Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-16
HERNANDO.
ALOYely Plaee-zIts ARtiquitIes-GrOwth
and PrOgressiveness-Adiaeent
Villages.
Nesbitt's 0eean--Its 6reen NaTes-The
Source OF Memphis's Future
Wealth and Greatness.


From ouT Special Correspondent
HERNANDo, Miss, August 14.-Peo-
pie living here a dreamy ,listless life that
seems 10 pervade the atmosphere, espec-
tally Of a southern country village, have
little idea Of the absolute, steady, even,
rapid growth in wealth, pOpula-
ton, and in every t8dicia Of active
prosperity that distinguishes each town
along railway lines converging at Mem
phis. Corinth, you know, will live for
ever famous in history for the lsZiness of
its beatified population. 1t boasts Of no
sultrier sun than this which shines
down and vents its fervent fury this hot
afternoon upon the snoOzing, swelteTing
citizens of fernando, named, Of course,
in honor Of the discoverer of the Missis-
sippi Especially is the spot entitled to
the name since there resides here an at
torney of whom one of the villagers
said, when I asked for the ven
erable limb of the learned pro-
fession, "Yes 1 know him. He was
the first settler. He was here when De
Soto came" 1 may add that my an
cient friend is younger than when first
we met thirty years ago. Rest assured.
then, that there is not a more healthful
district Of the south than the hills Of
DeSoto, and that there are not more at
tractive farms or promising crops along
the route of any southern railway than
these which carpet with verdure path
way for the giant of steam through the
county OF DeSoto. Every passenger
on this mornings train, with
an eve to the beautiful and
taste for the blessings which cotton
invokes, was charmed with the very
magnificence of the fields around Nes-
bits station. The cotton is about four
and one-half feet high, and the ground
between the rows invisible, and field
here of perhaps one thousand acres is a
sea Of verdue, swsying back and forth
beneath the warm brea.hings of sum-
mer-time like the gentlest pillows that
break the monotony Of an oceans still
ness. Farmers say that rarely have
they been blessed with brighter pros
poets, and all they ask is a late
frost. The eorn-croP is perfected,
or nearly so, and beyond the
reach of calamities to which it common
ly owes its destruction. The villages, Of
which you will be furnished with detail
ed descriptions by your local correspond
ents, grow apace, and merchants prosper
as do the farmers on the rich hill-sides
and broad level plains of DeSotO. Mem
phis is situated in the midst of mag
nificent country. Each ten miles square,
even now, along Memphis railway lines,
sustsins a growing, active village, and
snch a country, and such interior towns,
despite all efforts Of great cities north Of
US, viii make Memphis a great CONNER
cial emporium. st. Louis may hedge
Memphis in on every hand. Railways
may run laterally in every direction,
and the area left for Memphis may be
the narrowest possible, and yet, with
towns everywhere like fernando, Sena-
tobis, Nesbitt, Germantown, COvingtOn,
Ripley, Brownsville, and Raleigh, i'm
bued with fresh vitality each year,
Memphis must grow great, and within
the current decade will boast of more
than one hundred thousand inhabitants.