Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-04
ALL ROUND THE SOUTH.

BATEsvILLE, Ark, is ahead Of Memphis;
ithas town clock.
The Aberdeen Miss paper says most of
the young men OF that town are either married or
bald-headed.
The fashionable thing at Batesvile, Ark,
just now, among the boys and girls Is ramble-of
parties, for the search of wild flowers.
SEARCY (Ark.) Beacon: ave are glad to
know many of our famers expect to SOW peas for
provender and for fertilizing their land"
The light of the twelve electric lamps be-
tween the Louisville and the Chattanooga depots
at Nashville is visible several miles from town.
THE Meridian (Miss.) Sun states on infor-
nation obtained from the merchants, that the de-
mand for Western corn is not near great as last
year.
W. J. PEARSON, postmaster at Bitesville,
Ark, the Plot there says, was charged with detain-
ing reg stored package. He resigned the place
and the charge was Withdrawn.
NJ Birmingham, A a., YIN. Donahue, a
faro-deaer for violating The laws against gambling.
was fined Not being able to pay, he has to work
two years in the Newcastle Mines.
THE ginhouse of Nc. J. Ii. Jacocks, about
six miles east OF Brownsville, Tenn was destroyed
by fire last week. Four five bales of cotton and
several vehicles were also burned.
! STILL another new al mine Is in the
course Of opening at Birmingham, Ala; the con-
sumption OF Alabama coal is increasing and the
demand has been beyond the CAPACITY OF the
| mines to fill.
VAN buren, (Ark.) Press: "a man by the
name of Winkerpack was cut, Thursday evening,
by knife in the hands of his brother-in-law. He
came home drunk, and was beating his wife, aud
the cutting was the consequence.
SOME of the towns down the river declare
it Islander when they accused of having been in
the water. Friars Point swears there was no ten
feet deep In its streets. They are as hard against
water as whisky drinkers are.
TIPTosvILLE Tenn Star: "The three
year-old child OF Billy Adams, who lives near
CrOnanville was xii ed the otner day by falling
was broken down by strong wind, crushing the
child, who was playing near"
BROWNSVILLE Tenn, is dealiUg out stric
justice to the murdereus-minded generation who
tote pistols. Two OF them had 10 pay S23 each for
that offense. They were condemned also TO i'm
prisonment, but That part OF the sentence was re-
mltled for once.
The Brownsville Tenn Manufacturing
Company and the various insurance companies
have reached q final settlem- mt, SO far the
machinery is conc rned, on a basis OF seventy-ive
per ceJt OF the insured value of the property.
There has been no settlement as to the building.
AT Birmingham, Ala, the EytonL aud
Company has sold sl50 900 worth of town lots since
the 1st OF January. This is probably third of
the total transactions in lots on which there had
been no houses. Real estate III the neighbOrhood
of the new furnace sites has been in considerable
demand the past week.
BROWNSVILLE Democrat: shooting on the
streets at nj hit still continues, and it is dangerous
for man 10 walk around much at night without
helmet and breastplate on. One night last week
Ut. haywood, Wnlle going down College street to-
ward home, heard the music OF pistol ball pass
ing within few feet OF his head 3"
In IndepeDd I'd, nee county, Ark, there are
seventeen townships and thirty-six school dis
tricts. Many of these districts vote fivemill tax
ana have schools from FIVE to nine months in the
year In all of these districts there are from two
to four schoolhouses the most o the houses being
owned by the school department. There is
steady growth in a desire TO educate.
SAYS a correspondent of The Brownsville
(Tenn.) Democrat: Brownsville in 1873 had pop
ulation of about $780, with more business than its
merchants could do In this year OF grace it has
a population of alb ut 2500, aud is doing about
one fifth of the business it could do" 1t suffered
from yellow-lever in 1873 and panic in 1879. The
sidewalks are disappearing nightly, the street.
crossings have sunk-in iact, the whole town is
dilapidated.
MAN named Gates shot sni killed Mr..
Watkins, near Alamo, Term, Ia week Watkins
was too intimate with Catess wife and the latter
wrote Watkins note warning him not to come
MS premises again. Watkins, however, walked
over to Catess the next morning with the note in
MS pocket, but for what purpose nobody knows.
When he had entered the yard Gates stepped ION
behind tree aud said, Watkins I've got you
Watkins replied, 81 give up" Gates then empied
both barrels of q shotgun, heavily charged with
buckshot, into the body of Watkins, and after
ward shot him twice with pistol.