Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-15
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.


in Florida.
Cedar Keys, Fla, ships forty barrels OF
fish per day.
Arkansas has a two-years' supply of corn,
oats and wheat.
1t was showing up In the Blue Ridge
mountains last week.
Nashville is receiving bids for new pump
ing machinery for the waterworks.
The first tramp of the season appeared en-
the streets of Selms, Ala, last week.
New Orleans merchants have organized a
grand excursion TO the City of Mexico.
The first frost of the season in the region
about Little Rock appeared yesterday morn
ing.
bill has been introduced in the Georgia
Legislature providing for compulsory educa-
ton.
A butcher at Nashville is selling "Langtry
steaks" He got them out before the Langtry
bonnet appeared.
Van Buren,, Ark, rejoices now. The
scream OF the cars on the Frisco railway
arouses the echoes in their streets.
The gift Of Mr.. Paul Tulane 10 Louisiana
for educational purposes is expected to yield
an annual income of about $4,000.
A cyclone struck an old negro at Waldo,
I,
and now he can hear as well as anybody.
They have building boom at Nashville
fifty-three building permits were issued in
October. There is great inquiry for small
tenements.
The Savannah (Tenn.) Transcript says that
a lumberman there, full of liquor, fell into
the river and was drowned. The water
proved too much for him.
Prof. Colston, geologist of the Agricultural
Bureau, has returned to Nashville from a
visit to Roane mountain, where he discov-
cred some rich veins of iron before unknown.
A man in Moose county, N. c., whose first
wife was his fathers second wife's sister, has
capped the climax and further mixed the
genealogical tree by wedding his sons wife's
sister.
The Nashville Banner says that vagrants,
scoundrels and thieves infest every part OF
that city, and almost every night house is
robbed, and people are stepped and robbed
on the street.
A man at Charlotte, n. c., touched a
lighted cigar to the elephants trunk TO see
if anything would happen. People who
picked him up after his flight found leg
and arm broken.
Davy Mills, young colored fend OF Dam
vile, Va, held a small negro boy over the
steam escape valve of an engine until he was
fearfully scalded, for the purpose of getting
a silver dollar from him.
State Commissioner Hawkins is making
arrangements, by aid of correspondents
throughout the State, TO furnish regular
Tennessee weather reports throughout the
year. The Signal Bureau at Washington
co-operates with him.
II is rumored in Atlantis, Ga, that Sena-
tor Brown will soon resign his seat IN the
Senate. His distressing cough has, il is
said, returned with the approach of cold
weather, and he does not dare to spend an
other winter in Washington.
The Fredericksburg (Va-) Ne,Os says: "We
were shown on Monday box OF pure gold
from the Rappahannock mine in Stafford
county, which weighed tweuty-three pounds
and nine ounces. This amount was the pro-
duct OF one months labor at said NINE"
Some unsanctiied wretch hiss kept pig
pen all summer beneath the window of the
Van Buren, Press Office, supplying editors
and printers with flies by day, mosquitoes by
night and Gehenna's own smell all the time.
The Pope ought to anathemize that man.
Reuben Simms, an old colored man who
died recently at Roanoke, claimed to have
made he fret plug of tobacco ever made in
Virginia. In order 10 form a compact mass
he twisted up the leaves a I'd with a msilet
forced them into an auger-hole bored 10 q
block of wood.
A shrewd womsn OF Gainesville, Co., OBJ
tanned the consent of the prison authorities
to visit her husband in his cell. There she
exchanged clothes with him and he was re-
leased BY the keepers, TO whom such trick
had never suggested itself. She, too, was al
lowed TO depart.
Washington and Lee UnIversity has
vii afr in af-
tendance, an increase for the present year of
twenty per cent. over last session. The an
ticipated number is 140. Sixteen States are
1t is proposed to inaugurate
the Lee monument on the 28th of June
next
Tne officers OF the First Virginia regiment
have recommended that the uniform of the
State troops be changed 30 as to be identical
with that of the United States army, subsii-
tuIing cadet gray for The blue in the dress
coat, and that the pants be OF staff blue
l. G blue color OF the pants now worn by
the staff.
Mr.. w. G. Woodward recently killed a
rattlesnake few miles south OF
Butler. Ala, The snake was niue and one
half feet long, about eighteen or twenty
inches in circumference, and had thiriy-six
rattles. When killed il had fawn in IFS
mouth about half swallowed.
The sale of Texas lands to English CAPT.
talists is becoming enormous. Tracts as
large as 100000 and 4, 000, 900 of acres are
sought. The headquarters of the trade are
in New Yerk, but Washington parties are
quite largely engaged in it. Judicious and
persistent advertising of the advantages of
he lands brought about the enormous immi- |
grafton Of the last few years, and the de- |
nand for large tracts of land follows. The |
and bought is unimproved, and the prices |
paid are from sevenfy-hve cents upward per
acre.
There are 100 counties in Virgins. News
papers are published in sixty-6ve counties. |
Eighty five towns in the Stste have newspa-
oers; ffty-three of these towns are county
eats. There are nineteen daily pspers,
our tri-weeklies, seven semi-weekliee, two
tweniy-nine monihfies, ore
quarterly, and I23 weeklies. Total, 185. |
Ninety-two Democratic or Conservatives in
,olitics, sixteen Readjusier, four Republican,
rot counting the Independent papers, trade
ournals, college publications, and denomina-
ional papers.
Mr.. NJ. A. WHITLEY, Toledo, o., vrites:
ffer irving all Advertised medicines for uerrnus