Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-19
SOUTHERN NEWS.


Nashville has female MD.
Georgia DISTINGUISHES her delinquent tax
payers.
The wheat crop of Missouri is reported in
vigorous and healthful condition.
A mastodon's tooth. weighing over a
pound, has beeh unearthed at Knoxville.
man in Richmond has the brass spec
tacles that John Brown wore on the scaffoId
In Florida the corn Is foot high, and the
people arr eating young cabeages and green peas.
George 2. Herndon will shortly deliver
lectures In Mississippi In aid Of the Holland monu-
mental fund.
TIE Fort Worth (Texas) Democrat feels
grained on the reports Of dull business by the
The Moulton (Ala) advertiser boasts of
be a good relish.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis has bought an orange
grove on the Mississippi coast for which he raid
hfty-fve hundred dollars.
Wimberly, the merchant of Coffeeville,
Mississippi, who was wounded at MaTdi-GraS in
New Orleans, Is recovering.
Texas, ever boasting in big figures, has
eight thousand baT-rOoms. and with the MOffett reg
lister could pay of the national debt In three hours.
By free use of cotton-seed, manure and
deep blowing Governor Drew, of Florida, last year
acre of ground.
The New Orleans Times says the msve-
ment to repudiate the State debt OF louisiana, If
successful, will certainly lead to Governor Nichollss
resignation.
Covington Record: "Mr. A. B. Nelson
shipped one hundred and fifty thousand slaves from
Hatchie bottom last week. They got to France via
New Orleans"
D. G. Howell, who got two thousand dol
lars for being killed at Astabula and who swindled
the OddFellows of Tennessee, has been arrested at
Montgomery, Alabama.
Sam Smith, colored was killed by Ben
Butler, colored, on the second instant in COpiah
county, Mississippi, for resisting an officer who was
eRdeayor1ng to arrest him.
Another Tennesseau, who emigrated to
possessions consisted of slung-shot, pair Of old
boot-legs, and twist of homemade tobacco. He Is
loud In his praises Of the climate.
The courthouse in Jackson county, Ala
bama one of the finest in the State, was burned a
few days ago. The fire began In the cupola. The
furniture and the records we're saved
The legislature of Alabama has recently
appropriated three thousand dollars yearly for the
use OF the State board OF health. The purposes for
which this money is to be used is lett entirely to the
discretion OF the board
Mr.. Caleb Nj 'Innis. a policeman of Meri-
dIan Mississippi was badly burned on the head and
face by the explosion OF kerosene lamp which ne
endeaVored 10 extingush by blowing down the
chimney. The accident occurredton the eighth.
There are only eight survivors of the ia
nous Palmetto regiment that went to Mexico. 1t
had eleven hundred men when 1t left South Caro-,
twenty-three. The gallant Pierce NJ Butler was It's
colonel.
Tue great question IN majority OF the
southern legislatures Is the adjustment OF the State
debts created by the Radicals during 'reconstTue-
ton" without ANYTHING to show why they we're ere
ated, and which the Democrats are now called upon
to settle as best they can.
The Brookhaven Miss Ledger says that a
negro woman In the Fair river neighborhoOd left
her infant child Ia the woods to go short distance
returned the fire had reached the place wheIe she
had left the child, and it had burned to death.
Deputy S1erlff Joe Strain, of Yazoo county,
IyFII 9TH RI nv
while endeavorIng to effect his arrest. Mills was
subsequently captured and brought to YaZoo City,
and, after undergoing a preliminary examination,
committed to jail to await the action of the grand
jury.
Bonneville (Miss) Pieader, 18th: "Judd
Jones has been buying up Mexican silver dollars of
late and sending them to the Philadelphia mint to
be recoined He received returns week before last
for his first shipment of two hundred dollars, and
dollar and seventy-fve cents profit He gave eighty
cents for them"
Alamo (Tenn.) Sentinel, I4th: ''Mr. Red
dick Harrell. son Of Mr.. Baker Harrell, who lives
about four miles west of this place. was seriously
burned one night last week and 1t Is thought that
blowing out lamp, when It exploded, throwing the
and burning him dTeadfully."
Nashville Banner: at is an every day
sight In a newspaper to see the credit of Georgia
and the price or bonds change cast in our teeth
gest the sitting the chat from tbs wheat Georgia
did what burst Of vIrtuous wrath Is raised. Geor
eld acted promptly any one
er own interest, and now she Is commended"
Bonneville (Missl Pleader, 18th: Last
week negro man grossly insulted VII te school
girl four five miles from town, for which OfenSe
an enraged posse took him in charge, learn, and
administered summary justice by a free and power
full application of hickory wihes, and then told HIM
to shove. The o1enSe did not extend beyond an
unseemly proposition, and h nee his punishment
was light, considering all the facts"
At Baldwin, Mississippi, on Tuesday night,
twenty-ninth ultimo. between eleven and twelve
o'clock, the house of NJ Slavery struck by bolt
of lightning, passing down through the chimney into
the house. striking the mantepece, breaking several
ornaments melting gilt off of some frames, melting
the head of the tOngs, and scOTching the leaves
In some books, all without fnjurng single person
In the house.
Columbia (Tenn.) Journal, 18th: "Wheat
is looking unprom1Slng In this county. We have
heard OF great many farmers who intend blowing
entail heavy loss on the planter. We heard farm
say that he had one hundred and forty acres that
did not have wheat enough on 1t to make stand on
ten acres The crops look much more promising in
Williamson and Davidson than here"
Holly Springs (Mlss Reporter, 18th: Gan
paid this city visit Tuesday last. He was arrested
as vagrant, but our kind hearted mayor, seeing
that he was suffering from disease, very properly
turned him loose, upon condition that he would
stood not upon the order of his gOing but went at
once, In quest of other pastures"
Mississippi editors seem to be getting
greedy for Office The following are reported to be
aspirants for the offices named: E L. Ross, of the
Canton Mail, for circuit clerk; B. 4. JONES' of the
of the Iuka Mirror. for assessor; S Newton Berry
hill, of the Columbus Democrat, for tTea and
Captain j. S. HOskins OF the Lexington advertiser,
for sheriff Let them press onward till success crowns