Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-30
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

The Rev. J. B. Wilkins, colored, the editor
OF the Verona (Miss.) Banner of Liberty,
has turned out TO be a rascal and dead-beat.
He married two women, got away with
$4,000 by being president of matrimonial
company and lett debts amounting to $1,000.
Pine Bluff, Ark, has petitioued the Gen.
eral Assembly to annul its city charter, pre-
paritory to going in'o liquidation The city
has been steadily going in debt for years
without providing adequate municipal regu-
lations ard improvements censisten with the
costs.
Dogs command a much higher price in
Georgia, ssys the Macon Tsleqraph, than
sheep. Legislators have a superstitious fear
of the evil results which they imagine weuld
come 10 them if they should try 10 equalise
the value of these animals by putting a tax
on the former.
Near Enterprise, Miss, a number of farm.
ers have adopted Fdrman's plan of "inten-
sive" farming. They use kyanite and acid
phosphate in connection with cottou-seed
and stable manure. One Of these farmers
has so improved ordinary land that it al
most averages bale OF cotton to the acre.
For the benefit OF sweet potato raisers we
mention that citizen Of Vicksburg has dis.
covered process for drying on, The water
and leaving the starch aud sugar, which will
enable the farmers 10 keep them in the open
air like pile OF corn.cobs. II this does not
take all the crop to pay the expense of dry
ing, there may be millions in il.
There is q colored girl in Holmes county,
Miss, who ia half white and half black.
Her hands are small and shspely, like those
OF white vomao. Her ears, nose and
parts of the chin are white, and the rest of
har fona hlank The nirl io IL
and it is said the white is spreading. Her
mother, pure negro, has four other chill
dren, all of whom are black.
An old lady in Hartwell, Ca, has no sde
all the necessary pr.par atoms for her burial
except the coffin. She has black silk dress,
all the necessary tnderclothing, a cap,
gloves, ETC.; even has cake of perfumed
soap, wash.rag, and towl for washing her
body, and q candle two ket long, which she
has had ever since the wsi, and which is 10
afford light for the watchers when che lies
in state.
Pleasant Harper, colored, ia q large land
owner and farmer OF South Georgia. Over
year ago he bought p.antation for
$32 GEO, and at that time every one said he
would never liquidate the deb He has
already paid Sll ,000 on the purchase, Hsr.
per owns the finest lot of mules in the conn.
try, has bic farm we'll stocked, and Il fully
worth $4,000. He is said to be frs man
sger, and works hands hard.
The latest swindle in Baltimore is Raby
Insurance Company, patronized principally
by coiored people. BY the payment Of Eve
cents week parents become benefeiaries ia
the company, and on the death of an infant
receive $40, or upward. The longer the
baby lives the lsrger the benefit, of course.
A colored man went to the health depart
ment recently for a certificate of death of
his child, and stated that be received $50 by
the child's death, aud if it had lived two
days more he would have gotten 500.
At the battle of Cedar Run, on the
18th of October, 1864, Mr.. A. 7. Rabb, Of
Wilkinson county, Miss, received wound un-
der the right eve, which destroyed the sight
of ,hs member, but did not otherwise seem to
do any injury. On December I6, 1882, Mr..
Rabb vas seizsd with a coughing ft, when
the baH-a huge, minie-batiered somewhat.
and ircased in dscayed bone and flesh.
seemed by its great wsight to drop loose, and
falling into his throsa was couehed m.
having been undecided Il his head or neck
for a period OF eighteen years and two
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