Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-21
SOUTHERN SETTINGS.

Coal has been discovered in Aberdeen
Miss.
the Florida coast.
Asiatic cholera, it is said, is raging il
PIttsylyania county, Va.
The authorities of Charlotte county, Va.
refuse to license saloons.
Thirty drummers paid the $3.50 tax to tn,
city Of Natchez last month.
Edgar Allan Poe's house in Richmond
Va, is to be used as a hotel.
The cotton-worm has made its appearance,
III Jefferson county, Arkansas.
Thirty two counties of North Carolina pro
duce 24.O00.G00 pounds of tobacco.
Forrest City ark weather prophets pre-
dict frost before the LIST of October.
A young mems christian association wa,
organized at Enterprise, Miss, last week.
Aiabama's apple crop is immense thi.
year, and the quality far above the average
Tuscaloosa county, Ala, will this year pro.
duce enough for home consumption and have
some for export.
Jackson, Miss, thinks il would be pros.
porous if it had rs many factories as il has
marriage associations.
Bids for levee repairs and construction in
Mississippi and Louisiana will be received
at Memphis till September 18th.
The State of Arkansas recently borrowed
100000 through the German National Bank
of Little Rock. Terms, one year at six per
cent.
There are 19,729 white voters in the Fifth
Mississippi congressional district and 19, 0S4
black. The whites are GA in excess oil the
blacks.
A ratllesnake was recently killed near I.o-
noke, Ark, which measured five feet ten and
half inches in length, and had seven rattles
and button.
The Net0 Mississippian advises the people
OF that State 10 cultivate instead of attempt
ing TO destroy Bermuda grass, and go largely
into the cattle-raising businefs.
The Rev. Mr.. Frisbie, of Madison, Tenn,
lent his horce for the purpose of running &
hiss taken up the case, and the probability is
that Mr.. Frisbie will be disciplined.
An intelligent woman residing near Baton
Rouge, La, has eighteen acres in ruanda, or
worm proof cotton, which, she says, is doing
finely; is free from rust and fruiling we'll.
Worms, though put in it, would not remain,
1t has fine staple, ard promises 10 be a
great improvement over the old cotton
A Georgia paper says that Senator Hill dis
posed of most of his property before he died
by gifts to his children and his wife. His
will is short, merely disposing of the remain
ing part of his properly and giving direc-
tons about things that,he wished done and
in which the public could feel no interest.
Mississippi judge, in passing sentence
upon man recently convicted of murder
thus reprimanded the law officers: "Itis SAID
by great historian that when a great com.
was about 10 go down in dark
ness, that was party Tor Cesar and a party
Tor Casslus, but there was no party for Rona..
So In this case-there was a party for all
save the State. In this town there vas a
marshal, msyor, justice, sheriff and consta-
Die, all conservaiors OF the peace, but all
seemed 10 turn deaf ear TO these troubles.
All are indictable under the law, and ought
o be indicted They should have gotten to-
,ether aud driven back the tide of blood
hat was sweeping over the community
There is a remarkable negro living near
Atlanta, Ga, named Harry Lucky. He is
low ninety years of age, but is hale, hearty
md well-to-do, and only a week or two ago |
ook unto himself third vile, aged sixty
ne years. He has probably more descend |
MIS- than any living man. He already has |
fly children whom he acknowledges and |
7ho call him by various terms of fIial al |
sction. Several of his have died. La the |
resence OF some gentlemen the other day |
e named over more than three hundred Of |
is grandchildren, and said there were others
HON he could not then remember. One of |
is sons has thirty living children. Several
t his sons count up more than dozen liv-
lg children each. The old man is proud of
is record, and talks freely about il when
yer questioned.
]. A. Clendenning, OF Henry county, Ala,
as this year made over 800 gallons of SOUP
ernopg wine on an acre of ground. Allow
80 per gallon for his wine and we have
$50 which ne makes on the one acre. Com
renting on this fact, the Abbeville (Ala.)
sgisier says: "This is great state of pro-
nctiveness, but greater still is il when we
now that almost double the number of
ines can be put on the same acre, thereby
pulling the yield, OF sae0 to an acre. This
as Que item, shows great fool
hness in the Southern people for turning
eir attention 30 much to cotton. 1t shows
at the South is not only a cotton country,
If it can rival the vine-clad hills of France
the wine industry. 1t does not require
If the labor 10 this one acre of scupper-
ing vines that it does 10 properly cultivate
e acre OF cotfonn