Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-17
GEORGIA.

Albany is to have minstrel.
Savannah is enjoying celery.
Midway wants frst-class hotel.
Midway wants first-elass hotel.
Brunswick is to engage in the oyster.
Albany is organizing q minstrel COM
pany.
Fort Valley has twin calves; so have
husbands.
Williamson county has elected DEM
ocratie ticket.
Gainesville is beginning to gather her
possum crop.
Crawford has an excellent school for
the coloTed people.
The Jewish temple in Macon was con-
secrated last week.
The frantic serenader is on the RAM
page in Covington.
The Newman Herald wants tourna-
ment at that place.
The Macon and AIilledgeville stores
closed election day.
An Atlanta "union" printer came
very near killing "rat" last week.
While northern mills are slackening
up Georgia is increasing her looms.
The Democrats Of Hall county elected
their representative. No opposition.
The negro voters in Savannah at
tempted 70 repeat, but without success,
A new paper, called the Oglethorpe
Echo, has been established in Crawford.
Over forty members were added to the
Methodist church in CovingtOn last week.
Mitchell Cogswell, the lunatic who
killed Derry WOmmack, died in the Savannah
jail.
The Democratic ticket has triumphed
in Greene county for the first time since the
war.
The Savannah postmaster hss dis
charged an employe for voting the Democratic
ticket.
In speaking of a burial, an Atlanta
formed
Mr.. Augustus Starr was badly cut by
the saws Of a gin, near Covington, one day
last week.
Last week, at Stone Mountain, Mr..
NJ Arthur was accidentally shot and killed by
Con. Hanlon.
The State university opened with one
hundred and thirty-five students, half OF
whom were new.
The crop of cotton lin Wilkes county
will not turn out anything like so well as was
at one time expected.
A colored woman stole lot Of money
from the Orphans Home Of the sisters of St
Joseph, in Savannah.
The city editor of the Savannah id
vertiser has become nearly entirely bald in
his efforts to scratch up an item.
A negro boy, sixteen years old, picked
t,aree hundred and fifty pounds Of cotton upon
a plantation near Covlngton in one day.
Mr.. r. H. Richards, of Atlanta, has
bought the Oakley Mills factory near Marietta
tor nine Thousand ana seventy-dve dollars.
Parkman's gin, grist and sawmills,
near Warm Springs Merriwether county, was
1aag a a.,
lars.
The Atlanta Nel0S says that A. D.
Rockafellow, a former Radical politician of
the Gate City, is sojourning in the Illinois
penitenttary.
Constable Riding, Of DeKalb county,
has ievied on a railroad engine, No. y, belong
ing 10 the Atlanta and Richmond airline
railway company.
The Democratic State senator has been
elected in the seventh district, the first time
since the war, the majority being one thou
sand and nfty-nine.
A negro was killed in q wrestling
match near Savannah, last Thursday. He
was thrown heavily TO the ground by his op-
ponent also negro.
Hines Dozier killed an eagle six feet
long at Waverly Hall, last week. A colore1
mal, in Hamilton, killed a hawk measuring
Iour feet three inches.
DR.. Stillwell, the Humboldt pOstmas-
convention. He was civit-righting and still
well when last heard IRON.
The Augusta ChrOnicLs and Sentinel
says: ''It is written from Atlanta that gimball
has a serious intention OF redseming the
Brunswick and Albany railroad money"
The Savannah NeaOs says: "If the
devil were really on rampage with a body of
kuklux, looking for his own, what haul he
would make in Chattanooga on the thirteenth
instant"
A Newton county man has raised
fourteen sons, and not one of them has ever
used ardent spirits a beverage. Neither DO
they use tobacco in any manner, shape or
form, nor do they 60 10 zee the girls.
Br. Thomas Berry, living near
Gainesville, one night last week gave an old
fashioned corn shucking, which was attended
by large crowd OF ufffRge-slingers, who, by
eleven o'clock, had shucked and housed over
i've hundred bushels.
Some of the citizens of LAGRANGE who
hue negro mechanics, porters, stabIe-boys,
etc., have an idea OF sending north for white
labOrers 20 supply the places OF the negroes.
The latter have, almost without exception,
declared that they are utterly and forever op-
posed 10 the whites.
The Atlanta NelOs suggests that all
old Confederate commands be thoroughly re-
organised into regiments, then formed Into
brigades divisions and corps 'slt would" il
says, ''gIve US an army OF at least three hun
dred thousand men, with every branch OF the
service we'll represented, and such a force
would enjoy immense prestige. The mere fact
OF It's existence would, we firmly and honestly
believe, put an end to our political troubles"
ftThev that hate Won shall reiOn over