Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-24

will be, but why so much pomp ana pa
rade and useless expense2
According to the Houston Age, the
mills on the Great Northern rail-
road have stopped running, on account
of the heavy rains, and lumber is now
in great demand at the Hub. The A9e
has no fears of yellow fever or cholera.
but complains of the stencil of the gut
tiers, and gives timely warning.
MIsSISsIFPI.
Our iail is full of criminals. Several
murderers, horse, mule and cotton-
thieves are the principal guests at this
time.-HeTndndO Press.
On Monday last, when Mr.. Tibbs, the
jailor, went to feed his prisoners, they
attempted to escape, but were prevented
by the citizens.-BrOokhdVen Citizen. &
Henry Powell, eolored, was run over
| bv a freight train on the Vieksburg and
Meridian railroad, and killed, two miles
from Vicksburg, on the sixteenth IN
stant. A--1-
On q plantation near Vicksburg, on
the opposite side Of the river, little
negro boy six years old killed his 1ntani
brother, on the sixteenth instant and
hid his body in the woods.
The Macon Beacon says: Colonel j.
G. Moore, of this town, has just been ap-
pointed consul to Trinidad de Cuba, an
| important seaport on the southern coast
of Cuba, nearly opposite Havana"
From information received at Me
Comb City, we learn that Frank Moran
| the murderer of Mrs. A. s. Hill, died
in the Vicksburg Jail, Of voluntary
starvation. Summit Sentinel l7th.
A German named Reinaldt, a shoe.
| maker, committed suicide at Meridian
on the seventeenth by taking poison
He procured the poison from drug
store Ostensibly to kill a dog pickS'
burg Herald. e.s SsA -
The State now has one hundred and
| thirty-five eonvicts leased out for the
aggregate sum of twenty-three hundred
aud sixty-two dollars and fifty cents pei
month-paYable in auditors warrants
the State being relieved Of all expense
connected with this number, aside from
the item of clothing Fcks6''rg Times
District attorneys, circuit and chan.
Gerry clerks of the sixth congressional
district will hold convention at Brook
haven on the fifteenth Of July, for the
purpose of deciding upon the proper
course to pursue, and, if deemed neces
sary, to test the constitutionality of the
act ordering a new election.-O OItoro
Falcon.
John K. Warren was killed last weeE
near Mcore's mills, in Newton county
by Martin Bynum. An alteration
4 about some trivial matter brought on {
fight, and resulted as above stated. By
mum has left the neighborhood. Warrer
was son-in-law of Philip McGhee, s
good citizen of Scott county.-FOrTeS
Register.
i A negro named Ned BeasOn wa'
killed near Meridian over two year.
ago, by some unknown hand. Recent
ly a negro named Anderson Lewis wa
arrested for the murder, the evidence o
his neighbors pointing to him as thu
assassin. He has been tried and ordered
to be hanged on the twepty-ifth o
July next.
Several sporadic cases of thI
disease [cholera] have occurred IL
our midst, some Of them prov
ing fatal within few hours
| It is, however, of a much milder typ'
.H 1 Luall ASldllC anu OAA oANAeNb
have generally been successful in treat
ing it, when summoned in the early
stages of the disease Ydzoo CITY Dem
0crd.
Il 1t is with no ordinary regret that w
learn, through the Central Star, of tn,
retirement of Mrs. Sallie Ada Vancu
from the editorial chair of the Lexing
ton Advertiser. We regret this for tn,
sake of the AolUertiser, which, unde
her management, became at one,
from the fiattest and most insipid, tn,
freshest, crispest and liveliest paper IL
the State WiROnd AdUDnce.
We learn that a youth named TOmm.
Cook, a drummer for the Commercial
hotel in Aberdeen, was killed Monda.
evening by falling from the cars nea
Muldon station. The boy was horribl.
mangled, and death was instantaneous
The deceased was well known to passen
gers over the Aberdeen branch road. H
leaves a sister and widowed mother +
mourn his untimely DEATH IVES
Point Citizen.
Captain E. G. Postell has shown u
? some fine specimens of oats grown ol
his place. The red oats were over fiv
! feet high, full headed, and were plantet
> on the eighteenth of March. The blacl
! oats were planted the last week in Feb
. ruary, are full headed, and nearly 81.
feet tall The estimate is that these Oat
will make between fifty and seventy
Fl We bushels to the acre; some say more
Who can beat this?- Canton Mail.
A Memphis man and Louisvill
, man went off, a day or two ago, to figh
ArYf affnr 1nnlyfrar of tho thin
, when the blood was cool, they agreed
! let their friends patch up the difficulty
! They quarreled because one OF ther
stepped on a lady's trail at dance
| Don't wear long trails, ladies, or, if yo
/ DO, don't have beaux that are big enoug
I fools to fight if a fellow steps on them.-
: Canton Mail.
5 On the twelfth instant, Sally Mann,
4 little girl about ten years old, who live
. on w. Wainright's plantation, Will
o kindling a fire, made use of the coal-o
t can, which, when brought too near th
t FIRE, Immediately ignited and exploded
:, and set her on fire. The burning was S
E great that she died from its effects th
] following day. She was one of the mo:
: promising colored children in the neigf
borhood, and had made wonderful pr
gress in her school.-FridrS Point DeItt
We are much panied to learn of th
death of Mrs. Lowry, wife of Gener;
Robert Lowry, of Brandon, who die
= suddenly from hemorrhage of the lung
on Wednesday last. Mrs. Lowry ha
been i'll for some months, but was NJ
J considered dangerously so until the da
previous to her death. The BTando
!. Republican says that "the event h'
u cast a gloom over our whole cOmmun
g ty, and is sad blow TO her devoted hu
band and orphaned children, the youni
> est of whom is only about three month
& old.n ..r-..-...s
= The sheriff of Tallahatchie county WI
,, in the city on Tuesday TO take in chars
y and transfer to Charleston the body
l. one Scott Plantner, alias Patton, GIit
Gage, alias Crump, who it is allegt
le murdered young man named Waldrol
-e on or about the tenth of April, 1871, al
= who has since been at large. He vi
~ spotted by Detective Stevenson son
two weeks ago, and finally arrested |
h City-Marshal Edwin Barksdale and p
- liceman Miles Hardy, of this city, on Il
q tenth instant, lodged in jail, al
,s word sent to TalIahatehie. The priso
er is now on the way to the scene of h
crime, whence it is more than probab
;. he viii be sent to the penitentiary..
= Jackson Pilot.
IN We were presented, on the eighteen
instant, with a eottOn-bloom grown
l. Albert Townes, a colored farmer liviI
"A three miles west of Garner station,
"a this county. The bloom was on a vigo
as ous-luoking limb, eleven inches Ion
containing five well-developed square
This cotton was planted in March. A
~ bert is a successful farmer. For the pa
g two years be has been the first to briI