Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-02-18
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Hot Springs, Arkansas, is infsst d
with fakIs.
Vicksbufg, Mississippi, will attempt a
Mardi Gras celebration.
Ex-Mayor ". B. Mann's residence at
Brownsville, Tennessee, was burned last
Tuesday night.
Pat Hennsp, who outraged a little
gill in RichlanG parish, Louisiana, was
hanged by mob last week.
An old citizen of Griffin, Georgia, last
week wrote an article denouncing Mrs.
Woodruff, and that very night the town
was struck by lightning.
Jackson Miss Clarion: Feather
stOb's masked battery will open on the
entertainments around the executive of
fee soon. Cali FOR troops.
A, X. Sesgo, Of Atlanta, Georgia, has
filed petition in bankruptcy. Liabili-
ties, two hundred and thirty thousand
dOllsra; a,se =, one hundred and eighty
five Thousand dollars.
The st Joseph ia Journal has an
advertisement for proposals for making
g preliminary survey OF route fJr
nsrrow-gauge railroad from st. Joseph,
in Tensas parish, to Talula, point on
the Vicksburg and Shreveport railroad.
Longview (Texss) Reporter: Wsrd
Taylor, OF the Jefferson JGlnpLecute, is In
luck. He has been presented with q
complimentary ticket to Dan Rlce's cir
Gus and sb0ttie Of fine whisky. The
ticket ne is saving until The circus ar
Tives, and the whisky he proposes to
put where it will do the most good.
The Brownsville Tenn Democrat
says thai q meeting was held there in
the interest Of tbs Brownsville aad Ohio
railroad. The spirit manifested by the
meeting was that deep and abiding in
terest in the road, an absolute recogni-
ton of lis necessity to the existence Of
Brownsville. The amount necessary to
be raised to pnt this enterprise on safe
foundation il too small to tand in the
wsy OF the prosperity OF that little city.
Mobile (Ala Register: The notorious
Tom Fincher, Of WHIT eitrville, who, it
will be remembered, killed q man by
the name of Allen last A ptil, in self-de-
tense, and brought bis body to the city,
was shot last night, near his home, by
some unknown party, with a double
bsrreled shotgun, in the side and face.
We understand he was in company with
8 man named Motley. We were unable
to ascertain Whet ber or not his wounds
are dangerous.
Lynchhurg VTgiaida: Information
was received here Sunday OF the failure,
at New OriesnF, Of the large tobacco
house Uf Bailey & Pond. Several manu-
featuring firma ia this city will be con-
siderable losers by the failure. One con-
Germ alone, il is said, will suffer to the
extent OF thirteen thousand dollars; and
the entire losses in LynchbuTg will
probably be from twenty-five to thirty
thousand dollars-less whatever per
cent. the broken house may pay.
Chattanooga (TenD.) Times: Some
days sgo Deputy Collector OF United
States Revenue Frank Cusbmau; De-
putty United States Marshal L. l.. Sam
pie; Deputy United States Marshals
Frank Crutchfield, B. B. Bell, Walter
Lauter, Frank Garebrant and John
Cope went out on raid upon Illicit dis
tilleries. They travelled over five hum
dred snd fifty miles, and visited the
counties of White, Putnam, Overtor,
NJ zcoD, Clay, Van Buren, and DeKalb.
Ths result OF the trip was the breaking
up of twenty-siX di5tilleTies, and the
capture Of Twelve stills, thirteen worms
and aps, thirty-thIee thousa aud gallons
beer aud mash, twelve hundred gallons
slDgLI e., three hundred and eighty We
tubs, come corn and meal, and one hun
dTet gallons whisky.