Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-05-31
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

Water Valley is to have a skating rink.
Crops are reported to be looking fine in
south Mississippi.
Napoleon BonGparts is to be hung at
Sardis, June 10Th.
Lightning struck and killed four cows near
Iuka, Sunday evening.
The Friars Point CoGbonrian wants the hog
law repealed. 'Ungry for 'em.
There are reported to be two hundred con-
victs for life in the State penitentiary.
General Chalmers informs the VicksburG
Herald that he Ia not candidate for United
States senator.
Two mad dogs made their appearance last
week on the streets of Canton. They were
pursued and killed.
The Coffeeville Times, ofthe twenty-fourth,
''done" its inside with blue Ink, Indicative,
perhaps, of the dull tnes-so dull as to even
afflict the newspaper folks with the blues.
Water Valley Central, oath: ''Crop pros
poets are about an average at this season.
The past few hot days and nights have
stopped the cotton dying, and given it good
start In growing"
Aberdeen Weekly, 23d: "a white man
named Landers, aud his mule, were both
killed by lightning on the Goree place, this
| county, last Friday, while escaping from the
| field to his house during the thunderstorm of
that day"
Friars Point Coahoniian, 23d: eve get
unfavorable reports of the cotton crop of this
and adjacent counties. As consolation to
/ the farmers we will say we found uniform
| conviction among the best cotton men In
Memphis that prices would range high next
| fall"
Vicksburg Herald, oath: ''Several dis
| gusted Kansas emigr2nts arrived on the
| steamer City of Vicksburg yesterday morn
| iVrr md loFff ,o-A hair
| county. Several other colored pussons are
ready to take passage on the same boat to-
| day for the new Ethiopian elysiunl, it appear
ing that none will be satisfied until they have
seen for themselves.
Kosciusko Star, 23d: "We see persons
| every day from different portions of the
| county and from other sections Of country,
and their concurrent testimony is that the
prospect for a corn crop was never better.
| The seasons this year have been as favorable
as could be asked, the stand of corn is uni
formly good, and it is growing almost as fast
as did the gourd of Jonah. Cotton is too
young to tell much about it. There has been
the usual complaint of dropping from chilly
mornings, and we hear some complaints of a
failure of stands, but, take the situation as a
| whole, our farmers are hopeful. What ought
to be done with the farmer who has to buy
corn and meal next yesr?"
Vickbsurg Herald, oath: 1.-THE Belle of
Shreveport. due here yesterday on her way
from st. Louis to New Orleans, has a num-
Der of returning Kansas smigrants ON board,
en- rouie to their former homes. One of them
told a newspaper man at Memphis that they
were met By a committee on their arrival at
| Wyandotte, Kansas, who told them that they
would not be allowed to land there, and that
if they were permitted to do so they would
have to dig holes in the ground and live in
them until they could build themselves houses,
as no one would furnish them any accom-
modations whatever. The prospect looked
SO blue that the emigrants got disguised and
started home again.
Vicksburg Herald, oath: "There was a
heavy rainstorm last evening, accompanied
| by lightning and thunder, and good deal of
damage was done. The lightning struck two
or three houses and shocked at least half a
dozen persons. Mrs. Feeney's house, be-
tween Washington and Mulberry streets, was
partially unroofed and she herself Frustrated.
A little child of Mrs. Hennessy was badly
stunned, and negro baby so badly hurt that
| it had to be taken into DR.. 0'Leary's drug
store for treatment. A white man on High
street was knocked senseless by a stroke Of
| lightning, and a physician was sent for to
attend him. We failed to learn his name.
The storm was very violent for little while,
| but did not last long"