Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-01
SOUTHERN SETTINGS.

T e1as has voting population of nearl
100000
The electric light is now used in Savan
nah, Ga.
Lexington, KY, fishermen scale fsh will
currycombs.
i Cotton-pickers are scarce all over th,
State of Texas.
Contemplating is in full blast around
Fort Smith, Ark.
The voting population OF Dorsey county
| Ark, is only 1900.
| The Arkansas State Fair at Little Rock
| will have an electric light.
! The great needs of the South are small
| farms and diversified crops.
| Apples cell at from ten 10 twenty cents 9
bushel in Washington county, Ark.
! Eureka Springs, Ark, expects TO have
three railroads within the next three years.
Hope, Ark, depends upon voluntary SUBJ
| scriptions to build schoolh FUSES. Would it
| not be better TO build them by taxation?
The mayor and council of Knoxville,
Tenn, have been bound over to the Circuit
Court to answer for permitting nuisance.
Houston, Tex, is coming TO the front as
q cotton market. She claims 10 have facili-
ties for handling 100000 bales this season.
Walter Smith and Irene Kane, respect
lively eighty-two and eighty years of age,
recently became one flesh at Elizabeth City,
Va.
A ST. Augustine, Fla, editor has a pet
spider that spans a breadth of six inches
The editor is said TO lead il around by
string.
Copper cents are coming into general use
in Texas for the first time in her history
The three-cent railroad law puts them in
circulation.
An effort is being made, says he Nash
vile American, TO establish Tennessee Sar-
atoga on the table lands of Tennessee for
summer racing.
Jacksonville, La, now boasts of six pa.
pers-two dailies, three weeklies and one
monthly. One is Democratic, one Independ-
ent, one (negro) Republican, one agricultu-
raj and two church papers.
The colored people have a paper at Vero-
ma, Miss. 1t is edited by ]. B. Wilkins, w.
r. Wiley and d. NJ. Marshall, and is called
the Bonner Of Liberty.
Nine bushels of wheat have been produced
on one-eighth of an acre of ground in WASH
ington county, Md. This is one of the
largest yields on record.
Alligator farms have been started in
various parts of Florida. The animals are
raised for their hides, for which there is al
ways good demand and big prices.
Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton
gin, according to the Washington (Gs.) Ga
zene, conceived the idea of this invention and
built his FIRST gin in that county (Wilkes).
1t is said that the people of San Antonio, |
Tex, consume 10000 gallons of beer per |
week. This ia in addition to several thou
sand gallons of miscellaneous drinks.
President Arthur and Commissioner Loring |
have been invited TO attend the Arkansas |
State Fair at Little Rock. They have net |
yet sisni6ed their acceptance of the invita-
ton.
Brunswick, Ga, is to be built up BY a
Boston company, which is now organized for
that purpose. 1t is to be known as the l
Brunswick Land Improvement and Colonies
ion Company.
At hatcher. Miss, a little girl has Just
lied after weeks horrible suffering from
BY drophobia. She was bitten by Q rabid
log several weeks ago, and at enc time since
vas thought to be cured.
Cabbages and alligator peas are the chief
riicles of diet at Key West, Fla, now
sometimes as many as $4,000 of the former,
he Democrat says, are sold in one day BY
Key West commission houses.
E. P. Andrew, of st. Augustine, Fla, in
shing with his net for turtles, caught four
.en-foot saw6sh with a saw three feet ten
inches. The monster weighed betWeeS zoo
nd 800 pounds, and drove his teeth many
mes into the side of the boat.
A Chattanooga, Tenn, bicyclist foolishIy
the descent of = steep hill on his
ehicle, but it went at such q rapid rate that
e lost control of it. At the bottom Of the |
ill the bicycle struck deep ditch and the
der, whose name is Orion Hurlburf, was
irown twenty feet, alighiing on his head
I'D sustaining fatal injuries.
Says the Panola (Miss.) Star: 'HThs dry,
arm weather of the past two weeks has
rought out cotton wonderfully. There will
; larger crop than We have had for years :
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