Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-30
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

The Seo2bs Herald wants a vsgrant
law. ~
Mr.. E. n. Hogshead is the name of
the telegraph manager at Meridian.
Mr.. Lackey, of Vicksburg, WAS bsset
and badly bitten by two dogs last week.
An attempt was made to essassinate
A. J. Welsh, of Hazlehurst, few nights
ago.
The fifth annual meeting of the Union
county bible society will be held at New
Albany August 6th.
Peter Foster shot and killed another
negro named Louis Jenkins, near w a.
halak, Kemper county, last week.
o. V. Shearer, ST., of Raymond, was
thrown frem buggy last Tuesday, and
sustained injuries which resulted in his
death.
Adam Lockett, a celored thief, re-
Gently escaped from the Kemper coun-
ty jail by crawling through the window
CRATES.
Rev. Isaac Dorsey, colored minister
of Warren county, has been jailed for
attempting to shoot Porterfield Brown,
colored.
The son OF Aaron Giles, cOlored, re.
siding near Port Gibson, accidentally
shot his sister with pistol last week,
and the girl died from the effects Of the
wound.
Vicksburg Tribune: Tuesday night,
Rev. Mr.. Miller, q colored minister, liv-
ing in the neighborhOGd of Fort Eill,
dropped suddenly dead, at his house,
from heart disease.
SWindall's schoolhouse, in the south
ern part Of Union county, was burned q
few nights ago, and two young men
have been arrested and bound over to
answer the charge.
Mr. Sam HairstOn, living near Gale
donia, Lowndes county, few days ago
shot and killed a negro named IBe
Swarzy, who was invading his house
and threatening to murder him.
Aberdeen Examiner: There wss an
atlrsy between two freedmen at Gal
lagher's ferry on Friday last, in which
one Of them was cut by the other, in ten
places. We understand that the
wounded man is doing we'll.
Vicksburg Tribune: The Jackson
Times announces that "it is difficult to
account for the animosity OF the Vicks.
burg Tribune toward Colonel Lamar
1t is always difficult to account for what
has 10 existence, and hence the diff
Guilty with which the Times is now
wrestling.
The Port Gibson Bulletin says there
is rumor in circulation to the effect
that Judge Abel Anderson will be an in
dependent Republican candidate for
congress in the sixth district. Judge
Anderson was one of the earliest Repub-
licans in the State, and he has never
faltered in his support Of the party.
Jackson Clarion: We learn through
Mr.. E. Richardson that the caterpillar
has appeared in large force on his plan
tstions in the Mississippi river district,
and that the cotton crop Of that whole
region is threatened with destruction by
the insect. The effect Of It's depTeds-
tions this early in the season, will be to
destroy the crop literally. The inteIli-
gence is very distressing to the cotton
planting interest in which the prosper
ity OF all other classes is more or less iC-
volved, especially the Mercantile.
The ScOObs Herald states that Mr. Har-
wood Hart, Of that town, was assassin
ated on a public road, and says: His
wife was in company with him at the
time he was shot, and thought his pistol
had accidentally fred aud killed him;
but on examination his clothes were
found to be perforated with buckshot.
The place Of coDcealment from where
the fatal shot was fired was easily found,
which was only about fifty feet from
where the victim lay. Two young men,
| T.B. Spencer and Eugene Spencer, have
been Jailed rs the supposed assassins.