Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-29
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

PaIatka has been named the Seem City"
of Florida.
Georgia claims to have a negro who is
turning white.
The richest county in gold in North Caro-
lima is Montgomery.
The chestnut crop of Tennessee will be
immense this season.
Nandals are aesecrating the graves in the
Frankfort (Ky.) cemetery.
Aman living near Petersburg, Va, has
hog weighing 1900 pounds.
The cotton-worm has commenced his work
of destruction in Bullock county, Ala.
Monroe county, Miss makes the heaviest
bales of cotton of any county in the State.
The cotton-seed oil mills at Huntsville,
Ala, are sending cotton-seed meal to Ger
many.
The city mills al Selma, Ala, are grinding
homegrown corn of the new crop exclu-
sively.
First-class Alabama convicts are leased for
Sl3 month, secoud-class at S6, and third
class at 81 %.
Cottou-pickers are paid 81 per 100 in some
portions of Texas, and they are hard to get,
even at that rate.
The explosion of a bottle OF ginger-pop
caused an Augusta, Ga, man TO lose the
| sight of both eyes.
Marriage association swipdles continue to
spring up all over the South. The one-day
plan is now the favorite.
| The first orange tree ever known to have
been injured by lightning was struck re-
Gently at st. Augustine, Fla.
| Immigration is pouring into Arkansas,
especially in the northern portion, at a
| greater rate than ever before.
The Mississippi Baptist Association meets
| at Galilee church. twelve miles west OF Lib
erty, the second week in October.
OF the immigrants arriving at Castle Gar
| den during the last six months, Texas got
20S9 more than any other Southern State.
| The Alabama State Fair will begin at
Montgomery on the 18th day OF November
and will continue until the 18th, inclusive.
| Over 1000 carloads OF Irish potatoes have
been shipped this season by the farmers oil
Davidson county, Tenn, from which they
realized something over 100000.
Walker county, Ala has been ablaze with
excitement, caused by mineral land spsoala-
tors, for months past. The coal measures
there are the finest in the United States.
Pinch Gut, a suburb of Charlotte, N. c
is happy in the possession OF hairless call
four months old. The name and the cali
together ought TO make some reputation FOL
the village.
When a gang of New Orleans hoodlums
| 90 out to paint the town red the Picdyunt
| SAYS the police stand on the corners and
blow their whistles, but never attempt to
make an arrest.
A Warren county (Ga) farmer makes fifty
pounds of butter per week from six cows,
which he ships 10 Augusta and gets forty
cents per pound for it. A pretty good in
come IN itself.
The freight rate on cotton by rail from
Scooba to Meridian, Mics, distance OF forty
miles, is So per bale. Most of the staple il
hauled in wagons. however, as the farmers
quite naturally object 10 being robbed.
There is a farm in Bullock county, Ala,
| tenanted by twenty-one colored people, not
one of whom owns a dog. This fact Is con
sidered rem ark able from the fact that the
average throughout the State is about two
dogs to each negro.
1t takes about $47, 100000 per aunum 10
pay for the liquor drank in Louisiana, or
$4,000, 900 more than the combined cotton,
sugar and rice crops of that State. Virgins
drinks up something more than her entire
| wheat crop annually.
The people of southwest Georgia will
gather the largest crop this year that has
been produced for many years, and but lew
| of them will have TO buy any corn next
year. Nearly all of them have oats enough
10 last until Christina.
There is said to be in Walton county Ga, a
blind wagon M ker, who has been known 10
| go TO his shop at the dead hour Of night and
without any light put two new spokes in a
wheel, shrink tire, and send an accident
delayed traveller on his way rejoicing.
Twenty additional marriage and natal
guilds filed articles of incorporation at Nash
Vile last week All the fools have not part
ed with their money yet, and the sharks will
probably reap q rich harvest, for which they
should be made to pay by working for the
| State in a zebra costume.