Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-04
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

Half-pound peaches are common in San
| Sata, Tex.
Chickasaw county, Miss, levies tax OF
| SIS per $1,000.
Madison county, KY, has mule that
| gives milk like COW.
| The South will make 1000, 900 gallons of
| cotton-seed oil this year.
The principal streets of Atlanta, Ga, are
being rapidly macadamized.
A new hotel is being erected at Houston,
Tex, which will cost 100000.
Ex.Gov. Stone, of Mississippi, runs boot
and shoe store at Iuka, in that State.
| Mississippi's new asylum for the blind will
| be opened about the latter part OF October.
The artesian we'll at Meridian, Miss has
! reached a depth of $50 feet, and the end is
not yet.
| Thirty-fve cents per bushel for corn at
| Starkviile and West Point, Miss 1t wss
| 81 40 last spring.
A Moss Point (Miss.) negress recently gave
birth TO four babies. Who says the colored
race is dying out?
The Mississippi Stock Breeders Associa-
| ton will hold its fourth annual fair at
Meridian, October 30th.
A special session OF the Episcopal Council,
to elect an assistant bishop for Mississippi,
will be held at Jackson in November.
There being no paupers at all in Amite
county, Miss, the superintendent OF the poor
farm has resigned, and the place shut up.
| 1t il said that Vicksburg. Miss, with a
population of between $4,000 and $4,000 in
| habitants, is able to count on but one mail
per week.
| Meridian, Miss, has thus far received
| about 300 bales of this years cotton, which
has brought from 113 TO life for middling.
A good market for small place.
A preacher in Clay county incurred the
| ill-will of some scoundrels in his neighbor-
hood, and the miscreants revenged them
selves by cutting off his horses tail.
Two hundred German immigrants arrived
at Brennan, Tex, il one day recently. They
came direct to Galveston by steamer, and
thence by rail proceeded TO their destination.
Alexander Doyle, .he New Orleans sculp-
! tor. has lust completed the model for a
statue of Gen. +. E. Lee, to be erected in
| that city. 1t is said TO be an excellent like
| ness.
In the overlooked district of the parish of
st. Laundry, La, malsrial fever is prevalent,
causing much distress among the people;
also in RichIand, Madison, Lincoln and Car
roll parishes.
1t is rather costly sometimes 10 start a
street car too soon. Mrs. Kemp, OF Baltimore,
who was injured by the starting OF car
while she was getting off, has obtained
verdict of $4,000 damages.
Madstoues appear 10 have market value
in North Carolina, where a local paper re-
cords the sale of halI-interest in one for s.,
adding that a clouded title lessened the
value of the share disposed of.
Arkansas women petition against saloons
on the same conditions as men. Conse-
quently whisky has generally to 60. The
on-keepers contested .heir legal right TO
petition, but the law has been pronounced
constitutional by the court.
A reporter of the Net Mississipian was in
formed by the Secretary of State last Mon
day that his record showed that there were
225 matrimonial insurance and endowment
companies in Mississippi, with between fifty
and seven,y-fve charters on file.
In Wilkinson county, Miss, there is man
who, in 1860, registered a vow that he would
not cut his hair or shave his whiskers till the
Southern Confederacy had gained her indie
pendence. He has kept his voWf and now
his hair reaches his knees and his whiskers
are long and shaggy.
The editor of the Augusta (Ga.) EUening
| News is an amateur entOmOlogis, and has
made the important discovery that good
healthy bullbat can swallow at least quart
OF guats daily; and that the reckless oestruc-
| ion of bullbats by sportsmen causes an ex-
ira large crop of these pestiferoUs little
creatures
The Texas Rangers are home guards Pc
culiar to themselves. There are 200 Of
them in all, employed by the State govern
ment to ride rough-shod over lawlessntss.
They enlist for a year and are required to
furnish their own horses, saddles, brides,
rifles, pistols and clothing, not uniform.
The dress is go-as-you please. They get
$50 month and rations, and do good ser
vice.
In Henry county, Ga, recently, Henry
Willis bad occasion to reprove colored
farm laborer. The negro used bad Language,
and Mr.. Wilts's sop, mere boy, threatened
to knock him down. At this the feDd grasped
the boys right hand, with a grip Of iron,
| and before the father could interfere drew =
large knife and hacked the hand of at the
wrist joint. He then escaped.