 II O'Clock only fifteen minutes
after the death Of her husband"
The Jackson Pilot says: ''The case
OF ID. +. SiZer, charged with the
granddaughter Of James Tuck, in that
Guy some time ago, and that Of w.
w. Cade, charged with an assault
with intent to kill J. B. Smith, about
iour months ago, were continued IN
III the next term Of the court.D
The person, paper or party, saws the
1uka Gdzette, asserting that there is a /
larger amount Of laWlessness in Mis-
sissippi than in any other State Of fbe
Union, North or South, is an internal /
slanderer and an accursed liar. and |
knows himself 70 be a periured seonn- /
drel when he makes the charge,
The Holly Springs Reporter homes
that not only the press OF the State |
but Of the entire South, will begin in /
time TO call the attention of their |
readers to the approach Of the deeora- |
ton season. In Marshall county. the
18th day Of May has been selected:
and when the 14th falls on Sunday las
this year., then the 18th is our dead
soldiers day.
The Iuka G0sette earnestly apDeals
TO the people Of Tishomingo county |
to change their plan Of pIantin0 COT |
ton, and suggests that thew Tnsira /
preparations 70 SOW oats, plant corr /