Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-02-23
MISSISSIPPI.

Grenada has number one brass
band.
Gardening work is reported backward
about Grenada on accounto of the bad weather.
Columbus INDUCED its Mardi Gras
prOpensities TO limited extent on the seven
teenth.
IIThe temperance mania has struck
increase.
The Holly Springs South says it is
rumored that the Ashland railroad is to be
resuscitated.
A grange Of the Patrons of Husband
ry was organized at Prairie church in Kem-
per county on the twelfth instant.
Mr.. John Armstrong, late editor of
the Vicksburg Herald, has become interested
in the proprietorship OF the Daily VtclSbur0er.
s. Newton Berryhill and w. c. Wor-
thington are soon 10 commence the publica-
tion Of the Tri- Weekly Democrat, which is to
be established al Columbus.
IF. Hernandez, a well-known citizen
of Nicksburg, committed suicide in that city
on the nineteenth instant, by shooting himself
through the brain. Temporary insanity.
The Senatobia Sfgnet says: "Judge
Simmons granted a divorce 10 lady, last
Wednesday, and we learn that in fifteen min
utes afterward she procured license to marry
again. That is what we would call business"
Hon. w. P. Harris, by appointment
of Chief Justice Psyton, under resolution
adopted at a meeting of the bar, will deliver
eulogy on the life and character OF Hon.
W. L. Sharkey, IN the hall of the house of
representatives at jackson, this evening.
Governor Ames has purchased, says
the Meridian Gazette, some eighteen hundred
acres OF land in SunfiOwer county, for which
he paid half cash. He should have paid all,
which would have been in keeping with his
financial message" or ''pay as you go
policy.
The Grenada Sentinel has the follow
ing in regard to the cotton crop of 1873: "TheTe
is a very perceptible falling of in the receipts
of cotton at this point, and II every locality is
as near exhausted OF the snowy article as
this, the tale of the cotton crop of 1873 is about
told, and futures may govern themselves ac-
cordingly."
The board of supervisors of Calhoun
county, Mississippi, refused last week TO levy
a tax to pay the lawyers in the recent man
ddnluS case TO which that county and the
Nashville and Ntcksburg railroad were par
ties. Their constituents will doubtless IN
dorse their action, but those who dance ought
to pay the fiddler.
The Grenada Sentinel Of the twenty
first instant saws: "No, 8, doWn-freight, and
the second section passenger up-train on the
New Orleans, Jackson and Great North
ern railroad, ,collided near McCombs City,
on Thursday morning. We learn brakes
man and porter OF a sleeping car were
killed, and the engines OF both trains terribly
smashed up, but have not been able to get full
particulars"
The Senatobis iSFgnet gets off the
following on Senatobians who visited Mem
phis during the Mardi Gras festivities:
sMany of our citizens attended Mardi Gras,
and came back ghostly pale from loss OF
her guests. The city was thronged with Wis
itors, many of whom passed the night on the
ated had the prOprietors OF boardinghouses
left their addresses at the several hotels, as
suggested by the APPEAL"
At the recent session of the Masonic
grand bodies at Canton, Hon. James T. FAINT
was elected deputy grand master; r. p. Bowen,
Esq, OF Chullahoma, was appointed on the
committee OF Masonic law and jurisprudence;
Colonel IL. w. Walter was appointed chair
man OF the committee on complaints and ap-
peals; Captain Robert MCGOWAN was made
chairman OF the committee on credentials
and returns. The fifty-seventh annual convo-
cation OF the grand lodge VIII be held at Me-
ridian on the second Monday in February,
1875.
Mr.. Thomas Shelton, of Taylor's De-
pot, Lafayette county, Mississippi, was killed
at that place on the morning OF February 18th,
He had been to the train to purchase a fish,
and stepped back on the side-track as the pas
senger-train moved of, and while looking at
IL, or counting his money, some say, the
engine OF a freight-traln, that had been de-
tached, backed down to couple and coming
up behind MIN, knocked him down and ran
over him, Severing his body, and, of course,
killing him instantly.
The Liberty Herald says that never
in the memory of the oldest inhabitant
has there been 50 little work done, so little
energy displayed and so little interest in pre-
pairing for the crop as has been the case this
year. Heretofore by the first of February all
labor contracts had been entered into, the
laborers had settled down and gone earnestly
to work. Now, at least one-third of the la
Dor is still floating about, without any fixed
object in view, without homes, and apparent
ly Indifferent about getting any. The planters
are equally Indifferent about employing
them.
The Clarion of February 18th, con-
tains letter on the situation from the pen of
Ex-Governor A. q. Brown, in which occurs
insuguraI of Governor Ames with great salts
faction. 1t is not all that could have de-
sired, but II is so much more than
/ expected, that l feel IN duty bound
To saw / am satisfied" He expresses
our sentiments, says the Clarion, TO the
letter. II the inaugural of Governor Ames Is
md the Reporter giving him at all times full
credit for what he does in the interest Of
harmony and the general veal.
The Vicksburg Herald administers a
very just and timely rebuke TO those Demo-
cratic senators who are in the habit OF absent
ing themselves during the session OF the SEN
ate, thereby enabling the Radicals OF that
body TO pass unwise and unjust bills. IL Is
said that the vlllainous bill enabling sureties
on official bonds TO '.justify" by taking an
oath that they are worth the requisite amount
sin invisible property" could have been cas-
several Democratic senators. The people pay
dearly Tor the services OF those gentlemen, and
II is shameful for them to vacate their seats
without pairing OF with senators of the other
side.
Referring to q call for q meeting at
Jackson, ON the sixteenth of March, "when II is
expected that a union news association for the
State OF Mississippi will be formed, irrespec-
tive OF party predictions" the jackson
Pilot says: at lsNO bs hoped that every edi-
tor and publisher in the State will put aside
party and politics, and Join in this movement
To inaugnrate purely Journalistic assoeIa-
ton, having in view the best interests of the
profession, gathering of news matter regn-
fation OF prices for Job work and adyertisi6q
the proper policy TO be pursued in an matteTs
really newspaperial, and the cultivation of a
better feeling and closer community OF inter
eats between those connected with the news
papers OF Mississippi"
We learn from the Kosciusko .Ntar
that three men were killed at West station
durfng the fFat week of February. An old
nan named Morris tried TO make peace be-
tween his son and Texan, who were quar-
reling. when the latter turned on him, and
ahot him so that he died in two days. The son
SEEING his father shot, turned on the murder
eF VI "a tho ferOcity of tiger, tore one of his
ewes out from rs socket, and otherwise dealt
with him hardly. Notwithstanding all this,
however, the rniscreant made good his es-
cape, and is still at large. Two brothers,
named Choyle attacked a man named Kelly,
on account OF an old grudge against him, and
were by him killed In self-defense. Mr.. Kelly
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