Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-05
GEORGIA.

Thomas county is infested with inoen-
diaries.
Athens wants to extend her corporate
limits.
The Gainesville Democrat lived three
weeks
Diptheria prevails in Barlow and Polk
counties.
TAlexauder Stephens crates this week
at Saundersyille.
Covington receives one hundred bales
OF cotton per day.
The business of the Georgia State
road is inc easing.
BIeRBley has been exhibiting his au-
tomato landscape at Atlanta.
Atlanta citizens Just before retiring
IRE pistols to brighten burglars.
The Newton county courthouse st
Baker is approaching completion.
Judge 81. V. johnson recently made
temperance speech at Reidsville.
An Atlanta negress, aged sixteen, has
been arrested for poisoning her child.
The cornerstone OF the Christian
church at Augusta will be laid to-day.
Augusta is to have q granger's ware
house on the so-called corporation plan.
Doubts are entertained Of the recov-
sry of Captain ]. II. Hunter. Of Quitman.
Sixty miles OF the Savannah and
Memphis railroad have been completed.
Governor n. V. johnson has been Pc
titiOned to address the citizens Of Augusta.
Georgia taxes every circus that shows
In her borders tive hundred dollars per day.
Tom Penn, colorsG, was killed with
stick, at Menticello, last week, by Lee Price.
The Columbus Enquirer says that ne.
groes who own property there are usually
Democrats.
Prof. Nell, State geologist, and party
are examining the mineral features Of Ban
tom county.
At one place in Paulding county there
are sixteen newly-made graves of children
who have died of diptheria.
j. w. Anderson has commenced the
publication OF paper at CoyingtoD, called
the Star. Long may II beam.
Clark, the Savannah Radical post.
master, is assessing all postmasters in HIS de-
partment for election purposes.
A troupe of negro minstreIs recently
gave an entertainment in Augusta for the
benefit Of the ladies memorial association,
Colonel w. G. M'Adoo, who formerly
conducted the literary department of the
MiIledgevtlle Chton, has taken charge OF
EueTy saturday.
The survivors of Hampton,s first bri-
gade met in Augusta last week and made ar
engagements for a reunion TO be held in that
city December l6, 1874.
The six steamships owned and run
between savannah and New York by the
Central railroad, have been sold TO the Geor-
giR steamship company.
The Athens WdtchntGa says that large
numbers Of colored people are preparing 10 20
west this fall, and that the white people are
not At all opposed TO their going.
Judge Noah Smith, of Burke county.
has presented the Augusta Chronicle and Sen.
tfgel with turnip that weighs nine pounds
and measures two + ct in circumference,
The Athens Waterman seconds the
motion Of the Co7stttttsoadliSf to hold the NEXT
state fair ut Augusta. Macon and Atlanta
win vigorously oppose the move, no doubt.
The Augusta Chronicle dad Sentinel
says: "Ciinch IRE engine was the first steamer
brought TO the south, having reached Augusta
in 1859 It was manufactured BY Reanev.
Neaie & Co., OF Philadelphia
A Griffin editor, in the practical role
Of Ga new way 20 pay old debit, +" writes about
the operator Of an Atlanta hash-mill a o saw
that Major Owens Is the best hotel man n
Georgia Is not say ing enough for yrs balieye
be is the best IN America"
The TbomasvilIe Times reports the
the death OF Mr.. Jacob Kicks, Of that county,