Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-08
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.
Georgia has a natural ink well.

Georgia has a natural ink well.
| There is not a vacant house in Walden
Miss.
The Kentucky honey crop is reported very
| short.
New Orleans shoemakers will not GO on a
strike.
There are 1872 newspapers published in
Georgia.
Pecans will be cheap this year. The Texas
crop is enormous.
| Sumpter county, S. c., boasts a negro that
wears a No. Is shoe.
Acar-load of compressed cotton was burned
at Tupelo, Miss, last week.
A farmer in Wayne county, Miss, claims
| to have invented perpetual molten.
The Rev. J. Webb, of Lauderdale county,
Ala, raised an Irish potato that weighed two
| pounds.
Mobile, Ala, has done more to aid yellow
| fever sufferers at Pensacola than any other
Southern city.
Three little negro children were burned 10
death while alone in the house, near Good
! water, Ga, la.t week.
The Ben Hill monument fund is making
| very slow progress. Only about $4,000 has
been subscribed, while SSO,o0O.is needed.
There is man named Haas living near
Springfield, Tenn, who is the father OF
tweniy-one children, twenty OF whom are
girls.
A foreign paper received at the Chatta-
nooga (Tenn.) postofiice was addressed:
"Henry Jones, southeast coast Of America
or elsewhere.
The report comes from Eagle Pass, Tex,
that Mexican woman living there recently
gave birth to seven children The story
appears to be well authenticated.
The Nashville Banner says the directors
of the marriage frauds of that city propose
to consolidate the weaker with the stronger
companies. The better to rob the innocent
it is supposed.
A dynamite cartridge was found in the
furnace of threshing-machine at Winches-
ter, KY, Just before the fire was started. The
fiend who put it there ought to be made to
hit it with a sledge-hammer.
The prevalence of smallpox in Coahoma
county, Miss, has called forth an order from
the county health official "forbidding all
public assemblies and meetings of any and
every character until further notice"
Mr. Joe Mangum, who is the leader of the
Dresden (Tenn.) brass band, is blind as a bat,
and was born so. He is a most excellent
He PLAYS upon any kind of an instrument,
and as q vioinist is said to have but few
equals.
At the marriage of q eolored couple at
Brunswick, Ga, the other day, the bride was
asked "to love, honor, obey" etc., the man
whom she held BY the right hand. She
quickly replied: 81 will just az long as he
treats me tight, and den after dat I'll quit
i'm"
A heartrending accident occurred in New
Albany, Miss, last Friday evening about 4
O'Clock, which resulted in the death of little
Leila Heard, the seven-year old daughter of
the Hon. S. Heard. 1t seems she was at
tempting to hand a small single-barrel gun
out of a window to her little brother, and by
some means the gun exploded, the entire load
entering her left cheek, causing death in
stantly.
San Antonio (Tex.) Express: "Tearing
down the old walls of the Yturri building,
on the north side of Main Piazza, a pure
copper ball, weighing four pounds and nine
ounces, was taken CUT. 1t bad evidently
passed through the outer wall and imbedded
itself in the soft rock OF the second wall
The ball was fred in one of the earlier bat
ties of the Texas revolution, probably dur
ing the fight when Milan fell al the Vera
mendi House.
Sixteen years ago George T. Reynolds,
stock-raiser at Griffin, Tex was wounded in
skirmish with Indians, an arrow entering the
abdomen and passing through the abdominal
cavity. Such 8 wound is almost invariably
fatal; but he pulled the shaft of the arrow
out, and, although the head broke of and
remained in the body, he astonished every
body by recovering within ten days. A few
days ago be felt pain in the back near the
spine, and surgical operation brought 10
the surface the steel arrowhead that had
taken sixteen years 10 work it way through
his body.