Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-14
MISSISSIPPI.
Snow at Friars POInt-A Lawsuit In
vOIyIng s06 $50 Acres of Land.
A Theatrical Per fOrmance at Columbus
"A ChRWed Finger Causes Death.

Water Valley has two weather-vanes;
Memphis has neither public clock nor vane.
The broom drill spreads wide; most coun-
try towns get "spelF' of it, but it never
lasts long.
Some of the sheep-raising counties in Mis-
sissippi wish the German sausage-makers
would visit their neighborhoods for material,
not fer settlement and manufacture.
Yszoo City Herald, 9th: 1.-TWO youths, Irby
and Henderson, got into fight near Pickens
Station, and Henderson 'chawed' the finger
of Irby; in day or it had to be amputated,
and a few days later the boy died 49,.
Yszoo City last Wednesday voted $4,000 to
the capital stock of the YazOo and Missis-
sippi Valley railroad-for, 306; against,
none."
Aberdeen Examiner 9th: "Let the i'm
provements in Monroe county this year in
clude two or three huge hay-stacks in every
barnyard. This style of architecture was
resuscitated with happy effect last season,
and those who adopted it 'builded wiser
than they knew. Aberdeen shipped off
1906 bales of cotton from September 1st to
June 9TH; during the same time in 1881,
81 $50 bales; in 1880, 90 $50 bales; in 1879,
1878 bales; in 1878, II ,229 bales. Our
new steam fire engine has arrived"
Friars Point Gazette: "On Tuesday night
fall of snow was observed by several parties
in our town.. The FriaT5 Point Oil
Mill closed for the season last Saturday
night. The works will now be thoroughly
overhsuled, and new machinery placed in.
......... There is a lawsuit on the docket in
the courts of this county involving a claim
to big sized piece of land embracing T06,-
$50 acFes.........Aa unknown colored WON an,
with an infant and boy of twelve, took
possession of cotton pen on the Rozell
place, and there the boy died of smallpox.
Hlnax Of xuha for
with her infant. The pen was found burned
down the day after she went"
Columbus Indez, 1O,h: "The street sprink-
Ter has had to give out; the city charged him
$40 for water. "A Lamar county farmer
brought 400 barrels of new -four to market
yesterday. Miss Minnie Wallace played
Gap the Neus6oy on last Thursday night. A
very slim audience witnessed the perform
ance. A small organette, which wheezed as
though it was troubled with asthma, and
manipulated by a man who seemed tired of
life and wanted to make everybody else sad,
furnished the orchestral music. The door
keeper yawned YEARLY, and looked as sour
and insipid as an isolated yellow rind in a
barrel of circus lemonade. Miss Minnie is
neither pretty nor attractive"
THE CROPS.
At Chesterville there is considerable COM
plant of the cotton dying and leaving poor
stands. The corn crop looks we'll.
Pontotoc Democrat, 10th: "King Cotton is
sick in this locality. Farmers shake their
heads and talk id undertones in regard to
his condition" =.
Columbus Inder, 10Th: "Goo1 rains have
fallen in this section during the last few
days. They were needed, and will improve
the crop prospects materially"
Aberdeen Examiner, 9th: ''The rain of
and ha fret hat
has been really needed since the 1st of Janu-
airy. The young cotton and corn had begun
to suffer in some localities"
Yazoo Herald, 9th: ave have seen several
gentlemen who are planting on the Yazoo
river in town this week, and were glad to
hear them speak so encouragingly of the
crop prospect"
Friars Point Gazette, 9th: "Crops about
Clarksdale are in fine condition. The
overflow encoaches so much upon the West
over plantation in Arkansas, opposite Friars
Point, that out of 700 acres usually put in
cotton and corn only about fifty acres can be
cultivated this season."
Tupelo journal: sour information in ref
erence TO the crops in this section is to the
effect that, although the present outlook is
little gloomy, the situation is not so bad that
favorable weather from now on would not
secure full crop, but a continuance of cold
would destroy the cotton"
The Conservative says: "There has never
been within our recollection such a universal
complaint of bad stands Of cotton in this
county. Cotton continues TO die, and very
few farmers claim to have anything like a
stand. The corn crop generally is in good
fix, and We hope for good yield"
Shubuta Messenger, 10th: "The first cot
ton bloom Of the season was brought to cur
Office on Thursday by Mr.. S. III. Floyd,
plucked from the cotton-ield of Mr.. w.
Hays, few miles east of Shubuts, on Tues
day, the 9Th. 1t presented healthy ap-
pearance, and is the first we have heard or
read Of"