Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-18
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

Holly Springs has a literary circle.
After all, il is now stated Monticello is to
be rebuilt.
Tn farmers of Neshoba county are rails
ing their own mules.
Two dairies near StarkvilIe ship $50
pounds Of butter a week.
IunIca county has arranged to work her
cJnyicts on levess, roads and bridges.
A Biloxi man has some tomatoes weigh
ing from a pound to a pound and a half
each.
Kosciusko agrees TO pay one OF its citizens
S50O to keep the streets in repair for one
year.
Washington county has two new incorpo-
rated t~owns-Leota and Cletonia. Delicately
named.
Counterfeit gold s. pieces and silver 81
pieces are troubling the people of Neshobs
county.
Edwards il to have a broom factory. One
man has eighty acres in broom-corn and an
other fifty.
The Wesson factory pays over $1,000 o a
year to the farmers of the adj AGENT country
for cotton.
A few nights since a masked mob broke
in 0 the jail Of Kemper county and released
two prisoners.
Within the past year one firm in Kos
ciuskc has shipped nearly 1000 pounds Of
wool to the Mississippi Mills.
On account of feeble health, Major r.
Walpole, of the Yazoo City lie. aid, is spend
ing the summer on the Louisiana coast.
The Adteriser says there is a scarcity Of
youag men at Hsndsboro, viii c young ladies
are plentiful and more continually coming.
n. A. Anderson, one Of Vicksburg's re-
cently-elected aldermen, has been arrested,
charged with buying, at 81 each, two votes
Tor himself from coiored men.
4 few days eince a rascal swindIed a Le-
fore county neighhorhoOd out of a horse and
500 by pretending TO be a preacher, and
making two appointments, which he failed
10 meet.
Complaint is made by the Vicksburg Her.
alt against robbing graves Of flowers. 1t
says a graveyard thief is twenty-seven de-
grees below human idIosyncrasy and I'M
worthy of christian burial.
At BatesvIlle a colored postmaster has
been appointed. The PdHotidH says the APP
Poiuted SIS looked upon ~ unfit, both NOR
ally and intellectually, for the trust and dis
charge Of the duties Of the office"
Natchez Democrat. 'The time will come
when Mississippians will regret that they
have 80 long sent away the earnings of their
cotton fields TO supply them with things they
can so easily make at home"
Mississippi taxes persons travelling with
young trees for setting 50 for each county
that Is iining men for doing good. Nurseries
~sending trees that do not grow are under
bonds 10 make all losses good.
Oxford Fdcon, 18th: "There is a move
msnt on hand to close stores at $50 o'clock
in the evening. ..... We understand the Ok
ford girls inquire of their suitors as TO how
many policies they are carrying in the mat
rlmonial insurance companies"
Coieeville Times: "A mother horrible acct
dent happened eight miles west of here last
Monday evening. While John johnson, col
ored, and his wife were at work in the field
some distance away, they noticed a heavy
smoke in the direction of their house. Re-
pairing there Immediately they found the
house in ashes and their little three months
old baby burned. Two other children we're
unhurt."
Yszoo City Herald: "a youth named Irby
g~otinto a fight with another boy about his own
age, Sam Henderson, some days ago in Picken
Station neighborhood, during which the
finger OF the former was bitten by his antago-
mist, but 80 slightly, it was thought, that no
attention was paid TO il, and the boy went to
his usual work next day. The finger, on ac-
count OF the setting in Of e~rysipelas, had to
be amputated, and shortly afterward the boy
was attacked with something resembling in
It's symptoms meningitis, from the effects of
which he died in a few days"