Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-04
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

Chattanooga, Tenn, claims a population
CT 10000.
The Mississippi State Grange meets De-
cember 12lh.
A child has been born in Upton county,
Misc, with three arms.
One of the most successful cotton growers
in Alabama is a negro.
Dallas, Tex, is said to be built over a
graveyard OF mastodons.
Cooke county, Tenn, has two new postof.
fees, Driskill and Owens.
The cotton factory at PrAttsvilie, Ga,
turns out 600 yards OF cloth a day.
Fully goo, 900 pounds OF dried fruit have
been handled In Chattanooga this season.
The Chattanooga jMailer managed 10 let
three prisoners escape, one after another, on
Monday.
A Dalton (Ga.) man has paid out $4,000
in matrimonial policies. He got back
100000.
A little daughter of DR.. W. n. Ames, of
Stsrkville, Miss, was burned TO death a few
days since.
The young lsdies OF the Alabama Central
Female School publish a newspaper, the
Central Messenger.
The late earthquake shook the Choctaw
Nation up strangely, chimneys fell and there
was a general rout.
In Chattanooga on Monday night the
electric lights were all out for five minutes,
The machinery got out of order.
Yell county, Ark, is in e~cstacies about an
immense Cuba yam it has raised. 1t may
send it to 9uba Dam if it likes.
The plenty of mast and the scarcity of
hogs is everywhere noticed. Why cannot
people raise goats as well as hogs?
Tho ooiorad pantiSts II, TannaSsaa pnn,hEr
10000, and have $50 churches, the largest of
which is the Beale street church, of Memphis.
A terrapin farm has its existence at Wave
land, Miss and last week 900 little Turtles
were Matched. They will be full grown in
three years.
In Heard county, Ga, resides a family OF
eight persons, named Ray, all of whom are
deaf mutes. Nevertheless they are all in
dustrious and happy.
John Taylor, who lives near Clinton, Ala,
has a pack OF seven hounds, has gone fox
hunting 6fty-three times this season, and has
caught fit y-three foxes.
Gus Pruett, aged sixty, near Tuscaloosa,
| Ala, with one girl as help, and with one
mule, has made this year sixteen bales of
cotton, $50 bushels of corn and a good chance
OF potatoes.
The first premium of $1,000 for the finest
cotton at the Little Rock Fair was awarded
to Mr.. D.. A. McMurray and a colored man
named Allen of the vicinity OF CORTLAND,
in Pamela county, Miss.
A large number of tracts of land in the
upper country were ned in the United
States Circuit Court at Nashville last Mon
day, on the ground tina. they had been occu-
pied by moonshine dlstilleries.
The fruil-growers about Chattanooga want
the Signal Bureau TO make that place a frost
| SIGNAL statIOD "a the foharNO and smear
places are. In Florida fruit. growers have
found frost signals of great utility.
The cost OF mail transport alton in Missis-
aippi for the year ending June 80, 1882, was
1907 ,414; the postal receipts for the same
period were $260,559; showing an excess of
receipts over expenditures, in the State, OF
$50, las.
Selma (Ala.) Times: 1.-THE sickest men in
these paris are those who went strongly into
marriage insurance companies. There is no
way OF getting at the exact figures, but it is
estimated thai $4,000 has been tquandered
in them by Selma people"
A little coLored boy six or seven years of
age, living on Mr.. g. H. Braden's pace in
Fayette county, Tenn., accidentally fell into
a well sixty-five feet deep afew days ago. He
was in the well for more than half an hour,
and, strange to say, WAS taken out unhurt.
Alexander H. Stephens is very eccentric in
his old age. According to the Macon ga
Graphic he has a superstition about Friday,
and SO will not be inaugurated on that day.
He declines TO become governor on Satur-
day, because the inaugural ball would vic
late Sunday morning.
AT Knoxville, Tenn, on Wednesday, a
happy couple from Granger county were en-
tering the clerks Office for a marriage
license, when the bride was so overcome with
bashfulness she ran off up Main street. With
he aid Of two clerks she was headed off,
caught and put through.
. The Vicksburg (Miss) Herald saws "the
mail service between there and Yszoo City
is simply abominable. We have seen the
postmaster here and c~orresponded with the
one at Yszoo City, and are satisfied they are
rot negligent. The fault is with the route
agents somewhere, and if the evil is not
abared we shall complain 10 the proper au-
thorities at Washington"
At Chattanooga, Tenn, on Wednesday
some school boys undertook 10 amuse them
selves by "6zzipg" water in a tin can. A
large can was procured and filed and a FIRE
made under it. At length steam was up,
and with a loud explosion burst the can,
and severely scalded the eyes of a son of
Alderman Dagger, besides %ipjuring in a
lighter degree some of the other boys.