Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-11
srouf TN fn Manufactures, Trade. Farm
Ing aad Railroads NJ the South.


rairosd is being doubled in many places.
The wages paid TO hands in all the manu-
factuuug establishments in Tennessee are IS 254,-
CHATTANOOGA has partially lighted up
with electric lights 1t is finishing of with gaso-
line lamps.
A YOUNG lady near Bainbridge, Ga, has
about four in onions, and expects to realize
$500 on the crop.
DARDANELLE, Ark, is having stein
ferTyboat thirtysix feet beam by 40 feet in length
built in Cincinnati.
ARKANSAS has doubled her population in
the last years. and is ranked the fourth cot
ton State in the Union.
OVER 40 600 acres OF timber land will be
sold in Raadolph county Ark, this month, under
the provisions of the overdue tax law.
The South florida Times says there are
5000 acres of beautiful orange groves within
radius Of two miles from It's ofice door.
tbs number OF bearing orange trees on
Halifax rlyer in Florida, is estimated at 800 900.
New groves are being planted all the time.
: SrocKMEN estimate that between 5000
and 900 head of cattle died the past winter from
/ cold ana munger between sour Lake and the Gulf
The yellow pine forests of Florid. extend
son sames q fds 6 %
rough
AN iron bridge connecting New snd Old
Laredo, Tex, is being talked OF. The river Is now
i nlsh water .Ss'' ''''1s' - - Vol
NoxUBEE county, Miss, has an organizi-
| ton to be called the Noxubee County Improve
| ment Association. They propose to erect q COM
| press at Macon.
FUNDS enough TO build the Sanford and
Eutis railroad from Sanford to wekiva river. Fla,
| continued to Ocals.
TIE Est Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad WAS sued last week for s1eo 900 by the ad-
ministrator OF John Hobbsra pilot, who was killed
| in collision at Ooltewah.
M n
pairing pamphlet giving list of those persons
located on or near the line of the road who pro-
pose taking summer boarders.
A FARMER 10 the vicinity OF Nashville
from the first crop s54l4 S. and from the second
| crop ;l2l6 p, a total of s66S1 10.
A BARN in Lancaster, Tex, containing
25e0 bushels of cotton-seed, exploded lately, max
| ing report that was heard two or three miles.
Generations of gases was the cause.
A PARTY of Ciacinnatians recently pur-
chased 5000 acres of land on what is known as the
500 600 hotel and large sanitarium.
TX N,vsrro county, Tex, cottoa picking is
sill going on. The lint is said to be very much
stained and great many farmers have plowed in
cotton, not being able to get pickers.
On the Tenuesses river the fore. at Muscle
Of tao taiiuis OF Congress to make an appropria-
tiop- The work will cease in two nao.thr.
The marble interests of East Tennessee
will be augmented by the organization OF large
joint stock company, the charter for which was
| received and registered at Nashville last week.
THERE are now between 700 and 800 leans
at work. grading between Kosciusko and Aberdeen,
Miss, and ID will not be many months before those
two points are in direct railroad communication.
Now that Georgia ia stepping to the front
as manufacturing State she holds up a warning
finger against free trade Our interest works 4
wonderful change upon cur political convictions.
Mr.. JEFF BRIDGEFoRD, late of Paris, NO.,
has, we understand purchased the Black River
Mill, and proposes putting the same in operation,
ing, Ark, at al early day.
THERE ia general boom in the nursery
business in Middle Tennessee, and apple trees
thirty three and one third per cent. higher in the
North than with us, consequently the Nashville
| nuiserymen are shipping North.
A FRUIT grower placed tobscco stems
around tae trunks of trees, and there is not
butts OF the trees and then tied them the tops.
1t keeps off rabbits, as well, in winter.
THE East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad has recently bought 10 passenger engines
| and Macon. They will be the finest engines that
run TO the city. They are TO be delivered by the
LIST OF Msy.
BLACKsBURG (VA) Times: ga bed of coal
six and half felt thick. two and half miles long
and half mile wide has been opened on Peaks
SIeek ulaskl county aoouL I'VE ana nan miles
ore Is found on the same tract"
The Cdpitotidr- duoeats says: "R iilrosd
hands are working in sections along the Missis-
sipp Valley road from Bayou Grasse to a distance
Of ten miles above town. 1t is predicted that New
Orleans and Baton Rouge will be connected by
this road by the 4th of July this year"
GROUND was broken for new furnace at
Gran berry, n. c., on Saturday afternoon, March
Sd, at O'Clock. Among the gentlemen present
were Gen; PaIdee, ir., Gen. Hoke, C; Il; Nimson,
Simpson and Aug. C. Garfield, of Dover.
THE people of the South and Southwest
have made great progress in fruit culture of late
years, and tits hoped they viii continue in we'll
doing, for there is both pleasure and profit in the
BUSH ess. Attention seems to be particular di.
reeted to the Southwest for fruit raising.
S,THE milling interests OF Est Tennessee
have been largely augmented by the erection of
raany new and improved Touring mills in the
last few years, aud the shipment of wheat from
that section will soon be a thing of the pest,
the local mills will consume the surplus
WE are indebted to experiments for all
the progress that marks our agricultural advance
Almost every farmer is prepared to do something
every year in making such experiments as may
suggest themselves to his mind. A small plot OF
ground could well be appropriated for this pur-
pose.
The Manufacturers Record records the fact
that during the months Of January and February
1883, Ill carloads of Northern machinery passed
through Roanoke, Va, going South. This, it Ie-
marks. is only what has been done on one rail-
road and that, too, during the two dullsst months
IN the year.
The report OF the Mexican Central rail-
road goes to show that it holds mortgage Of
So 600 ON the customs revenue of Mexico, on
which 1856 142 has been paid. II all of the subs-
died railroads built, they will have TO take
the country in part payment and mortgage its
future for the balance.
FROM everywhere comes the cry Of "es.
cotton, more corn" No use, brethren OF the
press-"whom the gods destroy they first make
lcott5n) mad" There is only 100000 surplus
row, let us make it 1900 00o and get down to five
cents, and then naked. starving children will r.e
up and call you blessed Cd.
CHATTANOOGA goes ahead The Cooss
River Fsrnsce Company will blow in their fur
mace No. J. which is to burn charcoal, about
the LIST of May. They have all the ovens
for burning the charcoal now ready. As soon
they get this furnace in blast, they will erect an
other, No. ,, which is TO use coke.
The stockholders of the Warrior Coal
Fields railroad effected an organization at Gaines