Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-20
GRENADA, MISS.
RecOIIectIOns of 1t and las People
The Mississippi and Tennessee Rail-
rOad-An Incident Of the
Eerandah Hotel.
Honest Men Wanted-SuggestiOn of "a
MissOurian-TheT Tennessee Rail-
rOad-The Cotton CrOp-HOW
10 il Affected by Politics.
From our Special Correspondent.I

rOad-The Cotton CrOp-HOw
1t is Affected by Politics.
! From our Special Correspondent
GRENADA, Miss, October lS-The
/ APPEAL has already given a cOmprehen-
/ sive telegraph report OF the great Demo-
| cratic Conservative demonstration at
great Interest which the citizens OF
| that place manifested, cannot De well ex
| pressed in language, for exhuoeTant feeling
| and unbOunded enthusiasm have yet to find
an alphabet requisite for their intelligent ex-
! pre- sion. 1t is believed that This demonstra-
! ton, and the speeches upon the occasion,
| have already exercised much influence upon
| the negroes, who were made ID understand
how and why they had been deceived, used
Radical party IN that State. The people are
| thoroughly aroused as to the i'm
pOrtARce OF Jealous effort, for the pres
ent political issue is of no doubtful character.
| / was glad to see that the citizens o. GTen-
| ada were SO deeply interested in the occasion.
| The Examinations OF the residen les and bust
| ness houses were not only artistic in charac-
| ter, but of unexpected magnitude and pleas
| ant effect. The residences of DIR. Jones. DR..
| Hughes, +. c. Mister, H. B. Sherman, W. ii.
| Winter, General +. {. Walthall, Colonel Egg
| geston A. Gerard, W. Scott Lake, NJ. K. mis-
ter, the Grenada female institute, the store
house of Colonel Mister, Shinu & Coz photo
graph establishment and Walthall house we're
the most brilliantly Illuminated of any in
the city. In fact hundreds of candles, lamps,
and Chinese lanterns cleaned In the win
dows, doorways, porticos and raiIlngs or
these residences and buildings, some of which
were even Illuminated the entire length OF the
roof. In addition TO the Examinations spoken
OF, the residences were made all the more
brilliant by the presence of young dies, whose
eyes rivaled at least, the myriad of lights ,
that cleaned in every direction; am IN
house, for his valuable assistance and gener
Gus hospitality, which were so gracefully eX-
the house was fuIi Of gGesIs ne would secure
me the best of accommodations, and then
made me feel at home. Grenada has many
such warm hearted citizens, and its society is
intelligent, cultivated and refined. Many of
the private residences are large, elegant in
their appointments, and surrounded by beau |
tiful grounds and yards, with flowers, vines
and trees. Professor J. NJ. Bishop has |
lover of flowers, p iants and vines would find
much to interest and delight. Persons who |
love flowers, those who appreciate |
beauty of life and form, always |
possess refined feelings, and usually have |
delicate fragrance that steals gently upon |
the senses is the emblem OF the besutiful |
flowers, leading our sentiments upward to q |
higher asthesis OF virtue and goodness.
Hence we find intelligence, hospitality and |
moral excellence among those people and !
communities where refined taste expresses |
itself in the culture and care of flowers. My |
visit to Grenada Will be remembered with |
pleasure, and not the least of It's Cherished
features will be the radiance of bright eyes and
the merry, sparkling words of kindness, wit |
and mtrth, that came from rosy lips of the |
",
grace and esprit to the occasion.
A, b. SHINN & co.
is the business name of q Photographic firm |
which has located portable establishment in |
Grenada. Messrs. Robert +. Pye and Percy |
Bradford, two young Memphis men of enter |
priSng industry and artistic talent, are con-
nected with this firm, which is justly doing |
good business in Grenada. Upon Invitation |
the APPEAL commissioner was invited to have |
his photograph taken, and despite his charac- |
teristic mOdesty, he had to submit to such an |
homer q
result was a large cabinet picture the scien- |
tifc execution of which is a very great i'm |
provement upon the physiognony of the |
APPEAL commissioner. L am glad to know |
that Pye and Bradford are doing so well in |
Grenada, and hope that the liberal patronage |
they now enjoy will be continued by Shinn & |
Co. wherever they go.
THE VERANDAH HOTEL
is the name of an excellent house at Sardis, |
whose generous proprietor, c. w. Richards, is |
well-knOwn 10 many of our Mississippi read |
ers. "Come in aud take dinner" said he to |
me, and went, but only to sip a cup of coffee. |
At the table were several gentlemen-One |
man about six feet nine inches in hight. He |
boarded the train at Jackson, and during our |
travel had looked at him frequently, for tall |
men are usually individualistic and exhibit |
more Of the ego sum 0tqJGe tU eS than would be |
appropriate Tor those of small stature. Poll |
tics was toe theme, and the tall man, after |
sampling his coffee and soup, asked OF mis- |
elbow nSighbOr: "DO you think you will beat |
'em this timer" "Beat who?" was the reply. |
"Why, the RAIDS, of course" said the tall man. |
Il hope not" responded the other, "for hap
pen to be one of the Radicals you allude to" |
This caused general laughter, but the tall |
ter, am Cd d-n'd sorry to hear it, and l |
wish could send fifty thousand honest men
this country needs them" modest but at
tentive individual at my left remarked: 81
am very sorry TO hear we are all so mixed up |
at this table" About this time the whistle |
blew, the conductor shouted "all aboard, and
that tea-party was unceremoniously dis
solved. The tall Missouri gentleman, hOwev-
er, asked no more questions of an absolute |
character for he was satisfied, although ne |
had been so much astOpished to learn that his /
elbow neighbor was Radical-Mr. Howe, by |
name-the worst in the pack, and jack of /
spades at that. But these incidents will oc-
cur sometimes along the
MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE RAIL
ROAD,
over which 1 have just travelled by special |
train, and had an opportunity to examine
road-bed from Memphis to Grenada, its ter
minus and junction with the Mississi ppi |
Central railroad, is in good condition. The |
ack is firm, Well-graded and reliable, and |
compares favorably with any in the country.
The maximum grade is not over forty feet;
the stations are located wherever needed by |
the people, who are accommodated to I'M
usual extent by Mr.. Burke, the superintend-
ent, and his officers. Occasionally you |
will hear some one growI about the charges on
cotton, but complaints against the road are
very rare. All corporations, like every indi-
Vidual, necessarily displease some people, but
l think the management of the Mississippi |
and Tennessee railroad is not only judiciOus,
put aUOruS jne very DeSJ accOnll0O GaIlOnS pos
sible TO the public and its patrons. Mr.. NJ.
Burke, the superintendent, is too well known
and experienced in railroad affairs to exercise !
any but the very ablest and satisfactory policy
in the management of this road, which is the
great and direct outlet of Memphis to New
Orleans, and thence 10 Europe. noticed along
the load number of gravel-pits, which will
eventually be OF great value to the company.
These pits are located eighteen, twenty, TWEEN
ty- five, fifty and SeVenGy-hve miles from Mem |
phis, and would easily supply the city with
all the gravel needed for repairing and i'm |
proving streets. the railroad itself could
be ballasted with this gravel, at an average
haul of only twenty-five miles.
THE COTTON CROP
all along the road is now awaiting I4borers. |
the crop is very much neg iected, and cOnse-
quently the loss will be heavy. In many in
stances it seems that the cotton has not yet |
been touched. The crop is unusually good, |
and would yield largely If it could only be
gathered. The receipts by the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad this year are two-thITdS |
less tnan at this time last October. This
would indicate the fact that the picking of |
the crop is alarmingly neglected, and that our
receipts in Memphis will be of a correspond
ing ratio This is but one of the miSchievOus
reeults of an excited political canvass where
the Ignorant and labOring classes have been
induced to tOrSake their work and prostitute
their material interests for the election of
some carpetbagger or person who would be
the last on earth 10 assist his tdOlatrOus con-
StitUeDcy in their need. And this again is
Radinaiism in Mississippi.
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law library, cheap.
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