Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-06
SOUTHERN SETTINGS.

Sore ewes prevail in and about Greensboro,
Ala.
A Paducah (Ky.) preacher is writing
novel.
Georgia has cork trees large enough to cut
and use.
Jackson, Misc, pays her policemen s27 90
per month.
A Franklin, Ga, msn owns Greek mus
ket made in 1852.
Camden, Ark, imports -four from Texas
instead of st. Louis.
Alabama expects TO turn out 37O,OOO tons
of pig-iron next year.
Georgia farmers complain OF having their
hands poisoned by dew.
There are 10000 colored Baptists in Ten
nessee, with $50 churches.
Brinkley, Ark, has pig with i've leet
and uses them all In walking
The Chattanooga Trunk Factory chips
trunks 10 eight different States.
A nineteen-pound beet is the boast oil
Eutaw, Ala. Beat it if you csn.
Tweuty-nine men want to be city c'erk OF
Key West, Fla. The placs must pay.
Madison. Ala, claims 20 be the only town
ON earth that can show a iour-eyeo toao'
Cadet Whittaker foe of the cropped ars)
was banqueted at Columbus, Ga, rece entity.
wealthy idiot of Winston, N. O., carries
s15o C)0l in matrimonial insurance assocla-
tions.
GreeuviIIe, Miss, has a new paper, the
Della Rsuieuu. Capt. Rucks IS edltor ana
An American atlas published in 1896, is
ona of the curiosities OF the Macon t1a-)
public library.
Thore ia an old sinner in Athens, Ga,
sirty.tbree yesrs of age, who has never been
inside of a church.
Dsngne fever is epidemic in San Ssba,
Ter This peculiar disease Is very palniui,
but very seldom proves fatal.
The Athens (Ga.) Banner says there is a
family of snow-white negroes with yeiio"'
k1nkey hair living IN Oconee county, ga
They are quite curiosity.
The sickness in Yazoo City, Miss, shows
no sion of abating. 1t is a mistake, how
ever. that the disease prevailing there is
yelloy-fever or anything like 1t.
Speaking of matrimonial associations,
Harry Watterson says they remind him OF
the fellow who wanted to hire another TO
catch driftwood, and give him half ne caught.
A catfish caught at Cummings, Ga, was
covered with long, fine hair, from six inches
tn foot long. The fsh weighed about
twenty-five pounds, and excited great IN
terest.
A resident of Texas has to run the risk OF
being afflicted with screw worms. Another
man has Just had seventy eight removed
from his nose. He lives In Ellis county,
and his name is Petty.
At Chattanooga ]. J. Bryan has had ID.
s. Sutherland arrested on charge OF raw
ishiDg his step-daughter, and Sutherland as
b ad Bryan arres. ed on charge oil ailemp'-
ing to ravish Mre. Sutherland.
The Times Democrat, in an article on the
health of New Orleans, claims ID at there are
no less than IL 900 people in that cry over
sixty years of age, or oDe-eighteenth Of the
population, while 1876 have passed ninety.
The DePardeleben Fire Brick Works made
l test of Alabama fire clays at Birmingham
and the result was very satisfactory. Ihese
claws stood the test better than Victoria brick
No ,. while many others melted under the
heat like lead.
Gen. Robert Toombs lost roll OF money
containing $500 at Atlanta, and it was found
nv Bob Mcintyre, oil, Barlow d wilson's
Miustrels, and returned to the owner. NC.
Iutyre now carries handsome gold-headed
cane as a reward for his honesty.
During the progress of the fair at Shelby
vile. Tenn. The amphitheater, which was
crowded to suffocation, gave way, Preclpi
tating the mass of humanity fifteen feet tC
the earth. Ten persons we're seriously In
iured, and some of them may die.
Tampa (Fls.) Progress: ."There Is an ole
orav mule IN the stables at Fort Brooke tina
Is forty years old and more. Inns mule serve'
| thrnuoh the Mexican war and also the lat
war. He is allowed ration and hall, an,
| does no work, except in cases OF necessity.
At Griffin. Ga, 8 very curious spider ha
| been captured. 1t has on lis back haro
| thick formation, very much Resembling
1 soft- shell crab or q turtle, about quarter
| an inch across. This shell has eight horn
from all of which the spider spins web
the same time.
3 Some of the citizens of Pine Bluff, ARK, al
/ making strenuous eKertIons to oresk o
| gambling in thai town. Not content wit
Gbs organization of social club, the che
end and aim of which is to offer counter
| attraction to the gaming table IN the snap
| of frequent entertainments, general Tat
has been made upon the bankers aud des
ers y and four or Eve OF them are now IN II
hands of The law.
The Columbus (Ga-) Enqaircr-Ssi'' notes IL
receipt of a postal card from J. A. Waller
a1aa5v Ga who sigma himself "The Lord
Prophet" and who makes the following pr
djetion: Saturday, October7 1882, exact
Az 9 o'clock am, the comet will run Into u
ann and darkness will inv ade the earth /
seyeuty-two hours, the length OF time Chr;
was prey to death, and The West Will
engulfed by an earthquake
Twenty-seven years ago Mr.. David Ellie
Who lived near Keezletown, Va, bullt
dairy and placed in it two yellow suckers
pes. Mr.. Eiler has been dead Tor numo
Of years, but Ann Harriet, his widow, ssi
lives. and during ali these years she has car
} fulIy fed and cared for her pet 6sn- oae
them died several years ago, and tne tase q 2.
gave up the ghost only few days ago, an
having lived. in the DAIRY ren.y -
80 The 6sh was about eighteen inch
ionv and had become SO lame that II was Z
! The ieast frightened By the approach oil
4 ;.,-o.s ,zith ia food