Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-16

From an Appeal COresp oadentl
WITHE, March I4-As the pro.peritv of
the city and country are mu5ual-one LARGELY
dependent on the other-a brief sketch of our
doIngs may not be unacceptable t. a goodlv
number OF your readers. This Is undoubted-
ly one OF the tTlsEest centars IN Shelby
county. Two years ago the place WIS In a
manner, deaG-buJ two stores. and they
dong rather q limited business The first
pubic enterprise that pr-saged an upward
tendency was the building CT large steam
GIN and cOru- mil 10y Iessrs. Lynn & Cody.
Soon after the building Of the gin, W. J.
Hooks, an es-ima5ic young man from MIssis-
sippi, came among Us and started a ramily
grocery. About the same time Captain But
Ter, Of Jackson, aided by the veteran tape
stretcher, Kenneth q rrett, sr.. put in a
stock OF dry goods ana groceries. The long
slumbering spirit Of enterprise Of the place
now suddenly walked up-prIoes went down,
customers came IL, and every man uut his
shoulder to the wheel with the determIua-
ton to make this q business point worthy of
notice. We now have SIX business houses,
all DONG good, thriving business. as a
stranger could tell 10y seeing the wagon loads
OF merchandise that leave here daily; custom
ers coming fifteen and twenty miles That
prince OF good fellows, II. G.. Marley, has
Just erected q new slJreE0Lss seventy feet
long, and stocked It with d line OF goods that
would show well even iI Memphis. But
that grum, sturdy old war horse, I. F.
Marley, does not intend any ore to
get ahead Of him, and is adding an
extension OF forty five feet 10 the relr Of his
already respaCt4ole-siZ-d house, and will fill
it with goods, TOBIAS the money to do It.
j. (. Cody i Co. are running q drugstore
that, fer extent and selection OF stock, would
command respect anywhere. DR.. J. p. Bone
has just completed "a beautiful residence at a
cost OF three thousand dollars Visitors de-
slrlpg TO 60 out INTO the country are accom-
modated with livery stock Of the best quality.
In connection with this, the place has done 2
heavy business with the railroad In furnishing
piles and ties. The woods around Us contin-
ualiy ring with the ak music of near one
hundred choppers. In the last twelve months
Mr.. Mercer and NCliey Brothers have put IN
about two thousand lies, and Hooks and
Butler about twenty Thousand cr1es-ties
Some ten months since Mercer and the Mol
ley brothers erected saw null, and although
a long season was lost during the prevalence
OF yellow fever, they have sawed about two
hundred Thousand feet. Ilsy saw 1t the rate
OF eight thousand feet per day, and every stick
Is sold as soon as sawed, besides grinding
corn from daylight to dark every Saturday
during the year, epidemic season excepted,
Mr. Cody, now sole owner Of the mill and
gin, has giHned over two hundred and fifty
bales OF cotton. m 'E.ree's WOman's Re-
lei, which humber OF eminent doctors
say IS the Ou-y raulJie remedy known to the
profession for the cure Of dIssrrangeue
Is made here, and has been shipped to nearly
every State il the Uni0u-t1 some of our
best female schools and Catholic converts.
The prop5ietC- will have ont the first mum
Der OF his WcmgH's Health Journal next
week. We have "a wood AID smith shop,
two doctors tina. stand ia the front rank of
their profession. ts2 ministers of the gospel,
and two professional school teachers. 1t
should have been noted ~ ks proper place
that between tnrec and four thousand bales
of cotton nave been shipped from Tins point,
and planters claim that &C is the best market
for the sale Of this staple they can find. As
might be inferred, everybody in the place
reads the APPEAL. CHIEL..
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