Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-04-22

Mobile is enjoying trotting races.
Mobile is to have a new street rail-
way.
Kansas City, Missouri, has Turkish
bath.
Fort Smith, Arkansas, is having soci-
ables.
The State is the name OF a new paper
at LeWisburg, Arkansas.
Twenty million tons of bituminous
coal were mined in the United States
last year.
A deep feeling has been aroused in
Clay county, Missouri, because of the
assassination Of Daniel h. Askew.
Llano county, Texas, is infested with
vigilance committees to the great terror
Of peaceful and law-abiding citizens.
Under the auspices of the direct trade
union four Thousand two hundred and
forty bales Of cotton have been shipped
direct to Europe.
Forty-eight national banks, with an
aggregate capital of four million five
hundred and eighty-five thousand dol
lars, have been organized since last Oc-
tober.
A short time since a mass-meeting
was held at San Antonio, Texas, at
which We're adopted strong resolutions
In favor of the erection OF the State Of
West Texas.
How do you pronounce Jsnsuschek2
The following are the most approved
styles: "Yaw-noaO-shake," "Jsn-ew-
shicb-," "Yan-u-sheke," "Jsn-aW-
shek," "Jdn-i-shik."
A Radical hand-bill, termed the
LouiSianian, published at New OrlesnF,
says: ga Republican surrender for
Democratic wrangle is what the adjust
ment' has determined"
Three people have gone crazy in
Washington, Missouri, over the great
scandal, and have been sent to the luna
tic asylum for treatment. One was
man, and two were women.
The citizens of Mobile recently held q
meeting to do honor to the memory of
the late lamented John Mitchell It
was one Of the grandest, yet most touch
ing, demonstration ever made in that
city.
The Burlington Dowa) Gazette thus
Hebels eminent virtue: "And now they
want to prove that while Mrs. Moulton
asserts that Henry was receiving her
aid and comfort he was really on hi8
tOGy to Cleveland! II this is an abb
there must De a lie by one or the oth,r
of the parties"
The Cincinnati Times becomes chiv-
alrous and says the Commercial pub
lished it's grocery charges against Hon.
D. P. Lowe, present chief justice of
Utah, on its editorial page, and prints its
Tetrsction and apology in an obscure
corner on the inside. This is 'independ-
entp journalism.
Lampssas (Texas) Dispatch: By pri-
vate letter from Mason county, we learn
that the excitement caused by the hang
ing and shooting Of prisoners there last
February by q mob, has not yet entirely
subsidized. 1t was expected that the
friends Of the murdered men would en-
deavor to avenge their death; and al
though matters are now more quiet
than they have been for six weeks past,
there is still 8 feeling of insecurity.
Texas journalism indicates the refine
ment and culture OF the people of that
State. The Austin Gazette mOdestly
says: The Galveston Mercury, alias the
Houston Thieves OtOn, estsbllshed by
one Blackmsiling Baker, has subsided.
press established by fiend and run in
the interest of devils. This shows the
eternal fitness Of things. We know
nothing of the late management of the
press and care less.
The buffalo gnats threaten the coun-
try as an epidemic. The Gainesville
Ark Times Gays that "on last Sunday
the buffalo gnats made their appearance
in this and Clayton counties; also in
DunkIin county, Missouri, in such vast
swarms as to prove very destructive to
stock. We were at ClarktOn, Missouri,
at the time they made their appearance,
and on our way home the sight of dead
horses and mules along the road was
distressing In the highest degree. We
have made an estimate as best We could
from the various reports we received on
our way home Tuesday, and think the
number of horses and mules that have
been destroyed within two miles OF the
road leading to Chalk Bluff, from that
place to within eight miles Of Gaines
vile, will reach one hundred and seven
ty-five or two hundred, while the num-
her in and around Gainesville will add
st least twenty-five or thirty more to the
number. We have no report from be-
low, but hope it is not go bad in that di.
rection. A great many farmers have
lost all their plow stock, while many
others have not enough left to cultivate
their farms. This sad dispensation,
Rdded to the destitutiOn that existed be-
fore, has cast = heavy gloom over our
people"