The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-29
SOUTHERNERS In BRAZIL.
THE COLOSY IN A VERY PROS
FERGUS CONDITION.
The Date Of the Presidents Mar.
riage Fixed for June Cd
Capital Notes.
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WARRINGTON, Nav Is Gen. II.
CLAY Armstrong, ConsHl-Genefdl 10
Brazil. arrived in Washington this
week on his way 10 his home in ala.
bama. He is 90 sixty days leave OF
absence. He gives an interesting &C
count of the condition OF the colony
of Southerners WEo went to Brazil
lust after the weT. "These people"
said Gen. Armstrong, "lelt the United
States Immediately after hostilities
ceased. They believed that the South
could not recover from Che effects OF
the iron heel of war, and that the peo-
pie who participated in the war would
nsver have auy show in the recoO-
stIucted Union. | found them 400
miles from Rio JaueiT in the back
country. They have tract about Ill
teen miles square. Col. W. ID. Harris,
who was quite a prominent man in
Alabams, Is one of the leading men Of
the colony. / also met DIR. Q. Q.
Crisp, very accomplished man from
Tennessee. explained to some
the leading men that they hsd, in my
opinion, made q mistake in leaving
the United States. They seemed quite
well contenied, however, and said
that they would probably remain.
MI. CALL.
by request, to-day introduced bill to
pay MIS-. Catherine Odlum 10000 for
houses, stock, household goods, etc,
taken from her or destroyed near
Memphis, Tam, by United States
troops in 1864. Referred to Commit
tee on Claims. Mrs. 0dlum is now a
resident of this city, and the bill was
introduced at tue request OF her
daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Smi b.
PROF A. D. wEARToN
of Tennessee and A. @. Richardson of
Alabama have been appointed by the
President on the Board OF Visitors to
the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
POSTAL POINTS.
New postmssters and new Offices:
Susan A. Perkins, Elkhorn, Benton
county, Ark; Jacob Arnold, Point
Peter, Searcy county, Ark; Charles
I. Mason, AIarat, Choctaw county,
Ala; Bette Harris, Balm, Blount
county, Ala; AbRer l.. Rcss, Deer
Lodge, Morgan county, Tenn; Sam
uel B. Myers, Itby, Putnam county,
Tenn. James NJ. Glenn, Alma, Jefer-
son county, Tenn James L. Pulieu,
Gypsy, Carroll county, Tenn. AIchi-
bald F. Csthey, Lowe, Rutherford
county, Tenn.
Fourth. class Postmssters Cemmis-
stoned - Chalmers c. McWiliams,
Axle, Ala Columbus O. York, Johns
vile, Ark, George d. Clements, Au-
verene, Ark; VIM. G. Smiley, Mouth
of St. Francis river, Ark; Edwin j.
Keith, Scanlans, Ark jeremiah B.
Ingram, Ingram's Mil, Miss Casimer
Harvey, Graves, Miss. Robert L. Ed
wards, ?lessautville, Tenn; Wisdom
Worsbam, Worsha d, Tenn.
Office at Greer, LaRe county, Miss
changed to Standing Pine.
S ar Service Eytablished-Bessl eyto
Hollis Corners, Tenn, and back, once
a week, from July LIST, one year.
Star Service Chances Fayetteville
to Shelbyville, from June LIST, increase
of service to three times week. Ten
nessee: Greenville 10 Birds Bridge,
from June 10th, extended route from
Birds Bridge TO Cedar Creek, and
end there, increasing distance seven
mileslspecial Service TO Beasley, Mar
shall county, Tenn, discontinued at-
s. ter June 30th.
Mail messenger service established
Arkansas: LEconis, Deshs county,
from steamboat landing. for all service
required from April 2lst. Through
registered packages exchanged daily
after May 3lst, at Chattanooga and st.
Iouis, Mo.