Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-26
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.


BATEsyILLEt Miss. Btade Batesviile has
literary club.-A few days ago it was
dust, now it is mud.-FarmerS are
housing their corn and hurrying their cot
ton TO the gins The pHhl!p Yail has
been cleaned out and a new curling put
in. A Windmill is TO be erected over the
well for the purpose of pumping water
into tank for stock.
CoRISTH Miss .Str,soile,.. Cotton has
come into this city nearly every day this
week. and part Of the time our platform
has been crowded with bales. A few of
our young men went ont into the country,
last Tuesday night, Ia seek for 'lossums,
around in the neighborhood of Mr.. Joe
Poss's, and found them so plentiful that
eight fine, large, fat specimens were cap
tured. The 'possum crop seems TO bc good
in some parts of Alcorn county.
TBE fourteenth annual fstii at augusta
Ark, opens this week. The grounds in
clude ten acres fenced, fine race track,
and the necessary structures. The show
of horses will be very fine. There will be a
brass band from Memphis and a grand
tournament. The best boy rider under
ten and the best girl rider under fourteen
is race that excites great interest. a
company performing at the theater, and a
grand ball will keep the good town Of
Augusta busy and delighted.
Augusta Ark I'5dette: ''Thc pecan
and hickorynut crops are said to be very
large IN this section. We are told that the
hickory trees are actually breaking down
with the weight OF their fruits, In the
Iidettc the manager OF the railroad, W. j.
Thompson, calls upon the people along the
line OF the Batesville and Bfinkley road TO
set out grape, strawberries, blackberries
and other vines, as the soil is unsurpassed
for fruits and vegetables. To ship these
10 Memphis, st. Louis or Chicago will pay
better than cotton.
SPEAKING OF next years Worlds Fair at
New Orleans the Corinth Miss iSibsoilr
remarks; ''bet no man who cultivates
the soil, deals in fine stock, works with
wood or iron, brass, copper, silver, or
leather, say he cannot assist in making
the display from this State a success.
n,,s1, = -nthin. IN h;.A~- ~ .ii. Mississippi
display in New Orleans, next year, being
one OF the eraHdest IN the catalogue, ex-
cept the carelessness. apathy or laEiness of
her own people. The women OF this State
can do an immense amount TO assist, and
they should be encouraged" VIII Ten
nessee allow Mississippi to beat it?
WATER VALLEY, Miss Progress: 'Ihe
poor exhibit that Mississippi made at the
Louisville Southern Exhibition caused a
blush of shame TO mantle the cheek of
every Mississippian who beheld it
Lots of cotton in this week, and trade is
correspondingiy brisk.--This year Mis-
sissippi was entitled to eight scholarships
in the Peabody Normal School at Nash
vile. Misses Celia Jones and Mary Can
field, OF Water Valley, stood the examine
ton and secured scholarships. Before en-
tering the institute they were AGAIN sub
mitted TO another rigid examination. Only
three out of the eight passed. among
those who passed were our two Water
Valley girls
WEsr PorSr (Nfiss-) Leader: 'sWe ex-
pect the whistle Of the railroad by the lst
Of December. West Point is preparing
an axfeejal well. I.- The Baptistz are about
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