Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-05
NEWS OF OUR EEIGHBORs.


The Selma fair commences on the I4tl
Migrants would do well to steer clear {
Selma.
dates.
Jackson county farmers grow very I'm
tobacco.
Much Georgia cotton Is being market
ed in Enfsula.
Corn and cOttonin Jefferson couuty;doe
not "psn out" well.
A horse-rsilroad is to connect Elytor
and Birmingham.
Two negroes escaped from the Tusks-
lOosd Jail last week.
A negro debating society makes conun.
drums for Tuscaloosa.
Bibb county elects q sheriff and other
officers on the Sth instant.
Randolph is q new town on the Selma,
Rome snd Dalton railroad.
Birmin CHAM, the present terminus OF
the North snd South railroad, is becom-
ing quite city.
Justices OF the peace In Mobile are TO be
arrested IS vagrRnts If business does not
improve in their line.
Grant did not respond sffirmstively to
the invitation extended him to be present
at the Montgomery fair.
A new periodical is to be issued in Sell
ma, under the auspices Of the Young
hen's Christian Association.
A sober, industrious printer cut Of work
msy hear Of situation by writing TO John
+. Warren, of the Tuscaloosa Observer.
The nsme Of the new paper soon to be
published at North Port, has been changed
from the Banner 70 the Spectator;
couldn't make both ms meet, probably.
james Cotton, q switchmsn in the
freiehi-yard of the Mobile and New Or
leans railroad at Mobile, hEd q leg crushed
of by being run over by car, Wednes-
day afternoon.
The members Of the police force Of No
bile each contributed tea cents to the Ru.
thor OF these lines:
Iwsnt 10 be a police,
And 81 the corners stand;
star upon my bosom,
A club within my hand.
IL stand aud roll my eyeballs,
By passing breeEsE famed;
I'll walk into each restaurant,
And take my oysters panned.
Arkansas.
Little Rock pays SsiOO for grouA for
new jail.
Pine Bluff has very successful real es-
tate agency.
Little Rock has an N. s. s. B. society,
Whatever that is.
The Bstesville Times Is the best printed
paper in Arkansas.
Sixty-pOund pumpkins are common in
Washington county.
Washington county hes secured the To-
cation Of the State agricultural college. |
BiIl-posters dsub the Ststehouse with |
hEadbills, much to the disgust Of The Ga |
zstts.
The Contract for building the central |
FsIlrosd bridge over White river has been |
awarded.
There is some apprehension Of trouble |
in Little Rock, on election day, owing TO |
the desperation Of the black janiEsries |
of the Radical party congregsted there. /
The grand lodge OF Odd Fellows and the |
convention OF the Christian church, lately /
in session in Little Rock, adjourned last /
night.
The grand council Of asons Of Arksn-
SIS, in session at Little Rock, yesterday
eleoGsd Judge E. d. English grand mas
ter fOr the ensuing year.
On Wednesday evening next, the He
brew Ladies' Benevolent association of
Little Rock, viii give grand ball and
supper At Concordia Hall, for the purpose
OF raising funds 70 pay for the completion
of the Jewish synagogue.
Ned O'Bsldwin and Kelly have been en-
gagged by the Young Stesmboatmen's
Christian Association, Of Little Rock, to
do all the sp6rT1ng necessary 70 get DOatG
over the bars between Pine Bluff and the
Rock. Wages not settled yet.
EIThe chamber OF commerce of Little
Rock last night passed 9 resolution to op-
pose vigorously the proposition granting !
500 40 70 the Little Rock and Helena
railroad. The matter will be voted on
next Tuesday, snd five members of the ]
chamber Will be at each POlling-plsce in !
the city 20 sse that the vote is fair.
Ifit becomes necessary, in Scott county, Z
to send q challenge, they 'Ado business" IN
a very unmiEtSkable manner. The Fay
etteville News says that LsOnidss Glass
has Dsen indicted by the grand jury, for
delivering challenge in person, to g man
named NARROW. Glass, who is seventy
ave wears OF age, proposed that their left | s
hSads should be tied together, and thst {
they should fight with knives Of equal ,
length till one or both was dead, 1
MISSISSIPPI. .
Jackson has q street railroad.
DR.. A. s. Dowd, president OF the State \
senate, is dead.
Cotton shipments from Holly Springs
for October amounted 70 2l44 Dsies, as fol-
lows. To New Orleans, 1869; 70 Memphis, \
$40; 70 New York, lis. s
In prs0ticing hurdle jumping, q MEM 4
her Of the detachment or cavalry station {
ID at Meridian, was killed on " ednssdRy G
by fall from his horse. 4
An old gentleman OF more than ninety 5
yezrz registered in Holly Springs on
Thursday. Though inbrm, he hopes to !
live 70 vote on Tuesday.
Colonel <. d. Frost, superinten lent Of I
The MfEsfzsipui Cantral railroad is now