Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-02-26
WINONA, MISS.
Bright Prospects of Good Times Ahead
for the Planting COmmunity-An
Educational PhIlanthrepist
The Appeals POpu-
Iarity, Etc.
Occasional Correspondence of the Appeal.

Occasional Correspondence of the Appeal
WINoNA, MISS, February "A In my last
letter | made mention, with much satisfac-
ton, that after long aud dreary spell of
heavy rain-falls, we were having glimpses of
genial sunshine that betokened such a season
as would allow the planters to drive their
teams afield; but, alas, for the pleasures of
hope; scarcely had hope begun to buoy up
despairing industry, before it was disslpated
In gloomy pail OF murky, o'ercast sky, fir ON
which has fallen, as Though the windows OF
heaven were opened, a minor cataclysm.
As a consequence, the labor of the country
has been depressingly retarded, and the
planters are naturally Respondent; presently
the signs bespeak clear weather, but the
most careful observers having found them
selves at fault in their deductions, have be-
come chary Of expressing an opinion touch
ing the matter. The large amount Of vim so
wondrously and wisely dovetaIled into
the human economy comes happily to
the aid of the depressed in every
instance, and in no one more so than
the present, and, it is consoling fact that,
Notwithstanding the retarding influences
which now so beset the industry OF the land,
the toilers of the earth hereabouts bear up
wonderfully well, and it is to be hoped that
a slow import may bring a quick income to
reward labor with a teeming harvest. Dur
ing the past week Winona was more than
ordinarily brisk by reason of the spring ses-
SIOn VI luO SiACull COuICs OuuSO SOIIlIdu pre-
siding, who is not only a gentleman of the
old, and therefore the better type, but just
judge. 1t is pleasing methinks, to every
patriot, to hear good tidings of things that
pertain to the education of the youth of the
land, and | therefore write briefly, but proud
ly of the course being pursued TO this end by
the phIlanthropic and very generous DIR. C.
NJ. Walden, of Walden, who has presented
thirty-two poor young men-sons some Of
them, of fathers who laid down their lives
around the sacred altar of the Lost Cause"
now attending the classes of our Oxford, who
are supported by his personal munlfceuce;
their ten factor has not become weary in we'll
doing, and will continue the glorious work.
What a shining record is his, and what
present glory and future fame will it conjure
up to render his name respected and honcred,
and his memory immortalzed. The friends
and admirers of Hon. Ii. D. Money, and they
are legion in his district, have had great rea-
son lately to feel proud that one of their very
able and tlreless representatives in congress,
whose speeches delivered of late, and espe
cially that on the vexed question of Chinese
immigration, have PLACED him on the high
plane Of IN unmistakable craftsmanship, and
rendered him more than ever a statesman IN
very Truth. The views and thoughts which
he has wisely adopted and eloquently in |
culcated during his highly conservative con- |
gressional course have made him a repre- |
sentative man not of Mississippi only, but of |
the United States, and his career will of |
surety be onward and upward. 1t becomes |
a pleasing thought to its numerous friends to |
note that the APPEAL continues 10 fight so |
the battles of good old Mem |
phis. not only as regards matters in respect |
to her physical health, but against the cor |
morants who would fain tear away from her |
PROSTATE and impoverished BODY the last |
pound of flesh. That the modern Taxing |
District may hold her own and rise ere long |
to renewed life is the sincere hope of
DELTA