Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-27
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

Whitaker, the crop-eared colored ex.cldet
is still lecturing in Georgia.
The Selma (Ala.) Times reports The negroe
of that city rapidly dying out.
| Mont Eagle Springs, Tenn, has been se
lected as the Southern Chautauqua."
Dry murrain is proving very destructive
to cattle in the neighborhood of Wittsburg
Ark.
Twelve hundred sacks per day is the pres
ent outport of the Louisiana liberia parish
| salt mine.
There is much sick ness prevailing through
| out Mississippi. The season is the most IN
| healthy for yesrs.
Mrs. Jesse James, accompanied by her
daughter, is in Huntsville, Ala, to attend
the trial of Dick Little.
The Rev. Jonathan Haskell, the New Or
leans evangelist, travels with tent and
brass band. Almost as good az circus.
The crack CLASSICAL shot of Mississippi is
Mr. w. 4. Dabney, of Meridian. In re-
cent contest he broke fifty four balls out Of
6fty-6ve.
A young lady in Arkansas declined to
marry man who addressed her until he
performed some heroic act. He thereupon
eloped with her mother.
Probate Judge Wood, of Selma, Ala, has
granted certificates under seal of the State to
a Mississippi party for over fifty companies
in which he held marriage insurance.
Work on the new insane asylum at Merid-
ian, Miss, is progressing rapidly. About
$4,000 yards of grading has been done, the
excavations all made and brick work COM
meuced.
The Wilmington On. CO. Star has seen a
West India spider two and a half inches
long, one inch wide and with legs three
inches in-lepgth. He does not say what he
had been drinking.
Mr.. E. G. Hewitt, of New Smyrna, Fla,
says the Enterprise Herald, has produced
this season, from $50 colonies of bees, q 900
pounds of honey. This has brought MIN the
handsome sum of $500.
A terrier dog at America, Ga, has for
saken his home and taken up his lot with
a herd of goats, combining himself, as far as
possible, TO their habits and customs, and re-
fusing to associate with other canines.
Cooper's Well, once famous resort of
central Mississippi, will be cold at an early
day under the decree of Chancery Court.
Ii will be purchased, it ia said, by a stock
company, who will reopen it to the public.
The Friars Point (MiEs.) Gazette gives this
good advice: The young man who would
spend his money in a matrimonial insurance
a
ladies not to have anything TO do with him."
Joseph NJ. TomliDson, chief clerk in the
New Orleans customhouse, has been suspend
ed on account of certain transactions by
which he swindled the government out of
large sum. Tomlinson was originally from
Tennessee.
An Alabama law, passed by the last Legis-
lature prohibits the owners of sheep-killiug
dogs 10 permit them 10 run at large. The
FIRST conviction under the law was made in
Jefferson county recently, and the owner Of
the dog fined SIS.
Fifty-one counties ia Georgia have no IL
ceused saloons. Two others close out Octo-
Der LIST. Seven have only one each, and in
MANY counties the sale is confined exclusive
Iy 10 the county town. The prohibition
element is becoming stronger and more for
midable every day.
The poor but proud young women Of
Montgomery, Ala. are reluctant TO engage
as operators In the. cotton mills OF that city,
for fear that such employm mt is "not quite
respectable They should have better
sense. Any employment Is respectable that
ia honest, and the sooner they get over such
false notions the better of they will be-,