Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-22
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

Ripley, Miss, had ripe Strawberries this
week.
The country papers say the cold snap has
wonderfully multiplied marriages.
Knoxville will soon have its new water
works going. Three and a half miles eff pipe
is laid.
The Texas cowboys have been swindled by
some of the matrimonial schemers and they
threaten bloody revenge.
Those farmers are coming out best with
their cotton profits this year whose mules are
fed on corn grown on the farm.
On one day last week the Knoxville library
had 225 visitors. How many attend the
library in Odd-Fellows Hall?
The Knights of Honor of Holly Springs,
Miss, met at their hall Friday night and held
an election of officers for the ensuing year.
The youths OF Jackson, Tenn, complain
that their handsomest young ladies are all
carried off by outsiders bad compliment
for the youths.
Gallatin, Tenn, has had five whites and
fifteen negroes sick from smallpox and seven
deaths. The sto 'es there have lost much
custom in consequence.
Batesville, Ark, is putting up public
schoolhouse. With new scnoolhouse and
no saloons BatesvilIe will prosper. The new
Methodist church will soon be opened.
Fruit trees have become popular, they
say, and orchards are planting in many parts
oil the South. Florida oranges are not the
only fruit by which money can be made.
The Law and Order Association of Knox
vile have, in strong terms, called upon the
City Council to take measures to stop the
carrying OF concealed weapons in that city.
Many of the country weather prophets
have discovered that the warm fall we have
had is owing to the comet. So it appears
that like human sinners comets are not all
bad.
The Literary and Musical Society of Holly
SPRING., Miss, held an exceptionally
pleasant and instructive meeting Friday
night at the hospitable residence of Capt.
Sam Frank.
Balesyille, Ark, allows no liquor saloons.
The Filot of that place complains that the
steamer Cherokee when she comes Ain sells
barrels of whisky, and talks of calling in the
aid of the law.
Geological examination reveals in the
delta Of the Mississippi, along a space of 800
miles, ten distinct forests of buried trees.
Bald expresses have been found with dame
ter of twenty-five feet.
Smallpox is troubling Knoxville On
Friday The city physician stated to the City
Council there that the disease was contracted
in Chattanooga, "where there are known TO
be thirty-seveu new cases."
The Board of Medical Censors for the
North Mississippi District, will meet In
Holly Springs, at the Office of DIR. DAncy, on
the second Monday in December. for the
purpose OF examining candidates for license
TO practice medicine in Mississippi.
At Gallatin, Tenn, Mr.. Lackey's negro
nurse on going 10 bed filed the CRATE with
coal. Some OF it fell out and set fire to the
lt-F~ unt.n .-I. IL
much burned and died the next day.
Pamela county, Miss, is proud Last year
it took cotton premiums at Memphis and at
st. Louis, and this year out of 500 bales
competing at Little Rock, two of its bales
took the premium. Good for Pamela county.
j. B. Tinsley, man of good family, pre-
scented note for $4,000 for hypothec4tion at
bank at Cleveland, Tenn. The bank
officials suspected that there was something
wrong, and had him arrested, after which
Tinsley shot himself through the head.
Near Caswell, Miss., Mr.. A. B. Coffee en-
ployed p. Morehouse TO bring to him from
the Abbeville express office a package con-
tanning $1,000. The man got 1t, then run off
with it on borrowed horse. He was taken,
together with $3.50 of the money and $500
worth of clothing he had bought
At Brownsville, Miss, an old sixty-four-
ton gun, that had been spiked, was fired off
by rejoicing Democrats who stood, however,
at a respectful distance. They did not move
the Jail out OF the way, nor the Planters
House, nor Reeds Hotel, and all three of
them were visited by heavy fragments, for
@the old thing busted"
On Sunday at noon man was arrested as
he was running, quite, naked, along Main
street, Marysyille, Tenn. He said he was
from Georgia, had been Baptist minister,
had relapsed and abused the confidence of a
Macon firm that had employed him, but
that day God had restored him TO life and
commanded him to convert the world. He
writes fine hand and is evidently well edu-
Gated.