Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-27
GROWTH AND GAINS OF THE SOUTH
SINCE THE 1ST OF OCTOBER.

IOhI1 SluucHlS dl Tic lCAdS OIlNtISlly
are women.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, is going to haveaa
cheese factory.
PALESTINE, TEX, is to build a railroad at
once to Athens.
TENNESSEE is classed No. 2 in the num-
Der of its thoroughbred cattle.
HUNTSVILLE, ALA, is rejoicing at the in
PRODUCTION of the telephone there.
FLORIDA has $50 factories, working 2749
hands, with a capital invested of 81 ,697 ,030.
THERE is more bacon in Putnam county,
Tenn, and less demand for it than for sew
eral years past.
CANTON, Mss, has organized a Stock
Breeders Association to encourage the
raising Of fine stock.
A FRANKLIN COUNTY (Tenn.) farmer re-
allied the past season $4,000 from eighty
acres of strawberries.
TIE University of Alabama, at Tusca-
loosa, is to be enlarged. The brick are
already on the ground.
BUILDING lots at Guntersville, Ala, are
in demand, and about the public square
there are none for sale.
FURNACE No. l, at Admission, Ala, has
blown out for enlargement. 1t will be
made double Its capacity.
EASTERN capitalists offer to build the
Marshall Tex narrow-gauge Road il the
people will donate them $4,000.
THE West Point Miss Leader an
nounces that a new bank will be opened
in that town shortly, with a large capital.
The Morristown (Tenn.) Gazette says
forty or more emigrants took railroad
tickets there last week for Texas and the
West.
IT is said that, owing to the number of
buildings going up in Decatur, Ala, the
scarcity of brick is getting to be a serious
matter.
BAXTER COUNTY ark Citizen: "The
cotton crop is reported as being short in
this county this season, but the corn crop
was neve better"
THE White County (Ark.) Fair, held at
Judsonia on the 10th, 18th and 18th of
this month, was the first attempt, and was
considered a success.
IL the Indian Territory the farmers met
at Tahlequah on October 21st at the public
square to take steps toward forming a
farmers association.
The most prosperous city in the South
is said to be Macon, Ga. In the last three
years her new buildings andimprovements
have cost S2,997, 300.
Gov. MCDANIEL has notified Col. More
head that Georgia will be represented
mex month in the convention of the
National Cotton Planters Association at
Vicksburg.
IT is rumored that a railroad is to be
built from Centre, Cherokee county, Ala,
through by Cross Plains, thence to White
Plains and intersect the Georgia Pacific at
Davisville.
TIN-sToNE, seventy-eight per cent. tin,
has lately been discovered in Birmingham,
Ala. The lands where the find occurred
are b~eingdeveloped, and much is expected
from them.
TIE Macon Miss Beacon says the En-
glish syndicate in Noxubee county has
employed several gentlemen to prepare
abstracts of the titles of the lands offered
them for sale.
PRoF. R~oEscHER, the ~geologist, who has
been spending some weeks at Fort Smith,
Ark, saws the Indian Territory is one of
the richest tracts for minerals in the
United States.
JoNEsBoRo ark Times: "eane Island
has the best cotton we have seen this sea-
son. They say they will make 1200 to
100 pounds per acre, and the crop will be
nearly up to an average"
In 1870 Georgia had 10000 farms; in
1880 she had $4,000. The estimated
value of farm products in 1870 was $780,
10000; in 1880 it had risen to SIPS, 000,-
900, or an increase of more than fifty per
cent.
ANOTHER item has been added to Ala
bama's rich and boundless u
Smith, State geologist, while pros
pecting in Southwest Alabama last week
found a fine flow of petroleum on the
Tombigbee.
WORK on the Georgia Pacific railroad is
progressing rapidly. Only seven miles of
track remains to be laid between Atlanta
and Birmingham, Ala. The management
expect to have trains running between
these two cities by November 18th.
THE Comptroller's office reports the tax
able value OF Texas atS520, 600, 900. When
we reflect that property in Texas is not
for taxes for owe half its real
value, if that much, the above is a very
showing of aggregated wealth.
THE next session of the National Cotton
Planters Association will be held at Vicks-
burg, Miss, on the 2lst of November. All
who are interested in this great industry
are invited to be present and participate,
whether members of the association or
not.
PARIS CTenn.) San: "Had it not been for
the rain on the last two days, our fair of
1888 would have been the best ever held
by the association. As it was, the exhibit
ton of stock and articles of home industry
something for the citizens to be p,oud
Of"
THE New Braunfels Tex wooden mill
is doing excellent work. 1t rum some $50
spindles and twelve looms, EMPLOYS some
forty hands, and is turning out from 1000
to 5000 yards Of cloth per week. and 200
pairs of blankets besides. These goods are
OF excellent quality.
A MILL to cost $780, 900 is in
of erection in Habersham county.
Ga. The water comes tumbling down in
a cataract and furnishesth the power without
a dollars artificial and. II is said that the
without artificial aid, will turn
Sl00,000,000 worth of machinery.
The Corinth Miss.) Herald reports cot
better Their had been hoped for. Upon
uplands there is lack of late bolls, but
low and rich lands there will generally
be a pretty fair yield, and from present APP
pearances will be gathered in good condi-
ton, and class well as to grade
SEARcy lark, Beacon. 1--WE are Just
now encouraged in our expectation OF
seeing a cotton factory established in
Searcy. We should be equal 10 the de-
mands of the times in enterprise and
and with the half of 100000 We
can establish a cotton factory, and build up
schools equal to the best in the State"
Ar the Savannah Tenn. Fair Miss Ma
ria Sewer won the silver cup - the mos
gxaceful hoFsebeck rider: 1he hdIes vere