Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-09
SOUTHERN NEWS.

OyerSDurg, tennessee, mas " grange
restaurant"
Franklin, Kentucky, has roller
skating rink.
Senatobia, Mississippi, indulges in
marble-playing.
fernando, Mississippi, had sulphur
shower last week.
Senatobia, Mississippi, juveniles
amend dog-tails with tin cans.
The Shelbyville (Tenn.) CONNER
cidl favors a county convention.
A vein of rich iron ore been dis
covered near Grenada, Mississippi.
Nicholas Henson, of Simpson, hung
himself recently with a grapevine.
The Holly Springs (Miss.) Reporter
advises congress to reduce the army
staff
Sixty empty whisky-barrels. were
shipped from Senatobia one day last
week.
During February Baltimore had one
thousand four hundred and sixty-eight
arrests.
John E. Burke has resigned the edi.
torial management of the Helena ARK
World.
The Bedford county, Tennessee, wheat
crop has good prospects for an unusually
large yield.
VIM. Nj. Strickland has been elected
president of the Holly Springs (Miss.)
dramatic club.
The Grenada Miss Sentinel has a
beet seventeen inches long and seven
pounds weight.
The Helena (Ark.) World says that
village is better cotton market than
Memphis. Oh!
Work on the Vanderbilt and Fisk
universities at Nashville, Tennessee, is
progressing rapidly.
A handsome cupola, with spire, has
been added to the Baptist church at
Dyersburg, Tennessee.
The Senatobia (Miss.) Signet thinks
there will be more corn anu less cotton
planted this year than last.
DR.. B. L. Hatch's residence at Aber-
deem, Mississippi, was burned last Mon
day. Loss five thousand dollars.
The line Of the Cincinnati southern
railroad will soon be located from Chat
tanooga to lockwood, Tennessee.
The February school-fund apportion-
ment of Davidson county, Tennessee, is
one dollar and fifteen cents per scholar.
Revenue officers recently confiscated
at Shelbyville, Tennessee, ninety-six
barrels of whisky which were in twenty
wagons.
The Aberdeen Miss Examiner,
recommends Judge E. f. Colby, of
Monroe county, for commissioner Of i'm
migration.
Tba T To,,;ex,;Ilo (KrA r,ao.oo,,s1..,
Democrat is editorialating the subject
of "relation of political organization to
principles"
Seven thousand dollars have been
subscribed to the fund for rebuilding the
lately burned cotton mills of Meridian,
Mississippi.
The Jackson (Tenn.) Dispatch says
A. s. Colyar, is notorious disorgan-
izer who wishes TO give the State another
Brownlow reign.
Cass Matlock, charged with the muir
der of the Richardson family at Little
Rock, Arkansas, last No Fember, is on
trial at Little Rock.
For the past twelve months the Shell
ter for Colored Orphans, in Baltimore,
cared for ifty-one children, and now
has twenty-seven inmates.
Captain J. E. Rail, of Cleveland,
Tennessee, has given one thousand dol
lars to the new library building at
Roanoke college, Virginia.
Last week colored workman named
Carter was buried up to his chin by the
caving in Of an embankment, and was
extricated, seriously injured.
Pat Boyle, section master of the Mis-.
oiaoirrNi oFad Tor1 70 ilrOoA had hso
right leg broken by the wheels of a car
near Senatobia few days ago.
The Grenada Miss Sentinel learns
that work will soon commence
upon the Grenada and Starkville, and
the Grenada, Louisville and Meridian
railroads.
Religious revivals continue with in
terest at Knoxville, Bristol, Kingston,
Greenville, Rheatown, Warrenburg,
lockwood, Clinton, and Maryville, East
Tennessee.
A few days ago Captain John X.
Scott, well known river man, fell over
board from the steamer Clifford, few
miles below Shreveport, Louisiana, and
was drowned.
Squire Frank Sampson was the first
baby boy" ever born in Dyersburg,
Tennessee, so says the State Gazette,
whose editor keeps record of every
family in his county.
1t is rumored that Monroe county,
Arkansas, wants to issue special scrip
to protect her citizens from the high
rates of supplies necessitated by the
present depression Of scrip.
Tom Neaps State Gazette says An
drew Johnson is tower Of strength in
Tennessee, and believes he will again
enter public life next year. 1t may be
for years and it may be never.
Mr.. William White, while sitting in
his house near Versailles, Rutherford
county, Tennessee, was assassinsted one
night last week by unknown persons,
who fired five :rihe-balls through his
head.
Colonel c. II. Fonda, agent, is pros
pecting on the line of the Mobile and
cation of a colony of Mennonites, class
of Russians who, like the Quakers, have
q religious aversion to war.
The Baltimore american speaking of
George Peay, who on being sent with
large sum of money by the Louisville
MasOns to New York, appropriated the
same and is now in Canada, says he
cannot be arrested, as the Kentucky
laws have no punishment for a mere
breach of trust. 1t seems to us that this
is fraudulent breach of trust.
Since last November the Northwest
ern souphouse, Baltimore, has distribu-
ted eleven thousand four hundred and
eighty-nine gallons of sonp, and thirteen
thousand one hundred and seventy
loaves of bread to fourteen thousand five
hundred and twelve families, represent
ing sixty-four thousand three hundred
and forty-five persons. What a large
pauper population has Baltimore.
A case which, for its novelty has at
tracted considerable attention, was de-
cided in the supreme court this week.
1t was a suit brought for the benefit
of mulatto miners claiming to be the
children of an unmarried white man,
Lev. Diekerson, who died intestate
about three years ago, in Coahoma
county, Mississippi, possessed OF large
estate. A singular feature Of the cause
is that the mother of the children was
the wife of colored man at the time
the alleged heirs were born. The case
was decided in favor of the colored
children.
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