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

Tennessee
Lebanon is to have a temperance clul
/. Chattanooga agitates cheap transpoi
a tation.
b Chattanooga wants a glass factory an
: a cust0mhoUsc.
Mrs. Ward is not q 10aTd Of the tenn
: perance crusaders.
Mary Foust was shot and fatal
. wounded near Knoxville, q few DAY
: ago.
e Nashville has given a ball for the ben
: eft of her destitute sufferers from tn
: food.
: The Lincoln county court has submit
: ted to the people proposition to lew ,
e sehool-taz Of ten cents or the one hun
{ dred dollers.
al TIE Methodist church at Columbis
. was totally destroyed by FIRE on the even.
: lag Of the twentieth, The fire origi
mated from the pot of some timers who
were at work on the building. Loss
about ten thousand dOllaIs; nc insur.
! aDce.
Governer Brown offered reward Of
, FIVE hundred dollars for the appreben.
: sion of Anderson, who killed young
) BTeckinridge at Lebanon. This is the
highest sum that the governor has
authority 20 offer as a reward. As il
, might be supposed by some that the gov
| ernor was rather terdY in this matter, i.
I Is We'll enough IN this connection to say
that he waited to hear from the author
! tiles in Wilson county some details in
, regard to the tragedy, and receiving no
official notice from that Quarter, he wrote
to the sheriff to ascertain if any action
Z had been taken.
The meeting OF the general conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
south, which eOnVenes at Louisville,
kentucky, May lst, will be an occasion
Of great interest, especially to the large
and influential denomination Of which
il is the highest tribunal. This body
meets only once in four years, and while
it is possessed Of great powers, it is only
q delegated body, and cannot, therefore,
exercise jurisdiction on some questions.
There viii be no change in the articles OF
religion, as this is one of the questions
over which the body has no control.
From what we can learn there will not
likely be any change in the general rules,
as this would require the approval OF
threeafOurths of the members OF the an
nual conferences, with two-thirds of the
Il general conference.
The Dyersburg Gazette Of the eigh-
teenth, has this areeOlogical guess: tt The
other day, while Mr. John Nichols was
at work in his Dyersburg garden, deep Is
/ the ground, he plowed up an old medal. It
turned out TO be pure gold. It is oblong
\ In shape and bears the mark of age on
J its every feature. On one side, around
( three crossed arrows, encircled with
4 evergreens, is the latin inscription:
4 S1HctG PtslOHseFd ora pro ilO6is; on the
/ other side is the body of man, in q
| ssrcOphagus, with the latin sentence.
/ Corpus AtgRdyli: qltiescH IN pace
I Christi, which tell Us that Mugnani was
killed by Indian arrows and sleeps with
Christ It has long been a sdispu6ed
question at what point fernando Desc
10 crossed the Mississippi river. Years
ago the bed Of the Father of Waters
was nearer our town than il now Is.
This old relic would seem to indicate
that he crossed it opposite our town and
that Mugnani was killed and buried
here. How strange, that after the lapse
Of so mary years, it should be dis
covered that the dust of one of DeSOto's
crusaders is now resting in a little lot
in the town Of Dyersburg.
Mississippi.
Judge George T. Brown, of Vicksburg, |
has immOrtalized himself by peremptO- !
rily discharging a corrupt grand jury
which refused to fiDd an Indictment |
against L. N. Hall, who, whilst he was
chief of police at Vicksburg, had black /
mailed gamblers, as was proven by the /
Oaths in open court of two gamblers, /
whom for fair price he had permitted /
undistUrbed to ply their vocation. The /
proof against Hall was positive, yet be- +
cause he was big dog among the little /
pups Of the Radical party, they loved I
him and would not see him suffer. All [
honor be to Judge Brown for his high I
impulses and noble, manly course, aud (
the same to D,strict-Attorney Lea, who 1
deserves the praise Of assisting the hon /
est jurors in exposing the dishonest one. /
The Holly Springs Reporter, Of last /
Saturday, had the following: 'tThe /.
course OF General Forrest il resiguiug
the presidency Of the Memphis and Sell I
ma railroad, to relieve the company Of .
any embarrassment it might suffer from
his connection with the management, /.
is greatly commended by his friends, /.
and accepted by the public generally as |
an act of self-sacriticing patriotism. Ii .
is 20 be hoped now that those who !.
have been disatfected toward the enter .
prise because OF his connection with it, I
il any there be, will put their shoulders .
10 the wheel, and keep pushing till the /
road is completed. There is no enter I
prise that promises 50 much to the bUsi- /
ness interests of Memphis and Holly .
Springs AS this, and surely there will be .
none 50 shOrt-sighted as 10 throw their
influence against its success. This is q
busy world, and while the car Of progress
moves on, let the business men Of Mem
phis and Holly Springs not be found
among the lsggards."
DR. Rivers, of Panola, Mississippi,
has wonderful work OF the sculptar's
art. 1t Is nothing more nor less than a
statuette of Fernando DeSoto. In any
event the letters f. D." are cut upon
the pediment. The whole body is carved
from solid locust, the hardest and most
endurabie wood that grows in southern
forests, while the pediment is a piece Of
blackjack, with the bark on it. This
bark Is somewhat decayed, but besides
this the wonderfully wrought statuette
IS faultless as when deposited in box
)f dry sand and buried in a mound
eight miles south of the city. 1t was
.Ound by negro woman, who sold il
i0r a calico dress. DR.. Rivers afterward
secured 1t. AS curious archaeological
discovery, if genuine, it outvies ali the
lrBs and vases and idols of mound
builders. Photographs taken by Arm
strong may be had by the curious in
such matters. Copies will be sent to
eastern scholars, and one 70 CASTELAR,,
he master Of the sO-called Spanish re-
public. If this be an original likeness,
which We do not believe, of DeSotO,
and the photograph compared with
IN Grenada and Madrid may
tell, the genuineness of the statuette, as
the production of one of DeSotO's fol-
lowers, may be determined. John !
Quincy Adams declared and almost
proved that DsSoto never discovered
the Mississippi, and that Spain never
held any title whatever to any portion
Of this valley. If this statuette be a
truthful reproduction of the old hidaypo.
the fact that DeSOto beheld and crossed
the Mississippi Is incontestibly establish
ed. The Spanish sombrero, the rapier.
the short fiInt-lock musquetOon, the long
upheld in his left hand bS
the scquiline-fsced Spanish knight, ali
suggest the genuineness of the curious
relic of three hundred and thirty-tWo
years ago. Whether genuine or modern
it is somewhat marvelously pretty
work Of pains-taking taste and art.
Kentucky.
Lewis county furnishes g large amount
Of tan-bark.
Corn in Allen county sells for four
dollars per barrel.
Elder G. w. DUpee edits cOlored
Baptist paper at Paducsh.
Mclean county has twenty oranges;
and Ohio over twenty.
Vanceburg wives are suing liquor
dealers for selling spirits to their hus-
bands.
Reports from the wheat crop are get
ting unfavorable, says the Paducah Ken
'Ucsjdn.
Five and hSlf acres of Grant county
land produced mst year nine thousand
one hundred and ninety-four pounds Of
tobacco.
A branch of the Farmers bank, OF
with capital of two hundred
thousand dollars, is to ~ located at !
Bowling Green. ]
Mrs. Susan, who recently died in
Boone county, left nineteen children, {
one hundred and twenty grslsdchildren,
and one hundred and fifty-seven great
to mourn her loss.
Says the Old kentucky Flag: ain