Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-02

| festive mOSQu3tO now banishes sleep, and
/ affords those not endowed with an extra
amount of christian forbearapce ample
opportunity ior prslane objurgations.-
ArkddelDbid &dnddrd.
The complaints for the past week
/ from the farmers are pretty general, all
over this and adjoining counties, 10 the
j effect that too much rain has fallen, and
some say they are SO badly Sin the
| grassn that their crops of both corn and
cotton are already -0ne-third cut off, and
without fair weather enough in the next
| week to work out their cotton, that crop
is simply q failure though those who.
have been able to keep up with thegrass
say their corn is good while their cotton
is tolerable. Though, upon the whole,
the situation doesn't Justify desponden-
ey.-Cdnadep Journal. i.
The directors of the Ouachita Valley
railroad held meeting in this place on
| Saturday, at which series of resolu-
tons We're passed, having for their OBJ
Ueet the clothing of parties with power
to negotiate for the funds to commence
the work as soon as possible, and other
| things connected with the practical
workings OF the enterprise. The presi-
dent, vice-president and j. n. Sarber
l
to make such monetary arrangements
as woulG be most beneficial to the CON-
pany, and to arrange for the early sur
Yey OF the route, and for other work.
drkddelphi1 Standard.
AEABAMA.
The State Journal says that it is re-
ported in Washington that Pennington
is to be appointed governor of one of the
Territories.
We learn that on last Wednesday a
man named Sullivan was killed by Billy
Robbins. AGshot-gun was the weapon
used The parties lived near Breaks
store, on the Jasper road, near the War
rior river. Robbins is SAID to have acted
in inself-defense.-Birnlinghanl NeaCS.
The Hayneville Examiner of Friday
says Mr. B. w. Bryant brought in five
or six big and rapacious cotton-worms
on cotton-limb, Tuesday. 1t is the
second crop on his place, we presume,
and we shall be almost sure to hear of
them in large numbers in few days.
The State Journal learns from a gen.
tleman Just from Augusta county, that
the crops in that section are doing fine
Iva great deal better than could be eX-
pected, considering the late rains, etc.
The farmers are all hopeful, and consider
the chances yet good Of making fair
crop of both corn and cotton.
Mr.. Ran. Keys. who was badly burned |
at Whistler, by the explosion of a kero-
sene lamp, died on Saturday last from |
the injuries received, and was buried on |
Sunday evening. He was an engineer |
in the employ of the Mobile and Ohio |
railroad company, and leaves a wife |
and three children.
The district conference of Huntsville |
district, Methodist Episcopal church |
south, convenes at Stevenson on the |
fourth of July. The corn crop is re-
markabIy fine IL Jackson, and the best !
oat crop seen for years. The wheat crop |
is generally sorry, and cotton needs
work -ScOttS6oro Herald.
The Round Mound iron and coal COM
pany, located a half-mile from the
Coosa- river, thirty-three miles below
Rome, in Cherokee county, has recently |
been stocked at one hundred thousand |
dollars, with the privilege of increasing
the same to five hundred thousand.
Active operations will begin at once.
We predict for the company grand
success. Cherokee AdUertiSer.
7 Levi Sides, who was the first settler in
the town Of Jasper, and who for more
than half a century has been prOmi-
uent citizen of this place, identified
with every interest of the town and
country, and acting justice of the peace
for near fifty years, died at his residence
on the morning of the seventeenth in
slant, aged eighty-four years.-Opelik0
Observer.
Two ladies were in conversation the
other day. One lady remarked that
sDarrows were useful in Kidding certain
cities of canker worms. The other lady
said she would rather be tormented by
the spaTrows. Just then gentleman
and was appealed to. "Mr.
which do you think the worst, the
sparrows or woTms?n He blushed a lit
lie and said: ~ dOn't know; l never
had sparrows. .''-SelB9d Times.
Alabama has been particularly unfor-
tunate in the loss of her public men.
Within the past two years Winston, A.
B. Moore, Shorter, Jamison, Reavis,
Dowdell, A. j. Walker, Chiffon, Clan
ton, Whitfield, Pratt, and now the gen
ial Cochrane have passed away. The
roll is certainly an illUstriouS one, for
each had placed his name
High on the dusty rolls that ages keep"
Within no two years that are to come in
the future is Alabama likely to add so
many bright names to the neurology of
the times. 1t is poor consolation to be-
Iieve that such a misfortune could not
be repeated.-H HdyHeUiHe ErdBsiner.