Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-27
MISSISSIPPI EXTRACTS.

The Board OF Supervisors of Coahona
| allow s. for every wolf scalp taken in the
limits of the county.
The mayor of Meridian has issued proc
| lamation calling on citizens to come forward
and be vaccinatsd. He says the city il
threatened with smallpox.
Greenwood Flag: "Oger sixty pupils have
enrolled in the Greenwood public school, and
ten or fifteen more are promised. The num-
Der has doubled in the past four years.
Owing to the impossible roads we have had
no mails from the railroad for some DAYS
past, and we don't know much about what is
going on abroad"
Oxford Falcon: There is no tailor in OK
ford $500. We are running a newspaper for
glory 49,. The present hog law insures the
safety of city gardens. 49,. Our city is now
lighted at night with thirteen street lamps.
-. The ladders and buckets ordered by
our city fathers, to be used in case of fires,
were brought up from the depot last week"
Pontotoc Democrat: "Mrs. Willis Grant,
living near Cherry creek, committed suicide
on Monday, the 18th instant, by jumping
into a we'll. The wheat and oat crop is
unusually promising. The amount sown is
largely in excess of any year since the war,
estimated by some to be FIVE times greater
49,. The courthouse is leaking badly 49,.
Mr.. Jack Sappington drove his wagon into a
little creek few miles north OF Oconita-
hatchie creek, near the Union and Pontotoc
line, which was swimming, and drowned his
wife, sister, and one OF his children. The
bridge had been washed away by the swollen
stream, and Mr.. Sappington, unaware of the
fact, drove into the stream, experimenting no
danger. He escaped himself and saved an
infant child"
Columbus Lader: "a good many negroes
were driven to town by the water, and good
many were brought here in boats. These
were quartered partly in the MAYORS Office
and partly in Union Academy. The major
ity OF them are still at the academy and in
different portions of town. They are all des-
titute, and are being furnished with supplies
by the county The new iron bridge over
Luxspalila. though subjected to a severe
strain, passed safely through the freshet.
The approach on the opposite side of the
creek was completely washed away. .....
There is still some cotton in the section
tributary to Columbus. This, when all in,
will swell our receipts, which now reach
twenty-fo four thousand four hundred and forty
four, to about twenty-six thousand bales"
The Aberdeen Examiner says the farmers
are Respondent on account OF the continued
rain, and remarks that "it very frequently
happens that the plows are stopped in the
months of March and April, and if those
months can be entirely utilized more plant
ing and farm work can be done and more
progress made than with dry January and
a wet spring.. Almost before any prepa-
ration could be made for the removal or
protection of stock in the bottoms, the river
came booming all over the lowlands and on
Tuesday evening was almost as high as it
was at the memorable overflow of 1874
The loss Of stock of all kinds will amount
to thousands of dollars in this county, and
great fear is entertained for the safety of
the bridge. -. There is danger OF the loss
of life from drowning of persons who are
obliged 10 boat it in removing themselves
and household effects out to high ground.
The damage to the farming interests will be
quite considerable in Monroe county. 80.
The train on the Aberdeen branch road,
when between Muldoon and this city, found
the bridge had been undermined by the
recent heavy rains and the swollen con-
dition of the stream, and it gave
way when the train rolled upon it. The
trestle over this creek is, perhaps, thirty feet
high and sixty seventy feet long, anu the
water so high that il came within a short
distance Of the tracks, and when about half
way across some of the timbers gave way and
the frost trucks of the engine jumped the
track, but the train was moving very
slowly it was stopped in almost an instant,
and the engine only sank down about four
feet with no other damage TO the train or
passengers. Engineer McCaskill and Fire
man Lemon jumped into the water, when
the latter was drowned"
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