Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-15
ALL ROUND THE SOUTH.

MANY Carloads OF cattle are being shipped
from Tuscumbia, Ala, to Wyoming.
THE Columbus (Nliss.) cotton compress has
pressed 81, 600 bales Of cotton so far.
DANvILLE, VA, has two cotton-milIs in
operation, and is erecting third one.
KNOXVILLE is about to open telephone
communication with Mcmillan Station.
THERE was alarge shipment of cattle from
Montgomery, Ala, last week for Texas.
KNOXVILLE is to have q musical festival.
Seats TO the amount Of $1,000 we're sold in one
day.
TIE Arkansas Legislature has passed a
bill prohibiting the sale of liquor within two
miles of any church.
JOHN @. BROWN, formerly governor of
.&spnessee, hss bsen elected president Of the
aBridz Ship Canal Company.
psrssvrnr. FIX, mas shipped away a
large Member of sheep. Texas is clearing
out the Southern Mississippi States.
ARKANSAS has doubled her population
within the las! ten years, and is ranked as
the fourth cotton Stale in the Union.
OVER 10000 acres of timber land will be
sold in Randolph county, Ark, this month.
under the provisions Of the overdue tax law.
The Jacksonville Fla, liquor-dealers
have raised a fund Of $4,000, with which TO
pay lawyers to contest the validity of the
new liquor law.
The grange cooperative store at Meridi.
an, Miss, which started business in 1879
with capital Of $50, sold last month $500
worth of goods.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Savannah,
meeting with great encouragement, to Or
ganiEs company TO commence manufacture
ing rice this season.
]. I. VAN SLICK, OF Texas, is carrying
1900 sheep from Arizona to Graham county.
Tex. He paid seventy-hye cents apiece. or
$4,000 for the whole lot.
Col. Ed RICHARDSON, of Mississippi, has
recently conceded the right of way through
all FIVE OF his plantations to the New Orleans.
Baton Rouge, Vicksburg and Memphis rail-
road.
BOLIVAR, TENN, Is troubled with scar .et.
fever. That paper makes the follow ing
strange announcement: "Pigs, hogs, COWS
and horses are dying around over the
county"
PARIS, TENN, is improving rapidly, and
all it needs is another railroad and more
factories, says the Post. The Commercial
Bank IN Paris has been designated as a Slate
depository.
FIFTEEN thousand copies of pamphlet
on the resources OF East Tennessee are soon
to be printed and distributed; and that part
OF the State intends to make a big chow at
the Louisville Exposition.
WITHIN eighteen months $50 miles of rail-
road have been under construction in Missis-
sippi, over $40, 100000 being invested Dur
ing the fifteen years previous only seventy
nine miles of road were built.
THERE is determined effort on the part
OF some of the people of Florida to divide
the State into two parts, 10 be known as North
and South Florida. 1t is said the interests
OF the different parts are not identical.
THERE are fifteen out OF eighty children
in the State Blind Asylum at Macon, Ga.
whose sight can be partially or fully restored
by an operation. DIR. Calhoun, of Atlanta
generously offers to operate on these children
free of charge.
In the oaky woods in southwest Georgia
Capt. Fort, OF Macon, is recovering hundreds
OF acres OF fertile lands. He bores down to
underground streams that exist there, thus
the ponds and swamp water are all let off
below, leaving the soil in fine condition.
HUNTSVILLE (Als) Mercury: shipping
cattle from the South to Texas is becoming
quite frequent. Mr.. d. H. Turner shipped
1880 49, mum thAo City last WEEK, duu
says he will ship three more next week. He
also shipped one carload OF fine beef cattle
to Memphis. Mr.. Turner says they offer
more Tor them in Texas than they are worth
here, and OF course they must CO."
TUscUNBIA Alabamian, I1th: "The price of
cattle has advanced fully fifty per cent. in
this neighborhood in the last sixty days, and
we believe that the sale of go many to be
sent 10 Texas will result in positive good in.
stead OF evil, as feared by some persons. 1t
seems so have stimulated our farmers to a
universal effort to pay more attention to cat
tle-raising than they have ever DONE"
THE VIcksburg Post reports great cruelty
TO convicts On c. s. Jobes's contract on the
Vicksburg and Memphis railroad at Big
Black. The statement is they are made to
work from am. until s, and sometimes
8 O'Clock p.m.; they are numerically beaten
and pelted with heavy earth clods, very
much as dogs would be; their food is INSULT
cient and abominable, and further, that two
negro women who are also prisoners, and cook
for the men, were strung up by the thumbs for
some alleged breach Of orders. 1t is but two
weeks since a prisoner was shot and killed
by one OF the guards, as is stated, without