Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-02
TIPPAH.
A Sensible. Practical Lstter-CondItlsn Of
Farmers and erops-VaIus Of Lands
Demand for LabOr-Area In Get
toa-Tke RaFrsW Gauge.

THPAH COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
March 30, 1872.
EDITORS APPEAL The financia
condition of our people is far more
suspicious at present than al any tim(
since the war, in consequence Of the
extraordinary good crop produced last
year and the fair price realized fol
cotton, it being about an average o.
eighteen cents to the farmer. Oul
planters sre in the most favorable con.
ditiOR for making the next crop than
at any time since the war. There has
been but very little work done on
farms this spring compared with Hast
spring, for the reason that we have
had the most backward spring I be-
corn planted, but for the most part
there is comparatively little prepare
lions made for planting; but should
the weather continue fine as it is now
for a few days, the people will begin
planting in
TIE NEXT CROP
good earnest. I do not think there
will be a very heavy crop Of cotton
planted this season, as the people do
not seem very much excited about it,
the good price to the contrary not
withstanding. There is great de-
maRd for laboreTs in this section. I
think the planter would readily
dispense with the cOlored labor
ers if he could get white hands, as
the negro has become so indOlent
and untrusty. The farmer shows
very little disposition to improve his
land, and as q matter of course has not
introduced any commercial fertilizers,
neither is the tendency to use any
improved agricultural indictments II
we except the use of a few steel plows,
which, when used, give great satis-
faction.
RIPLEY NARROw-GAUGE.
Now for q few words in regard to
our Ripley and Middleton railroad.
Work is rapidly progressing on all
parts of the road, and The company ex.
pect to have the iron-horse TO ride
over 1t by the first OF next August. |
We are much indebted to cur fellow
citizen, Colonel Faulkner, president
of the road, for his untiring perse, er-
ance in having the road built. We
will be greatly aided by the grant OF
four thousand dollars per mile, we
having twenty miles OF the road In
the State. We also have a subscrip !
ton of sixty thousand dollars, to-
with the State aid eighty thou
sand dOllars), which will make q stock
Of one hundred and forty thousand
dollars. That sum is amply sui
fcient to put the road on foot.
DEATH.
The treasurer, II. W. Strickland,
the Ripley railroad, died on
Saturday last after a short Illness of
four hours. He was a good citizen,
and his loss will be mOurned by
many. Also another n of Tippah's
best citizens, Matchet Williams, died
q short time ago.
THE DEVIL
The people Of that vicinity have
been haressed for several weeks by the
United States Marshal and his gang,
who have been arresting and carrying
lf peaceable citizens to the United
states court for no reasons at all what.
It Is thought by a great many
that the reasOn of these al /,
eyed kuklux Outrages was occasioned
" a few beaten Radical candidates, an
here was not a single Radical elected
n this county for any Office. They
re mad about 1t, and are taking re.
TenEe by calling the Federal troops
.mOng Us to arrest and punish our
itizsns without q cause, and there is
I've thousand dollars reward offered
any conviction. SNOBS.