Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17
ON EAGLE PINIONS
DIR. Floyd Ferguson Wants Young
Negro to sOar-IdIe N en- and Boys
in Paris, Tenn.
Encouraging Results of n Recent Geo.
logical Survey Of Montgomery
COunty-The Crops.

AT Springville some unknown and undis-
covered party shot Clabe Box, colored, in his
house; arm wounded and thumb bone shot
through.
At the Sewanee coal mines $50 conyicts
and 80 free miners are employed; thirty
well-diHposed convicts are allowed the free
dom of the town.
Paris IatcLltgencer: pom our streets al
most daily can be seen from twenty to fifty
idle men and boys, who do no work at all,
and have no means of living Honestly.
An infantry company is organizing"
Dyersburg Clipper: awe understand that
DR.. Floyd Ferguson is about TO make won
derful scientific discovery. He proposes to
cut off the arms Of young negro up to the
shoulder, and in their place f. the wings OF
a young eagle. In few months he proposes
to have flying negro"
Prof Cotton, geologist, has been exploring
in Houston and Montgomery counties. Near
Erwin was found stone that will produce a
superior cement; it will be tested at once.
Fine marble was found in the Wells creek
basin, but not equal to the famous hawkins
county stone. Examination confirmed the
belief that vast quantities of iron exist in
the main Tennessee ridge; there is concen-
tration of many valuable deposits about
Palmyra. There is not now single furnace
running in the two counties, yet nowhere Is
there better ore. White creek was found to
be a fine place for fishing.
Nashville Banner: Considerable corrup-
ton has recently been unearthed in the mar
ket-house. 1t would perhaps be a good
time to urge the removal of the unsightly
old thing $780,. The market people are SELL
ing oleomargarine for butter .........A COM
pany has applied for a charter, organized
for the purpose of artificial Matching and
breeding of brook trout and other fish for the
Nashville market. parties are
under arrest for using measures with false bot
toms; a timer reported that he had had
applications to make short measures for
dealers......... Railway people complain of
excessively dull times."
Chattanooga Tones: Cooper cents circu-
late here... Two more city prisoners have
run off; seven altogether this week. Better
give them a chrome apiece to stay) =. A
man stealing a ride on the Cincinnati and
New Orleans road lost his hold and fell I'M
seen; fifteen cars passed over HIM, when his
shouts were heard. His clothing was torn
from him, but wonderfully enough he had
received no serious Injuries. One thousand
pounds of peaches and berries, and 5000
pounds of beans and other vegetables were
shipped on Wednesday. The insect crop
is uncommonly large. .Tate's Springs are
having a large attendance. The Morris
town, Cumberland Gap and Cincinnati pro-
jectsd railroad is expected to pass near there
-. There is still scarlet fever in Knoxville"
THE CROPS.
Dyersburg Clipper, 18th: "The warm
weather has improved the looks OF cotton
considerably, but the prospect for crop is
not at all encouragi ng."
Nashville Bonner 18th: Harvesting has
commenced in dead earnest all around Nash
vile. From what can be seen OF the work
done, the self-binders are doing most of it."
At Springville crop prospects are moder-
ate. Cotton is we'll nigh failure" Wheat
good. Oats nothing extra. Gardens hne.
Corn late. Tobacco ordinary. Fruit abun-
dant.
Troy Neus. "a monster turtle, of the
hard she'll species, weighing between eighty
and 100 pounds, was caught in the Obion
river ON a trot line, by Mr.. John Ruble, of
our town, few days ago."
Somerville Repnter: Farmers are very
gloomy over the cotton prospect. The cold
weather has and is still seriously affecting
the plant, and it Is thought by many that
when it turns warm and the hot sun strikes
it great deal of it will die"
Humboldt argus: "This week in order to
test it, Mr.. u. Lea, of this place, shipped TO
Chicago lot of dewberries, which sold read
lily at fifty cents per quart. These berries
seem to be indigenous here. They grow
abundantly upon our hills and in some places
can be gathered in quantities. They are ear
lier than the blackberries."
Jackson Wing: "Many farmers in this
county, dispairing of the cotton crop,
have plowed up the tender plant and
planted corn in its stead. Others complain
of the stand but express their purpose to let
the crop remain. The corn crop, however,
is looking well, and the wheat crop is esti-
mated at one quarter to seven-eighths per
cent. above the average. 1t is now the mid
die of the harvesting season."
Paris IiteLigencer, 18th: "a very full
crop of tobacco has already been set in this
county, and looks remarkably we'll.
The cotton crop will be very small, owing to
the fact that the cold weather has killed
large amount of it. Fully half the crop has
been plowed up and planted in corn, and
they still are blowing up. -. Corn looks
well but is mostly backward. There will be
a very large cop planted in the county this
year, the largest no doubt since the war"