Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-21

IN TOWN, HERE,


- IN TOWN, HERE,
we are catching it. The water is "awash" in
the highest parts of the place, and unless a
fsh sets in speedily, we are done for. The
best and most enterprising business men of
the town want to get out. Mr.. Whitehill,
who has done much and sacrificed much 70
forward the prosperity of what he, with
others, thought would be success, will go If
he can without too great a sacrifice. The
Messrs. Lowman are reported TO have said
they would close out their business here for
the money their real estate cost them. Itmay
be said here that after the fire of last August
they built 5000 storehouse and placed, in
it the most complete stock of goods ever seen
in this section of country. Il. w. Smith and
other merchants are said to have given up
hope, and as they have been here from the
6rst, when these despair, let no "tender-footn
hope for a better outcome. A gentleman,
long resident and well informed said to-day
"The town is gone; Pm tired and will move, y
Piles are being driven from just above the
icehouse down toward the eleva-
tor TO protect the bank from washing.
| How much good this will do those who
| know the vagaries of Father Mississippi
best are able to say. sas 1a E1-
The new city government meets the ap
proval of everybody. Mayor Robb does hi
whole duty, and Major Hamp Allen, chic
|
| town has ever known. If the water woulC
let us alone, and We had a few more sucl
men as we had in the person of Captain
| Claude Freeman, now of your city, but lately
| experimenting and consulting engineer o
the Eureka Oilworks here, we might have
chance to keep our heads above water-ex
cept in an 1882 overflow. ,r
| AS TO CROPS,
in Chicot and Desha counties the prospec
is gloomy indeed. In this county (Desha
| If we can get in and get out a crop of cottor
on one-siIth of the tillable lands we shall
declare ourselves fortunate. Below US, il
Chicot, about the same condition obtains
though there are large plantations Their,
| which, unless a 7sure-enough "June rise
should follow this squirt, will make gooC
crops. als - -.-- "a % fs.u rf.z -s'7s-C
1 I-s. .t.fr IN CH0CTAw BEND. r b, ..-.. +.
You know, or should know, that nearl,
opposite Us and Just above lies Choctav
Bend, one of the most productive cotton re
gions of the thermal belt At Mound Land
| ing, Ringo's store stands an oasis in desert
| of water. A few patches of levee afford
standing room for gangs of perforce idle and
consequently dependent negroes. All il
| desolate. il7- N - na..r,, las
AT Stop Landing, just above, the situation
is as bad, if net worse. = 0i ifs- q L1i
Between there and Eutaw, opposite Cap.
tain G. C. MitchelPs place in ArkansaE watel
rules the hour. Ig1-g e sala 80 -
Mitchell, over at Chieot, is yet out, but al
the sloughs lakes and bayous, back of him
are full, and six inches more will send hi,
| growing crops after Jonah's gourds. els-i E
| At Catfish Point everything is gone. Der
| franklin, Fields Miller and others lost
heavily by the first overflow, and had JUS
started up again when this food dropped or
| them. ..fFt-H. -aa4a Ts la7 Iltl %
Rosedale, Riverton, Lsconia, 7Carson's
Concordia-all are under. The people
though usually stout enough to laugh at tbs
reverses of fortune, begin to see the bottom
| of the meal barrel, and declare that for
steady drink the present tipple tastes toe
strong of the key. 4rl 7
meet, with no favor here. We expect tc
elect Bankston, Democrat, sheriff, and Jones
| Republican, clerk. Who is to be senator
from Desha and Chicot and representatiy,
from Desha is still in the cards.
rtr s7 THE STEAMER --.i-rt e--f
Dean Adams, through Captains Cheek anG
Cummins, has done, and is still doing, ar
immense amount Of "thankeen work in thi
our season of tribulation. If they are no
remembered for it in our hours Of prosperit,
(which are sure TO GOMEZ, we shall indeed b
ungrateful. IIa8 dI fgsrs-1
THE HEALTH
of the neighborhood continues good, despit
the predictions of the alarmists that "an epi
demic always follows an overflow" How
ever, We will not halloo until we are cIea
out of the woods in November. .-