Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-30
Accidents - Novel Suggestion e.
Sturgeon, Who Shot a Boy
in Memphis, to be
Hung.
Priddy Kills Knowles -Terrlhc
Thunder StOrm-YOung Kills
Patterson A Native
African Missionary,
Etc, Etc.
MISSISSIPPI.

The Mississippi Journal THINKS the
idea of arranging State ticket with 9
view to catching negro votes IS all non
sense, ard says that Mississippians want
no mOrecOmpromise tickets
Hon. 0. f. West has shown Us a let
ter from Governor Powers accepting bis
resignation as a member OF the house
of REPRESENTATIVES from De Soto county,
10 date from the nineteenth OF Aplll,
JS72.-.SiHdtObid Signd.
The Cyatral Star was, on the twenty
fftb of tlis month, removed nom Good
n1a, 10 KosciuskO. The proprietor, IN
makiugthe announcement, says: 1--WE
Lsye been so strongly tempted to make
Koseiusto our future home that 1t
would b, singular if we failed to make
the charge"
On Friday. June Goth, the supreme
court Delivered It's opinion in the case oi
George Donnep as. The State, CON-
monlv Inown as the civil-rights case,
The opinion was given by Judge SIM
rail-, affirming the action OF the court
below, which, in effect, sustalhs the
law.-Pist.
The Sanatobia Times pays Meridian
and the surrounding country a some
what dubious compliment. mus
"Meridiai struck US fOrcibIy as being a
much laIter city than we expected TO
find, and much larger than we could
see any US for in such a country. This
quarter o. the State bears but very
faint resemblance to the garden OF Eden,
vet if the leOple who live in it Ike 1t,
we have n' right to complain"
We havebeeE informed that the re-
sDective fTknds of James p. CaTraway,
ESQ, and Iajor Joel L. Reece are try
ing to indtce them to become candi-
dates to repesent the flOaterial district
composed otAlcorn and Prentiss cOUn-
ties in the mkt legislature. 1t would be
g pity for tW1 as worthy and clever men
as they both are to run for the same Of
flee, with Uncertainty that one Of them
wound be Debated COriHth NslrS.
The state Mditor, in an official note
tO the treasure of Warren county, an
nouuce,f that under the act of the legis-
lature approied March Is, 1878,
each and every retail liquor-dealer
whose license EXPIRES after the first OF
July next, is equired TO give a new
bond in the sun Of two thousand dol
lars, conditioned as required by section
one Of said act. The attorney-general
concurs in this ppiniou.-P1no5d Star.
General McCltile is out in a letterde-
mpnstratiDg, by scts and figures, shat
the negroes in thiA State are in excess OF
fbe whites by only five thousand votes.
His calculations arr based upon the GEN.
sus Of 1870. The cPnclusion he arrives
At is that by properfndustry and energy
the State can be redeemed this fall from
fhe hands Of its present rulers, and So
saw we. AiississippieXpects every true
son of hers to dc ~ tilty in the nexl
CANVASS Central StaT.
A meeting Of the defendants in the
Robinson suit was had here last Mon
dav. when Colonel y r. Sledge, Rev,
A, ii. Caldwell, A. l. Blackburn anO
j. Z. Matthews were appointed a coicl-
mittee Of business. Colonel Sledge,
who is largely interested in the suit, to-
o,,ther with all the defAdants, agree to
carry it 10 the last extremity of the law,
All .Ngreeing TO pay theii share of the
costs and We think th8 will make il
lively for the cnce-paid Aeirs.-SeJldtO-
Jid SigHet.
We learn that crops ste improving
under the influence Of the hot sunshine
during the past week. Rrmers, as 9
general rule, have spread themselves in
the way Of grsss-killing, andif we have
seasonable weather for the ntxt week OF
ten days, cotton and cornfiells will pre-
sent quite a goo1ly appearance. VIII
our farmers please remember that cot
ton will bear neglect much batter than
corn, and that wisdom dictates Jhe
working of the corn first and then the
cotton R1nOld Star.
We are in receipt of the NEST dis
couraging crop reports from all parts OI
south Mississippi and east Louisiana
In some sections it has rained daily fOl
six weeks, in others for two or thret
weeks. From all the inform atm VT
can gather, at least One-third Of thu cot
ton crop viii be abandoned in Ordsr tC
cav the balance. The worm has nude
ia .appearance in considerable numhar:
i ,tlI in this and Marion county. AsWe
write the prospect looks gloomy, alC
the rain c0ntinues.-StfD1Hlit Times.
Sun srintendent Burke displayed hi
usual ,Sagacity in appointing Lewis Z
Pinkin rOad-master Of the Mississippi
and Ter. .Qessee railway. We came dow
this excel lent road this week, and foun
the road-b.9j as smooth as any We hav
ever travelled over. Mr.. Pipkin is thor
ougb working man and a genteel, genia
gentleman, who will leave nothing un
done 10 make his road one Of the safes
in the country. We congratulate tray
elers on the Tennessee road in havin
such a man as rOad-master.-GrenGd
Sentinel
The weekly shipments of cotton ar
considerable, Notwithstanding the late
uesss of the season, and a few wagon
nom the country loaded with the grea
staD,e are seen ON the streets every day
The shipments for the last eleven week:
embracing the period from April lst
inclusive 10 June 2lst, bave average
nearly one hundred and twenty bales
week. Our total shipments by river an
rail from September !, 1872, to June 2ls
loot up fourteen thousand four hundre
and forty-siX bales.-AberdeeR Erdn
iler, 26tb.
We regret to learn that our yOun
friend, Joe Robertson, who lives nes
this place, was very painfully injured o
The twentieth instant. He had gone u
"a Tyro. in Marshall county, TO atten
= fenperance celebration, and whe
J,Sving to the house Of a friend in ths
S-;cfuifV. his horse, attached 10 buggy
t,ace,,1e frightened and ran away. III
f,,,C,az, Was literally smashed 70 piece
e19 STr Robertson thyown out and baf
- b,-rt We learn that his jaWb0ne
1y5act1rsd and one Of his eyes very b&dl
I,1rt Ha was brought home on Tue
dav and we hope viii soon be restore
To health again.-PtTaOSd Ndr.
Coroper Richardson held an inquei
Sunday evening on the body VI 81 uI
knoGn white man. No clue & "
had To his identity. He had on .-ar
,,asts and knit tundershirt. In his pOck'
was found lot of ashing-tscilei line
hooks, etc. On yesterday a browne
woman rose in Glass bsyoui ~ u
northern part Of the city. The EeFdieI
the Jury was drowning. She had 0a
gold cross, which was attached 10 Ia
neck by string, and on her right han
sl,s wore two gold rings. She was vi
kaJWn.- Vicks5Vrg Times.
A boy named Joseph Valentine
.,l-osIt fourteen years OF age, who has 4
500 time occupied the position of
meniai on the steamer Frank Beck, il
5gmned overheard yesterday afterno0
sod was drowned. He was heard
ran,eris Turing the day that he was tire
ofIiying, s. be had no friends and I
money. aud fust before committing Il
rssb acf he took his coat OF When /
inmned overheard he was seen BY ma
VINO Attempted to save him but withol
avail. The boy is said 70 have "a