Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-04-26

falls of the Ohio, and conduct survey
ing parties and protect them as the
went. Boone started on his periloU
journey on the sixth OF June, I71-
!. reached and reconducted the surVeyoi
: in safety to the settlements, the distanC
being eight hundred miles and the tim
! two months. The governor rewarde
Boone by employing him on q large
scale for settling the west. jaime
Haired, the founder of HarrOdsburQ
built the first house in what was the
termed the west. lcg-cabin raised 4
the totest ia April, 1774.n
Louisiana.
Shreveport has a "Shakespeare club
which gives masquerade balls.
High rater prevents the cars from
reaching the depot OF Shreveport.
The Howard association Of Shcevepor
has donated one thousand dollars to tt
relief of the New Orleans fiood-siifferers
The Shreveport Times calls the editu
Of the Democrat "ths little sap-heade,
scissOTser, who, ike q Iaud-turtle, hs.
just about bfaius enough TO snap" Jokl
on the turtle.
Lafourche parish has paid forty thou.
sand dollars oflevae takes TO the Stat,
within four years, during which timt
not a cent has been expended on TIT
| levees. Cause, KellOggery.
Georgia.
Pulaski county has mail-robbers.
Blackshear has telegrsph-office.
Talbotton has rabbits on its streets.
The Jasper G,eens, Of Savannah, viii
l have NaiJeSt.
The Savannah NtUs is talking abou
the centennial fraud.
One case of smallpox has closed uI
/ business at Cedar Town.
Pssmuel Bard is stirring up things
in the Atlanta postOfiice.
A horse belonging to General Home
| of Hawkinsville, eats chickens.
A recent attempt was made to assas
sinate b T. Barfeld, marshal of War
/ rentCn.
Large numbers of caterpillars have
/ appeared on the fruit trees in Washing
/ ton county.
/ J. R. Christian, late Of the Thomas
! vile Times. has purchased the Sparts
! Tines and Planter.
sINot long since Frank Rush's resi-
dence, in Pulaski county, was burglar.
lied and then burned.
The Jonesboro Net0s offers years
subscription for the first mess of spring
salad sent to that Office.
Savannah has received six hundred
and thirty thousand eight hundred and
seventy-0ne bales Of cotton this season.
The Georgia press association are pro-
hihited from exchanging with or rclipping
from the following papers Of that State.
because they are "patent outsides :"
MeDuffie Journal, Georgia Clipper, Ca
milla Enterprise, Fort Valley Mirror,
Acworth Monitor, and Eastman Times.
Thursday, the sixteenth of April, nine
years ago, according to the Enquirer,
General Wilson discovered Columbus.
That city lost in few hours some twen-
ty-five millions OF property, sixty thou
sand bales Of cotton Were burned, and
five cotton factories, together with the
finest machine shops in the south.
south Carolina.
Anderson county has three oranges.
Chester has a loan and building asso-
citation.
The Charleston firemen are to have q
tournament.
Charleston has military parades; as
has Little Rock.
Richard Walker, an ex-sheriff of
Barnwen county, died few days ago.
Charleston youths are prohibited from
playing baseball in the streets and parks.
A club of thirty employees of the South
- rof rarirn in,
Louisville lottery.
The Chester negroes differ in political
preference as to carpetbaggers and home-
made folks of color.
Henry Howard, cOlOred, of Charles
ton, recently bindIed fire with coal-oil.
His funeral was largely attended.
George T. Roberts, OF Laurens county,
with the assistance Of nine laborers, re-
Gently split four thousand panels of
fence in one day.
Prof J. II. Lowery, whose vocation is
to instill music into the hearts Of pupils,
has left WinnsbOro, much to the regret
Of disappointed boarding keepers
and washerwomeD.
An English company proposes to re-
claim all the Wateree swamp from
=
gaTee, so as to render it fit for cultiva-
ton, and also to utilize the timber.
North Carolina
Over two hundred buildings are being
in Raleigh.
The cornerstone OF the United States
and postoffice at Raleigh viii
he laid July 4th.
The Raleigh board Of trade will ban
quet the press association upon its visit
10 that city next month.
The mutterings OF Bald mountain
have been heard distinctly at Longs
mills, Person county, two hundred miles
distant.
Wilmington Journal. at Is said that
the epizOotic Of a mildeF type than when
it itappeaIed here in 1S72, has again bI oxen
out among the horses in This city. Some
think, however, that it is nothing more
than distemper.
The Texas State grange is in session at
Austin. About three hundred members |
sre present,
Death by the dreaded trichina has |
made its appearance in Texas. The wife |
)f German painter at Austin has died |
If it, after several weeks intense suffer-
ug; her little child died Of it, and other
members Of the family are sick. They |
u ate diseased pork.
Alabama.
The university of Alabama owes the |
State forty thousand dollars.
General Geo. P. Harrison is a prospect |
We candidate for congress in the third !
district.
Selma is to have State convention of |
awyers relative to changes desired in ex-
sting laws, adoption of rules of practice, |
tic.
Florence Times and Journal oIn |
oOking over the report of the State audi |
or, we find that VIM. r. Chisholm re-
,eived out of the State treasury-the |
Jeople's money-six hundred and seven |
weight dollars for fifty-three days SER
'ices in the courthouse legislature, as |
enstor from this district. It is known |
o every voter in this district that CHS |
lolm was defeated for this ofiice-Chis- |
loim himself admitted it. We should |
ike our Radical friends who have hoisted |
his name for Acknowledgements to tell |
IS what right be had to seat in the |
legislature of Alabama? and by what !
light he received thisspay They have |
lut him forward for the second position |
n the State, and must indorse his re-
sord at than, M 10