Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-23
ALL ROUND THE SOUTH.

THEY are getting up grand union May
day picnic at Nashville.
CHATTANOOGA will have frst-class race
course in q few months.
NORTH NASHVILLE lie troubled with small
pox. Not vaccination enough.
The Nashville boys are working hsrd to
be in readiness for the May drill.
CHATTANOOGA il about to build So 900
colored schoolhouse for 500 pupils.
RIcHs chapel, Methodist, three miles
from Moscow, Tenn, burned down a week or two
ago.
THE gambling houses in Montgomery, Ala,
were closed a few nights by order of the chief of
police.
The Legislature OF Alabama has defined
bushel of cotton-seed to be thirty-two pounds
avoirdupois.
The State Of Arksnsas has granted 1915
acres of splendid pine lands to the Lindsay Land
and Mining Company.
THE Knoxville Chronicle says that what
Chattanooga falls behind Knoxville in all week it
makes up for in its Sunday trading.
JAMES F. RULE. who is 10 take leading
part in the opera of The Sngglers at FoIds Opera
house, Washington, is Knoxville man.
THERE is street in Nashville so dusty
that only persons who can hold their breath as
long as pearl-diver can live to cross it.
HENRY HODGE, who Jumped from the
third story of the Chattanooga jail three months
ago aud escaped, was recaptured lastweek.
MISSISSIPPI and Arkansas papers abound
in flood incidents. At one place no whisky could
IN Rs f. IT, from saloon In town but what had water
A FARMER in Pulaski county, Ga, is
offering 500 for 200 geese. He wants the geese to
run in his cotton fields and keep them clear OF
grass.
SoMERvILLE Falcon: "Great regret is ex-
pressed at the death of Judge Horrigan, of Men,
Phis, because, such an unusual thing-he did his
duty"
AT Helena, Ark, there has been several
eases OF drowning, and below the city vast terri
stroyed.
7. r. GRIFFIN, a detective policeman on
the Cincinnati Southern railway, was arrested in
Chattanooga on Monday for carrying concealed
weapons.
ARKANSAS CITY Journal: 900 the Mis.is-
sippi side of the river opposite our city, planters
are reported to be actively engaged in preparing
for planting"
ADMISSION, ALA, the present terminus of
the Georgia Pacific railroad has two iron furnaces
cotton factory, big -four mill and carwheel
foundry and machine shops,
AT the little town OF Whiteside, Tenn, on
saturday night, one man was stabbed and another
to Africa, and perhaps that balances things.
LAST Thursday the first passenger train
on the Georgia Pacific railroad ran from Atlanta
TO Ami ton, Ala, distance of 1Oi miles and re-
turned the same day. A party OF excursionists
were on board.
AT Chattanooga the Chancery Court has a
bill before it TO enjoin saw mill from burning
sawdust the operation suits the mill, but flying
and safety OF neighbors
FRIARs POINT Gazette. 1.-THE present food
promises to be of short duration, from the steady
decline of the past days. People will not suffer
near much loss of live stock as last year, and
will be able to get TO work much earlier in the
season."
The railroads guarantee Chattanooga
such rates for carrying fruits and vegetables as
will enable them to compete with any other point
in the stste less than loads from forty to
snty cents; car loads, thi ty to sixty-five cents
hundred pounds.
A LITTLE ROCK merchant returning with
his family from church last week found on his
doorstep basket containing a tiny little baby
with note attached, stating that her father was
dead and that her mother was unable to support
her, ana asking the finder 10 rear and protect
The Chattanooga Times, of Wednesday.
reports that Notwithstanding the very cold weather
Tuesday far as it could ascertain the fruit crop
blown, but the high wind which preceded the
freeze thoroughly dried the petals; clouds pre-
efort to dispose of the frnit crop King Wintet fo
once in his life was disappointed.
ELDER MORGAN, Mormon missionary at
Chattanooga, informs the Times that Middle and
West Tennessee are the most fruitful fields for his
missionaries There are no converts in This i'm
mediate vicinity. Until few months ago there
were seventy missionaries ia the South but of
late the converts have increased SO rapidly that
twenty additional elders were put to work He
expects COO 10 200 converts during the present
year"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Someryille
(Teun.) Falcon writes: THE people have taken
advice and got their raZorback mules and are
making things lively preparing for corn. They
think OF planting more oats, corn, potatoes etc,
and raise smaller crop of mortgages. But school
funds and State debts and treasury steslinss are
small matters compared to the horse-racks and the
nofence law. Give US the racks and the hog law
or in other words make three wires a lawful
fence"
CHATTANOOGA Democrat: "Ths holy Sab.
bath was chosen as the day of b oodshed and the
father of FIVE children was selected as the victim.
Bruce Cook was shot through the heart and in
sIantly killed by the notorious J. c. Edwards,
Sunday morning. The parties lived in Roane
county. Cook had two OF his children with him.
Their cries and screams were fearful. The muir
derer belongs TO family Of muzdereTs, none If
whom have been punished. If community will
do justice to muTderers it is but just that it
should suffer"
NASHVILLE Bonner: THE colored female
servants Tor a secret society TO which they all be-
long over here) have matters down TO fine focus
at present. They hire cat now for 40 much, ac-
cOrdiDg TO the members in the family, and the
work she is to do is specined. II she is to cook
she only cooks; If she is 90 cook and wash both,
the price paid her is heaped up. They have it
down TO fine point HKe this: should two or
three friends visit you, and remain two or three
days she will not cook for those extra unless
she receives extra pay or help"