Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-15
MISSISSIPPI MORSELs.
fernando has cooperative store.

fernando has cooperative store
Brandon wants dog-law; hundreds OF
sheep worried OF late.
At Brookhaven a crowd collected to lynch
Young negro boy for violating girl of five
years old, but he was got safely into Jail.
Logan Barton, an escaped convict, shot and
killed Vain Jones, another negro. in the
lower portion of Yszoo on the 29th ultfmo
Jones was an important witness against Bar
ton.
fernando Times: "This year the farming
community should pay more attention to the
raising of wheat, oats, corn, peas, potatoes
cattle, sheep, hogs and clover, aud grasses
generally"
Vicksburg Commercial: AN unknown man
of about thirty, and who took passage on the
Charles Morgan at Memphis, was admitted
into the city hospital here and died last Sun
day. lie was called lobe, and had scar on
the right leg"
Columbus Dispatch: "Our Baptist church
Is without pastor .........A skating club is
organizing. The use of the telephone is
extending in Columbus. Two white
thieves have been stealing mules. the mules
were recovered, the rogues ESCAPED.
Compulsory vaccination is to be introduced
by the city council. -
- Ahasslss.s 5ss,.rrssss.., A de-. Lew - want.
ed -. ConsideriDgst the arnous. OF 15-s,iiny
weather, great deal has been accom- Ifshed
IN preparing for pitching the crop, and when
the planting time arrives few will be found
behindhand, as the teams, thanks to quite a
mid winter SO lar, are in excellent condi-
uon, and as TAR as We have been able TO as
certain the laborers are working with a vim
and hearty good will"
Okolona Messenger: ''The lien law should
be repeaied-at least that portion of it which
authorizes the giving of deed of trust upon
crops before they are planted " A State
female college is assuming proportions in the
minds OF our lawmakers. Mississippi should
have such an institution. go. The sickness
which mas prevailed here for some months
past appears to be abatipg.. &. Il. 4. The streams
are full and the roads in a fearfully muddy
condition"
Iuka Reporter: "Whisky or no whisky. is
the excitement now going on here A petit
ton TO the Legislature liz DOW in circulation
to let the law remain in force as it now
stands in the corporation - abolishing all
whisky from the town. The whisky people
nave petition also. udge Green, in
his charge to the grand jury, decides it a
penal otiense for a man to use oaths. or to be
found intoxicated in a public place w.
j. Nance, charged with the murder OF Bar
nett Harvey and Segars, in the Marion riot
at his preliminary examination, was
remauded to Jail without bail"
Nieksourg Commercial: 'Vicksburg has
building society ......... Edward Scudder, of
1azoo county. has been appointed cadet to
the West Point military academy ma
great many citizens question the proposed
consolidation of the Memphis and Vicksburg
and the Mississippi Valley and Ship Island
Railroad Companies. 1900. Mcdaniel, a col
ored man of Tishomingo county, stole some
soda, as he thought, but after having used it
in biscuit, it turned out to be rat poison, and
killed him ......... The city receives large
revenue from the levee and leaves it in mis-
cradle condition, without facilities for land
ing freight.........Th Mississippi river COM
missioners met to-day in this city, en- route to
visit the localities where work is now in
progress nnder their direction, namely, Lake
Providence and Plum Point The small
numbe. OF cotton bales coming to town would
seem to indicate that the crop has nearly all
been sent to market ...... Emigrants from Ala
bama and Georgia are still passing through
here route 70 the State of Arkansas -.
The fazoo Valley road is deep in slush."