Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-19
SOUTHERN NEWS.

The public debt Of Louisiana is sixty
million dollars.
The capitol at Richmond. Virginia, il
being painted.
McAIinn county, Tennessee. has re
pealed the tax on dogs.
Chattanooga business men complain
of dull times.
-Four mad dogs were killed in two days
in Decatur, Alabama.
A railroad line from Norfolk, Virgin.
ia, to Bristol is talked about.
The work on the Port Royal Ga rail,
road is progressing rapidly.
Staunton, Virginia, is about to erect
an Academy Of Music, 10 cost forty thou.
sand dollars.
A Savannah clerk was rescued from
drowning after sinking four times.
Hardeman county, Tennessee, has one
hundred and fifty Swedish immigrants.
Key West, Florida, has a salt mill that
grinds out five hundred bushels per day.
AFranklin county, Georgia, child has
sixteen toes and thirteen fingers, but no
eyes.
\ terrific Georgia hail-stOrm last week
pr0strated all the corn within a circle Of
Two miles. ~
In digging a well in Macon, Georgia,
the other dag Indian remains were found
few feet below the surface.
\ little daughter of Mr.. Campbell, OF
Troy, Alabama, fell over bluff near that
place and was instantly killed.
Liberty county, Georgia, is so dry that
many farmers have been obliged to wa
ter their cattle from wells.
Rich mines oflead and silver are re-
ported found on Clinch river, twelve
miles from Kingston, Tennessee.
J. d. Dudley, a hard-shen preacher,
has been appointed custOm-hOuse in
spectOr at Fort Gaines, Georgia.
The old arsenal at Savannah, Georgia,
is 70 lie turned over to the volunteer
guards battalion for headquarters.
The Coosa river, in Georgia, viii be
surveyed this season by corps Of en-
gineers appointed by the government.
Monroe county, Georgia, has a dog
who drives the calves o. pasture, and, as
night approaches, drives them home.
The railroad from Wilmington, North
Carolina, TO the sea shore viii certainly
be built Twenty-fOur thousand dollars
have been subscribed 10 it.
The first regular passenger train over
the Alexandra and Fredericksburg, Viz
ginia, railway was run last Tuesday
morning.
Mr.. Edmund Barber Of Cobb county,
Georgia. dug about three weeks ago,
from his gold mine a diamond valued at
sixty thousand dollars.
A convict, while attempting to escape
from a North Carolina guardhOuse, was
shot and mOrtally wounded by the
guard.
The citizens Of Greenville, North Car
olina, intend converting the site Of the
recent disastrous fire IN that city into a
public square.
Lightning in Augusta, Georgia, on
Saturday night, entered the telegraph
office and slightly, but Temporarily de-
mOralized the operators.
White men from Georgia and Alabama
WORK on the Mississippi plantations.
They have given in every instance uni
versal satisfaction.
Richard Kemm, charged with killing
Captain Philip Smith, in Lancaster
county, Virginia, has been committed
to jail on the charge of murder.
A North Carolina girl, though per-
fectly blind, threads a needle, weaves
nice cloth and does other things as well
as many persons who osn.see.
Captain William A. Bachelor of Au-
gusta, Georgia, got up in his sleep and
walked through a second-story window,
breaking his thigh and otherwise severe
~ injuring him.
The bridge across the Arkansas river
at Little Rock will be completed two
years after it is commenced. Ii IS COM
posed entirely of iron, andits length Will
be one thousand feet.
J. A. AIiddlebrooks, a Georgian, shot
and killed the brother of his wife the
other day because his brOther-in-law
gave him a short answer. A reward OF
one thousand dollars is offered for him.
Dispatches from Huntsville, Ala
bama, state that the rains in that sec
ton have done much damage 10 the
crops. The bettOm lands are flooded,
and the rains continued to fall last
night.
Potter's Grove, Georgia, has a negro
child three months CID but thirteen inch
es high. whose arms and legs are no
larger round than an ordinary mans
finger. II weighs five pounds, and
seems TO be healthy.
A Dawsonville VA girl. while try
ing 10 catch and tie up dog belonging
to the house, was bit In four places.
shortly after she had COMMISSIONS, symp-
toms Of hydTOphohia were shoWhi ana
the doctors say her oure is hopeless.