Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-07
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

. Savannah, Tenn, has a literary society.
Louisiana sugar crop reports good.
Many Germans are settling in Polk county,
Ark.
Montgomery, Ala, is preparing to use
electric lights.
Brownsville, Temp, is anxious to be incor-
porated again.
The bride of Virginia clergyman is only
eleven years Of age.
Farmers in many places are holding their
corn for higher prices.
In Florida the oranges are ripening unu-
sually early this season.
One of the colored members OF the Geor-
gia Legislature wears earrings.
Silk culture is among the most promising
OF the new industries of Georgia.
The retail stores in Nashville are intro
ducing the use OF the electric light.
Williamson county, Tenn, has paid up to
date $l037 AZ on account oil smallpox.
Ashland, Miss, has had an election on the
whisky question. Anti-liquor carried the
day. a5'
Among the productions this fall is the
usual rich proportion of new patent corn
shelters.
Austin, Tex, has a pretty lady deputy
| sheriff. She has more attachments than che
can serve.
A young mems Christian association has
been organized at Franklin, Tenn, with
! twenty members.
The Rockville Tribune bias a half.column
list of houses and stores building in that
prosperous city.
There is fire and vehemence in the calls
the country papers are making on their sub
scribers who pay in wood.
The Quskers have raised $4,000 toward |
the erection OF new college at New Gar
den, Guilford county, N. G.
Col. o. H. Chenault, OF Richmond, KY, |
took 377 pounds OF wool from thirty six |
head OF Cotswold sheep at one shearing.
A converted druDkard, Luther Benson, |
has published a book detailing his expert |
ences. It's title is Fifteen Years in Help
There are in Tennessee 294, 385 persons of |
ten years Of age and upward who cannot
read, and 4lO,722 ten years of age who cam
not write.
The Nashville Banner says the various
manufacturing concerns of that city are
taxed 10 the utmost 10 supply their numer-
Gus orders.
The latest thing Tex as has thrown up ia
dwarf kangaroo with fore legs only two
inches long and hind legs only eight inches
in length.
The Asheville IN. CO. Citizen says that
some strawberries raised in Buucombe
county measured four and a half inches in
circumference.
Alma, Ark, has fine residences, good,
stately blocks of business houses, thirty -four
mercantile houses, and good private and
common schools.
Bltesville, Ark, is rejoicing at the success
OF the Ferro- Manganese Works there; he
expenditures of the company for labor and
are large.
prominent specialist of Atlanta, Ga,
makes the startling announcement that more
than half the cases of deafness he treats are
caused by the use of quinine.
man in Clayton county, Ga, has won :
ierful COW. She is SO small that one man !
IAN carry her; but no one man can carry
he product of one milking"
In Abbeville county, S. c., the crops have b
oeen so large that building new corn-cribs is 2
general pursuit. Thousands of gallons of a
orghum syrup have been made. d
The Trenton (Tenn.) Courier says there is a
more money in five acres of strawberries y
han forty acres of cotton; more money in
NO sores OF tomatoes han ten OF cotton.
Look out, temperance folks. The Nash
lille Banner says: "Since the election one 3
oes not hear so much of the four-mile law. b
is probable an effort will be made 10 re- Al
cal it," M
The Union Springs (Als.) HeraId tells how 81
am Powell, colored, a tenant farmer on &C
ir. X. l.. Hobby's prairie place, near the hi
orth line Of the county, hiss harvested this so
ear, from forty acres of land, twenty-eight ia