Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-09
SOUTHERN NEWS.

ALABAMA.
Hogs are dying of cholera in Dale county
Jackson county is to have a new court
| house.
Montgomery supports an ice factory, nov
In full blast.
Huntsville has three colored aspirants fol-
| the mayoralty.
Peach-tree blossoms are appearing in the
southern counties.
Chicken thieves are complained of by
Montgomery suburban residents.
A colored woman one hundred and four
years old resides in North Port.
Cows are reported dying in Culman
county, of a disease similar to yellow fever
The Moulton Advertiser fears that the
peach crop was killed by the. gold snap on the
twentieth.
There must be sugar in the office of mayor
of Selma. There are only thirteen aspirants
for the office.
Barbour county farmers have made larger
preparations for farming this year than at
any time since the war.
Charles Rash, colored who murdered his
wife near Tuscumbia about two years ago,
will be hung on the twenty-eighth instant.
Moulton Advertiser, 9Th: Judge M'Don-
aid has returned from Memphis, and says the
Bluff city is clear Of yelow-fever and a large
force is at work cleaning up the streets
Moulton Advertiser, 9th: The Alabama
legislature took a recess in December, and,
with the exception of two members, all
charged the State mileage, the total being
over three thousand dollars"
MISSISSIPPI.
O1olona Messenger, 9th: "Our planters
are more backward in their work than for
several years past; but few are done planting
oats, and but very small portion of ground
Is prepared for either corn or cotton.
The Columbus Independent publishes let
tiers from two colored men who formerly lived
in that vicinity, but who were induced to
move TO Kansas, in which they beg their
former landlords to send them money to
come home.
Holly Springs, Reporter, 9th: "Within
the past few weeks three Mississippi editors
have passed away from the scenes of life, J.
A. Granville. J. w. Robb, jr., and VIM.
Dougherty. In their death the press of the
State sustains serious loss.
O&olona Messenger, 9Th: SIN Alcorn
county the opposition to the Democracy is
known as the soap-tail party. The SITS
there, as elsewhere, comprise the impractical
bles and extremists of all parties, the sore
heads and broken down political hacks"
Holly Springs Reporter, 9th: eve learn
from MAJOR Sam Frank that a meeting of di
recCOrs OF the MemphlS ana Holly Springs
railroad company has been called for Wednes-
day, tenth instant, at eleven o'clock, in this
city. The object Of the meeting is to fill va
caucies in the board, to elect president and
secretary, and to consider matters Of prime
i'm portance to the company"
Grenada NetO South, 9Th: "a man by the
name of Marshall was arrested by Marshal
Melton il this city, last Monday, charged
with murder in Hindes county. Accused has
been at large for some time, though a reward
Of three hundred dollars was offered by the
governor for his arrest, and - dollars by
the county and friends where the deed was
done. The prisoner was taken to jackson for
trial"
Grenada Ne10 South, 9th: IAN ugly shoot
ing affray occurred about eleven o'clock last
Saturday night, over near the depot, in which
ARRAY one Weber, a 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, and, in de-
fault of a bond of one thousand dollars was
lodged in Jail to await a trial at the next
term of the criminal court"