Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-12
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

AWniiS Auts tHls 4dil.
A child with three arms has been born in
Tippah county, Miss.
Pulaski, Tenn, has a colored matrimonial
League and aid society.
The second crop of June apples is ripenipg
| In Upton county, Tenn.
The Starkville (Miss.) Ledger has oh snged
its name to the JinapLecute.
Ten-pound sweet potatoes are among the
products Of West Tennessee.
Hog cholera is raging fearfully in some
portions OF Fender county, n. c.
Macon, Miss., wants national bank. A
good opening for some capitalist.
The population of Gadsden, Ala, has been
doubled in the past twelve months.
Charles J. Newman has disposed of his
interest in the Little Rock Gazette.
Polk county, Ark, had wedding
the other day-groom eighty, bride sixty
five.
The State Treasurer of Arkansas has re-
deemed all the Baxter war bonds except
$4,000.
There are but twenty colored voters in
Clay county, n. c., while Wake county con-
tsins 512S.
The Jefferson county, Miss, fair offers a
prize of gallon Of whisky for the best essay
on temperance.
A farmer in North Danviue, Va, raised a
cabbage this year which had twenty six
heads on one stalk.
Much of the cotton in Louisiana, especial
ly along the Mississippi river, has been seri-
ously damaged BY the caterpillar.
Mrs. Nancy Carter, of Trousdale county,
Tenn, is nearly ninety years old, and yet she
mounts horse and rides some distance to
church.
Within q radius of eight miles of Sanford,
Fla, there are 2993 orange groves contain
ing les, 235 trees. The Sta:e. produces over
10000, 900 oranges.
Twenty-seven marriage and self-endow-
ment associations are upon record in Little
Rock, but how many dupes their records
show is not stated.
A Presbyterian at Dyersburg, Tenn, is
engaged in the unique employment of train
ing dog 10 fight against five Methodist dogs
next Sunday night.
Rogers, Benton couaty, Ark, has a
fruiI-drying establishment that employs
some thirty hands, and dries about 5000
pounds of fruit week.
A little girl in Trousdale county, Tenn,
has three quilts which are her own
handwork. She made one of them before
she was five years old.
1uT. AuOipnu5 DTOWu, an Olu ClIJZen Oh
Canton, Miss, and professor of music there
for twenty-six years, died in that place on
the night OF September 26th.
Among Southern negroes who were killed
or got into trouble during the past week
were Henry Clay, George Washington, Jas.
X. Polk and z. b. Hayes.
Gibson county, Tenn, must be great
place for chickens, for, according to the
Trenton Courier from 500 to $500 worth of
chickens cbange hands in Rutherford every
day.
A Waco, Tex, astrologist has been casting
the horoscope of the comsf, and fuds that it
Portends six more big crop years and then
drouth, with a plague of grasshoppers in
1884.
Mr.. Wiley Embrey, public-spirited bus
iness man of Winchester, Tenn, lights
up the whole of the public square of that
place with elegant lamps at his own ex-
pense.
The entire Indebtedness of Pulaski county,
Ark, is SS62,Sl9 04; the total valuation
of its property, N,57s,346. The total
amount OF judgments as ainst the county is
$780, 80.
Twenty young ladies and about 800 boys
put in an appearance the first few days of
this session at the university at Oxford,
Miss. There will be fifty girls and 500 boys
before the year is out.
Dr. w. H. Bennett, an eccentric citizen of
Meridian, Mas, died day or two ago, aud
his estate, valued at $4,000, was left to
negro cook, cutting off his wife and heirs.
The will is to be contested.
The Little Rock Democrat wants the "pis-
tol-toter" jailed as we'll as fined, and says
'the humiliation which would follow from
a strict execution OF such law would soon
Danish the wretched practice"
The bootblacks of Natchez, Miss, are tax
ing on metropolitan airs, and have a sort of |
fraternity into which a newcomer is not ad-
mitted, unless he can "clean out" lin vulgar |
parlance) all the other ''shiners."
Several Southern exchanges note an i'm |
provement in the behavior of the colored |
people since the appearance of the comet, |
the supsrstitious darkies believing il to be a |
forerunner OF a coming dissolution OF the |
world.
Clark, Dallas, Hot Springs, Pike and |
counties, Ark, have all |
made big sorghum crop this year, and |
farmers are selling molasses for fifty cents a |
gallon, finding ready market for all they |
have to spare.
While Alice Simmons with her two chill
iren, was crossing railroad track at At |
lants, Ca, a train approached. One OF the |
children remsined on the track. She turned
OACk anu IebCueO Out was elIuCk Dy tue
locomotive and killed.
Census Bulletin No. 26 shows that there
living in the United States outside of Vir-
yinia COS, Se5 persons who were born in Vir-
yinsa. In other words, Virginia's popula-
ion would now be Ills, AGO If att her chill
lren had remained at home.
On Monday night last, at Tchuls, Miss,
Annie Shoulder, young lady about eight
ZEN years OF age, was accidentally burned to
ieath. She was preparing supper for her
mothers family when her clothing caught
ire. There was no one else in the room, and
,eiore assistance could reach her she was
lead.
The health officers reported FIVE cases of
Turing The last two weeks. All of them
we're colored, and all occurred in the imme-
late vicinity of the secreted case reported
N the 18th ultimo, with the exception of
me, which was in the person of a c0lored
ramp.
There are now in circulation in Atlanta
wo petitions TO which names are asked. and
zhich will he prsseniaa to the next Legisla-
uTe of Georgia. One petition is but a repe-
ition of the prohibition law, while the other
SKIS that all saloons and bar-rooms be re-
uired to dispense with the blinds which are
ept in front ef the counter to protect custo-
lers from view.
The Georgia Monitor says of the mining
nterest of Dawson county: sour gold min
Dc business is taking every day greater di-
tensions. Last week on several places of
ur belt and on different gold mining proper /,
les discoveries were made which prove that
ur gold belts are undoubtedly rich. We
ave seen some ores taken out from different
ems and from different properties which !
an be pronounced as immensely rich"
The harden Er1min,r stafez that the | :
rand jury in the United States District /
curt, new IN session in that town, made its /
nal report on Thursday and was discharged. 3
hey reported that they had made careful !
iquiry as regards the conduct of the people 7
the sixteen counties embraced in this SUBJ
a quarter of q miljon-and
ad not found cause fer framing or pre-
.nting a single Indictment. This highly
,tisfsciory conditisn of affairs speaks VOL
mes in praise of the people Ct east Mis-
ssippi.
At the marriage of Mr.. and Mre. George
Iarris at Mount Meridian, Va, the bride re-
ised TO say "Yts" to the question whether e
ne would obey her husband. She said that | '
ne saw no reason for such promise, and he '
,ncluded that no harm wosld be done by O
hitting it, since he intended to "make her | U
lind anyhow" Two years elapsed, and f
w days ago the unsettled question arose t
gain. He ordered his wife TO fry chicken b
" dinner, and she insisted on roasting it. ?
Ie brought In horsewhip, and declared s
lat he would fog her until shs obeyed. She
lot and killed him.
A Rich Luster C
nd the youthful color are restored to faded '
gray hair by the use of PaTkers Hair | !
alsam, harmless dressing highly esteemed
II ifa narfy1na and nurifv ~ q