Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-13
OUR GROWTH.
Accessioas to Memphis Social and Business
Life--.THBir Worth and History.

If the accessions Of distinguished citi-
zens TO the number of its population
demonstrate the attractiveness of Mem
phis. there is no city which may boast OF
stronger and more irresistible charms.
Very many famous soldiers, Immediately
after the cessation of hostilities, who had
won hOnOrs by extraordinary skill or
valor, sought homes in this city. They
have resOrted to ali -avOcations and been
as successful in civil as in military pur-
suits. Patton Anderson, Humes, Scott,
McDavitt, Finlay, Pcston, Wilson, Kerr,
Chalmers. Anderson, NJ. ]. and Luke
Wright, Folkes, Duncan, Looney, Pillow,
Mathes. Harris and other lawyers of
Memphis won honors on bloOd-stained
fields. There we're as many as ten men,
bers of the bar on the battlefield Of Peach
Tree Creek, on the 10th of July, 1854, at
Atlanta, and among them a distinguished
ex-chief Justice Of this city, who bestrOde
a mule and charged beneath a blazing
banner, a red bandanna. His son com
manded a battery, and maintained his po-
sition through all that bloody afternoon
when Feathsrston's immortal brigade was
almost annihilsted.
OF civilians who have made this city
their abiding place, there are men who
I have won honors in every avOcatiOn.
Heiskill, EIlet, McRae, Stephens, Clapp,
Perkins. ScrUggs, and others like them,
whose learning and elOquence have
adorned the Jurisprudence of the South,
have already made their household,
words in Memphis. In mercantile or kin
dred avocatiOns many are the accessiOns
to Memphis business and social life. JEFF
ferson Davis, Jacob Thompson, John w.
Dawson, NJ. Msgsvney,J r., Doctors Avent,
Ramsay and Lyles, and a multitude whose
names are numerous like their honorable
deeds. They won honor in military or
civil. life, and were drawn hither by the
fame OF Memphis, by its earnest, enter
prising spirit, by its vigorous growth, its
railway system, its hopes Of a brilliant
future.
These reflections were suggested by the
advent of another gentleman, whose USE
fulness is surpassed by that OF no citizen
of Memphis. For thirty years NJ. W.
Phillips was a planter, devoted TO b IN
telligent cultivation Of every pronJaDte
product of Southern States. Not very
long ago he began to give the results of
his thoughtful 1abOrs and experience to
the world through the columns OF the
press. The Southern Farmer
was established. at this hour the most sue
cessful and valuable publication of the
kind ever established in the Southwest
or in the Valley Of the Mississippi. The
March number of this publication is now
before US. Its froutispiece is an admira-
bic representation OF a model barn, and
each subsequent page is filled with the
choicest agricultural literature. The
broad pamphlet contains one hundred
and twenty pages, which msnate from
the Southwestern Publishing House, to
whose mechanical taste and skill the
Southern Farmer does infinite credit.
Every Southern household should have
this publication and the APPEAL among
its constant visitors.
STRIPED SILKS, IS per yard, at B.
LoWeEstein & Bros
A No. / quality IO4 Sheeting at auction
price at HERZOG & BROS.
READ the new advertisement OF
Scesset q Son on first page. They are
rushing things" IN prices.
H-ANDsoMEsr patterns Of Calico in the
world, only l2kc, at Cans new store, 298
Main street.
GET your F. Y. shirts ready made or to
order of the manufacturers, Wiggans &
Thorn, 2S3 Clay Building.
ZYPHYR worsteds reduced to the fol-
prices:
High colors, 25 cents per ounce.
White and black, 20 cents per ounce.
7. W. JOHNSTON q co.