Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-01
pUTHERN NEWS.
MERSUS8IPPE

MAgSHSsIPPE.
Mormon elders are preaching to the Cor
inthians.
Monroe county's grand jury found eighty
one true bills.
fernando luxdriates IN the possession of an
angling club.
General Freeman, of Grenada, is recover
ing from his recent illness.
Oh. Williams, of Lafayette county, I'M
earthed Spanish coin dated A. D. 1900, while
Ripley Sentinel, 29th: ''Our farmers APP
pear TO be hard at work. Fine fields or wheat viii
soon be ready for the reapers The only serious taut
We have to find with the wheat crop in This county Is
the small acreage. The cutworms have about ceased
their depredations, and the cotton crop as If catch
ing inspiration from its increased Importance, in
view of the recent material advance In prices, is as
sorting Its royal blood ana is looking up Corn also
looks well, generally"
Natchez Democrat: ''On the Springfield
plantation, in Adams county. on Thursday last, an
old negro man struck quite a bonanza while
blowing in his field he struck an old rotten stump,
tearing 1t up and bringing to light tin can, Old
and rusty, containing tWenty-dollar gold pieces to
old man bought the tract of land short time ago
from Mr.. A G. BrittOn, and this is the first crop OF
the kind it has ever been known TO yield"
Macon Beacon: s'We are glad to know
that there is not Greenbaczer or independent in
what other county can say thIs9 our people have
tpo-Xid.a eeRlleelo9 Of Radeal rule in our State
OF the country. Our soil and atmosphere do not
seem well adap ed to the production and growth of
can flourish here hence there is no disposition to
make start
ARKANSAS.
Near Forrest City. last week. Mrs. Gala
hans infant fell out Of bed into a bucket Of water
and was drowned.
Alma Herald, 22d: 1.-THE farmers were
never better up with their crops at this season of the
year than they are at this time. Grass has had but
poor chance this season.
Dewitt Democrat: "There is a very large
panther on the prairie, about three miles from
Dewitt that seems to be doing veil, as he has killed
several hogs and yearing quite recently"
Colonel T. B. Mills, late of Little Rock,
who was represented by the press having left his
family, and married another woman, writes from
Los Vegas, New Mexico, to the Little Rock Gazette,
that he obtained divorce, and is lawfully married
again.
Alma Herald. 22d: Under a late act
passed by the legislators socaled, of this State to
any person to kill snake, tick spider or any cfea-
ture unless it is for the purpose of food That in
able (?) BODY
Brinkley Times, 22d: "The present indi-
cations are very much In favor OF both and cot
ton. Oats is loo king fine, and should the season
continue as favorable as at present We hope 10 see
our farming community independent after the har-
vesting of the present CROP"
Dewitt Democrats: The negro. Harris
Parks who burned Smiths ginhouse sometime ago,
was killed on the fourth instant in effort TO burn
his barn and stables. The deputy-sherff ofILincoln
appearance. with coal-oi. He was ordered 10 halt
when about to apply the oil. and ran Off, but was
shot and killed by the sheriRS posse"
TENNEssEE.
Jackson has a glass-ball shooting club.
A lodge of Knights of Pythias has been
organized at Milan.
Crops in the neighborhood of Denmark,
Madison county, are suffering for want Of rain.
Brownsville States, Goth: eve regret to
know that the wheat crop ia this section is gen
orally short. Perhaps not as much as a half crop
A correspondent of the Morristown Ga
Sette concludes that Dandridge is badly in need of
her corporation again, from the facs that the wild
boys are about to run away with the town.
Paris Intelligencer, 29th: 1.-The cut-worms
that have been so destructive to crops for a few
weeks past beginning to suspend operations, and
but little fear or damage from them is nov enter
tained."
Knoxville Tribune, 29th: "Our exchanges
report that the Colorado beetle is rayaging the po
1ato crop In various portions of Middle and West
Tennessee as well as in this section where the in
i've tive Spp0a'S III large nu'e'S ana Is quite 'eS'Do
Paris Gazette, 9th: reports from the
wheat crops this week are encouraging Crops along
the railroads are looking we'll. Some farmers say
their early sown wheat looks extremely WE'LL and
late sown may do better than was at first ex-
pected.''
The Brownsville States thus chronicles the
beginning of the work OF clearing Hatchie river of
river a few nights since, and the next morning it
contained three hundred pounds OF fish. Who can
A number of young lawyers of Knoxville
have organized club, each member wearing uni
form OF brOad-brimmed Whlte-rush hat. with red
band aroond ii, and no one is recognized around
the headquarters IN front OF the postofce without
the sign or membership.
Paris LatelIigencer, Goth: "There is q
darkies loungng around this town that be found
anywhere. Every clever man, white and black, in
this community would rejoice 10 see them sOId as
vagabonds. or that they would emigrate to Kansas,
or, no matter where"
Covingfon Record, 30th: "The venerable
Mrs. DR.. Fisher, of our town, has pair Of slippers
Nashville she still has in her possession The ticket
inviting her TO attend on the occasion. Mrs Philip
Fisher is the owner of Sugdr-bOWl made In 3d..
Now what becomes OF your dlnneT-pOts?''
Pulaski Citizen, 18th: "0n Wednesday
night, about eleven O'Clock, party of unknown
men cSngnt and severely eastlgaIed TWO or three Of
for indecent purposes. They uttered fearful screams,
but did not escape whipping. One of them fell
into pile of tin scraps and cut her face severely
The women say that 1t was eoloTed men who at
tackled them"
Jackson Dispatch, 23d: ga number of
tuIbed by ghost recently. The apparition comes
In the form OF man, and has wings with which it
can fly away and be safe when danger approaches
1t chooses darkness rather than Highland Sometimes
appears at the window Of tine Individual ii wishes TO
trlghten. and after opening the blinds and other
wise soaring the inmates, retlreS without further dis
turbance."
jackson Dispatch, sd: David S. Moore.
the first volunteer to enlist to go with Davy Crockett
TO Texas IN $50 10 engage In the Texas Indian war
Was In the city this week He relates many interest,"
ing events or the different he has been in. He
is the Moore that led the twepJynue Tennessee vol
unteers against camp of ffty-twO Indians a day
and nights journey from Fort Alamo, capturing
the entire number, including the celebrated chief
Coscow, upon whose person he found sixty-nine
scalps Of the pale-faces."
A syndicate was formed in Pulaski few
days ago to deal In cotton futures. The extent of
capital, hundred and forty-ve thousand dollars
Invested in Nashville few days after the syndi
cate was telegraphed to remit seventy-hve dollars
more to cover decline, WhereupOR they met and re-
solved that: Futures, from pathological stand
point or from prospective attitude is an lmpend
Ing humbug, and that the of doOnSday VIII set
before we inpinge any more scads upon the fitful
chances offered by these blOated nabobs and cotton
mouthed reptiles OF the Nashville cotton exchange"