Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-24
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

Baltimore has girl fifteen years old who
has eloped three times.
The neigh borhood of Fort Smith is crowded
| with horse thieves.
A matrimonial epidemic has broken out
| In and around Ripley, Miss.
| About twenty-five Sisters of Mercy are at
| tending the sick at Pensacola
Prentiss county, Miss, took S425 in cotton
premiums at the st. Louis fair.
Coffee plants sent from Cuba to Aanatee
| county, Fla, are growing finely.
| The Huntsville (Ala) Democrat says their
/ fair not as well attended as usual this year.
| A man in Charlotte, N. C., recently SUI
cded from excessive grief at the death of his mule
| Picking cotton and wheat-sowing are the
principal agricultural operations going on at pres
ent.
| A Tennessee paper remarks that there are
parents who insure their stock, but neglect their
| children.
! AT Meridian, Miss, an engineer hiss been
fined SIS for unnecessarily blowing the whistle of
| his engine.
Scsttsboro, Ala, is shipping off large
amounts of lumber. the product of the surround
| ing timbered lands.
Near Fayette, Miss, a panther recently
esught and Killed fd LITTLE e9ored child This Is
Pamela (Miss.) Star: "Sawmill Jones wss
in Jackson last week offering for 81 matrimonial
chasers.'
Around Oxford, Miss, the corn crop is
very fine, and more meat has been raised than
usual but not enough to make them independ-
ent of Cincinnati.
Bishop Green, of the Episcopal Church,
has called special meeting OF the Diocesan Coun-
ell at Jackson, Miss, November 3d. 1882, to elect
assistant bishop.
10 the Circuit Court of Montgomery county,
Miss, Miss Atkinson brought J.; breach re-, s1oo OF
but the jury only awarded SO.
Stephen Martin, who lives in Greene
county, Ala, became suddenly speeches the the
case is mystery to the physicians.
Adam Hedges, of Mckinney, Tex, la
bored under the fond delusion that he was 12o
years old, but some public records were found
which set him back to eighty eight
The Knoxville Chronicle, of FRIDAY, con-
tains Mr. Rules announcement Of his retirement
from the edit3sniP Of thSL paper o nat me
The S-lma (AIa.) Times says negro risings
to massacre the whites have been talked about
there until the girls around are badly frightened
has had additional men put on it.
One day last week, at Magnolia, Miss,
a colored woman exhibited bucnh of home
ern part of that town The tree is three years old
and is the product of a transplant from Louisiana
Natchez, the city where nothing ever hap
pens 5s rs i R sree It ieeps pool on Canal
street that GOES not smell like rose garden, and
the corporation has stopped the yisitauons oil the
slush cart.
Mr.. Tolbert Fustop, of Huntsville, Ala,
hearing that a negro named George Steele had
acted in verv outrageous and indecent manner
toward Mrs. Fusion, hunted him with gun and
shat him dead. After q preliminary trial, the
judge discharged Fusion.
Montgomery, Ala, will coon be illumin-
teS Sh and es tst ga 70 De done is he
erection of the poles and the putting up OF tne
lamps viii IT is expecte will be done by early
in November, probs bly, by the It'll.
Tba AabIsnd miss Re1isfer reioicee II
says the county raises two crops of potatoes year
has 'Possum on every other psrslmmon tee m
sweet potato; several marriages are about 10 come
of, ana the town has e brass band.
Near Oxford, Miss. 3. Boone and M
Ayres got into quarrel about their crop when the
latter su eshed the formers mead with piece of
wood and he is in jail. The Falcon says there
have been too many such affairs about there OF
late, and the interference of the law is wanted.
Enterprise (Miss) Courier: "The boom
is over and the matrimonial insurance as<oclA-
tons are going under as raPi1dy as mex sPrI ~
10 tell the tale of humbuggery, and IN many
cases rascalitv that has attended their organlza-
tion and management"
For three weeks past the weather in Ala
bama has been most yorable for cotton, and
farmers have improved the opportunity thus al
the crop has been largely overestimated Plant
ers state that it ill fall short OF calculations made
six o. eight weeks since at least ons-third-
According TO the Ozark Democrat religion
is scarce article there. religious meeting Is
going on, but the majority of the people show
seen Christian since he entered the town. If
there no Christians in Ozark we send mission
aries Africa. What does IT signify about Ozark
Some of the jackson, Tenn, people had
fox hunt last week; riders and hunting dogs were
in plenty. The run lasted i've hours and was de-
aided 70 have been ,.Inagnitieent" The people
Black creek, near Denmark, are in terror on &C
count OF an immense panther that Is haunting
that neighborhood. The hunters are searching
for him.
IT.. MaI-osa oo.so1 r,,iIIa bava haay, re-
Gently started at Russellylle, Pope county, Ark,
on the Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad. The
mRseninerv' Ten cottages have been put up for
the occupation of employees This is the first start
portant one in 9 State that grows some of the
finest cotton in the United States
Four acres of land Just outside OF En-
faula, Ala, have this year produced upward Of
Cobb, VINO sowed the land in oats and gathered
sixty bushels to the acre; he then planted the land
he sowed the land in peas from which be gathered
ten or twelve bushels to the acre, the four acres
ZOO ZOO ''' '' "
The Columbia (Tenn.) Herald says that
the weather continues very dry. and the farmers
wheat. Cotton is turning out beyond the ezpect4-
lions of anyone. Those who topped their cotton
who did net TOP Com is Selling at 81 50 per bar
rel in the sh1ek; wheat from eighty 10 eighty
seven and half cents per bushel; bacon-sides.
twenty cents per pound
The KauaWa coal fields, underlying the
counties of TazeSen, Russell, Buchanan, Dckeu-
son, Wise, Scott and Lee, in Southwest Virginia
sn area of 200 square mi Ca are estimated 70 con-
tain 2 90 600 900 of iron ore. The fact most
surprising about this great coal field Is that Il mas
been left dying within twenty-five miles by ar
line from the Norfolk and Memphis trunk railway
and not sooner reached by branch railroad, bot
has lain useless and proftieS through all these
busy years Of railroad terminating progress IL
is a happy reflection that this condition Of things
Is now abo-t 70 end.
Wessou, M.ss., was not long since pine
forest II now has q cotton mill, the insurance
which with contents f 500 600: IL gives work TO
1000 people, uses up 800 bales of cotton year,
has set of hands Al work al day and another ali
night and is lighted by electricity. 1tmakes doe
skins cassimeres. jeans. both col0red and white,
ranging in price from twenty cents up; hnseyS.
tweeds cottonades plaias, checks. cheTots. hlek-
DRY shirings. sheeting, shifting. osnaburgs, drill
ing. ticking, rope, warp yarns, Knitting cotton.
colored and white; sewing thread towels, grain
and cotton sack. penitentiAIy duck and jeans
WesSon has population OF $50 persons.
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