Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-16
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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James Hirsam, Of Dallas, Texas, re
Gently suicided by blowing out his brain
with 3 pistol.
) TIE sagacity CT New Orleans dol
recently detected two burglars, sn'
caused their arrest.
John II. Lambsnt, of Clarkesville
tried to suicide, but merely cut cash il
his throat with razor.
Samuel Clarke, young man, Jumped
from winCow st Stanton, Virginia
and was killed-eaUse, whisky.
, A Greenville, South Carolina, excur
sion party of six hundred person, re
Gently visited Atlanta, Georgia.
10 n r. Schmitt,s barber, suicided by
m cans Of laudanum at Stsunton, Viz
glnia, last week-cause. whisky.
A. Scneidemantsl, music dealer al
San Antonio, Texas, accidentally shot
and killed himself last Wednesday.
General James q. Cooper, aged sew.
enty- five, died last month at his home
Braden Castle, in Manatee, Florida.
Jack Biggers, a young man aged
twenty, was run over and killed by q
wagon few days ago 1ear Bonham,
Texas.
Mr.. Anglin, aged ona5 hundred and
fourteen years, has beea .GiscOveTed en-
joyiug Fourth of July picnic ia Con-
zales county, Texas
Jim Moody, the desperate implicated
in the murder Of Or. Aiken, near Sui
phur Springs, Hopkins equity, Texas,
hiss been shot and captured.
John Dunn, who, six years ago, stabbed
to death man ramed DovaDie, in Ma
con, Georgia, was recently arrested al
Chattanooga, and is now in Jail at At
| laata.
John Sivels was killed at Cambridge,
| Gray county, Texas, GA the fifth instant,
by the sheriff, for resisting arrest. He
was son of old Major Sivels, of Gray.
son county.
The papers OF San Antonio, Texas,
record the sudden death of Mrs. Viii.
liam Young, daughter of Mr.. PancOast.
The unfortunate lacy, during fit of in
sanity, threw herself into a well, and her
neck was broken.
The San Marcos Tex Free Press OF
July S.h says: "JUst IS we go to press
we hear that the deputy sheriff of CaId-
well county was killed by negro whom
he was attempting to arrest at Martin
dale's store, yesterday"
Tue principal cattle herds in Coleman
county, Texas, are the following: Sam
GholsoD, 1900; g X. Elkins, 1900; ]. J.
Jackson, 1000; w. B. Br lwn, 800; DR..
Windham, 1900; Merchant & M',Joy,
1850; c. M. Mann, 5000.
Wesley Alternately, freedman in DR..
Nssa's neighbOrh0od, in the upper part
of Marion county, Texas, on fionday
evening, killed his father.in-laW, Phillip
Nash, and his own wife, by shooting
them with a shotgun.
The Tyler (Texas) Dsmocrat-R 9porter
says: Mr.. ]. r Beazfey brought into
our office last Saturday the beet that
beat the beet of all beets on exhibition.
1t only weighed twenty-five and one
half pounds. This county has about two
thousand acres in wheat; estimated
yield per acre, eight bushels.
A Vicksburg Miss exchange says:
awe era reliably informed that the
caterpillar appeared on the Hurricane
plantation, Davis Bend, in this county,
Sunday. Experts examined those dis
covered, and pronounce them the genu-
inc cotton'destroyer How far they will
spread, and to what extent, remains 10
be seen"
| Lynchburg News: According to the
report of Major Hotchkiss, there are
only four Cinnamon ia Virginia. And,
| from what we have heard Of the peculiar
moral and religious characteristics Of the
pig.tailed gentlemen from China, espe-
cially their proficiency at draw poker,
We think the above number about three
and three-thirds more of them than we
exactly need.
The number of immigrants who en-
tered Grayson cot=rty, Texas, by the
roads and ferries crossing Red river on
her northern frontier from January 10
the twenty fifth CT September, 1875, was
| tifty- eight Thousand three hundred snd
siXty-nine. No statistics have been col
lected since, but there has been a great
increase in the number of immigrants,
as is well known.
Five negro children came very neal
being burned to death, a few days ago
on Mr.. s. P. Woodward's place. They
he'd been barred up in the house by theil
parents, who had gone to attend froliC
in the neighborhood. The good white
people rescued the little "nigs" from the
terrible doom that awaited them, as the
house was leveled to the ground by the
devOuring element.
New Braunfels, the county-seat OF Co
NAL county, is a thrifty German settle
ment Of about five thousand popul 4tion
With the industry aud energy character
istic OF that element, they hava made
J, that city so productive as to be almGst
independent of the outside world. It's
wooden fabrics ale of the finest quality
1t has water-poWer adequate to almOs
any demand that may be made, and thC
vicinity will doubtless rival Lowell in 6
few years.
An Alabama man writes as follows
concerning q chicken cholera remedy
LAST year lest upward OF one hun.
dred chickens. tried every remedy
could hear of, without success. This
year / have given my chickens feed o.
two every week Of onion tops boiled anC
mixed with meal, and kept little sack
of tar in the trough, and have found il
success ul-have not lost chicken. Ny
neighbOrs and the tenants on our place
have lost uearly all they had"
Columbia IS. c. Register: There ar
local complaints Of too much or too lit
tie rain, or Of ms ct enemies, but thu
common testimony is to rich promise
lor the harvest. There have been many
years when the crops Of America yield
ed more money than they will do thi
year, but it is believed that they nevel
have summed up so great an amount il
bushels and pounds, and never wer,
worth so much in purchasing ability
never represented so many days wOrl
as they are going to do this year.
A special dispatch to the Galveston
} (Texas) News, dated at Hampstead, OF
, the third instant, says: "Miss Clar;
J S,ornley, beautiful young lady, age(
, sixteen, committed suicide here thi
J morning by taking strychnine. Sh,
was an orphan, and mad been an inmat,
, of the family household of G. w. Pyle
ESQ, for several years. The family ar
| greatly distressed, as she was faver1t
! Of every member Of it. An inquest de
veIcpsd no cause or reason she had 70
3 destroying herself"
] New Orleans Times: The German
3 government, through its consul in thi
t city, has made AN application to DR.. A
8 II. Perry, who some time ego was tn
, resident physician at the Q1srantln
D station, for 8 description of his mode O
4 disinfecting vessels. This is very higl
81 compliment to DR.. Perry, aud show
i that his efforts in behalf If science ar
. known and appreciated in foreign coun
}. tries, where true merit ia rewarded
b Here, however, merit aud eminen
8 services stand but little chance Of recog
3 milton when brought into competitio
j with political influence.
o Richmond, Virginia, has been visite
= by unprecedented warm weather, anC
: ia speaking of its fatal effects, the En-
= auirer of the eleventh says: "Within
:, q few squares Of US at three o'clock tn
y following record was tskeni At job
- H. Tyler Il Co.'S, 1852; Mead d Baker,
1852; West y Johnston's, 1867; c.