Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-29
ALL ROUND THE SOUTH.

CHATTANOOGA s 10 have free mail delivery
in August.
MARYvILLE, Tenn, is about to start
public library.
SEWER COUNTY, Tenn, is to have a new
newspaper, the Republican,
KNOXVILLE is happy, it has fve-legged
pig-the fifth leg is right fore leg.
ROCKFORD, Blount county, Tenn, has a
cotton-mill which employs forty people.
KNOXVILLE Chronicle, 9th: "The wheat
crop is splendid. Oals are being harvested"
The Knoxville Chronicle says J. G. Eagle,
the proprietor Of MoutvaIe, has discovere1
silver near the springs there.
On the glorious Fourth Pine Bluff ply
stefan, Dr.. Lesinsky, aud Mr.. james Lind
sey will run race on ,hs rsce-lrsck.
MADISON, Tenn, and neighboring COUNT, s
are growing literally OF sorghum this season,
and are forming cane-growers' associations.
Nor bushel of corn has been brought to
Pike county, Ala, this year, and the farmers
are in better condition than for several years
pss'.
SEVERAL hundred dollars have been sub
scribed 10 establish telephone com munica-
ton between Knoxville and Sewer county,
Tear.
NEAR. SkipwiIh Landing, last week, Ma
n an Ayers insu'ted Mrs Chisholm, for which
of=n he Wss killed by her SOD, Thomas
CHISHOLM.
The protest against arm clutching has
spread like an epidemic into the smaller
towns Of the State; the Tennessee gIrls in
tend to stop il.
The Pine Bluff (AIk) Commercial ham
ns red SO hard al an opium den that had
b.. n opened there that it humm axed into a
collapse and is no more.
THE wheat crop of Craig head county, Ark,
ia reported TO be short in acreage, and what
there is is very unpromising. Not more than
half crop, if that, is anticipated.
PINE BLUFF is the scene of a coal-oil
war. Last week strife bad reduced it to five
cents a gallon. The citizens ,here are talk
ing about establishing a soap factory.
THE Knoxville Chronicle says: "Fruit
prophets are bad; weather prophets are very
bad; crop prophets are horribly bad, but
railroad prophets sre execrably bad"
Two negroes were worked 10 death 90 the
Chattanooga chain gang a few days ago, aud
died on the spot. They were taken out into
the hot cum and compelled TO work when
unfit f Jr it.
THE Pine Bluff Commercial says that the
most beautiful part # that city, Barrsque
street, is digraced by plscs where gambling,
negro minstrelsy, and drinking sre carried
on, women of the street taking part in The
revels.
Mr.. GEORGE REIMENsEYDER, of Holly
Sprines, Miss, correspondent Of the APPEAL
has been lecturiDg through that State on ex-
rtemporsueous orstors. Mr.. Reimensnyder
was formerly OF the National School of Eo-
cution and Oratory.
SUMNER COUNTY, TENN, reports only
moderately good crops. TIE wheat there i
ssid to be the poorest in the State. The po-
tato-raisers have had panic dsriug the
week over the low prices-f1 % to II 80 per
barrel. The yield will be large and of good
qualify.
Pine BLUFF (Ark) Commercial: "The
Piue Bluff wharf is no more. The last rise
dug IL out and eff il has gone. Steamboats,
will now US derricks to get their freight into
the back end OF the Hattie Nowland ware
house, lift OF about thirty feet from low
water mark"
THE Knoxville Tribune's representative,
just returned from upper East Tennessee, re.
pOr's the wheat crop in fine condition in that
section. Mr.. E S. Ripley, one of the Lead
ing farmers of Greene county, has one fifty
sore wheat field which will produce about
1900 bushels of wheat.
TERRIFIC accounts come from the E ast OF
the miserable condition of the woolen-mills,
which are running at loss. Az contrast
we resd in the Knoxville Chronicle that "the
Maryville, Tenn, woolen-mils run night
and day" Yet the Memphis people hesi-
tate about investing in msnufaclures
ST PETERS PARISH, Oxford, Mics, has
placed its church and recIory IN the hands
of the Diocesan trustees, to be held in trust
for the use OF the bishop of Mississippi and
his successors. Bishop Thompson will thus
become resident of this university town,
and will thenceforth use 81. Peters as his
cathedral church. The former rector has
been retained by the bishop as his assistant.