Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-05
ALL ROUND THE SOUTH.

ATLANTA papers report a great deal of
sickness In that city.
CHATTANOOGA has 1872 telephones. 1t esti-
mates its population 10 be $1,000.
The Hiawsssee (Tenn.) Wooden Mills turn
out daily about 400 yards Of excellent jeans.
A $4,000 saloon is 6 King up at San Anto-
MO, Tex, the mirrors of which alone will
cost $1,000.
HEzDERsoNVILLE, Sumner county, Tenn :,
will ship, this season, over $4,000 barrels OF
early potatoes.
ONE bar sold over $500 worth Of liquor
and lemonade on the day Of Iones's execu.
ton III Georgia.
Hot SPRINGS, ARK, has increased the
health giving qualities of the place by set
ting up beer garden.
VIcKsBURG has dug public we'll and now
it Ia taking rest until il can put up
pump to bring the water out.
A WOMAN named Annie Hawkins was ar
rested in Murfreesboro, Tenu., last week for
trying TO pass counterfeit money.
AT Granville, Ga, last week, boy plow-
ing field turned up gold watch and chain,
supposed to have been buried during the war.
THE Bibb Manufacturing Company, of
Chattanooga, has Just made contract fer
$3.50 tons of coal. That looks like business.
A CAT has lately been making raids on
squirrels in the courthouse yard in Murfrees-
boro, Tenn, and has killed several OF them.
OPIE READ, the genial humorist of the
| ArkanSaU Traveller, has lately been on a visit
| to his relatives at his old home in Sumner
county, Tenn.
The health officer at Murfreesboro, Tenn,
reports that all the smallpox cases are con-
vslescing, and there is now no danger of the
disease spreading.
WHEN the fast women of Chattanooga
| drive out the police arrest them. A number
| of them have been fined IS each when ar
rested driving out.
A CoLoRED youth of Henry county, TenH.,
while riding on load of hay few days
| ago, shot himself through the thigh with a
pistol be had in his pocket.
| SCorTsBeRo, Ala: "Ihere have bsen sew
eral gentlemen from the North here, looking
around with view OF settling in our midst.
They are heartily welcomed by our people"
WORK on the tunnel on the Knoxville and
OHIO railroad, between Knoxville aud Cory
vile, which has been i'll progress nearly two
years, is now finished. The tunnel coet
$4,000.
| CHATTANOOGA Time: "Chattanooga gets
the Methodist University. Il comes really
because the shrewd and experienced COM
mittee having the matter in charge desired
TO place it there"
CHATTANOOGA ia shipping off tons OF straw
berries. The Tins there says they are sell
| ing in the tn~a at five cents box. The ship
1 ment on Thursday last was 5000 pounds.
Peaches are s. bushel.
SAMUEL WILSON has established a barrel
mandatory at Brownsville, Tenn. The
citizens are clamorous fer an oil mill; the
| farmers take their trade tc neighboring
towns where they sell their cotton seed.
The Chattanooga people are subscribing
literally and declare they shall have a
| Fourth OF July such an the South has never
yet seen. The celebration begins on the
| night of the Sd and continues until the night
ef the 5th. Well done, CHATTANOOGA
On the LIST of June, at Vicksburg public
bell began to ring at 6 o'clock every evening
to continue throughout the summer. When
the bell begins 10 ring the porters begin to
put up the shutters of the stores and business
is closed for the day. An excellent custom.
The Chattanooga Democrat and the Times
are foolish enough still to be quarreling
The Times says: when q publisher ia per-
sistsntly and viciously assailed he has two
courses open to him: Chastise the assailani
personally or defend himself in his paper
II he whip or peIforate his antagonist he is
certain of giving the affair wide publicity
while he gets nothing except the answer q
club or bullet may make to injurious impu.
tations"
A BELLS DEPoT, Tenn, correspondent Of
the Brownsville Democrat says thst on Tues
day last they we're visitedjthere by hail
storm. The hail split shingles, knocked Of
the wooden roofs and riddled the tin ones
and smashed the windows. Trees were
stripped OF leaves and fruit and grain beater
to the ground, cotton and corn were badl,
damaged. All berries and plants were ru
ined. The path of the storm was not NOR,
than a mile broad. Gsdsden estimated it
loss of fruits aud vegetables at $50, 900
Fruit trees were ruined by the thousand
Ole house was torn dowo. The hail-stonei
were almost as hard as rocks and some o
| them nearly as large IS goose eggs