Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-28
BROWNSVILLE. TENN.
And Dry Land ApPeRred-A Republican
Caucus-The Late Jewish BaII.

From the Regular Correspondent OF the Appeal.
BROWNSVILLE, March 25-The dove has
| returned with an olive leaf in its mouth
Many acres of good land that were under
water in the Hatchie bottoms will soon be
dry enough to pillow, if the sun shines on
them a few days longer. Already on the
| hillsides vast squares have been laid off in
half-mile rows and planted with corn. 1t
| does seem that corn for bread, corn to feed
to stock, and corn to sell, is the farmers idea
| about il at last.
| The Republicans OF this county will meet
| in convention here next Saturday, to
nominate machine made candidates for the
several county offices. Thursday night
a strange kind Of caucus was held,
with open doors, in the courthouse. The
meeting seemed altogether in charge Of two
or three burly blacks, who kept up at the
window a continual bowling to truant poll
| ticians in the streets. Every body was chair
! man. Men with hats on pulled their cigars
and talked and laughed by the sickly light
| of the titful tallow candle. AS for the
| speeches, they were, with one or two excep-
tions, too ridiculously absurd for anything
! speeches no negro minstrel could even
| burlesque. Finally, some OF the ora
tors OF the evening got into quar-
rel, which broke up the weird caucus,
| without much hint at adjournment.
The fun didn't stop here, however. Last
| night primary for this district was held.
, \ great crowd of negroes were present with
small sprinkling of white Republican !;
but the efforts of the latter were useless to
preserve order. Not a negro in the crowd
ever heard OF Gushing, or wanted to hear Of
him. 81 gifts up to Il pint of ordah, sab"
Il motions you in lew 80, Mr.. ChaTmun,
amt yer gwine ter listen ter me-" are a few
among the large number of plants that
dingdopged into Chairman Mabrey's ears.
NJ. =. -
CARED description. But with all this loud
jarring, it was plain that most parts of the
machine had been already oiled, that the
majority had been sounded beforehand, for
the delegates elected were not picked up at
random. There are twelve of them, "a fol-
lows: D. A. Num-, BENZ Hayes, Green Estes,
Jacob Scott, A. Whitehead, Jack Moreland,
Robert Claiborne, Peter Claiborne, w. III.
Simms VIM. SEWER, Esquire Richard and
w. A. Mabrey. After which voluntary
breakup.
His accidency, Governor Hawkins, stopped
over here on his way to the great food. He
was dined and wined by Secretary-of-State
Num-.
Petty office seekers are as plenty in Hay
wood as locusts, and every whit hungry.
The Richmond and McEireth Dramatic
Company are billed here for ext week in
snrh plays as Or Boys, IagomqT ard II zai
Kirke.
Brownsville Is wi,hou: police regulation
OF any sort; that's Hat. A band OF negro
ruffians parade her streets after nightfal,
which is just as fiat. But that life or prop
erty is any the safer for it, is rot so fiat.
Smallpox rumOrs have died out. But the
quarantine sy-tem of the Board of Health
will stand until all danger has passed.
Yesterdays Democrat: "The Rev. w. T.
Harris created a stir in his congregation,
Sunday, by disappearing, in very strong
terms, the members of his congregation
who attended the late Jewish ball"
THU RIEI