Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-19
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

Aberdeen, Miss, has hourlshlDg Board
OF Trade.
Smallpox and politics are prevalent in
some of the Southern districts.
Dyersburg, Tenn, boasts OF 6ne hunting,
a good business and little money.
Nstchez, Miss, is borrowing money at ten
per cent. Better "psy IS they CO." NAtchez
is the city where nothing ever happens.
A traction sngfne sent to the fair at Little
Rock from Racine, Wis, lie running free about
the city streets like live thing. no rails being
required.
Cabot. Ark. boasts that it has only one
doctor, but the doctor does not bosst of the
number of his customers. The number OF
doctors and drug stores are evidences OF the
sanitary condition of neighborhood.
The Fort Smith (Ark.) Herald advertises
that the cotton compress there gins, bales,
and finds bagging and ties, and for pay takes
only the seed from the cotton. Ii the par
ties have corn to grind that is done for them
into the bargain.
AT Little Rock, on Saturday, Mr.. Edward
F,ris, freight train conductor on the Iron
Mountain railroad, stood near the depot
picking his teeth with his knife. A pssser-
by jostled his arm, the mile severed vein
beneath his tongue, aud for some time his
life was desPsired OF.
to S12 a ton. Pine Bluff has received
over 1000 bales OF cotton. Pea Ridge re-
ports q bale TO the acre, and the best quail
ity ever produced there. Conway is receiv-
ing 100 bales q day. In White county corn
is selling at fifteen cents q bushel.
At Reeds Landing, below Little Rock,
Ark on Saturday night, as Mr.. VIM. George
was closing his stovedoor, a gun was fired.
| Five buckshot entered his head and killed
I T.. IL IL a..tr lad 10
| be murdered was his partner, Mr.. Wallace.
| Nothing could be learned respecting the
assassin.
At Ringgold, Ga, George Smith, youth
of nineteen, worked on Capt. Bills farm.
| One day last week be was at work and APP
peared pleasant and cheerful, as was his
usual manner, when suddenly he left his
work, went 10 the house, took up pistol
and shot himself ia the head. In an hour
he was dead. His acquaintance are utterly
unable to account for his mysterious pro-
| ceeding.
James Henson, of Chattanooga, got drunk
on Sunday and abused his wife. Aided by
his companion, Tracey, he threw the won an
| down, and while Tracey beat her he got a
saw and began 10 saw her head of. Htr
screams brought policeman; the men re-
| fused him admission. He had 10 break IN
The door and 10 pound their heads with hi'
| club until they were unconscious before he
could rescue their victim, who was fsarfully
but not fatally hurt.
| At Columbus, Miss, bacon ia sixteen to
seventeen cents a pound; st Meridian the
same. The Aberdeen (Miss.) Examiner says
"The prices are nearly as high in Aberdeen
as in either of the above named towns, and
Yet though stock hogs are scarce everywhere
and many farmers have no hogs for slaugh'
ter, and corn is only worth about forty cents
a bushel, many farmers selling cattle
from the range at less than half the price
per pound net that bacon commands"
The Little Rock (Ark.l Democrat report:
the existence of band of fanatics there
VITO keep a concern they call the Savior's
Home. They are described as sickly, squal'
lid and looking half starved. They have q
number of puny, sick children with them.
| They feed them on cornmeal and water.
This causes dIarrhea, and three or four oil
them are in dying condition. No medicine
ia allowed them; the adults say TO those who
would send doctor, "The Lord will pro
vide,the Lord will heal them" Some of them
have have been put in jail, but on getting out
they proceed sgain with their barbsrous su
perstition.
The Aberdeen Examiner gives an account
of Prince Moore, negro near there, that
shows what the negro can do when he has
| ''gril." He has an eighty acre farm that
shows thrift, neatness, and order. He makes
this season thirteen bales of cotton, 400
bushels of corn, and $50 bushels OF potatoes;
he has yoke of young oxen, two mules, and
horse; also cows, turkeys, chickens and
hogs; he makes every pound of meat con.
sumed on his place; ne has an orchard, 8
vegetable garden, also a flower garden before
his neat double log cabin; a wagon shelter,
| corn crib, potato house and sheds. On all
this he owes Just twelve dollars There are
white men who might profit by going to
Prince and learning how he did it all, for he
started as a freedman without dollar. The
Examiner says there 'rs other similar cases
among the colored folks OF old Monroe-all
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