Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-24
SOUTHERN NEWS.

man in Heard county, Ga, has gande
ITO years old.
OF the $50 Southern Presbyterian churche
in Texas, seventy-fve have no pastors.
A Springdale (Ark.) physician name,
ii. Daily, is the father of nineteen Twin!
children.
The woods in the vicinity of Corning
Clay county, are literary alive with cater
pillars, which are doing great damage to the
foliage.
A ten-year-old boy of Calhoun county
Ala, some time since convicted OF arson
was caught few days ago stealing SI7(
from a store in Oxford.
negro woman in Washington, Wilkes
county, Ga, still living, is the mother o.
thirty-one children. These, with her grand
children, number lis.
There is an epidemic prevailing among the
cattle in Wilcox county, Ala, similar to the
| black-topgue. They are taken with a swelling
of the tongue, are sick two or three days and
then pine away and die.
| Jefferson City, now the Sixth district of
| the city of New Orleans, wants to secede and
organizs city government of its own. At
public meeting the sentiment was largely
In favor of cutting loose from the bigger
town.
The tea farm in South Carolina promises
/ WSii, Inc crop WHICH mas recently Deel
| gathered and cured in the approved fashion
! ranking in appearance, quality and flavor
above the average article imported from
China and Japan.
| The Texas Legislature has passed bill
| which has been signed by the governor and
will 60 into effect ninety days after the ad-
journment OF that body, compelling all rail-
roads to fix three cents mile as the maxi
mum rate for carrying passengers.
IL i
pounds of seed for every single pound of lint
cotton, so that last year there were 5000, 900
tons of seed, every ton of which would yield
| thirty-fve gallons of oil. The product of
oil, therefore, amounted 10 100,000,000 gal
| Ions.
The monument to be erected to the men,
DRY of Margaret Haughery," who died in
| New Orleans recently, and whose deeds OF
charity rendered her famous throughout the
! Union, will be the first monument ever
placed above woman's grave by public sub
| scription.
Wiley Lindemill, a negro, and his wife, a
white woman, were tried for miscegenation
| at Dallas, Tex, on the 9th. The woman was
fined $500 and the man 500, and they were
| committed to the county convict farm to work
| out the fine. AT the rate allowed them he
| will have to remain almost a year, and the
woman over four years.
(treenVllle, MISS, has pubic library,
| through the munifcence of Mr.. c. p. Hunt
ington, the railroad magnate, who donated
| 1900 valuable volumes, and Mrs. II. b.
Theobold, a wealthy and generous resid snt,
who has donated a building to hold the
books. The only requirement demanded of
the city is that it shall pay 5000 year for a
librarian.
Late reports from Louisiana indicate that
the cane which was covered by the floods is
not 30 much injured as there was reason to
! fear that it would be. This is accounted for
by the low temperature at the time of the
| floods, which retarded the growth of the
young cane instead of rotting and killing
it. In the regions which escaped inundation
the prospects for large crop of sugar are
favorable.
A recent issue of the San Antonio TEX
Express says: "Joe Ludlum, an idiot con-
fined in the county poorhouse, was bitten by
a rattlesnake on the forefnger of the left
hand, the fargs penetrating both sides of the
| finger. About three minutes after the bite
was inflicted, Mrs. Symington, wife of the
superintendent, split the finger en- both sides
with razor, poured small quantity Of
powder into the wound and set fire to IL
| She then applied ammonia, and also gave
ammonia and whisky inwardly until the man
became drunk. This was a very brave act
| for lady to do, and it saved the poor fell
| lows life"