Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-07

! bales of cotton, $50 bushels of corn, SOC
bushels of potatoes, 5000 pounds of fodder
and ten barrels OF cane syrup.
According TO the best information there
are about $500, 900 sheep in Texas. Valu
ing them at 81 30 per head, it woul make
the total valuation OF sheep in the State
s13, 100000.
Benton county, Ark. has had an immense
apple crop and hundreds of kilns have been
constructed for preparing dried fruit fol
| shipment TO Europe. There IL money IN
apples as we'll as in Florida oranges.
The cotton screwmen of Galveston, Tex.
| have been on a strike for several days past
| The trouble grew out OF a steyedore, who
! was short of hands, employing negroes, the
| white men refusing to work with the black
The Savannah (TenD.) Transcript says:
| "The woods are filled with mast this fall, bu,
| unfortunately there are 30 few hogs TO get
| the benefit" In our country exchanges from
| all parts we see the same melancholy COM
plant.
The Nashville Banner announces: "Tne
| much-talked-of omission by the engrossiDg
| clerk Of the Senate of three counties from a
congressional district has been settled by the
| governor issuing certificates to all the con-
gressmen-elect."
The Knoxville and Louisville railroad is
| line; the Knoxville people going 10 Cincn-
natl travel by way of Chattsnooga, 400
miles. Cincinnati by this new road will be
only 800 miles away.
Chattanooga, according 10 the latest ac-
| counts, had ten cases of smallpox under
| treatment and five convalescent in the city:
| thirty under treatment and thirty GONZALES.
cent in the pesthouse, all of whom are we'll
| qusrantined and strictly guarded.
The Nashville Banner says: Farmers
report that the country was never SO over
| stocked with young pigs and shoats. If they
thrive and do we'll until winter, and there is
corn enough 10 feed them, there will be an
| immense hog crop twelve months hencen
The people of Crawford county, Ark.
boast that they come from everywhere
from the free States. They want more
neighbors, and promise hospitality, respect
for all forms of religion and tolerance for all
varieties of political opinion.
One-third of the inmates of the David
son county (Tenn.) lunatic asylum are
paupers and are principally negroes. Lu-
macy is said 10 increase with advancing
civilization, and it becomes a curious ques-
ton whether the negroes free have greater
proportion than the negroes slaves.
Brownsville (Tenu.) States and Bee: "Gen.
DaLe never IuOuSn ne mas cigar In
his mouth the greater par. of his time.
During his recent visit TO Brownsville he
stated that during a bloody battle of the late
war, while the leaden missiles were flying
thick and fast, and while dear brother was
lighting cigar for him (Gen. Bate, the
former was instantly killed. Since the sad
occurrence Gen. Bale has never lit cigar"
Knoxville people know one thing we IN
Memphis have not learned yet; they know
the value OF public library. Their library
in one day this week had over $50 visitors
read during the day ana usually gentlemen
at night. This week the library has been
able to purchase 400 additional volumes.
Memphis is offered SIS, 900 worth of books,
and will not put up a building to house
them in.
Says the New Iberia (La.) lSugar-Borvl:
"The recent cool weather has wrought
great change in the cane, for while before
there was large proportion of molasses,
OF late the quantity of saccharine matter
has been so largely increased that the yield
in sugar is most astounding, with little
molasses. We have heard of one we'll au-
thenlicated case where fourteen acres of
cane yielded seventy-one hogsheads of sugar,
and the crop on that place (Mr. Himel's
Gold Mine Plantation, in St. john, which
was not expected to make over 800 hogs
heads OF sugar, now promises to give about
1900. This is not by any means an isolated
case, for almost everywhere the sugar yield
is larger than was expected-in many places
1000 to 5000 pounds to the acre."