Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-12
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

They are eating November strawberries at
Chattanooga.
Des Arc, Ark, wants an oil-mill She
should have it.
A new Episcopal church is TO be built at
Little Rock, Ark.
In Lawrence county, Ark, the peach trees
are in full bloom.
A negro lie wear. old died 10 Durani,
hIizr.I not long since.
Chattanooga is putting up q new Touring
mill engine seventy five horse power.
Nashville has discovered that in the higher
parts OF the city there is no water in case OF
fire.
Corner lots in Msgnolis, Ark, sell for
$500. No mention is made of their dimen-
sons.
Forty eight million pounds Of tobacco are
annually consumed in Virginia's 172 tobacco
factories.
second crop of Strawberries has ap-
peared on the farm of Mr.. Lattner, near
Chattanooga.
A manufacturer at Maryville, Tenn, il
making very handsome buttons out of river
muscle shells.
Nashville intends 10 have first-class ex.
position, and it means to raise permanent
building to have it in.
At Houston, Tex, a man starved TO death
with $1,000 in his pocket. He was afraid OIL
becoming pauper.
Almonds were grown out in the open all
near Dalton, Ga, this summer. The nuts
were sweet and good.
New rye is quoted at fifty to sixty cents
from wagons, and new barley at fifty cents
per bushel in Nashville, Tenn.
The longest cucumber ever grown in the
South is now on exhibition in North Caro-
lima. 1t is forty-seven inches long.
Kinds county, Miss, has debt of $500
| 600, 100000 of which is in bonds issued to
the Natchez and jackson railroad.
A lot OF Confederate bonds. amounting tc
Sl45, 900, was sold recently at the rate d
Sl2 so per thousand in Charleston, s. c.
1t is charged that the Gordon established
at Cameron, Tex, 10 guard against the vel
low-fever, was used for political purposes.
The corn crop of Texas this year is esti
mated at lac, 100000 bushels. The value Of
the agricultural products of that State il
| So, OH 1898.
A number of cotton-buyers, of long expe
rlence In handling cotton, have written tC
the Selma Times protest against the use Of
cotton condensers.
The Arkansas Conference of the Methodist
EpiscoPal Church South, will convene al
Bentonville on the 18th instant, with BishoI
Cranberry presiding.
The Rev. E. N. George, of the Christian
church, lizard county, Ark, was lately tried
by the elders of his congregation and sus.
pended from preaching.
Locations have already been securca a
San Antonio, Tex, by astronomers OF the
OF the transit OF Venus, the 9th of December
They have man way down in Florida
who will dive into the river and bring UP
an alligator by the tail. He does not do this
for the fun of the thing, but for 81 pei
sauriap.
Two brothers, Sam and Wiley Rimmer
aged fifteen and sixteen years, fought duel
with pocket-kniyes in NJ addison county, Miss.
few days ago, in which both were severely
wounded.
Most of the beautiful crystals known as
Hot Springs CRYSTALS are found at Crystal
mountain, which is situated in Montgomery
county, ARK, about fifty miles southwest Of
Hot Springs.
Judge Lochrane, of Georgia, has walk
ing stick turned with ducks head on top
In the ducks bill Is a sapphire that cost
5000, and the eyes are made with diamonds
that cost s7l00 each.
Dr. w. II. Bennett, of Meridian, Miss,
IN the shade OF The trees. His will cut Of
his wife and relatives without shilling,
and leaves $4,000 to his colored cook.
Says the Fort Smith (Ark.) Nev Era aaThe
biggest cotton picking we ever heard of in
long time was that done recently by Mr..
Dick Allen, near Searcy, who gathered $50
pounds of the snowy staple in one day."
An auxiliary association to the Confed-
crate Southern His. orical Society OF Rich
mond has been organized in Vicksburg Miss,
under the auspices of Gen. G %. II. johnson,
with over $50 members. Gen. N. III. Harris
was elected president.
A farmer in Hart county, c., got out of
patience with the terribly high price of ba-
went out on 'possum hunt. They got an
ample supply to last until it is cold enough
10 kill their own hogs.
Mr.. J. r. Duke, of Morrillton, Ark, is
growing the Ozier cotton, also hybridized
Sea Island of five years run, from the un-
mixed Sea Island. He believes that the
staple of the brid is finer than the Ozier
and the yield as great, though the bolls are
not so large.
The Hon. w. P. Miles, formerly a con-
gresham from South Carolina, has resigned
the presidency of South Carolina College, 10
take charge OF the Burnside sugar planta-
tAObS ~ A@OdA5Aaad, AZ Et,OoOsOOO3
and belonging to his father n-law, Oliver
Beirne, of Virginia.
AT Columbus, Tex, are twenty bad boys
ranging from ten to sixteen years of age who
are organized as band of robbers. They
rifle freight cars and houses, and conceal
their booty IN a cave. They are all sons of
respected parents and steal to crafty that
love OF adventure born of 3 close perusal Of
yellow-backed literature.
A young man of Kenton county, Ky, his
applied for patent for device to telegraph
a train, running at the highest rate of speed
at any point on the road. He is also at work
on safe lock, to be operated by electricity,
and which will require no keyhole in the
door. A burglar could by no possibility
open the safe by operating on the lock.
Prof. Yerks, who has charge of 5 private
school at Paris, KY, received painful pis-
tol wound in the right arm from Honor
Oldson, fourteen-year-o.d pupil, the other
day. The professor had given the lad a
little shake by the collar for hardness in
attendance and failure in studies, and re-
quested written excuse be handed in. The
lad brought the excuse. and as he hsndedlit
to the professor said, @Take this, too" aud
fred bis revolver. The bullet went obliquely
through the muscular portion OF the arm,
and by mere accident missed taking effect in
any of the children. The boy escaped, but
afterEard surrendered, and is in Jail.
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