Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-14
SOUTHERN SIFTINGS.

Georgia rejoices in postofhce called
Hades.
Three .fourths of the Georgia fruit crop has
been dried.
One cent will buy a. big watermelon in
Troup county, Fla.
Corn is offered as low az twenty cents q
bushel in some portions of North Alabama.
The dog tax collected in Fauquier county,
Va, is set aside 10 pay claims for sheep
killed by dogs.
Over 200 screw worms were recently re-
moved from a sore on the shoulder of citi-
zen of Grayson, Tex.
The sore-eye epidemic has invaded Ala
baua, and has almost entirely disappeared
from Georgia and Florida.
Mr.. Kelly, aged twenty-one years, and
Miss Raper, aged eleven, were married in
Pickens county, S. c., last week.
The Hon. A. II. Shepherds history Of the
United States, complete to the time of Sena-
tor HiIl's death, will be issued in few days..
The Georgia lunatic asylum is full to
OVERLOOKING. and cannot receive any more
patients. The asylum at Nashville, Tenn,
is in the same fix.
Little Rock, Ark, voted on the license
question at the recent election, and decided
Dy an OVERWHELMING " 10
"slp of the flowing bowl"
An effort will be made TO grow Kentucky 3
celebrated bluegrass in Texas, the "black-
wax" land of that State being favorable, 30
it is thought, to IFS growth.
More than year ago the owner of the
property in Clarksburg, w. Va, where stood
the old house in which Stonewall jackson
was born and raised, had it pulled down.
curious case OF miscegenation is caus-
ing some excitement in BRENNAN, Tex, the
groom being a well-to-do white farmer and
the bride full-blooded negro wench.
The New Orleans ITmes-Democra says it
is quite probable the amount paid by the
South to the West for foodstufs this year
will be 500 900 less than paid in 1881.
A Nashville woman who lost purse con-
tanning 1858 10 gave the odd ten cents to an
bonest negro who found and returned the
money. She may yet die OF enlargement of
the heart.
Since the war Alexander H. Stephens has
collected more than $500, 900 of war claims
for Southern people, for which he refused to
accept fees. Aleck will get his reward, new
ertheless.
There are now twenty-five iron furnaces in
Alabama. The Birmingham Age says that
within radius of fifty of miles Birminhsm
furnaces for thousand years.
Up to Sunday subscriptions to the Ben
Hill monument fund had reached $4,000 in
Atlanta alone. The promoters Of the move
ment think there will be no trouble in rails
ing the amount needed, S30, 600.
Florida will soon be perfect network of
rail ways, and the rapid development OF the
State win OF course follow. Her resources
are wonderful, and few years Will place
her among the hveliest of the Southern
States.
Mississippi crop prospects are generally
good. The worm is doing some damage 10
cotton in several counties and excessive rams
in others, but the yield, it is believed, Will be
more than an average. More corn has been
grown than for several years past, 50 that
none will have to be imported.
The town of Durham, n. c., with 1000 in
habitants, stands on the spot where john
ston surrendered to Sherman, seventeen
wears ago. 1t YVES then a pine barren. The
enterprise of w. 4. Blackwell and J. S. Carr,
native North Czrolinians, wrought changes.
e Mr.. Vaughan, an observant farmer living
near Waco, Tex, accounts for the scarcity
of boil worms this year. He has Uncovered
that the wheat bird destroyed the boil worm.
He also discovered that the boil worm had
a parasite that destroyed it; the parasite, at
maturity, turns to gnat.
Saws the Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald: sThe
Rev. Albert Jackson, of Greenvills, and the
Hon. 1. D. Shad, ex-speaker of the House of
Representatives, are 10 the city for the pur-
pose OF soliciting subscriptions from our citi-
zens to found college for the education of
colored youth az Greenville. Large amounts
have already been subscribed BY several Of
the leading white citizens of Washington aud
Issaquena counties for this very IaudabIe
project"