Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-28
SOUTHERN SIFTINGS.

Knoxville, Tenn, is TO be lighted by cleo
tricity.
There are between 1900 and 1900 blind
persons in Tennessee.
Cattle-thieying is becoming common in
Madison county, Tenn.
The Southern Presbyterian Church has
5000 elders and 1000 deacons.
The Hon. Alex. II. Stephens is growing
fat. He now weighs 10s pounds.
The corn crop in Grenada county, Miss,
is the finest made there since the war.
Alabama weather prophets predict a kill
ing frost in that State before October LIST.
George w. Swepsou is the richest man in
North Carolina. He is worth s., 100000.
The Grand Lodge of Arkansas, I. o. o. f.,
will meet at Little Rock on Tuesday, Octo-
Der 10th.
There is more water around Manchester,
Tenn, and less in it, than any other town in
| the State.
A solid lump of pure silver, weighing
| nearly pound, was recently found near
Magnolia, N. c.
Richmond, Va, has debt of $4,741,-
| 1917 IS, on which she pays an annual inter-
est of S303, l34 43.
Contemplating is becoming general all
over the South. The weather Is, in the
| main, favorable.
| Corn has been raised at Corinth, Miss.
| for October delivery at thirty-three and
third cents per bushel.
The continuation of smallpox at Helens,
| Ark. has thus far. prevented the opening OF
| the public schools.
| 1t has rsined at least once every twenty
/ four hours in Nstchez, Miss, for the past
| two months, and continues to do so.
| An Alabama white lad, aged about seven
| teen wears and weighing lis pounds, picked
one day this season 572 pounds Of clean
cotton.
| A family in Schley county, Ga, take their
meals from an oak table made by revolu-
tionary soldier over 100 years ago. 1t ia
still perfect in every way.
All persons who enter Montgomery, Ala,
| are required TO register their names IN q
book kept for the purpose at The police head
| quarters. One hundred and sixty were so
registered one day this week.
The Alabama Prohibition Convention
meets in Montgomery November 21st, dur
ing the session of the Legislature, when
efforts will be m sde to have something done
in the way OF prohibitory legislation.
Alabama coal mines are not only supply
ing New Orleans with fuel, but are about TO
| capture Charleston. Contracts are about TO
be made by the Pratt mines, at Birmingham
to supply Charleston line of steamships.
The Times Democrat, in an article on the
health of New Orleans, claims that there are
no less than IL 300 people in that city over
sixty years of age, or one-eighteenth OF the
population, while 1875 have passed ninety.
Nashville, in its craze for marital and
natal insurance companies, has capped the
climax by organizing the Natal Twin As.o'
citation, which will pay $1,000 10 each MEM
her producipg q certificate of the paternity
of pair of twin babies.
Near Fort Valley, Ga, lives man who
has named his children after animals, hav'
ing a belief that they will in consequence
live to an old age. There are four children
and they are named, respectively, Rabbit
Coon, Fox and Postum.
The Aberdeen (Miss.) cocoonery has largs
orders for mulberry trees and silkworm eggs
receiving on an average nifty letters DAY
from ali parts of the South, aud showing the
practical interest the Southern people arr
taking in the silk industry.
In Mobile bay fiftsen-foot tiger shsri
was caught recently that was believed e
have devoured A. Froget, the engineer Of I
tug boat. Its stomach contained human
bones and an arm partly developed in this
fragments of wooden jumper.
Near Lawreuceburg, Tenn, an elm tree
said to be the largest in the United States, i
not in the world, il growing. 1t Is 100 fee
in diameter and 329 feet in circumference
from tip to tip Of lis branches. The size O
the trunk and hight OF the tree are no
given.
II A colored man, Mr.. J. z. Ballard, was re
Gently ordained in st. Johns church, Jack
sonville, Fla, which is called the mos. arts
tocratic church In the State, BY Bishol
Young, in the presence OF distinguisAe'
audience. 1t was the first case in The Stat
that q colored man has been ordained in
white church.
! J.. H. Lester, who lives near McDonough
Ga, is lib years old, having been born i
! Rockingham, n. C., December 2, 1853. ID
distinctly remembers the revolutionary wal
/, and when eleven years old was detailed witt
! other boys to defend the women from ID
! Tories. He served under Gen. Floyd durin
: the war of 1872
A horrible condition of affairs has bee
. developed in the Savior's Home, an institH
ton in Little Rock, Ark, which is suppose
to be a charitable one. From insufficeir
!. nourishment many Of the child inmates mas
been starved nearly TO death, and many I
; | them will die. The Institution is conducts
! by fanatics of the worst kind.