Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-26
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

pislrlct.
Miss that have no aatri%oni aTs sss q
Citations.
N. Carr, OF Pontoloc county. Miss,
killed nineteen rattlesnakes in one pile few
days since.
Apples eighteen inches in circumference,
and weighing two pounds are raised in Paies-
tine, Tex.
Holly Springs, Mics, is to have new
Jail, to cost 81 ,974 so. 1t ought to be
good one.
A matrimonial society, to be conducted
exclusively by ladies, has been organized at
Vicksburg, Miss.
A terrapin was recently captured in Anite
county, Miss, and on It's back was cut ST.
NJ. F., 1860"
During the present year Improvements to
the value of $229, 800 have been made in
Little Rock, Ark.
A sweet potato weighing five pounds has
been received by the editor OF the Collier
Vile (Tenn.) Mail.
The Kentucky penitentiary numbers
among its inmates ten children under the
age of fifteen years.
The Atlanta, Ga, postoffics does more
money order business than any other post
Office in the South.
A fatal disease, something like diphtheria,
is prevailing to some extent at Oak Hill,
near Collierville, Tenn.
A willow growing at Augusta, Ca, is an
offshoot from tree that grew over the grave
of Napoleon at st. Helena.
There sre 10000 people in Baltimore who
do not belong to any Christian church.
Plenty OF room for missionaries.
Good peanut crops will be made in Ten
b.
price of the luxury will probably decline.
The Confederate Aag-pole at the county
seat of Early county, Ga, still stands where
it was planted over twenty lone years ago.
At Conover, N. c., two-year-old child
fell into a post hole, which was about half
full Of water, head first, and was drowned.
A resident of Jacksonville, Fla, set a hen
upon a nest of alligator eggs, and two of the
reptiles were Matched out in due season.
Halt the population of Waco, Tex, WAS
poisoned on cheap lemonade few days ago,
and several parties had narrow escapes from
death.
The tax returns of Georgia show an in
crease in property valuation of over &c.,
900 900 this year-$2S7 100000 in all. Man
ufactories did 1t.
One Georgia editor has his bands full of
business. Mr.. N. C. Napier publishes the
Dade County Gazette.
A broker in Macon, Ga, bought $4,000
worth of Confederate bonds one day last
week. For some he paid as his ID as 81 so
per $1,000. What is he going to do with
theme-
Griffin, Ga, has the largest peach orchard
in the South, containing $4,000 trees and
covering most of 600 acres. On the same
farm are 1000 grated apple trees and 5000
pear trees.
There is q curiosity in Natchez, Miss, in
the way of china tree thatshas taken root
beneath lamp-post and sent its trunk up
the post, putting forth leaves inside the
lantern thereon.
Miss Minerva Tucker, fifteen-year-old
school girl and heiress 10 S300,00O, eloped
ago, aud WAS married to DR.. Cunningham,
aged twenty-five.
The Petersburg (Va.) Inde1-Appcal tells
of a strange animal, half man and half
sheep in appearance, and which walks as
well on its hind legs as on all fours, that is
frightening The natives N the country ada
cent to Petersburg.
New Orleans wssherwom an hbs In the
past fifteen years raised a family of father
less children, given them all good educa-
tions, purchas handsome house. and has
SO 900 laid away for rainy day. Her en-
tire possessions were earned at the wash-tub.
A fruit-raiser at Quitman, Ga, has peach
trees whose leaves are perfectly black. The
fruit, also, is black at first, but turns white
when ripening. The trees were carried from
North Carolina many years sgo, and are
distinct species of which The fruit men seen:
to know nothing.
Probably the youngest farmers in the
country are two children living near Shreve-
port, La, who have eight acres in cotton and
ten acres in corn, and will make good crops.
The children are brother and sister, sged re-
spectively thirteen and ten years, and have
done most of their own work.
There sre some sixty sassafras-oil distil-
leries in Buckingham county, Va, and they
engage three hands st each mill. They con-
sumo each per day 1000 pounds of roots and
make sixty gallons of oil, worth from 81 so
to % per gaiion-S2Io to 500 per day, and
for the year from S54, 900 TO $4,000.
A little negro boy, about eight years OF
sg,, was recently brought before Judge Nc
Lemore, of CoI1mbis, Tenn, charged with
stealing peck of corn from Justice Levi
King. The Judge ordered the boy to be dis
charged, and the costs of the Gaze charged to
the prosecutor. TIE boy had been IN Jail
about month.
The colored people OF Delaware have long
bravely struggled 10 support their schools,
raising by contributions among themselves
two thirds Of the necessary sum. They have
forty six schools, and not until last year did
the Legislature give them any help. Its
appropriation was only S2400. The colored
population is oDe-ffth of the entire popula-
ton of the State.
All Florida hogs are not OF the rszor-back
variety. The local of the Tailahass Flo
Yididn has found some in that city which,
for babiee are hard TO beat. One Berkshire
Poland China pig, ten months old, weighs
1928 pounds; one Berkshire, seventeen months
old, weighed 463 pounds, while another Po-
land -Chins, about the same age. tipped the
beam at SAT pounds.
Says the Raymond (Mips Gdsst,e: at is
with much gratihcstion We can say that
wool-growipg is becoming an in !ustry of
much importance in this part of MISSES ppi,
and especially in this county. II is not too
much to say, perhaps, that one-half Of our
most substantial farmers now have either
small or respectable focks of sheep, and all
are pleased with their investments"
A singular story comes from Pineville,
Ga. Some two years ago a negro killed
and put 1t in pan over the fire
to fry for its grease. He then went TO the
field to work, and later in the day his little
two-year-old child, becoming hungry, ate of
the reptile, thinking It an eel. Since then
the child has been subject 10 violent spasms,
during which it acts as if il had partaken of
the o nature of the snake