Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-07
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Houston county, Georgia, has gam
der thirty years of age.
The Richmond (Va. Enquirer favors
the centennial celebration.
Cyrus Holmes is telling the people of
Atlanta when the world will end.
Religious revivals continue at Knox
vile, Clinton and Bristol, Tennessee.
The Somerville (Tenn.) Falcon still
harps about the Memphis Mardi Gras.
The Meridian, Mississippi, temperance
club has two hundred and fifty members.
Last Saturday night there were six
births and three deaths in Jackson, Ten
nessee.
Savannah, Georgia, recently shipped
over eighteen thousand bales of cotton
in one day.
Little Rock, Arkansas, has organized
horticultural society, with Hon. ThOs.
Johnson president.
The Good Tempiars of Montgomery,
Alabama, have invited John S. Lake to
lecture in that city.
William Bailey, aged ninety-two,
died few days ago at his home in Cal
houn county, Mississippi.
4lC WHISKY nCA vi SfA1eAltNsAiObSdg
Tennessee, have organized q defensive
club against the temperance crusade.
Petersburg, Virginia, celebrated the
passage of her new city charter by firing
Of guns and the blazing of bonfires.
Miss S. Dugary, a milliner of Mont
gomery, Alabama, was killed by falling
through trsp-door few days ago.
The putrefed body of dead negro
boy was found in kitchen in Mont
gomery, Alabama, not long since.
While repairing the ground floor of
Wilmington, North Carolina, hotel, re-
Gently, petrified oak-stump was dug
up.
A young man in Hamilton county,
Georgia, escorted his sweetheart to
church with drawn pistol. Cause,
jealousy.
Robert Ingraham, of Charles City
county, Virginia, was mangled to death,
not long since, by saw-mlll, which he
was operating.
Two negro boys of Calhoun, Missis-
sippi, were recently kidnapped by ne
gro and taken to ChOetaw county,
where they were subsequently recov-
cred.
Two Germans, who walked from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Mont
gomery, are working on the farm of
Deputy Sheriff Booth of Montgomery
county, Alabama.
Elias A. Thacker, of Albemarle
county, Virginia, convicted OF malicious
shooting, has been pardoned by the gov
ernor on condition of abstaining from
spirituous liquor for three years.
The Georgia Western railroad has
sued the Georgia railroad for two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars, the
amount of the latter's subscription to
the capital stock of the plaintiff.
Mr.. Edward King, who is contribut-
ing to ScTi6ner'S Monthly a series of
articles entitled tThe Great South,n
win visit Little Rock on the tenth of
March for the purpose of securing in
formation regarding Arkansas.
The Jackson (Tenn.) Herald says:
''The Memphis APPEALS mechanical
department is becoming quite effemi-
to act in the capacity of a typo" The
Rerald's editorial department has
always been effeminate.
The Somerville Tenn Falcon says:
s'The Brownsville States announces the
u6MS IudL Tic AHREAL Has I6luIuGu 10
the Democratic fold. Where has this
old prodigal been wandering? 1t strikes
US that the States will yet have the
pleasure of cutting its eye-teeth, and
that its language is rather impudent."
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Chronicle says:
"The other day one of the hands en-
ployed in the Prince-street sewer found
a claw-hammer and two bars of lead
sixteen feet and some inches under the
ground, just west of the courthouse. On
the handle of the hammer was stamped
1872"
The decision of the Alabama supreme
court in the case of Smith, auditor, 0e7
Sus Speed, superintendent of public in
struction, prevents several hundred
thousand dollars going into the State
treasury, but leaves the same with the
county treasurer, to be expended for
schools.
"All hands" on the Vicksburg (Miss.)
V5ckSburger are in the clutches of the
law, on complaint of l.. M. Hall, who
charges them with the ''offense of pub
fishing libellous and malicious article,
in newspaper called the Wcks6urqer,
printed in the city of Vicksburg, county
and State aforesaid"
During the year 1872, owing to a
failure to pay taxes, two hundred and
sixty-eight thousand five hundred and
twenty-three acres of South Carolina
land were forfeited to the State, the
taxes and penalties being thirty-two
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight
dollars, or twelve cents per acre.
Speaking of the proposed reunion Of
the PRESBYTERIAN church and the Cum
berland Presbyterian body, the Nash
vile (Tenn.) Christian Ad0ocate saws:
ait may not result in an organic
uuion-as we do not see how that can
take plaee-yet if it will promote catho-
lie failing and kindly intercollrsa II