Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-02
MISSISSIPPI.

! Fish are biting in the lakes In the counties
| along the .seacoast Of Mississippi
A church six miles west of Ripley was
| burned last Monday, supposed by incsndiaries.
Colonel Claiborne's history of Mississippi
will be delayed on account of his falling health.
A white Republican, commenting on the
recent colored appointments in Mississippi, said,
State
The Ripley Advertiser says: Senator La
mar IS receiving the praise he deserves from the
press of the State for his manly defense of Hon JET
tersOn Davis In the senate"
The farmers IN the Mississippi bottoms are
becoming alarmed on account of the Kansas fever.
which has suddenly seized the negroes. Labor, in
some instances, cannot be had.
C1fiinviile Times, 90: "The bray of the
festive mule responds to the music OF the dinner
horn from every field along our branch announcing
the Tact that our farmers are at work.
John Vernon, one OF the inmates of the
poOrhouse in Tfppah county was drowned In a creek
on the tenth. He subject to fits and 1t is sup
posed that while fishing he was seized with a spasm
and fell OF a log and was drowned.
The circuit Gle, ks office of Sharkev county
was raided and the books thrown into the river and
the cash book OF the sheriff's Office treated IN like
manner, at Rolling Fork few nights ago. SO the
Nicksburg Commercial Is informed.
Senatobia Express: Secure as our iail
thought to be, five individuals of African de-
scent ncarcerated for larceny effected egress last
wood and working out the brick In the wall which
was very wet from the hard blowing rains"
a large number OF poor, ignorant negroes
have been induced to leave Mississippi for Kansas
in the last few weeks. What inducements were held
out TO them we do not know, but certain 1t is that
these deluded blacks now suffering from hunger
and exposure and praying to return.
Columbus Democrat, 18th: Farmers have
finished planting corn except on very low lands
The area plantedfs large, and with average seasons
there IS no danger buI full home supply Will be
raised With good cotton crop to back the corn
crop farmers will be able TO laugh at hard times
next winter"
The Meridian Mercury has interested itself
in the case of W. B. CayanaIlgh the CraWfordsyiIIe
murderer His sentence having been commuted by
Governor Stone, the Mercury now wants him par
doned from prison. The last issue of the MercuTTJ
contained cut likeness OF Cavanaugh with a
lengthy statement made BY him when under sentence
OF death.
A lady from Sardis, Mississippi. while en-
erng the Central railway train, at Grenada on Sat
urday last was suddenly pushed over against a seat
and robbed OF her purse by scoundrel supposed TO
be professional pickpocket, recently from Vicks-
burg The villain failed to get away with his booty
being pursued and run so close BY pariy of bOys
that he tried to hide In gully near the bank of the
YalObusha liver.
Holly Springs South: immediately after
the Train was thrown from the track last Friday and
Whle everything was In confusion, tramp got pos
session OF and stole from g young lady's Yalise
thirty or forty dollars and two railroad tickets to
FalEmOunt college, Tennessee, belonging to two
younB ladleS who were their way to the college.
Ihe conducter Immediately had the tramp rresed,
put up totGe Time the Train left had NOT recovered
Holly Springs Reporter, 9th: Some
memo or hends fired into seepngcar ca route from