Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-06
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Trenton, Tennessee, has two cast-iron
foundries.
The burnt district of Trenton, Ten
nessee, is soon to be rebuilt.
Bishop Gilbert Haven is lecturing in
Nashville, on Books and Brains.
Jacksonport, Arkansas, has been in
vaded by the temperance crusaders.
The Shenandoah Valley railroad will
probably be completed in few days.
The Gibson county, Tennessee, free
schools are in f1ourishing condition.
A new postoffice has been established
at Folly Mills, Augusta county, Vir-
ginia.
Out of ninety jurors summoned by the
sheriff of Gibson county, recently, only
five We're retained.
Mrs. Hunt, the Quakeress, moved by
the spirit against the spirits, is doing
Louisville in series of temperance lee
lures.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Chronicle calls
the revival neetingsin the Presbyterian
church in that city "the religious cy-
cfone."
Tom Ford, a negro, escaped from the
Jail at koskiuscO, Mississippi, on the
twenty-third ultimO. He was grand
laTcenist.
Alligators are numerous in Dallas,
Texas, The Herald says two were
caught in the sewer near the Christian
church, Friday last.
DIR. Henry +. Wade died in New Or
leans on the twenty-fourth ultimo. DR..
Wade was born in that city, and en-
joyed the public esteem and lucrative
practice.
A mad-dog was killed in Helena, Ar
kansas, last week. Perhaps the story
was concocted in the interest of the
whisky vendors, to keep the praying
women in doors.
Professor Bryant and Walker Ingra-
ham, two colOred victims for the gall
lows, soon to be hung at Pulaski, Ten
nessee, for murder, were publicly bap-
tized in Nashville last Monday.
The Lynchburg (Va.) Republican
says that on the twenty-sixth ultimo
several genuine Chinese, dressed in the
peculiar costumes Of the inhabitants of
their native land, passed through that
city, en- route to the south.
Mr.. William III. McCaw, one of the |
most prominent journalists of South |
Carolina, and chief correspondent of the |
Charleston NetOS and Courier, was
burned to death, recently, in Columbia,
by. the explosion of kerosene lamp.
The Fairfax NelOs says that tract of
land in that county, near Burke's Sta |
ton, w. c., V. M. and @. s. railroad, /
containing two hundred and twelve |
acres, more or less, was sold to DR.. John |
Allen, of New York, for one thousand |
aud sixty dollars.
An attempt to assassinate a negro I
named George Gaines occurred at |
Barton, Phillips county, Arkansas, on |
the tWenty-seventh ultimo. The |
Would-be assassins were not detected, /
nor is it known why they so much de- |
sire the untimely demise of their in |
tended victim.
The Baton Rouge La AdUocote says:
ut may be interesting to some of the |
tax-paying supporters of the kellogg |
government 10 learn that taxes are col /
lected from one class of citizens, in this /
state, and that another class, on account |
OF race, color and previous condition, /
are let go scot free"
or the bill now before the Virginia I
Legislature to encourage Immigration to |
Virginia, the Lynchburg NelOs SAYS: |
we fully agree with the ENQUIRER that |
IN laying the light tax necessary for the |
effective operation Of the planproposed |
the legislature will be providing for a |
return TO the people so Literally that it !
would be an ineXcusable obstruction to |
their prosperity and injury to their in
terests TO fail TO do it."