Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-15
SOUTHERN NEWS.


| Hayes and Wheeler man, and he isn't
happy. r...s
Bennettsvilie, South Carolina, has S
| grandmother only ghirty-three years
Of age.
Perry Jones, colored, Of Campbell
county, Virginia, was recently killed by
lightning.
Rev. Z4ck ]. Tate, of MoliGo, Union
county, Mississippi, Hss recently killed
| by lightning.
! Mr.. Miles Stevens, Who lived near
| Greensboro, Alabama, was recently
killed by lightui &. r
Aunt Abbey Schenck, OF Charlotte,
North Carolina, died last week aged one
hundred and two years.
Tire city property OF Forsyth, Georgia,
| is assessed at four hundred anu seventy
seven thousand and forty dollars,
is Whitfield, of Black Bluff, Ala
| hama, recently picked six bushels OF
snap beans from one hundred and thirty
vines. ..
Mr.. Moses Spencer and family arrived
| in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, last week from
| England. He goes into the mining
business. ..-
The Democrats OF the fifth congress
iOnsl district, Mississippi, have nom
mated Hon. Charles K. Hooker for re-
election. ."
The news editor of the Columbus (Ga.)
Enquirer and the the mayor Of the city
| refuse to eat out Of the same watermelon
rind.
Mayor Leads, of New Orleans, think
ing the city owes too much money, has
put veto upon the payment OF her
| debts.
The Beaufort IS. O. Tribune, hereto
fore an Independent paper, with Repub-
lican lesnings, intends to support TIlden
| and Hendricks. '.
w. F. Heniug, of Newton county,
| Georgia, has recently raised eleven hun.
dred and thirteen bushels and half of
wheat on ninety acres.
! Darien (Ga.) Timber Gazette: Mr..
James Hunter, one OF the timber buyers
of Darien, LETT for Scotland last Friday,
to bs gone all the summer.
1t is now said that the race for the
Republican nomination for governor in
North Carolina will be- between Judge
Settle and Colonel o. II. Dockery.
Clarksville Tobacco Leaf: Governor
Tilden is q Presbyterian. We always
thought that ne would be elecled; now
We know bis "cslling and election sure"
A gentleman who plants in south
western Georgia, and has just been look
ing at the crops IN that section, gives it
as bis candid opinion that, although
| pretty fair, they are far below the en-
comiums bestowed on them.
General A. H. Colquitt, according to
the Atlanta Constitution, hes secured
more than two-thirds of the delegates so
far chosen to the Georgia Democratic
State cOnventiO', aud is hkely to receive
| the nomination for governor.
Savannah (Ga.) News: A correspond
| ent desires to know Why we use such
STong terms when speaking of the Radi-
Gals. Ia describing thieves and knaves,
ard swindlers and corruptionists, one
cannot choose ones epithets.
Montgomery (Als.) Mail and Adver-
tiser: Antonio BArili who Was we'll
known in this city 90 maestro and
teacher of singing, died on the fifteenth
Of June st Naples, Italy. At-one time
he was teacher of music at Hammer
hall.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer: 1--we count
|
chased in the last two months for
Augusta factories, it will make the total
takings from this market by home mills
1850 against $3.50 last year, showing an
increase of $3.50.
Augusta (Gs Sentinel: Rev. Dr.. l..
Pierce is now in his ninety. second year,
and preached in Sparta last Sunday
with power and effect. 1t is recorded OF
him that IN fifty.tWO years he has
missed only one commencement eXets
else at Wesleyan female college in
| Macon.
-Four cOrn.thieves, while depredating
in patch of go O2sting-ear corn" near
Conwayboro', South Carolina, were rec
Gently shot and killed dead, aud their
bodies left on the ground as q warning
to others. The coroner has not yet been
notified Of the killing, and SO far the af-
fair has created 40 unusual excitement.
The Cleburne i'ihas, OF Atlanta, an
nounced to the secretary OF war the other
day that, by unanimous vote, they de-
sired to aVenge the death OF Custer.
Owing to the fact, however, that there
is no authority of law for accepting the
services OF volunteers, the Cleburue
r fies cannot carry out their pro-
gramme.
A Florida man, writing to the Column.
bus (Ga.) Elquirer, says he saw three
hundred bushels OF cucumbers shipped
by one farmer to New York in April
that brought fifteen dollars per bushel,
Masking $450O. He saw an orange tree
that supplied large family with more
flour than they could consume in q year,
and could mention number OF like re-
suits if time and space would allow.
PatsIka (Fla.) Herald: DR.. Morange,
OF this place, is fixing up large lot of
fine oranges for the Centennial. This
fruit is just beginning to turn yell9W.
We have never before known the Orange
to mature at this season OF the year.
We thought that it was freak OF na-
ture but the doctor Informed US that
they matured on one Of his large trees,
and that he would at least ship box Of
them for Centennial inspection.
Aiken Is. CT Courier: Chester Hol-
land, in his speech on the Fourth, said
I that he had been offered ten thousand
dollars by the Democratic party to turn
over. No doubt this offer was from the
spiritualistic doctor; for the neighbors of
, Chester would consider him d ar bar
Gain at fifty cents. What a difference
I in prices between this honorable gent
, and bis brother, who was knocked off
by Democratic party while walking
/ offwith load OF wheat at the moderate
expense of five cents.
It ia stated that since the close Of the
war the Augusta (Ga.) cotton factory
has paits to ;ts stockholders one hundred
, and niiinieety-eight per cent. qr the pres
} enf % aanitai, equal to eighteen per cent:
: nar % annum; aud during the same period
l have invested in real estate, nav build
, ;ngs and new nsehinery about four
: hnndred Thousand dollars, without the
/ sale of new stock or calling on the
. stockholders, and tbs amount to th(
| credit of the profit and loss account II
i ob0ut one hundred and ten thousand
dollars more than on July /, 1875.
Aberdeen Miss Examiner: Thurs
day. the sixth instant, mail-sacK f1l
|, of newspapers was brought in and de
Z livered 10 Postmaster F. II. Little, by
coIored man named Alex. Mitchell. Th'
saek and its contents were in an ad
yanced State of decay, but the names o
. the papers and their addresses could still
= be distinguished. This bag comprised
{ portion of the mail for PlKevi1le, DE