Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-22
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Appeal.
BOLIVAR, August 1S.-Perhaps few
words regarding the political, CONNER
cial and moral status OF affairs In old
Hsrdeman will be Of interest to the read
ers of the APPEAL. Your correspondent
has epioyed the hospitality OF this
thriving little inland city several days,
and has interviewed the most promi.
nent citizens here concerning the out
look, and is prepared to make q good
report.
POLITICALLY,
Old Hsrdeman is right side up with
care. She was never anything else since
her citizens were restored to citizenship.
1t was within a stones throw Of where
1 am writing that the Ssnter scheme
was concocted, which we all remember
disepthralled Tennessee, and sent
Brownlow, Stokes & Co. dead to the
wall, No county in the State has been
more loyal to the State and to the
Union than old Hardeman, and each
election has developed gradual eX-
tinction of the Radical party, until now
there can not be mustered corporaps
guard of white Radical voters ia the
county. am told that large numbtr
of the colored people of the county will
go with their white friends and vote the
Democratic ticket. You may rest as
sured that this county will roll up a
msjority for Tilden and Hendricks, snch
as was never before put on record.
OUR NEXT CONGRESSMAN,
the universal opinion here is, must and
will be Hon. Casey Young. Those who
bitterly opposed his nomination two
years ago, and several who were as
pirants before that convention, ere warm
EnI pporters and advocates OF his e.Dom-
nation. 1 heard here that Mr.. Thomas
G. Lowe, of Memphis, would offer him
self for congress, but do not think that
any man can get the support Of the
Hsrdeman delegates over Casey Young.
THE COMMERCIAL OUTLOOK
here is better than has been for the past
sever al years. The past year has been
crusher, many substantial firms having
succumbed to the financial preat ure. [
am informed, however, that most, If not
all, of these have made satisfactory ar
rangements with their creditors, and
will resume business this fall. hear
with much pride and pleasure that cur
Memphis wholesale merchants are MAX
ing favorable impressions out here,
prominent merchant declaring that he
could do as well in Memphis in the
leading dry-goods lines as in any eastern
city. The only obstacle hitherto in the
way to big trade with this com munity
has been the miserable management, or
Encouragement, Of
THE RAILWAY CONNECTIONS.
This, / am assured, will soon be re-
moved, as General Z. P. Nicely, who is
fast winning the position of the railway
king of the south, is moving the heav-
ems and the earth toward re- establishing
the connection that existed previous to
the war. His initiatory move was the
establishing OF passenger and package
accommodation train between Jackson,
Tennessee, and Memphis, which, by spe-
cial arrangement with the Memphis and
Charleston railway company, runs
through daily without change. The
train leaves Jackson at five o'clock in
the morning, arriving at Memphis at
eleven O'Clock forenoon; returning,
leaves Memphis at half-past four o'clocR
afternoon, arriving st Jackson at ten
o'clock that night. The train consists OF
an elegant passenger coach, sc cond-c class
and baggage-car, and one or two express
cars, as the amount of business demands.
1t is ia charge of that clever gentleman
and accom- Dlished conductor, Captain
Legg, who has become 80 popular over
the entire line, that the train is known
as the "Legg train" This train has
now been running about eight months,
the dullest Of the year, yet General Nee
Iy informs me that it Is paying" and
he is sangulne that when the business
season opens he will be forced TO
increase the train to the utmost
capacity Of one engine, and perhaps put
on freight train besides. Memphis
merchants should see that General
Nicely is supported in his efforts to re-
store to that city the trade of this vast
district, which has been driven away by
ingenious railway consultations and
management designed to rob Memphis
of her own.
THE M. AND K. NARROW GAUGE.
General Nicely, also president Of this
enterprise, speaks hopefully that he will
this fall be enabled to resume work on
this road under auspices that will insure
its early completion, at least from Boil
var eastward. He is also hopeful that
movements are on foot between Bolivar
and Memphis that will also insure an
early resumption of work, SO that this
line, q very important feeder to Mem
phis, may yet be completed and its BEN
efits realized by Memphis merchants rs
well as the country through which 1t is
to run. twenty-five miles of this road,
from Bolivar to Henderson Station, on
the Mobile and Ohio railway, have been
graded, and the ties are distributed
along the line ready for the track to be
laid; in Wayne and Giles county work
will be resumed this fall-in fact, bet.
ter railroad feeling seems manifest, oc-
casioned by
THE UNPRECEDENTED CROP SEASON.
The oldest inhsbitant land they grow
older In old Hardemau than in any other
county In the Stste) never witnessed
such crops. Cotton is better and prom
ises more bountiful yield Of the staple
than was ever known before. Old fields
that hitherto produced stalk scarce ten
inches high, are now growing stalks two
and three feet high, and chuck full of
bolls and blooms. And corn-there's no
end to the yield OF corn. In WORD, the
barns will be stuffed this year with two
or three years supply Of provender, and
what is better still, the country Is be-
coming thoroughly stocked with cattle
and hcg@allowing for stealing and
casualty. The farmers Of this county
Will next year pe entiIely sell-suppoIL-
ing, to the extent that they will not be
forced to sell their cotton and other sur
plus at starvation prices. Corn can now
be bought here at twenty-five cents per
bushel, and / dare say that after the
crop is gathered it will come down to
ten cent?. Half-grown chickens sell
here at fifteen cents apiece; butter, the
best in the world, twenty cents per
Mound. and other things in proportion,
Just think of that. wILLESsBEE.
You can save money by having DR..
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