Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-05
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

A young lady of Ripley, Miss, has just
completed a quilt containing 2416 pieces.
Looms have been stopped in several of the
Augusta (Ga.) mills for want of operatives.
A negro child was born with a full set oil
whiskers and a mustache, at Laurenceburg,
NC.
In Elberton, Ga, during a recent rain a
large turtle fell from the clouds into the
streets.
Georgia strips 95, 1000 acres of timber land
and exports 50O,O00,O00 feet of lumber an
nuslly.
The crops of Arkansas this year will be
immense, and will do much toward relieving
the people.
An Atlanta man who bought a pair of
boots on credit and afterwsrd refused to pay
for them was jailed for debt.
The cotlon-seed oil mills at Huntsville,
Ala, are sending immense quantities of
cotton-seed meal to Germany.
Thursday was observed throughout Geor-
gia as a day OF thanksgiving and praise
for the prosperity OF the past year.
The scare ON account of the boil worm has
about subsidized in North Texas. The past
few days of constant sunshine has done
much for cotton.
Reports from many Georgia towns say the
outlook for the fall business was never before
] finer than now. Merchants are ordering
unusually large stocks of goods.
A lazy man in Arkansas abandoned a we'll
after digging four feet. Another man came
along, dug down another foot, and struck a
vein Of coal worth thousands of dollars.
The other night an amateur prize-6ghter
was killed by a mule in Fayetteville, Ark.
Barnum wants the mule, but the people OF
the town are unwilling to part with him.
The liquor drank in Louisiana costs $47,-
| 600, 000-S2,0 100000 more than its combined
| cotton, sugar and rice crops. Virginia
| drinks up her entire wheat crop annually.
The editor of the Norfolk (Va) Landmark,
| who has responded to several calls to the
| field of honor, advocates the passage OF an
&C. of the Assembly anding the sheriff
| to conduct each duel at short range, and 20
keep it up until a fatal ending is secured.
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Circuit Court has
| sentenced Henry Llture, a boy onlyfen years
| old, to the p~enitentiary for two years, for
| grand larceny. At a previous term of the
| court he was convicted of house-burning,
| but he was let off on account Of his tender
years.
Micaiah Martin bought the land where
| the Kimball House now stands. IN The heart
of the city of Atlanta, Ga, when it was COW
cred with brushwood. 1t is said he never
| sold or decided it to anybody, and now his
heirs are about to bring suit TO recover. 1t
ia 2023 acres.
/ Alter a Smith county, Va, well-digger dug
800 feet dow he went through with a plunge
into a subterranean lake, the distance be-
tween the earth and the water being several
feet. A small boat was let down and he
sailed for five miles, when he found the out
let to be a spring in the side of a hill.
Probably the heaviest Transaction in COT
- sLoA $500 - C.@-=fE. a.
was made last Saturday. Captain Thomas
W Jones, who has been holding the princi-
pal part OF his crop for the past two years,
closed it out Saturday TO Mr.. Skaller, one Of
our merchants. The sale embraced III bales,
the price paid being III cents, and amounted
to 5000.
Nashville evidently believes in telephones.
The telephone line between Gallatin and
Nashville was completed last Saturday and
messages are now sent back and forth be-
tween the two cities at will. Lines are also
about completed connecting MurireesboTo,
Harfsville. Clarksvills, Ashland City and
Hopkinsville with Nashville, virtually max
ing them suburban tosns of the capital city.
The Dyersbury (Tenn.) Gazette prints the
following: A Halls Station, twelve miles
south OF Dyersburg, is a big tree that -four
ishes as the monarch of the forest. It is =
live hollow poplar, go high that it takes two
men and q boy 10 look up to the top OF 1t. II
ia fifty feet in circumference, ard a man On
horseback can easily ride into il, turn around
and come out at the opening. Mr.. j H. Hall
has performed this feat often"
The Franklin (Tenn.) Revie1 and Journal
is responsible for the following snake story:
"BiII Bateman, colored, found a srake last
Sunday, and striking at 1t with a s;ick il IN
jointed itself into many pieces. Pretty soon
it collected itself together again. The feat
was repeated. Bill could not Understand il,
and called in some ~neighbors, who proceeded
to pile straw upon the ground which they set
on fire and burned his snakeship up"
A child was born on the west aide of Brad
ley county, Tenn, one day last week, perfect
in form, but with the Top Of lis head, from
the eyes and ears up, entirely gone and hsv-
ing the appearance of having been cut of,
the brain being bare. Il lived about two
hours. About two months previous to its
birth the mother was frightened at Tie sight
OF her fsther-in-law cutting off the heed Of
a sheep. The eyes of the child were large
and the color of those Of 4 sheep.