Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-27
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

Four brick house, were d, slroyed By IRE
| in Jackson Tuesday nigh.
| A company d cap.,a lists have commence
| building street railroad IN Vicksburg
| Five colored prisoners broke Jail at Senate
bia Saturday night. one was TeaTrested.
| The State Sunday-seno1l convention will
be held in the iouTi>hng little city of Kosciusko on
| the seventh of next month
| Jackson Is to have handsome city park,
which IS to bear the name Of its founder, Jones S.
Ramilton-Hamiiton park
The Gozetie says Pass Christian has d
beautiful shell drive along the shore forty feet In
width and four miles in length.
M. @. D. Winston has retired from the
local department Of the North MiSsiSSippial and is
succeeded by Mrs. Mary l. H0skins.
| Dauderda'e county ls ID a splendid hnan-
cial condition warrants at par and several thousand
dollars surplus capital in the treasury.
Hy5r0pbia, says the Por. Gibson ReUieio. Is
becoming alarming in Claiborne county. An ordi-
nance has been passed to muzzle ali tue dogs
At a recent meeting If the Grenada bar,
| the very highest tribute was paid TO the names of
ceased.
Two negroes had a fight recently at Laud-
erdale In which one was killed. The act was con
sidered one OF selfdefeRse AID the slayer was dis
charged.
Car-oIton Conservative: Levi Bagley, a
young white man who killed a negro near this place
days since
Governor Stone upon petition signed by
over four thousand persons. has commuted the
the pententiaIy.
Meridian Mercuyy: .'Th7 little town of
Hickory was parity destToyed by fire on Monday
fronting the railroad"
Natchez Democrat: "On Saturday last as
an old negro woman residing on Dr.. Fred Stanton's
place was lighting bruSh-neap her clothing took
lire and she burned a cTiSD''
r. c. Powers, late internal revenue col
5eet0r OF cslssssDp has written eausLic Letter to
tain editorial structures or the latter.
Tine widow OF the late Governor Sam Bard,
of Baton Rouge, has entered the lecture field.
Contest or Time on Review Is the subject OF her
lecture recently delivered In New York.
The senai-annual distribution Of the COM
mon school fund is being made The total
amount to be distributed is S65598 81 and the
The editor of the Grenada Sentinel m tde
bargain to marry his girl as soon his delinquent
subscribers paid 10. He is not married yet. Cruel
delinquents or lucky gill, we don't know which.
The jackson Clarion thinks The Democrats
and Conservatives in counties most exposed to an
epidemic in the summer should complete their Or
ganizatiOn and get their candidates in the field
The twelfth annual session Of the Mlssls-
slppi State medical association will be held in Aber
deem on Wednesday, April I'd. The various railroads
Of the State VIII give reduced rates to delegates
Mad dogs ere alarming the people Of
Crystal Springs, writes about them at length in the
jackson comet. He thinks that their tails should
be cut OF close up to their ears.
The North MisSisSiEpiqn, about which our
GTeenbacs friends boast much, was out last week
in halt sheet IL the, Greenbacgers in Mississippi
can't support one or two patent outside papers, ho
are they going 10 ''iTeez9 OUT D ymOcTacy?
John Walton, colored, stabbed Ellen How
ard, his wife, the cook Of Warren Rosklns, near
BrOokhaven, because she refused TO 20 home with
him. John was arrested for the offsnse. The
woman was badly but not dangerously wounded.
Canton Mail, 22i: "Wr Rimmer, residing
Sulphur Springs in this county, is the owner OF
surrender at Appomattox. He IS good mule yet,and
IS valued on our county assessment roll for 1879 at
fifty dollars
The game law went into effect last Sstur-
day. Hereafter it will be unlawful TO Kill any kind
of game except wild turkeys, until the fifteenth of
september. Wild turkeys can be killed until the
first of May. Squirrels can be killed at any time
during the gear.
Winona Adpance: ''On last Saturday 8
Mrs A. F. Miner, Of WinOna, getting the train
at Grenada, man named Samuel M'MIllan stole
her pocketboOk, containing about twenty dollars. He
was arrested, and was IN default OF five hundred do
lars bail. semitic jail. Good"
Henry Long, coorsd, committed a burqla-
~ in Chattanooga, aud sent package of the stolen
articles consisting Of j5welTy and fine goods worth
cred and Flera laugulshes IN Jail.
VIeksburg Herald, 22d: Several of the
emigrants who left this section for Kansas will be
county in the city yesterday, who had come in fer
some hands who had left his plantation few weeks
ago, and are now anxious TO Return"
Grenada Neio South, 9Th: "Au ugly shoot
ing afFay occurred about eleven O'Clock last SatuF-
day night over near the depot, Ia which ARRAY one
webster, cigar manufacturer was shot, perhaps
fatally, by James Kendall the ball entering the
chest high up on the left side and ranging down.
but missing the heart. Kendall was arrested
Brandon Republican: 1--WE learn that
very fatal disease has broken out in Scott county,
between Htllsb 70 and the county line which Is
the negroes as the black plague. 1t very conta-
giouS and very fatal, net single case having re-
Natter
Natchez Democrat, 18th: ''From all d.
rections we hear that planters, although nearly all
this fine weather. that labor is not difficult TO obtain
If long and heated canvass is not permitted to de-
mOralize labor we may look for a good harvest as
the result of this fine olening''
Walden correspondent Winona AdpGnce,
2lst; MT; Newt M'Carroll was seriously burned
last Saturday night by the explosion of a tightly
coTked bottle of alcohol. We understand he mad IT
IN MS pocket ana by standing too near the fire the
bottle burSted and the flames quickly caught his
saturated clothing. He has been suffering great
pain, but is ROW beginning to conyaleSce."
Columbus Democrat, Dist: st. J. Wood,
ESQ. of StaTkvllle, formerly resident of this city
was shot as he was entering his house on Tuesday
night, oy negro named 9ill Gilmer, whom ne had
shot took effect In Mr.. Woods head and shoulders
intilctng severe wound. MIR, Wood is OF
her bar. The negro escaped"
Vicksburg Herald, 22d: "a Herald reader
has information that some of the cOlored people
living at Davis Bend under the Impress ion that
they viii be compelled to go to Kansas whether they
ike it or not, and that boats Will be al ng to take
them. 1t seems that every possible step IS being
taken AID every device IesOTted to, TO drive the
negroes out Of the SOUTH but why for what pur-
pose is beyOnd comprehension"
Holly Springs Rep1,ter, ooh: "Oae sdav
last week a man named Seagrayes, living near
BanesyllIe "a ms county dreamed three times in
place: ana the dreams having made such an i'm
preston on bis mind he concluded to test the mat
ter and discovered buried in quinine bottle eleven
hundred dollars Of the yellow metal. 1t Is supposed
to have been buried there several years ago by Dr.
Thompson, now dead, who once lived at the place"
Columbus Democrat, 14th: cit must be
county to know that the county s out of debt Our
funded debt bonds have all been taken up one mag
decision of the United States district court last year
relieved us Of the shadow Of the Memphis aud Selma
railroad bonds, which had been resting on u.s. The 4
treasurer has funds more than enough to pay every
warrant that is outstanding"
Ripley Sentinel, Goth: "JOhn Vernon, an |
inmate of the county poOrhOuse, are Informed, |
was permitted to 90 TO d stream near By Monday,
the tenth instant for the purpose of fishing. Fail
ing to return at night search was instituted, which
Thursday morning. II appears that the unfortu-
nate nan has fits occasionally, and it IS supposed
found, that he took fit and fell off log backwards
and was drowned"
Jackson Clarion: THE total valuation OF
personality, as shown by the assessment rolls for
The year 1873, now file in the auditors Office is
S33310,927, and the State tax thereon at 30 mills
the State IeVJ) is Sl16,7S9 35. For the rear 1878
AK, the levy being five mills, was SI6O 932 40
7auatiOn in 1878 OTeT the previous year of al IS2
i7S, but decrease of State tax of Sal O5 or |
n proportion OF five to three and One-half - |
At M'Craw. a citizen of Kemper county,
vas found dead. Tuesday morning, near Gum Log |
,hnrch, on the Kempef road about ten miles from |