Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-25
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

Oxford, Miss, wants a cotton factory.
The smallpox in Jackson county, Ark, ia
decreasing.
Yszeo City, Miss, wants cotton factory
and compress.
Texas has 100000 acres of school land,
worth Sl00,000,00.
The Southern Presbyterian Church has
5000 elders and 1000 deacons.
Altogether there are between 1900 and
lSo0 blind persons in Tennessee.
A Southern scientist has discovered that
alcohol can be produced from acorns.
Samuel johnson, Of Tallapoosa, Ala, shot
at dog, and killed his fourteen-year-old
niece.
Sheep do well in many parts of Louisians,
and now attention is being paid to that in
dustry.
versity will probably be located at the
capital.
Cotton worms are said to have appeared
in large numbers in the Yszoo valley, Mis-
sissippi.
year-old hen which is raising brood Of her
own chickens.
The citizens of Clarksville, Ark, have sub
scribed literally for the erection of an oil
mill in their town.
Seaborn Reese, a young lawyer of Han
cock county, Ga, is spoken of as the successor
OF Alex III. Stephens.
The public library at Knoxville, Tenn,
has 1900 new books, is out of debt, and has
$4,000 in the treasury.
Jasper county (Ga.) miller reports that
he ground turn of new corn raised in the
county, on the 9th of July Last.
A young VirgiHian has invented ma
chine which turns out $50 cigarettes per
minuies Ii is on exhibition atLynchburg.
The Agricultural and Mechanical College
OF Mississippi, like the University, will be
opened for young ladies at its next session.
Five miles from Lawrenceburg, Tenn,
there is an elm tree which measures los feel
in diameter and 329 feet in circumference
from tip TO tip OF its branches.
At Chattanooga, Sunday, the residence of
w. P. Rathburn, president of the National
| Bank, caught FIRE from defective iue, and
| the residence and contents were damaged
between $4,000 and $4,000. The loss is COW
cred by insurance.
A man in Georgia, who has been making
| experiments on watermelons, has discovered
| that seven per cent of the matter in them is
| saccharine, and that an acre of good land
| will produce "a 500 pounds of watermelons,
which will yield 2, AIS pounds Of sugar, worth
say $241 so.
There seven cases of smallpox on en-
tennial island, in Upton county, Tenn. The
chairman of the Upton County Court sp-
peals TO the State Board of Health 10 stake
| it in charge, as it is on great thoroughfare,
| the Mississippi river, and will probably
spread and do great deal OF damage"
At fair of the Congregational church at
Palestine, Tex, forty young women gave an
| exhibition drill with fans, showing how grace
| full and bewitchingly these articles can be
used. Then the fans were sold by auction,
| the prices depending on the popularity of
its contributor, the whole profit reschiDg
$3.50.
A New Orleans paper says that the inces-
SAINT rains have produced, round about that
| city, a crop of blind mosquitoes, which fill
| the air and make visit to the lake shore
| anything but pleasant recreation. 1t is fur
| Their SAID that they do not bite, but fill the
eyes, mouth and nose, so as TO make it al
| most impossible to see or breathe.
The Nashville Banner makes the follow
| ing extraordinary statement: Several days
| ago little girl of Robert Looney, who re-
sides at Goodlettsville, was playing with the
wheel of wagon, and accidentally swal-
lowed it. 1t lodged in her throat, and has 80
clogged it up that she has been unable to
take food, except liquids. since the accident
occurred. Her life has almost been despaired
OF, and an operation will hsye to be per-
formed if she recovers.D