Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-21
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Wythe county, Virginia, has hairy
child.
jackson, Tennessee, wants water
works.
Savannah, Georgia, is infested with
burglars.
st. Louis lawyers want to organize a
bar association.
Virginia has good prospects for an un-
usually large wheat crop.
John L. Gilbert. of Bibb county, Geor-
gia, has wheat two feet high.
The Chattanooga, Tennessee, board Of
health consists Of five physicians,
The town attorney of Meridian, Mis-
sissippi, receives fifty dollars per month.
Savannah, Georgia, has a railroad
mutual loan association now in its fifth
year.
The Savannah chamber of commerce
has resolved to discontinue its reading
room.
Culpepper,V Virginia, is improving, and
is to have new journal called the
Times.
Edward C. Crimp has resigned the
foremanship of the Richmond VA En-
quirer
Carroll county has only two represent
atives in the Georgia penitentiary, and
no bOarders in the Jail. #a
The oil-stores of Atlanta, Georgia, are
waging deadly war against each other.
Kerosene is retailed at fifteen cents.
The st. Louis academy of science has
appointed a committee to solicit SUBJ
scription for the Agassiz memorial.
Governor Kemper, of Virginia, was
recently burnt in effigy at Petersburg,
because he vetoed the charter Of that
city.
Charles Hanson, living near Rich
mond, Virginia, recently committed
suicide because of financial embarrass-
ment.
Columbus, Georgia, is afraid Atlanta
will get the trade OF Merriwether county
by building a narrow-gauge railroad to
Greenville.
st. Louis doctors, who are members of
the medical society, charge fifty dollars
and one hundred dollars for post nloTteDl
examinations.
A young man named John Donelly
was drowned in the Yazoo river, above
Vicksburg, a few days ago, while at
tempting to swim that stream.
A party of fishermen ON the Ogeechee
river, Georgia, who last year caught five
thousand shad, have thus far this season
caught and sold twenty thousand.
Conductor Turner, of a freight-train
on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, was
killed by the train running over him,
near Corinth, Mississippi, few days
ago.
The following is a specimen of the ed
itorial fun, wit and humor OF the 81
Louis Mol Democrat: "We call Mayor
Browns attention TO the fact that the
skirts of the dresses worn on the streets
by many Of our fashionable ladies are
too long" .e
The Mississippi Vicksbarger says;
1.-THE patent swindler Dedrick, and his
plant confederate, Pierson, have had
their little thieving game blockaded by
q special agent Of the postoffice depart
ment now here, who orders all letters
addressed to the swindlers to be for
warded TO Washington
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Chronicle says
ga private note from Bristol states that
q disease, supposed 10 be typhoid fevel
at first, has terminated fatally in nine
cases since Wednesday night. Mr.. Nc
,Clanahan, ex-mayor, and several school
ofrIs have died, and Others are beyond
bones Of recovery. The physicians seem
rof IN understand the disease. The
school SJ' girls are leaving in haste"
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Press ana
JzerGld SAYS; "on Monday last, there
died in this city, an oio negress' nance C
Suu5 wogan living in abingdon, Virginia
nnraed wU the embryo hero, Joe Johnston
while while the general was yet i,. i2 ais Swsd .,sSL
Sroad Sr Of this eventful portion Of her lie
and frequently spoke ,.obot;on 0i mas ss Soe ,
- shlesaed good chile, and no mistake.
tbs NJ colored people Of Knoxville, will
whom she was great favorite."