Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-02
GEORGIA NEWS.

A nickel counterfelter has Oeen arrest
ed st Gainesville.
A mulatto baby was found in q dray
in Atlanta recently.
TalbOtton begins 8 Methodist camp.
meeting August 18th.
Watermelon syrup Is becoming popu.
lar among Georgia farmers.
Columbus has received over seventy
thousand bales OF cotton this season.
Dick Dawson murdered another negro,
named Frank Cunningham, Of Upson
county, few days ago.
A colored smokehouse burglar in b.
ker county, VINO had been arrested, shot
his captor in the arm and escaped.
Mr.. jackson Perry, of Dublin, is the
eldest inhabitsnt Of Lsurens county, he
being ninety-three years OF age.
Lsurens county has declared for Col
onel James H. BlOunt, the present rep
resantstive in congress from the Macon
district
The Columbus Enquirer threatens to
review the Kendrick case. Hendricks
Iiends in that section are sho wing la
Tlientable lack OF discretion.
Grssshoppers first appeared in the
State In Troup county some time ago,
and at the present time Clarke county
seems to be well infested.
1t may be interesting to the doctors to
know that quite recently a negro man
in Quitman extracted a live, fibrous
wcrm from bOnefelon on his hand.
Columbus Enquirer: Thus far the.
mills in Columbus and Augusta have
taken from this market alone II, 1874
bales, against 9O42 last year, showing an
increase Of 2122.
One OF the reasons why the Balm
bridge Democrat wants the capital to re-
main at Atlanta is because OF the eX-
pense that would be incurred in carry
ing it back to Milledgeville.
Savannah News: II the people of
Georgia desire constitutional cOnven-
ton, they should look after their legis-
lators, particularly the new senst0rs
The fight against the convention will be
made in the senate.
An uncommonly sharp thief In Stew.
art county turned herd Of cattle In q
field of corn near q farmers house the
other night, and, while the worthy gran
ger, aided by his wife, was fiinging
stones and other harsh explosives at the
innocent Zine, entered the house and
eloped with fifteen dollars in cash.
In the recent political meeting in
E4tOnton, Mr.. William w. Turner of.
fered resolution pledging the Democ.
racy of Putnam to support ne man for
the legislature who would not bind him.
self to support constitutional amend
ment forever barring the payment Of
Bullock's bogus bonds. The resolution
was passed unanimously.
Savannah News A Murray county
matron who deserted her children and
eloped with q strange man some time
ago, returned the other day, Her re-
ception, however, was the reverse of
hospitsble. Her former neighbors
sheared her head, and in other unmis-
taksble ways gave her to understand
that the climate was not suited to her
health.
ParsOn FELTON, announces in advance
that he will be an Independent candi-
date for congress in the seventh district.
and the Savannah News says: There
are plenty of men in Georgia who can
put in the "haIlelujah ticks" as aptly as
PsrsOn FELTON,, and it is to be hoped
that they will get after him and shout
him right of his chosen camp-ground.
His career in congress thus far has not
been at all remarkable.
Griffin Press and Cultivator: Our
worthy fellOw.citiZen, DR.. Potter, for.
merly OF Macon, Georgia, is perfectipg
a theory by which the greatest power in
nature can be easily controlled in pro-
peiliDg all grades of machinery. He
makes electricity take the place as a
motive power OF all other agents. By
this theory, power, light, speed, ETC., will
be under our entire control at merely
nominal cost. We have seen his model,
and are thoroughly convinced of its |
practicability. When complete, 1t will
astOnish the world.
The Forsyth Advertiser states that |
Mr.. w. G. Gardner, a gentleman and
sn old Confederate soldier, living at |
COgginsville, in onroe county, says he |
shot and captured General r. B Hayes |
at the battle OF the Wilderdess, or Cham |
on tine sixth of May, 1854 |
Mr.. G rdner was member of Company |
A, fourteenth Georgia regiment. Cap |
tain Robert Merritt, commanding the |
confirms the statement of /
Mr.. Gaidner. At that time Mr., Gard. |
ner title dreamed that he was capturing
9 man who would become 30 prominent |
in the DOlitiCs of the cOuntrV