Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-05-30
SOUTHERN NEWS.
TENN ESRRE.


Trenton wants a cotton mill.
Jonesboro will celebrate its centennial in
few days.
Chattanooga is making preparation to give
a big blowout" on the Fourth.
Residences are In demand at Trenton.
Good evidence Of improvement.
Trenton Herald, May 23d: "Crop prospects
have improved wonderfully in this county since the
recent rains"
The Trenton Herald, of May 23d, an
excessive heat.
Trenton Mirror, oath: "We learn that
this county, and many of the farmers we're COM
PEELED to pillow up their cotton and replant.'
Purdy Independent, oath: 1.-The supreme
the Madison county murderer, to imprisonment for
life. The ground for such judgment was The age Of
the young demon"
Trenton Herald, 23d: 'I,ast week. while
]. j. Wilson was boring well for Alex Wade, he
came across petrifed log thirty feet beneath the
surface. which was too hard for min to pierce. But
stranger than ali, the outside this log was sort
and earthy, and upon 1t green luxuriant grass was
growing"
Dyersburg Gazette, oath: SIN a difficulty
at Friendship, Crockett county, last Tuesday, Mr..
Tom Hampton was shot by Mr.. william Miller. The
n @ sn - Dus mp' Miller was act
Hampton on charge OF carrying pistols, and this
brought on the fight,
Trenton Herald, 23d: Esquire John P.
Brazil ana Eaton country Register Jack F. Jones
reports good wheat crop and fine stand of cotton
between here and Milan. DR.. Nath Webb and John
n. Yandel, Of the northern part OF the county re-
port crops in fine condition"
Trenton Herald, Odd: "There has been
very little discussion in this county in regard to the
proposition to settle the state debt fifty cents
the dollar in four per cent bonds. Our people favor
The acceptance OF the proposition, and Will give the
seventh OF August may expect to hear few Tepu-
dIation guns boom, but they viii be Of avail
1t appears from the report of Supeuntend-
ent TrOuSdale that during 1878 there was an in
crease pupils attending school over the previous
year OF thirty-hye thousand five hundred and nine,
over third OF whom are colored. There was an in
crease Of seven hundred and fOTty-two schools and
five hundred ana ninety-One teachers. Forty-fOur
new schOolhOuses were built and the amount raised
for school purposes was Increased one hundred and
eghty-s1x thousand dollars.
Henderson Gazette, 23d: "Mr. Kirt Beal,
who lives in the seventeenth district OF this county,
is the father OF a female child, now four months
old, whose head measures around the forehead
twenty seven inches; around The eyes, twenty-one
half inches. The little things body Is perfectly
formed, and she Is plump and healthy. The neck
head in erect position and when the child is held
up the head has TO be supported all the time.''
MIssIsSIPPI.
Pittsboro does Ay-time with spelling
matches.
The Baptist State convention meets at
Sardis, in July.
III many COuUtlcS Tic DcHOCEdlS
nominate a candidate for each Office down to con-
stable.
Hon. Jefferson Davis and Colonel J. F. H..
Claiborne are expected to attend the Press associa
ton at PaScagoula on the fourth OF June
Pittsboro Reporter, 23d: 1.-THE places of
some darkies who emigrated from Louisiana are be-
ing supplied by others from Florida"
The residence Of David johnson, twely g
miles northeast of Ashland, Benton county, was de-
st Dyed by fire on the tenth instant, and ali his
household furniture was consumed by the flames.
The Natchez San has information from
private sources that 1.-The Republican party VIII be
The leaders feel encouraged to do from the tone
of the res buttons adopted at the labor convention
held at Vicksburg. which seems to guarantee free
and fair election"
Water Valley Central, oath: Conductor
Dave Legg informs that he brought down on his
train Thursday evening last an agent OF the United
sand young shad In Tallahatchie river above Able
vile, and also like number in Yocona, at Spring
dale. Colonel Manning was instrumental in having
this deposit made"
Ripley Advertiser, oath: "Tippah creek
is to be supplied with shad. The agent with the
and we learn Immediately took them out on Tippah
creek, just above the Pryor ford four miles south
west Of town, where they were deposited They we're
sent here by Prof. Baird, of the Smithsonian ins-
tute, Washington"
Sardis Star, oath: ''Late reports confirm
our belief that crop prospects are really faterIng
and the farming interests more advanced than at
this date last year. The damage done to the crops
by the cut-Wornl Is greatly exaggerated. Their dep
relations were nothing like general but confined to
spots As general thing, there full stands of
cotton. 1t seems the bottom plantations suffered
worst from the worms"
A planter at Holly Springs recently said 10
a correspondent of the Boston Herald in regard 10
the negro exodus: LET 'em go. We of this State
afford TO lose two hundred thousand of 'em.
We want white immigrants in their places. l am
willing to stand my share to let Republican op
ponents in the north how they like an influx of
the negro. will be one of a thousand men 10 give
fifty dollars apiece TO send negroes TO Massachusetts
free When they get hundred thousand there the
whites will all Join the Democratic party Also Try
the thing In Vermont, give them fifty thousand
negroes and even Vermont would cease to be a Re
publican State"