Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-20
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

At Brandon they are not like Tennesseans.
They say they must have dog law, as hundreds
months.
Starkville Citizen: "Great deal of sickness
in Starkyile. and we would suggest 10 our town
authorities that 1t would be wen If we would pay
more attention to the sanitary conditisn."
The farmers around Holly Springs have
pettioned for stock law for the county, by which
the stock OF the county shall be prevented from
entering upon the crops and lands of others.
Jackson Clarion: "The morning display
of meat markets is particularly fine. Mrs.
Willard, the powerful advocate of abstinence from
liquor, has been warmly welcomed and applauded
Senatobia Record: The money in the
town treasury is exhausted but the town is out of
debt-......The town charter is misplaced. Any one
knowing of its whereabouts will confer a public
prevalent in town
Pamela Star: "One of our coIored towns
men is a barber as well as justice of the peace
ut is whispered that some of our townsmen
have been taken in and done for in dealing in
ton futures E q Leach dusky soiled dow,
swearing on the streets"
The Grenada Sentinel says: "1'he whisky
bottle and wine bottle have almost entirely disap
the way the ladies do at Grenada, it is time the
big New York woman's Temperance Association
three-mile law into operation; but Mira willard
will call and see to them. No wonder the same
paper has half column OF names In favor OF
something in the same line
Water Valley Central: ''Our city physi-
clans have been quite busy this week vaecfnating
people The weather has been so moderate
that even house flies, candle flies and lightning
bu. occasionally take an airing.----Our city is
TO be lighted up dark nights by lamps fur
n1shed by the city-not with gas yet for while,
but with coal oil.-------T wenty seven contracts
have been made with teachers so far, for the pub.
lie schools in this county"
Jackson Comet: Colonel W. s. Cord on, of
Alabama, has purchased the Stansbury cotton
mills, located at CarrolltOn, on the hills within
few miles of the fazoo delta. where cotton Is made
any section of the country. The Georgia Pacific
railroad will almost TO its doors The
cotton mills in Mississippi have proved bonanzas
for the owners The one at Wesson pays twenty
six per cent. dividend. and the stock is worth over
three hundred. Those at Enterprise and Natcbez
are said 10 pay as WELL
New Albany Democrat: "a bill to prohibit
the sale of liquors within two miles Of Liberty
VIII unq uesilonably become a law. Also bill
pa ssed, with the appreciation Of citizens, pro-
hibting the sale of Intoxicating liquor within two
miles of New Albany. NOtwI tlstanGiug The
The sound of the hammer and saw is heard from
early morn till dark Our courthouse is completed
and is an ornament to the city. Several new resi-
dences and stores are going up"
Columbus Inde1: "On Monday, when the
train on the Aberdeen road going a
trestle the bridge gave way. The engineer and
FIRE man jumped from the engine into The water.
The engineer succeeded in getting out, bat the
THE rising waters unsettled the foundations
OF the trestle on the Georgia Pacific, nine miles
from town. When the tain came up the engine
was precipifaied into the creek, and much other
damage done. Captain Purcell who was aboard
at the time, aud the engineer were seriously
injured Ia the sLnazh-up- A bsrdeen has
allowed run at large, and those found on Tie
streets are taken up and penned."