Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-08

and clover looks we'll Oats are ruined, but
barley is improved, and rye fine.
At Henderson, Texas, a few days ago, Mr..
| Thomas Laycook, of Carroll county, was
paved to death by vicious mule, on the
seventeenth ultlmo.
At its late sitting, the grand jury of Gray
son county, Texas, made clean sweep, and
| indicted every man who had not paid his oc-
cupation tax up to April LIST.
Mr.. Corcoran, of Washington, has con-
tributed one thousand dollars of the six thou
sand collars yet required to complete the Lee
mausoleum at Lexington, Virginia.
fernando (bLiss.) Press and Times, 5th:
1.-THE dry weather of sthe past ten days has
enabled the farmers to see their way out of
the grass, and light rains are in order"
Mt Sterling (Ky) Sentinel: about two
weeks since a COW belonging to Fayette
Scholl, of Campton, Wolfe county, gave
birth at one time to four well-developed
calves"
Pine Bluff (Ark.) Press, 5th: "Out west
| and south as far as the Saline river the crop
prospects are very promising indeed, more
so than they have been since the war, In the
hill country.
Sunday night, on the farm of G.. Hanricks,
| Falls county, Texas, a negro, Jesse Allison,
/ who slept with his head to the window, was,
by some unknown assassin, shot and IN
stantly killed.
The Columbia Is. CO. Register says: "There
is a rosebush in Columbia which ceased to
l bloom when Sherman burned the city and
never bloomed again until Hampton was de-
g clared governor"
DIR. Gladney, of Chickasaw county, Mis-
: sissppl, claims to have discovered a method
by which he can manufacture frst-class alco-
I hol from air and water. He is in Washing
! ton after patent.
! Meridian (Miss.) Mercury: "There are
: | enough idle negroes around Meridian to raise
y | three hundred bales of cotton and ten thou
sand bushels of corn, VINO live by robblug
= hen-roosts, and pilfering generally"
|. A Texas preacher warned husbands that il
4 they permitted preachers to sneak a;ound to
!: their homes, and anything wrong came of it,
= why, they must grin and bear 1t without com
5 plant, for it was their own fault.
9 The board of health of Calcasieu parish
Y Louisiana, has established quarantine against
IS vessels from any pert in the West India
IS islands and of Mexico, south of Texas. The
5 mayor has issued quarantine proclamation
At Austin, Texas, Monday, young man
l. of Rockdale, named Godsteln, shot himself
T, in the head in the attempt to commit sui
3 eide. He had been, by Mayor AL. Burke
J, suspected Of burning the town of Rockdale
Il Leeper, arrested for the late dreadful as
- ssssination of father and his son in Coryel
~ county, Texas, tried to get off by proving an
couldn't see it, and remanded Leeper with
out bail.
If special to the Galveston Ne0s, from Pla
n no, Texas, says the average of cotton IN tina
a part OF the State is seventy-6ve per cent
" greater than last season, and the prospects o
d a good crop were never more fattering thar
l. at present.
,e Columbus (Miss.) Democrat: "We advise
Or those editors and planters who think they
l. cannot survive the emigration of the negroe
lie to Kansas, to buutle up their traps and fol
lie low them. The co lntry can spare both then
lie and their black idols"
le Frankfort (Ky) Yeoman: 1.-The hemp i
r coming out bravely. The late rains hav
De brought up many seeds that were dormant
a and the young plants are beginning to tax
IS a good, thrifty color. Alter all, the dry spell
s. may prove a blessing"
~ =, In Terrell, Texas, the other day, 6ve-foo
- coach whip snake created a sensation b,
- crawling into an ice-cream saloon among
:, number of young ladies, whose scream
- frightened his snakeshlp into q hasty retreat
. He was finally killed.
m Colored men who excavated the mound OF
is Major Fields plantation, near Union Springs
n Alabama, have discovered a skeleton of a!
y Indian warrior buried. sitting erect, on
ID skeleton horse. Large Jumps of gold ant
of sheets Of isinglass decorated the relics.
IN Saturday last, during a rain storm, tn
e. lightning struck tree In the suburbs o
Id Austin, Texas. Two ponies at Its root were
le instantly killed, and a negro riding near b
at was knocked from his horse senseless. Tn
ar ground was torn up at the foot of the tree.
IN The Mississippi Valley immigration com
., pany Is the title OF new New Orleans or
"a ganization, having "a proposed capital o
I'd one hundred thousand dollars" and for it
Us object the Importation of Chinese labor t
S supply the places of the ''exodusing" freed
10 men.
d We see it stated in an exchange that Mis-
H. sissippi is put down as having furnishe
I, GAG, 600 bales of the cotton crop of 1S78-'7G
- which crop is now reckoned at 5, 90
bales. In 1860, when the crop reached s.
.: $50, 086 bales. Mississippi furnished ,202, 05
~ bales.
ct fernando (Miss.) Press and Times, 9Th
,s Commencing on the twenty-seventh of tn
ey present month, the Sardis district Methods
ev conference will be held IN fernando. Th
he session will last three days, and there will
.et seventy-hve ministers and laymen In attend
ed anee."
Of Miss Cummins, who saw the shooting
is Porter at Marshall, Texas, few months ag
NJ will be at the trial. She is in a condition
OF nervous fright and breads assassination
let She Is convinced that Currie's brother an
m other relasives would stop at no means to d.
cir feat justice.
IS John Heving accidentally killed his broth'
7W IN CoVlngton, kentucky, on MondaY. Ihf
ng were joking together, when John made
ne pass with a knife he had in his hand, al
ley miscalculatlng the distance, struck b
rec brother and cut the jugular vein. Hen
ties died in a few minutes.
III The Galveston Nel0s says the fact is a
" mtted all around that immigration to Texa
y. if net coming to an abrupt close, is great
"a on the waue. Immigration agents on Il
III railroads are all discouraged. Real estate
WI Texas has deprecated IN value the last tT
;~ years fully eight per cent.
mo- Faxon promises the fair young editor
lst the Ballard Ne,OS that, If she will attend +
bu- Kentucky Press convention she shall ha
the the best seat on the platform, the large
Wit. strawberry in Warren county, and the bi
ork gest saucer of ice-creGm, and the bigge
red beau In the business.
ned Between the ages of eight and fourtet
as there are of Texas children twenty in eve
hundred who cannot read or write and,
L the colcred population, sixty out of eve
hundred. OF Texas white children betwe,
the ages mentioned, there are thirty tho
sand who cannot read.
The BARRIERS of Paducah have declare
~ war-War to the razor One refused to s