Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-12
MISSISSIPPI.

Burglars infest Abbeville.
Water Valley is improving her streets.
The Grenada Sentinel wants a fat
POISON.
The third annual fair OF Meridian last
week was wei attended.
/ Meridian Gozelte: "The demand fol
Democratic ROSTERS is lively"
Mrs Nj. =. Cook has been jailed al
Oxford on the charge Of arson.
! The matrimonial transactions at Wa.
I ter Valley are limited, says the Central
Meridian Gazette: ga csrIoad Of cotton
was burned last Saturday at Summit
"The November glorious
news" is what the Ripley AdUertisel
Gale it.
The courthouse at CoGeevills recently
/ caught fire, and came very near being
destroyed.
Owing TO the illness Of Judge o. Da-
Wis, circuit court will not hold its regu.
! lar November term at Grenada.
William Mimms, colored, has been
placed under bail to answer the charge
of burning q gin-hOuse Ia Pamela county.
A few days ago, near Ripley, Mere
dith Phillips stabbed J. @. FOndren, who
died soon from the effects Of the wound.
The Water Valley Central thinks the
Tennessee Democracy is jackass, and
that A. johnson is hoOdwinking the
quadTuped.
Deputy-Sheriff Mort. Ham last week
shot q negro prisoner who had been ar
rested for robbing the Coffeeville post
Office. The negro was trying to escape
when shot.
The Pamela Star Of the seventh says:
1.-THE grand council OF the United
Friends OF Temperance of the State will
meet in Water Valley November 5th. -
That is a very good joke.
Charleston NelCs: "The grand Jury fer
reted out the parties that broke open the
jail at this place last spring and hberat-
ed a man named Bradford, who was
confined in jail for killing negro
Charleston NeWS: 'FTne Holly Springs
Tribune, the Radical organ Of Yal0busha
county, charges only twelve dollars and
litty cents for inserting administrators
notices. How the 60 called organ is
swindling the people"
And Meridian also jubilated. The
Gazette z Radical paper, says of it:
awe may say here, however, that, for
-te most pari, there seemed to be more
ur he milk of human kindness il the
sIcE than We expected"
sena6obia S1gRet: I'D. 4. J Matthews,
Of Ssrdis, Mississippi, q colOred member
IF the house Of Representatives, was ad-
United to the bar by his honor, Judge
Fisher, few days ag0. We believe he
is the only cOlOred lawyer IN this part of
the State.n
Grenada ReDl5yieua: cone of the
prsttiest improvements in the building
line our city eau boast Of is the rectOry
now il course Of erection on Main street,
near the Episcopal church. Ii is 10 the
Gothic style, and when completed will
truly he an ornament TO our town."
Grenada county. grange has recon-
mende1 to the taxpayers Of Grenada
county TO form themselves into tax
payers league, for the purpose Of adopt
ing such legal and peseeable measures
as will, IL possible, reduce, or resist the
collection Of the enormous and Cypress /
i've taxes levied upon them in that
county.
The Grenada Republican says: ''The |
rooster with which we intended to Illus |
tTste our election extra was, on Tues !
day evening last, on account OF an over |
dose Of Independently ificatiOn-Repu- |
diatiOn National Union Reformed = |
DemUCratic-Couservstism, taken seri- |
1usiy Ill, with, up 70 the present writing,
out slight hopes Of recovery, which In q |
great measure accounts for the nOn-ap- |
pesrance of earlier extra election /
news"
The SomerVille Falcon has the folle w.
ing concerning the Mud Creek tragedy:
While John Messer, aged seventeen
years, was cOOn-hunting with sOme /
other boys, they fell in with two negro |
Boys, when for some pretended offence
Henry FalsOm teolored), aged seventeen |
years, stabbed John Messer (white)
.tree inches below the cIavicle, and two /
IA front Of the shoulder joint, seveTing
he right bronchial tube, producing al
most instant death. The murderer has
been spprehended and put in jail