Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-17
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

Four colored colleges flourish in Atlanta,
Ga.
Fevers OF typhoid form prevail in Pine
Bluff, Ark.
Little Rock, Ark, rejoices in the luxury
| of a roller-skatlng rink.
Talbot was the only county in Georgia
that held fair this year.
Columbus, Ga, is moving 10 build thor
| ough system of street railways.
The new directory for Knoxville, Tenu.,
places the population at II isl.
A second crop of June apples has been
gathered near Birmingham, Ala.
The lower counties of Georgia are flooded
with counterfeit 50 so gold pieces.
The sale of Intoxicating liquor ceases at
Van Buren, Ark, after January LIST.
Nashville, Tenn, is overrun with thieves.
Burglaries continue almost Rightly.
The huh and spoke factory at McMinn-
vile, Tenn, will soon begin operations.
A Georgia farmer has some Egyptian cot
ton growing on his place that is ten feet high.
Thomsston, Ga, is overrun with an army
of rats, which has become perfect plague.
The total valuation of property in Texas
is put down, in round numbers, at $780,
100000.
AT Chattanooga on Mosday three board
ers at the same house were seized with the
smallpox.
Gallatin, Temp, has had fourteen cases of
smallpox for the last four weeks. Better
vaccinate.
The Nashville Banner has an article headed
the "The Democratic Tide"-yes, and tied il
tight, too.
About Prescott, Ark, they had second
crop OF grass and peach tr les in full bloom
before the frost.
Alamo, Tenn, wants missionaries; the
heather there let the hogs root up the
graves in the cemetery.
The Jackson (Tenn.) Dispatch says that
undiscovered emigrant wagon are passing
through there every day.
lot of Confederate bonds, amounting 10
S145 800, was sold recently at Charleston, s.
c., for SIP SO per $1,000.
Father Ryan, the oet-priest, is lecturing
in Gulf-coast cities on Atheism and Iuf-
deity Tried at the Tribunal of Common
Sense"
The Paris (Tenn.) Isteligeneer says gold
has been discovered on the Rev. Mr.. Arm
strong's farm at Brownsville, Haywood
county.
Fine molssses, equal to New Orleans mo-
leases, is made in Hall county, Ala, from
blue sugar cane; 400 gallons is made from
an acre.
The bronze statue of the late Senator Ben
Hill, to be erected in Atlanta, Ga, will cost
$4,000. One-half of the amount has been
subscribed.
The Selma (Ala.) Times says $4,000 has
been squandered by Selma people in mairi-
monial insurance companies, all of which
has been lost.
The Liberian fever has broken out among
the negroes in various portions of North
Carolina, and many are anxious to eInigrate
to that country.
Charleston, S. c., points with pride TO a
wholesale trade of nearly $75,000,000 last
year, an increase of about 100000 over
the preceding year.
According TO the Mississippi Handbook,
there are 175, 251 white and Isl ,438 colored
children attending the free schools in that
State, at cost Of $S30,701.
A meteor fell at Mt. Airy, N. c., recently,
burying itself several feet in the earth.
The m ass greatly resembled iron ore, and
weighed several hundred pounds.
Sixty men are at work on the Garland
City (Ark.) railroad bridge. The trains run
thirty miles west of Camden; thirty-two
miles more brings it to Pine Bluff.
Aberdeen, Miss, has received 1865 bales
of cotton this season, against 1920 up 10 the
same time in 1871. Monroe county has this
year raised an immense tobacco crop.
The Rev. DR.. Harrison has resided but
brief time in Nashville and vet, the Bonner
says, not less than a dozen attempts have
been made by burglars to rob his house.
The farmers in m any places,we are glad to
see, are SO grati6ed with what their fruit
trees have brought them this fall that they
are setting out thousands OF young trees.
Nashville hotel.keepers are happy; from
thirty to forty candidates for every office to
be disposed of in the State are reported to
be crowdins the dining-tables and bedrooms,
The Columbus (Miss.) EEaminer reports
the loss by fire of the steam ginhouse on the
Colby place, an eighty-saW gin, corn mill,
engine, ETC., and Two bales of cotton were
burned.
At Little Rock on Tuesday DIR. Biedel-
mans drug-sbop window was on fire. The
sunlight passing through cologne bottle
was brought to focus, and set fire 10 a shelf
and the covering on it.
Two years sgo 80 little dried fruit was
shipped from Tennessee that il was scarcely
worthy of note. The business has now
grown, however, to be one of the most i'm
portsnt in the State
On the 2lst instant the Alabama State |
Temperance Convention will meet in Mont |
1t will determine In what shape
to press the Temperance question before the
Legislature now in session.
People who like to read about robberies |
find the Nashville papers mighty interest
ing" just now; the Banner says people there !
are furnishing up their old muskefs 10 pick |
off some Of the nightly performers-
An artesian we'll at Thomasville, Ga, has !
reached depth of ], 100 feet mostly through |
solid rock, without getting flow OF water. |
Many fine specimens of iossil sea-shells are
brought up from the bottom.
At Warner Station, on the Arkansas Val
ley railway, on Friday. the colorsd brake
man was stepping frem one freight ear TO an
,ther when he slipped and fell on the rail.
When the train passed he was ground up.
The Little Rock Gdsette says that owing
% the scarcity of Arksnsas justices, they
IRE selling there at s.. Owing TO the spsci-
mems of Arkansas Justice some of them have
exhibited we should doubt their being worth
he money.