Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-22
ALABAMA NEWS.

Jasper has liberty-pole sixty-one feet
high.
Crops around Decatur are very prom
Using.
Taskegee has champaign marble
player"-Whatever that is.
The State Grange fair at Montgomery
will begin October 24!h.
The new opershouse at DemopoIis will
seat four hundred persons.
The Democratic State convention
mests at Columbia, August 18th.
Limestone county never had a better
prospect for corn crop than now.
| Generally thu crops are very fine
along the Montgomery and Eufaula rail-
road.
II. s. Moore was killed in Madison
county by man named Sisk, few
days ago.
The corn crop is considered safe, and
| bids fair 10 be the largest ever made in
| Alabama.
In recent family alteration in Tus-
csloosa county, Jap Dunn and Ose Dunn
were killed.
Thirty-five army muskets, in tolerable
order, have been found in the river at
Montgomery.
The Democratic congressional con.
ventiOn meets at Decatur on Monday,
August lst. ..
Mobile has shooting tournaments. In
Texas they do the shooting without the
tournament.
John RyI&nd was knocked from a
bridge north of Whites station, and
killed recently.
Baggett, charged with the murder, In
1S65,of Mr.. Cobb, in Chiffon county, has
bsen discharged.
A plurality OF the votes of DeKslb
have been cast in favor Of COllinsvilIe
for the county-sea'.
Jacob Fabel, OF Montgomery, wss
recently thrown from his buggy, aud his
collar bone was broken.
The fifty-third annual session Of the
Alabama Baptist convention was recent
ly held at Montgomery.
The Alabama State artillery, of Mo-
bile, celebrated its thirty-niDth anniver-
sary the sventeeath iUstant.
John M. Sowell, of Conecuh county,
was sbGt and killed, the night of the
third, by an unknown party.
VIM. Duckett, negro prisoner, broke
jail recently at Tuscumbia, and was shot
five times before being recaptured.
The Mobile Tribune, Tuscumbis
Times and Wilcox News, Independent
papers, support Tlden and Hendricks.
Colonel j. N. Smith, Of Bibb, made
two hundred and fOrty-one bushels of
red rust-proof oats on. four and half
acres.
A postoflice has been established at
Benefits station, on the Alabama and |
Chattanooga railroad. A. B. Harrison |
is postmaster.
Within month or two, it is estimat. |
ed that within six miles OF Grove Hill, |
Clarke county, five hundred hogs have |
died OF cholera.
The Tuskegee Mail says more hogs
are reported on hsri in Macon county |
than at any time 81 * he war. Meat |
and bread is the Is 10 LOW.
Hon. J. B. Moore, Of Tuscumbia, has
donated, through Mrs. r o. Pickett, OF
Florence, one hundred dollars to assist
IN erecting monument to the Confed-
crate dead.
Montgomery Mail and Advertiser: It
is well established that there will be no
peaches and but fe~ apples in this local.
~ Lilo DCt1''h' Aho AIutt w 40 N5EJ 6I-
fcctually killed last spring.
Horny News: On last Thursday morn
ing four corn thieves, while depredating
10 u patch OF "r0sstiug-ear corn" near
this place, were shot and killed dead,
and Their bodies left on the ground as q
warning to others. They were crows.
Mr.. G. w. Smith was engaged in
Huntsville in putting up a verandah
Shen the scsffolding gave way, precipi-
ating him to the GROUND. His leg was
'roSen so badly that smputation was ,
necessary, and ii is feared he will not re-
over. {
Tuscumbia Albanian: We are in.
Ormed by Mr.. Albert Anderson that his
experience with the grssshOppers is that
ime plenIifully spriLkled on the stalks
f the first couple Of rows OF corn will !
reyent them from entering the field :
nd damaging the rest.
w. J. Whipper, who claims that he
1s3 elected judge OF the first circuit for
)ur years, beginning on the twenty
xth of August next, made a speech st
recently. In the course OF &
is remarks he declared that he Uould
Q judge, or die in the attempt. Hell