Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-15
LETTER FROM JACKSON, TENN.
Its Appearance and cOndItIOn---erop Pros
poets, Etc, etc.

Jackson has been active, gay and
lively for several weeks past. The
Supreme Court and Annual Com
mencement of the schools, together
with the general business activity,
causes everything about the place to
wear an appearance of big city life.
The town has improved wonderfully
during the past two years. Its rapid
strides since the war are astonishing.
Twenty-Five or thirty substantial brick
business houses have been put up in
the business part of town, and twice
as many comfortable cottage resi-
denees. Al are occupied. A new
Masonic Hall is soon to be built. The
railroad workshops employ a crowd
of mechanics, that adds to the wealth
and industry of the place, and alto
gether Jackson may be termed the
handsomest and Hveliest town in
West Tennessee.
The city boasts Of several good
hotels; the streets look clean, neat and
pleasant, being well graded and with
smooth brick or plank sidewalks.
The residence houses are kept clean
and handsome; neat flower or vege-
table gardens surround almost every
one.
Between 5000 and 5000 bales of cot
ton have been shipped from here
during the past season. 1t is nearly
all sold here by the planters; four
regular buyers are aIwaysin the field.
Shipments are chiefly made to the
East direct. Only n merchant pur-
chases for the Memphis market. A
compress puts the bales in proper
shipping order as fast as ready to go,
and everything is carried on here as
systematically as in cities of larger
pretensions.
The old courthouse has lately had
a new fence put up; the trees before
the war so ornamental, and killed and
torn by soldier life, have all been re-
moved. The square looks better
! for it.
The Supreme Court has been in ses-
sion for some time, and several Of
your most noted and popular lawyers
are here. A number of Memphis Ia
dies ara also - town. Gen. Quarles,
our next gubernatOrial standard
bearer, was here yesterday, besides
other well known and noted person
ages.
The crops in this country promise
well, if rains and showers will cease,
Good stands are to be seen in every
field, but for two weeks past rains
have fallen every day or two. Grass
and rank stalks are complained of
The culture of wheat, so largely ex,
ported two or three years since, has
been almost abandoned. Cotton i:
the main crop, of which the land:
INSTRUMENTATION prUduce'more thar
half a bale to the acre.
The Methodist Female Seminary
closed It's annualsession last night with
ameeting of old and young, grave anC
gay, bellies and beauX, at the large
Seminary Building. There was ne
dancing, but plenty of love max
ing, ice cream eating, promenading
through the spacious grounds, anC
other nice doings. During the com.
meneement Hon. J. w. Clapp deliv,
cred an able and Representatives.. A
minister of Arkansas also got off al
excellent effort. This school, as aIsC
the Catholic, a branch of the st. Ag
mes, and the Episcopal College are al
popular institutions, and doing well
The Tribune, with its jolly goOC
humored editor, Colonel Wisdom, il
doing a big business. Its popularity
and circulation is on the increase, ana
its job work keeps all hands busy
The Wing also gives proof of pros
perity, and the spirit of rivalry be
tween them causes Mr.. Gates to stil
himself lively. Both are prospering
The APPEAL is growing in public
favor here, and its readers are con
stantly becoming more numerous
The paper arrives at % am. the day
of publication, unless something goeI
wrong, which 1 regret to report i
often the case. CRESCENT.