Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-02

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gr...er degree of life and enterprise than
the average reader ia aware of.
TIE KpoIville Tribune asserts that the
merchants of Chattanooga do more sdvertis-
ing than de tAe merchants OF Nashville,
Memphis or Atlanta. Let it look at the
APPEAL's colunnI.
TULLAHoAA, Tenn, hiss the appearance
now of a frontier mining town, only lacking
the mines. The rough board shanties are
numerous, and not very elegant, bat better
than no houses at all.
NASHVILLE American: Cotton planters
are suffering seriously from the excessive
tax levied by commission merchants In tins
cotton markets. This promises TO cuiminste
dissstrously within the near future"
TOBACCO, like virtue, has its sacrifices.
The Chattanooga Times rslatss: Rilev Hutch
in.on was b,diy scalded st Soddy few sys
since while hghting a cigar at charcoal
furnace. HE face is badly blrned."
CHATTANOOGA Democrat: 1T is little re-
MARI able that there should De bus one mill
tary monument 10 the NationslCemeteryh here.
That WAS erected by the Fourth Army Corps,
and represents seyenty-o one regiments"
NASHVILLE World: THE summer Nor
NAL Institute and Teachers Retire at will open
at Mont Esgle July I'd, and continue five
weeks. The Sunday school Assembly will
open July 18th and close August 9Th"
THE Charleston Cotton Manufacturing
Company shipped on the 18th ultimo the FIRST
production of its looms in the shape OF =
bale Of 1000 yards of four quarter sheeting
They will be running 100 looms this week.
At Pratt Mines, Als., on Wednesday, q
negro convict drowned himself, why ia moi
told. What would have been tho story that
died with the man? The act was committed
over eighteen inches deep.
THE Pari. (Tenn.) Inteiigener pleads elo
quenily to have a library established there
An effort in that direction has failed. The
ladies of Paris should do like those OF Mem
phis, take the matter in their own hands
then something efectus! would be done.
TIE Boston Herald says: ,"Fay Temple
ton, 4 rather promising young actress, ha'
thrown herself away mstrimoBially on q
negro minstrel named West. Theevent took
place 10 Chicago" This "event" occurred in
the city of Nashville, State OF Tennessee.
COMMISSIONERS McWHIRTER has received 8
letter from Mr.. Charles B. Rice, OF Elida, o.
who wants TO buy stock farm of between
500 and 1000 acres in Tennessee, within ter
miles Of some station on the Cincinnati
Southern or Knoxville and Ohio railroads.
BRINKLEY, ARK, has car works, {
shipgie, saw and planning mill, three churches
Is about to put up $4,000 schoolhou'e, has
lively paper, the Argus, and vigorous corp
| of merchants. In the neig hoorhood th'
farmers are abandoning cotton for garden
stuff and small fruits
FTHERE was ever a town in the State o
Arkansas which could be properly called tb,
| "City of Railroads." it il the little Town o
| Bfinkley, located on the line OF t e Memphi
and Lutte Rock railroad, about sixty mile
east from Little Rock. The town proper ha
but about 600 or 700 nhabltants.
A DOCUMENT has been published at Nash
Vile showing how the Electric Light Com
psuy there put S4e0 "where it would do thu
most good" in the City Council, and there i
no little stir about the matter. The American
says: "An investigation is the irst thing II
order-an investig alton without whilewash.
THERE are at present erecting al Cnatta
noogs = new furnace, 70 cost $4,000;
stove factory, to Cost $1,000; steel mIll
holloware foundry, four ,ory hourlpE
rail, aud large cooperage factory. 1h
capacity of The pipe works will soon b
doubled. Two more woodenware fsctorie
are contemplated.
| The Chattanooga Democrat ssys the negroe
| there are offended because on ID cor alton da,
the colored sections OF the cemetery wer
allotted to them, and adds: iii the negroe
lad the exclusiveness and pride of the He
brsws they might become powerful people
but they have no such pride and will eve
be parasites, We fear"
THE School Board of the Hot Springs
| Ark, district have decided to employ a su
perintendeni OF the public schools at an an
nual salary of $1,000, beginning July lei
The Board also decided to purchase valuabl
property for school purposes, and to cree
additional school buildings on two Of tin
lots donated by the government.
SOME of the papers believe that CROWN,
garden stuff will in few years intrerch Sc
riously upon the cotton culture. The Nash
vile american says: "In the Mobile Register
Judgment, truck farming will increase in In
South, but cotton will sill be king, In on
opinion the planting of cotton will necesss
rily narrow down 10 a closely defined cot;o
belt, and many sections now devoted 10 cotto
will abandon its cultivation"
A CORRESPONDENT of ths Rugby Platca
Guz.tle, writing from a point seven milss di,
| L1d', FAYE ne oWub -Vt ENISS "a Aedt Az
pays only S. taxes One hundred acres sr
enough, he say,, for one man to farm, 8
farmers in that eectisn depend upon th
magnificent pasture in the woods for Ihei
cattle and sheep. Sheep are 81 a head, co y
$50, and horses $50 to $50. Seven oths
English families are settled IN that neighbol
hood.
ATLANTA, too, complains of her stree
and declares their condition has long been
repro ach as well ss q serious embarrassment
to her. She has taken resolve lately an
provided herself with 3 steam rock-crushe
and steam street roller, and is employing
large force OF hands in improving her street
She ia laying her most irequented thorough
fares with Belgian blocks" which are set u
Nicolson- pavement.like, and then filled
with sand and other finely crushed stone.
TIE Nashville World, giving an sccouI
of strife the Chattanooga Democrat an
the Times are carrying on, says: "a car
from Mr.. Ochs in the Times concludes with
def lance in regard 10 personal hostilities th'
demonstrates how great voice little ma
may have. Mr.. Ochs weighs about Il
pounds, and the editor Of the Democro
wsll-known as 'Msnitou' of the America
about 200. 1t remains to see whether ii
Ochs is enough for 'Manitou' and too man
too"
AUGUSTA (Gs.) Ncps: "The latest exam
pie of srotherly love is from Dallas, N.
The Rev. Mr.. Wetmore, an Episcopal clergy
man, was on his way to hold service in
mission church, but was stopped by swolle
creek. Thereuron Baptist minister too
Mr.. Wetmore on his back and ferried hii
over, thereby preventing him, it may be r
marked, from becoming more wet. Th
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readiness with which Baptists take water"
LITTLE Rock Gazette: "Agents of NOR
eyed ayndicates owning large rsnc hes in tn
West or Southwest are making extensiv
purchases of cattle in the State They offe
prices which TO farmers remote from marke
appear toe remunerstive to be resisted. Cor
sequently farmers who need more stock di:
pose of their cattle because offered fe,
dollars more per head than the ruling hom
| prices. Thus entire communities are losin
that most valuable and productive of pei
sonal property, their stock cattle. This
the policy of killing the goose shat lays III
golden egg. 1t is ruinous."
CHATTANOOGA Times: "a posse of men ia
been for several DAYS in pursuit of the Smit
brothers, who killed old man Cecil and hi
son at Helenwood, Sunday, but as yet the
have not succeeded in overtaking them. w
learn that there is a reward OF 1900 each 70
their capture. The Chattanooga police ar
instructed to arrest Try lewd womsn ridio
on the streets, in any Kind of vehicle, day O
sight. The disgrs ful habit of riding u
and down the principal streets has long bee
fsvorite pastime for-the dsmi monde. ]
is Understood that the owners of several nc
torious baenios in the city will test the cor
stitutonaiity of the law, and will fight it I
| the bitter end"
WALTERBoRo, S. Col. A. L. Campbe
says: "a member of my family used Brown
| Iron Bitters with good results"