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

DOUI EhN Ne w o.
Burglars and thieves infest New Or
Louisville, Kentucky, wants police
telegraph line.
Peach-trees are blooming in Ouachita
county, Arkansas.
New Orleanists are feasting on straw
berries at fifty cents per basket.
Charles w. Newman is editor and
publisher Of the Pine Bluff Press.
The weekly meetings of the Pine
Bluh, Arkansas, teachers are well attended.
The jackson Wing and Tribune has
another male heir, born February p, 1874.
The New Orleans Republican opposes
governor Kellogg's veto TO the free-I1arket
bill.
At Camden, Arkansas. chickens sell
for two dollars and half and three dollars
per Dozen
The temperance question is claiming
the attention OF the clergymen of Louisville,
Kentucky.
Camden, Arkansas, sells eggs at
twenty-five cents per dozen and butter at
tnlrIy cents per pound.
b.ehay, the Devils" doctor, has been
giving entertainments in New Orleans for the
Grant parish prisoners.
A little son of Prof Whitaker, of
Jackson, Tennessee, fell from a swing last
week and broke his arm,
Three negroes are on the jury in the
case OF the Grant parish, Louisiana prisoners,
being tried at New Orleans.
r. g. Gardener, a former magistrate
in Cslrollton, Louisiana, has been arrested for
altering marriage certificate.
Owing to the effect Of the decision of
the supreme court the public schools of Cam.
den, Arkansas, have been closed.
The State and county tax in Howard
county, Arkansas, is two dollars and seventy
nve cents on the hundred dollars.
At a recent meeting of Cuban patriots
in New Orleans, Maior-GeneraI Francisco V.
Aquilera was elected president of the associa-
The Atlanta Herald favOrs the re-
vision OF the Georgia constitution by two dis
tinguished citizens from each congressional
distinct.
A Jefferson county, Arkansas, rattle
snake, having one hundred and eighty rattles
on its tail, was recently killed. This is rat
ting tale.
Tom Tuggle, a well known colored
man, Of Lebanon, Tennessee, was recently
killed by Bill johnson, colored. Cause, do
nestle trouble.
Milledge Daniels, a colored man, from
Bolivar, in this state, a few days since had his
LIP bitten of by ierocious negro at Pine
Biuh, Arkansas.
The general Baptist association of
Tennessee and North Alabama win COM
mence its annual session at Lebanon, Tennes-
see, next Friday.
A petition is in circulation at Little
Rock, asking executive clemency for John
Day under death sentence for numbering
Renten Brodie.
The Jackson CTenn.) Herald wants
former political predictions ignored in the
new combination, and this, too, upon the
Bartlett platform.
The Vou,,o, Ma,fs christian oSuooia
tions Of Atlanta, Georgia, numbers two hun
dred members, and gives religious instruction
to jail prisoners in that city.
Phillip d. Cary, arrested for embez-
zling ten thousand dollars from the Freed
mems savings bank Of Atlanta, has been COM
mitted TO jail by Justice Ezzard-
&. w. Cammack, arrested in New
Orleans for selling Kentucky library lottery
tickets, last week waived an examination and
was required 70 appear before the criminal
court.
The contest for the chancellorship IN
the Meridian, Mississippi district is still uDse
tied, the present incumbent laboring under
the disadvantages Of having been an Alcorn
Republican.
Thirty-four males and twenty females
attend the Louisiana deaf and dnmb insti-
tute. There are over one hundred deaf mutes
who do not attend school.
Treasurer Morrow last Friday paid
three thousand nine hundred and six dollars
on the interest account, tbsreby saving 10 the
state Of Tennessee the sum OF seYenty-nine
dOllarsand twenty eeuts.
The officers Of Dorsey county, Arkan-
sas, have published resolutions denouncing
the supreme courts decision, which compels
county officers 10 take state scrip in payment
OF all fees pertaining TO their Office.
The longshoremen Of the fourth dis
trict met in New Orleans last week, and con-
sidered the proposition that license be exact
ed from laborers, and discrimination be
made against immigrant or foreign labor.
The Louisville (Ky.) Ledger thinks
that Hon. Thomas J. Barker offered the reso-
luton suggesting inquiry into matters OF the
federal court OF that city in good faith, and
from what appeared 10 be sufficient cause.
The census OF Galveston, Texas,
which has Just been completed, shows pop
ulstion OF thirty-four thousand three hun
dred and fifty, not including the floating pop
ulation, an increase Of over twenty thousand
in three years.
All the city tax Of Little Rock, Ar
kansas except seven and a half mills and the
three mills on railroad bonds, has been en-
Joined by Judge Whytock. Tpe,case inyolv-
tax, imposed by the city council Of Little
Rock viii soon be adjudicated.
The New Orleans Times thinks that
"the legislature seems 70 think itself author
lied to act as the Vicar1ous almoner OF the
taxpayers OF Louisiana" and says that In this
IL is clearly reckoning without its host, espe
ciaIly since under the rulings of the courts
the constitutional Limitation OF the STATE
debt has been reached.
The Chicot ARK Herald says:
"There is quite falling OF in the freight ol
the railroad, this week, compared with pre-
eight hundred and fifty bales Railroad ON
cisls look for dull times in the coming two
months, and are gradually reducing the ex
penses so they may be prepared for them.
A Bedford county correspondent o.
the Nashville Banner says: "A good many o.
The sJohnson men OF the county favor th'
suggestion OF Colonel Colyar 70 have meet
ing Of the johnson men IN NashYlle, anu
suppose primary meeting, VIII VII oy view es,S% u
representation, VIII De neio mere at al esiiS
day; such is the talk"
Speaking OF. the Louisiana legislature
the New Orleans Picdystne says; "Ine yoinl
resolution submitting an amendment 70 I'M
constitution of the State TO limit the oeot %
New orleans and the issue OF warrants Dy ne
officers, has been signed by the governor al \
promulgated. II provides that the CITY Isln,l sn.
not hereafter increase her debt, in any man
neror form, or under any pretext, aiter 1ah
uRry ], $50"
Rev. Timothy Harley, of Georgia, in
a communication TO the Savannah Aet0s, az
tacks Bishop Beckwith for assumption ano
heresy. and says he has no right 20 sign him
self "Bishop OF Georgia." that designation,
such as clergy and laity," anc " EplScopal
church." are improper and unscriptural. ht
protests against Lent, and warns his Baptist
brethren against the evil Influences Of Bishop
Beckwith's Pastoral Letter"
The Nashville Banner says There
was less spirituous liquor drank in Gallatin
during the time the State grange has been IN
session there than is generally the case In
towns or cities where such large bodies Of
men assemble. This was noticeable fact
aud was mentioned in the pulpit and by the
master OF the State grange. We heard
northern man, whose business takes him e
meetings OF oranges, conferences and othel
like assemblies, remark yesterday, that fol
sObrieiy. intelligence aud sOciabtlity, tbs
1eUnes~ee grsngers had the call. The genera
effect oi The meeting at 0allatin last week
will be 10 arouse those subordinate oranges
that have not heretofore been apprised as &
the rap Increase OF their ranks, 10 wofl
more .tigeDty and irdnstriously in the in
crest Of taeiT order