Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-14
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Wife beatcTs flourish in CO'umb
South Carolina.

South Carolina,
OrsDgshurg, SOulh Csr lima, psys fiv
cents poGId fot iee.
Andy Bu-rowz, Of wslkeT eCahty
George, was recently killed by light
ming.
Young Hugh Morrow, Of Nashville
was drowned in Cumberland river ISIS
Tuesday.
Tbs Dewitt (Ark TGdc1tor ha;
Hoped. 1t is now fall asdged Rspub
hcan paper.
s. D. Linton, Of Greene county
Georgia, raises one bundled bushels Vi
oats per acre.
The market at Houston, Texas, recent.
~ destroyed by fire was valued 81 one
hundred thousand dollars.
Jersey Jordan, negro workman, was
Killed by falling from a building in
Vicksburg, Mississippi, few days ago.
Edward E. Hale was shot and killed
last Saturday by Henry Shredder, al
Mackville, on the Supflower river, Mis-.
sissippi.
The recent food in the Brazos river
destroyed large amount of property in
the counties of Palo Pinto, Stephens and
S6sckteford, Texas.
Sherman, the porter Of the Read
house, Chattanooga, has baen arrested
for alleged completely in the postoffice
robbery ct that place last April.
PittsbOro (Miss.) Democrat: On a
visit to PonTotoc county, 8 few days
since, we noticed an absence Of cotton
and an increase OF corn in the fields.
The corn crops we've very fine.
Mobile ala Register: Lieutenants
RodgsOn and M'Intosh, killed in the
Custer fight with the Indians, were both
young and promising Georgians, recent
graduates OF West Point, and still beard.
less boys.
I'useumbia Alabamian: Grssshop-
pers are becoming exceedingly numer-
GUS, and threaten to be greater pests and
in far greater number than last year.
Already reports of damage done by
them are coming in.
Trains have commenced running
again on the Alabama and Chattanooga
railroad, from Meridian to Chattanooga.
For the present trains will only run tri.
weekly, leaving Meridian on Monday,
Wednesday aud Friday.
Pittsboro (Miss) Democrat, Of the
eighth instant: Last Wednesday morn
ing Mr.. James Enoch, son OF Captain
7. T. Enoch, Of Benela, jumped from
buggy and broke his leg. This is the
second time he has met with this acct
dent.
Conyers (Ga.) Courier: Mr.. John
F. Wallace, Of this county, killed
snake, last week, Of the "c0ach whip
species, that measured six and q half feet
in length and three and half inches in
circumference. In its mouth were six
tusks shaped like fish-hooks.
HayneviIle (Ala.) Examiner: The
Advertiser has lately spoken several
times of the visit of General Lafayette
in Montgomery, in 1926. Mrs. Susan
Bruce, OF Letohatchie daughter of Hon.
Peter williamson, then, and now, OF
this county, was there to shake hands
with this noble disciple Of liberty.
The Brownsville (Texas) Democrat
says policeman is needed at the ferry
landing to protect merchandise about to
be crossed into Mexico from being de-
stroyed or stolen. Some business men
have petitioned the city council to place
an officer on duty there whenever goods
are being crossed into Mexico.
Columbia IS. c. Herald, tenth in
slant: "FOur prisoners confined in the
Barnweli county jail escaped therefTOm
on Wednesday evening asst, about dusk
The brute vino was lodged there a few
days ago on the charge of rape, and the
two muTdsrars who Nere to be hanged
Friday next were among the rumber."
-Four more votes for Hayes and Wheeler,
Atlanta ga COnstitulionals Prop.
erty in the city Of August. ia selling, in
many instances, at sacrifice. We
were shown huu!es yesterday by Mr.
Zimmerman, of the firm of 7 zimmerman
& BondurAnt, which were Cffared con-
siderably below the cost Of building,
Money, money, money is all the cry
with some-and anything must go thai
will procure 1t.
A correspondent writing from Macon,
Mississippi, to the Columbus lex,
says: "We have in our town probably
the strongest man in the State. He gDGs
by the name of wild Jimmy'-is me-
dunn sized, compsctly. built man weigh.
ing about one hundred and sixty pounds.
1 have seen him life hogshesd Of bacon
out Of the cars, and as for bale of cot
ton, he handles it like he would q play
thing"
Vicksburg (Miss.) Tribune: Colonel
r. Barnwell RhetI, formerly Of the
Charleston Courier, and lately Of the
New Orleans Picsyune, has assumed the
editorial control Of the Charleston Jour-
nal Of Commerce. The fact that man
like Colonel Rhett is called on to man.
age q public journal ct Charleston to-
day, is conclusive to our mind that there
is yet hope for the gallant old Palmetto
State Of South Carolina.
The Jacksonville (Florids) Union
says that J. Guminger has in his pos
session one of the queerest fish which,
probably, ever came TO light. 1t can be
1ikened TO nothing, unless, perhaps, it
might be cross between an alligator
and a Colorado potato bug. Shaped like
a horses head, it looks little like q
fish, but has claws like an alligator, and
its eyes are covered with membrane
Gus veil, which must have kept it in
perpetual blindness. 1t was caught by a
col0red man near the bar, and sold to
Guminger as curiosity, which it GER
taiply is.