Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-24
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
HOLLY SPRINGS. MISS.
The Memphis and selma Road-Unpre-
cedensed sains-TSfbufe to
Arthur FAINT.
From an Appeal Correspondent,

From an Appeal Correspondent.
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, January 20.-In
spite of the devastation csused by the war,
our suferings in the dreary days of recon.
struction, the loss of a majority of our best
citizens in the terrible plague OF 1873, aud
the latest but least calamity of bad crops
last season-in spite of all this, we still live
in hope of better days for our deserving
little town. The successive disasters which
have befallen US have made wreck of the
once beautiful "city of flowers" but have
not broken the spirit of her people. Since
direct communication by rail with Memphis
was promised US, our rather vague, Micawber-
like hope for something TO "turu up has
taken definite shape. Prosperity, we be-
lieve will come with the iron horse, and we
all look with anxiety, and few with skep
ticism, for the speedy construction of the
promised highway-the Memphis, Selma
and Brunswick railroad. Up to the first OF
January the winter has been mild and open,
but for the last three weeks We have scarcely
had clear day. On Sunday and Monday
OF this week the rain poured down in tor
rents. On Tuesday it ceased, but cleared
up colder than any weather we have
yet experienced this season. The result Is
that the roads throughout the country are
almost impossible, and business is, in con-
sequence, at a comparative stand-s.iN. The
streams are swollen to an unwonted size, and
between many points communication for the
present is entirely suspended Since Monday
we have received no mail from the south be-
yond Grenada, nor any from the northern
States since Wednesday. The railroad below
Grenada is washed away in several places,
and Is also broken between this point and
Cairo. The mail trains, however, are still
running between Grenada and Memphis, but
the express trains have been stopped. We
hope that our present isolation may be brief,
g. - -. i
this morning it is again raining as if, indeed,
the foundations of the great deep were
broken up. Holly Springs has been agitated
lately upon the subject OF temperance. Miss
+. E. Willard, a lecturer and reformer, visited
as last spring and organized the Womans
Christian Temperance Union, a society which
has done much good work. She lectured at
the Masonic Hall TO large and appreciative
audiences. She is a fluent speaker, and is a
lady OF great zeal and seme ability. While
here she made many friends and accom-
plished much good. Tonight she will lee
ture to a colored audience at the courthou USE
Our citizens were shocked on Tuesday morn
ing at the news of the sudden death of Mr.
A. c. Bateman, one of our oldest and most
respected business men. At dark, on
Monday night, Mr.. Bateman was in his
he was attacked, at about 9 o'clock, with
dropsy of the heart, and died in few mo-
ments. Our local papers republish this week,
from the Jackson Clarion, the eloquent
tribute OF General w. S. Featherston to the
memory of the late Arthur FAINT, Esq, one of
the most prominent and promising lawyers (
whose recent and untimsly death Is mourned
by all who knew him. Dr.. F. B. Shuford, for
the past fifteen years cashier OF the Bank Of
Holly Springs, has resigned his Office on ac-
count Of bad health, and at the meeting of
the board OF directors, on the 10Th instant,