Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-19
SOUTHERN NEWS.

MERIDIAN, Miss., has Board of Trade.
WINCHESTER, Tenn, has no telegraph Of
fee in town.
OXFORD, Miss r'joices in the novelty OF
a street sprinkler.
CABBAGEs snd candidates are becoming
plentiful in Mississippi.
"THE no-fenoe law" is gradually growing
in popularity in Mississippi.
NASHVILLE contemp plates the erection f
permanent exposition hall.
Two men were arrested at Okoloua, Miss,
last week Tor passing counterfeit money.
In Leake county there is Cboctaw Bar
list church numbering sixty or seventy mem
bers.
AN effort is bei1g made TO connect Halle
hurst and Crystal Springs, Miss, by isie-
phone.
THos. RILEY, drunken stranger, walked
off the bluff at Nstchez, Saturday weal, and
broke his neck.
Pamela miss Star: "Near Friars Point
one day last week party found 1000 turtle
eggs on a saDdhar."
A NEGRO man while hunting near Tor
rance, Mics, on Saturday last, accidentally
blew out his braine.
WHITE boy threw piece of rock at
negro boy in Nashville on Thurgday and
fractured his skull.
The Little Whizzer is the name CT LII.
pulian sheet launched forth at West Poin',
Miss, by three boy-editor-.
The temperance organ of Tennessee is
cslied the Broaden a chopping name, threat
eDing to barrels and bottle neCks.
The mayor, marshal aud four of the alder
men of Newton, Miss, have resigned, and
drunken and disorderly parties rule the town.
The editor of the Holly Springs Herald
compl aims Of being in-ulted, somebody went
to that office and asked change for a 500
note.
They have hanged dude at Oxford, N.
C., and the people say that dudrs have a sort
ot swing with lhem that makes them hang
well.
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, is still hoping for
railroad connection, and 1t wants 10 have sn
oil and 3 cotton mill, FIRE department, and
less rain.
VICKsBURe is inviting guests, obtaining
low railroad excursion fares and making
splendid preparations 10 celebr ate the gle.
rious Fourth.
The sesrchers in Indian mounds find
little 10 reward them in Tennessee. They
have nearly all been abandoned by hunters
after salipeter.
The Vicksburg Herald predicts that the
improvement in he South will be twice as
rapid between 1880 and 1890 as in the d.
cade just preceding.
The town Of Crystal Springs, Mics, is 10
have canning factory. Five thousand dol
lars in sums varying from S25 TO $500 have
already been subscribed.
In Vicksburg few days sgo DR.. McCon-
a ao.ln
form TO woman in order to pull tooth,
and before restoratives could be applied she
died.
The weather is exceedingly warm and o.
pressive in Vicksburg, but the numerous
burglars infeating that city compel the swell
tering denizsns 10 sleep with their windows
closed.
AMONG the arrivals mentioned in last
weeks country papers we find frequen! men
tlon oil The festive mosquito with musical
chime" He has supper free, but nobody is
willing to give him nights lodging.
OXFORD (Miss.) Falcon: "Pe;er Sepp, a
young German, twenty tbree yesrs old, com
mItted suicide In a small house on the prem
lees of Mr.. III. WohlebeD, by severing the
jusuiar vein with small pockel-knife. Des.
pondency and i'll heslth."
JACKSON (Tenn) Tribune: "Mr, A. D
Dugger had J. K. Day srrested Wednesday
Tor TIL tapping. Day fled the city, and wss
arrested BY Officer Young at Meiisus, this
county. The telephone was brought into
requisitioD, and The message reached the:
just in time to overtake Hun"
VIcKsBURG Post: "The Mississippi river
has for long time been threatening 10 re
move Greenville from the map of our State.
IN consequence OF which the citizens of that
thriving place have become awakened to the
danger Of the situation, and none too soon.
either, there can be no doubt but it is i'm.
minent."
CoFFEEvILLE (Miss.) Times: "The hang.
ing of Wimbish and Baily, on FRIDAY last,
was accompanied by come extraordinary
features. A thrifty speculat or put up large
number of seats, guaranteeing 10 each snd
every occupant tine view of the gallows at
Il head, and he paid the regular show
mans license of $780,"
PANoLA (Miss.) Star, 10th: There we're
two suieides IN the State last week. AT Brook
haven Thomas Cummins, sr., aged seventy
four, cut his throat with rszor; AT Wood
vile William Goddard, lie siding contr act or.
| took two ounces of chloroform in his wife's
presence, who ysinly attempted TO prevent
him. Goddard had worked up to II O'Clock
o'clock of the day he died, and all his de-
nestle relations were pleasant. Cunn1ins
was old. in i'll health and mentally de-
pressed"
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