Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-07
SOUTHERN NEWS.

SOUTHERN NEWS.
Pinkeye continues at Chattanooga, Ten
| nessee.
Texarkana is to have an agricultural ex-
hibition this year.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, needs a hospital,
and wants one badly.
There were twenty-three business failures
| at Nashville last year.
Ex-Vice-President Wheeler is visiting rel
| atiYes at Chattanooga.
One tomato farm at Key West Florida,
has twelve thousand plants.
Three Butler county, Alabama, boys in one
days hunt killed fourteen foxes.
Fayetteville Arkansas, is being depopu-
lated on account of the smallpox.
The assets Of the municipality of Augusta
| Georgia, are set down at g, 100000
Hail "as large as guinea eggs" has bet n
! falling in Barbour county, Alabama.
The Charleston Is. C.) Nelcs ond Courier
has been sold to stock company for 500 900 cash.
Several thousand colored people of South
Carolina have made arrangements to go to Arkan-
| sas.
About five hundred towns in Arkansas
have refused liquor license under the three mile
| law.
| The Nashville american calls the Low-Tax
faction the bella donna section OF the Democratic
party"
A large steam tannery, with a capital of
100000, has been established Huntsville.
Alabama.
General Edward A. O'Neal, of Florence,
has been chosen president of the Alabama Bar
Association.
Colonel Theodore G. Baker is the choice
for governor of the Hampton element Of the South
Carolina Democracy.
The Nashville american says the Southern
Methodist publishing house is on the biggest boom
| ever known in its history.
G. r. Chew & Bro, Ozark, Arkansas, deal
ers in general merchandise, have failed Liabili-
ties, $1,000; assets, 5000.
Typhoid pneumonia is prevailing in many
localities in Alabama superinduced by the late
wet and variable weather.
Fifty wagons loaded with emigrants from
Alabama are route for Arkansas, and will settle
in Yell and adjoining counties.
The estimated value of railroad property
in Texas placed at $50 BOO which is thought
to be rather an underestimate
W. III. McCardle, jr., a son OF Major w.
II. McCardle died at his home. in Jefferson
county, MISSISSIPPI, on Thursday last.
The present assessment valuation of prop
eIty in Texas is said to be s63 600 600, increase
OF s4OOO0,0Oo since the assessment of 1850.
The farmers of East and Middle Tenne ssee
blowing in wheat and oats to extent never
before known in that section Of country.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Tribune complains
that the respectable young men of that city are
stoned oy roughs while escortng ladies home from
church.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Consolidation says Sena-
tor Hills seat is not in danger from Governor Col
quit, but from an independent If that is all,
Samuel w. IDman, treasurer Of the At
anta Exposition, is said TO have saved the show
from early failure by his princely contributions
and excellent management
There are eight prisoners in the Choctaw
county, Alabama, jail, ali colored. Three are |
preachers, and the other five claim to be consist
ent members of the church
A little GIRL has diad in Mobile A lahan,,
from the effects of the bite of cat. The wound |
i had healed but she was STACKED with hydropho-
bia and died in a few hours
The following postoffices in Alabama have |
mail goes to Princeyille Hyde Park Limestone !
county-mail goes to Elkmont
Arkansas has increased its population |
since $50 sixty-six per cent This is consider
ABLY above the ayerage and shows what she is do
Ing IN the way OF immigration.
Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, is out in a
letter agreeing with Montgomery Blair that the
Democrats should have nominated 1ilden in 1880,
and should nominate him in 1851
A number of robbeiies we're committed in
Houston, Texas last Sunday night, which the
larry organized band of burglars.
The Vicksburg Miss Herald wants to
legislature of that State to pass stringent law for
the punishment of chicken thieves.
The sum of S90,72 O6 was collected in De-
states internal revenue for the Nashville district
OF this amount $S0.S46 20 was on spirits
Over $4,000 are paid in Georgia in rev.
en- ne from fertilizers the fee of fifty cents per ton
More than 500 OOO have been received on inspec
lion OF fertilizers by the State of Georgia-Inore
than the department of agriculture has cost
Governor McEnery has accepted the resig-
First division of the Louisiana State National
Guard, and number of the officers of his staff
A stubborn mule, near Gadsden, Alabama,
carried Dr. D. E. Csson and Miss Pet Cobb into a
creek, where they remained three hours in water
them. ''O-' "''-s'Aii'e ie'cnea
while rising from in front of the fireplace with
child IN her arms, struck its head against the |
Instantly.
Over one thousand four hundred miles of
railroad have been built in Texas within the past
year yea, and during the same length of time one
wire have been erected.
Nelson White, the precocious little nine
gear-old printer and son of Mr.. Peter White. OF |
his home for several days His parents will reward
my one furnishing Information as to his where
tbouts.
A lover undertook to commit suicide in |
he presence OF the girl who rejected him Chat
anooga, Tennessee, but she prevented him by ,
orce first dashing bottle OF poison from his |
hands, and then, after hard struggle, dispossess
ng him of a razor.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution says: "There
scarcely a State in the South that has not one or
wo cheap heroes who are willing to be used as
Malone, and that they are Just about as useful in
,oitics bung Would be to a COOPER who was in
! hurry TO make barrel"
A gentleman largely interested i'll the pro-
'osed canal near Macon, Georgia, states that the
'roiect is not abandoned by any means At the
prominently to the front He is of The Opinion
hat the enterprise will only cost about s45o,0o0 V
A letter in the Tuscaloosa (Ala) Gazette I
peaks OF the result of two little drinking sprees in
hat county, as follows Two men killed, two | b
wives made widows several children made father i
State prso r a ever ysa t apg g
800 to $500 of costs OF court and Jail fees TO the
axpayers. a
The Charlotte IS. C) O6serrer, without dis
What the south waists is a plentiful supply of
rsined, skilled, thorough mechanics and work
rain ard cunning fingers, who take pleasure in I
heir calling, and work, not because they com
'eIeo TO, but because they like their calling and
re proud Of It. T.
Mississippi has four times as much pine Y
imber as Minnesota. From TenRess to Florid a d
carcely been touched by the lumbermsn From n
hese forests the world some day will get its wood
~ ny o1! ne useIdI Out also the ornamental a
oors, wagon stock and handles.
Land-Agent Niles, of the Memphis and 7
little Rock railroad, proposes to establish col .
etween Bailey Station and the L'AngIille river |
nth the Iron Mountain and Helena railroad The
M MI: Niles expects to recruit and build up his I
oIohy Inalny from that part OF the co ored poo
lie, who a few years since, emigrated to KANSAS.
Newspaper style is becoming elevated in q
exas-deeidedly The editor of the Gates a
lille Sun not only has high ideas of his functions |
Ut expresses them in a highfalutin way. He says .
e enters upon them with IAN fmperious conscious a
ess OF a personal committal to the high moral 1
esponslDlItles incident To position recognized u
Intelligence and morality a representative
nd formative entity, molding and vita ziug the 4,
Intelligent constituency who perpetuates by pre- =
lgative its existence" n
tO0d Advice from a Leading Medical s.
Professor. R
The learned doctor says: keep some kind h
tonic medicine al prars in the hnr,sa and