Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-05-29
FROM ROSSVILLE.
The Condition OF she Growing Crops
Rain Needed-COmm -mOratfOn
Dsy at HOIIy Springs
Local Elections.
From an Oecas.onal Correspondsnt.l

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ROssvILLE, Tenn, May p, 1874 -
When last l wrote you the cry was raini
rain! Quite different nOW-giye US
rain; oh, Tor a small shower, or we will
make nothing. Your correspondent has
been trying for some days past to console
our fsrmers-trying to make them be-
lieve that the year 1874 is part of 1855,
living itself over again. For the benefit
Of the many readers of your very popu-
lar journal, give an abbreviated sketch
of what remember of the year 1856
known as the great cotton year in the
southern States. No doubt more cotton
was plOwed in in the spring Of 1856 than
We now make TO the acre. Cotton was
planted about the usual time for this
latitude, say the twentieth of April.
The tracks Of the boys that covered the
cotton were plainly to be seen until the
night Of the seventh of June. We had
what farmers call a cOttOn-shOwer,
which fell at night. Cotton popped up
as if by magic, and, strange to say, near
ly all the rain that fell for over two
months came at night. Little or
no time was lost on account of
rain during the working season.
At this writing cotton that was plant
ed looks as well as we usually see at this
season. As l said in former cOmmu-
nicatiOD, that much had been done to
ameliOrate the condition of our farms
by ditching, manuring, etc, and as you
remember, l said about tWO-thirds OF
the acreage planted as heretofore, the
extra culture, manuring, etc., will make
our cotton crop through West Tennessee
and North Mississippi equal in quantity
to any year, il the season continues IA
vOrable. Corn looks very well. Oats
are little dropping for want of rain.
Wheat needs rain also. The lessons
taught this year will be taught by ex-
perience. The amount Of money sent
from Fayette county this year may be
reasonably estimated for corn, oats, hsy,
and meal at one million dollars. There
is not one in twenty but buys more or
less. Our cOlOred citizens sag ii shall
never be the case again "if de good
Lord spsrs u.s." A large area in Mar
shall and adjoining counties has been
planted In cotton; as much, perhaps,
as heretofore. have recently returned
from those counties. | was in Holly
Springs on decoration day, the tenth
instant. The pc lple of Old Marshall
have not forgotten their hOnOred dead.
The virtues, deeds and worth of those
that sacrificed their lives on the "altar I
Of our sunny SOUTH during the trying
ordeal of war, still live in the memory OF /
and will be treasured in |
casket by her matrons and /
maids so long as the beautiful flowers
bloom, and lovely May visits our cline /
10 clOthe mother earth in verdure Of /
green. Enough to say, our friend Colonel |
FalkneT, Colonel Walter, and 4
many Others too numerous to mention,
did all in their power to make it pleas /
ant, agreeable and edifying 10 all that .
attended Efforts on the part of the la
dies Of Holly Springs were equal, if not /
superior, to any heretofore. Their posi- /
ton is TOO well known to the readers Of |
the APPEAL to claim any encomiums !
from my pen.' No city in the south caR
claim q higher prestige than Holly
Springs. l venture the assertion that
there is no county in the State, or south,
that has as many students, both white
and colofed, as Msrshall-the cOlOred
largely in the majority; and l must say,
10 40 them justice, never have l seen so /
many students together (being
three or four different schOols)
that deported themselves better.
was informed by those that
knew that in June the normal col
Iege would graduate two OF more Of each
sex (eolored) that would equal, if not
surpass, any in ante belluW days. They
the colored) are making a " Troi ID "
effort to emelioTate their cOndittOn-de-
nying themselves every luxury and COM
fort f0F the sake of an ediscdt5Oa-Rpply-
ing themselves closely. A little polit-
ical excitement in Fayetee just nowi
election comes OF in August.
Our eOlored citizens are holding district
meetings- together, claiming
that they are nutenjoying the privileges
guaranteed 70 them in the thirteenth,
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments TO
the constitution. They now claim to
have their color represented into the
lower house Of the legislature, and part
of the county Officers, ETC., provided that
no white man viii come forward that
they can trust to defend their rights.
THE Gi0T7sdle di Genera sRys that the 1
Investigations Of DIR. lie Blanc, Of Besap-
con, 20 far to demonstrate that some
forms of scirrhus Of the pylorus are fire.
quently caused by the use Of red wines
made from grapes in an unhealthy con-
dition. he has traced a fungoid growth
to which the most Ct wine made from
these grapes is subject to the rtGDechs
of individuals, and in each case found