Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-28
ALL ROUND THE SOUTH.

ALL ROUND THE SOUTH.
Forrest City, ARK, prOclsims itself as nov
clear of SMALLPOX.
Coffee county, Tenn, farmer, fesr thei
wheat viii be light crop this year.
A bill to abolish the ruinous mortgsg
system ia before the Arkansas legislature
Mr.. H. L.pgford has bought City acres o
land near seRrcy Ark, of which he viii make
irst-clsss fruit farm.
The public ginhouse at Friars Point, Miss.
was burned down last week, fortunately but little
cotton was in 1t at the time.
John Rumbsch, boy OF fourteen, who's
father has died since he left home, is anxiousl.
Inquired after by his mother at Conway, ARK.
Knoxville Tribune: "Onr city has not l. az
business failure for nearly six years, and is tn
only city OF her size in the State which is no
bankrupt"
At Gsllatiu, Tenn, they have frs en-
CINE but have no mules to take 1t to IRE; mule
cost money and taking engines to hre spoii
theirlooks.
Chattanooga has Just got rid OF the small
rox that has chung to the place more than year
now 1t has family OF nine persons every ON
down with measles.
On Saturday James P. McGhee was con
yicted at Dardanelle, Ark. OF murder In the mrs
degree for the killing of Lazarus BROOKS, IN ina
county, about year ago.
Madison county, Tenn, is preparing fol
fourishing times by going actively into the irult
srowing business. At Nalesis Mr.. Newton Is set
ting out forty acres OF apple trees.
The Batesville (Ark.) Pilot mentions {
village near that place named Oil Trough. I'm
asine ons born thsre eIclsiming: 1t is my own
my native land; my Oil!rrough."
The people in Arksnsas are leaving Of
Use osS vita 0f 9fss
sort OF nenitentiary faint about tue words.
The most prosperous towns north Of Little
Rock, Ark. on the Iron Mountain road, are Cabot,
Judsonia and Corning. At these towns the lou
belonging to the railroads are selling rapidly.
A hay press is putting up at Goodwin
Ark, and more hay than ever before is expected
to be shipped the next season. Arkansas prairie
hay Is becoming an important mercantile article.
A old army gun is at jackson, Tenn, that
Mr.. Atkins found in the Tennessee river. 1t has
q fixed bayonet on it and shows bullet marks
The stock singular to say, is completely petriied
At Gals,in. Tenn, thre,-yesr-old short
horns are, under the best management, made K
weigh 1000 pounds, which sell at % so per 100, Of
siS W. per head four-yssr-eid scrubs cell for 81
jackson, Tenn, has two cases OF smallpox
and death by 1t last week. The town Is re
joicing over further congressional appropriation
once there.
Two negro poriers at Forrest City, Ark.
had duel last week, all about drummer's bag
gage, when the Avery House porters knife strucl
ueANlly ,ln6 DOOy OF lily HOUSE porter, VINO
appeared likely to die.
At Athens, Tenn, last week, Ally Hose
endeayored to effect forcible entrance into the
house OF MIS- Flint siyils, when the lady seized I
buckshot into his stomach.
The Iron Mountain branch from Newport
to Batesville, Ark, will be completed by the lst
March. 1t viii be extended on up White rive
during the summer, and make connections Will
other systems at Eureka Springs.
Al; Qboo Ch;raaa Eoh;IJI;Lo ~ bi.n1
was fined at Little Rock last week 500 for selling
whisky and sent to the penitentiary thirty days
tor selling tobacco, both without license, he wa
fined s.. Mclean man very hard on the poo
heather.
Waverly, Tenn, fnss those who refuse Il
be yaccinated 81 to 81 that Is sensible; no one hal
right to walk about unvaccinated than he has u
sc about breaking his neighoor's windows. Win
dows can be paid for, but the tenant of the cofir
none can recall.
Batesville (Ark.) Pilot; .We learn that s
small son of Mr. Owen Elkins of lard county
fell into kettle OF boiling water few days since
and was completely cooked. His father was kill
ing hogs, and the little fellow, by come means feI
backward into the kettle"
Braekintowu, near GAllatin, Tenn, re
ports: Westher still continues cold, and not nucl
doing in the way of farming. Poor prospect so IA
for wheat, 1t looks very bad II it does not qui
raining soon the tobacco rsisers will be late abou
getting their plant beds sOwn.
Jackson, Tenn, does not agree with th,
dogs. 1t has superfuous quantity of them il
good condition Tor killing, but the town is with
Uus ta ~ s sweet little CIR
age brutes last week.
On Saturday week Mr.. J. Gordon and
son, with lead OF lumber en- an OK wagon. wer,
in Jackson, Tenn, After dark the oxen came W
cart. unco nscious with cold; HIS son started fol
home on foot, got lost in the dark, and was found
next day drowned in Caney creek.
-Searcy (Ark.) Beocose 1.-THE three mile
law does not now except cities OF the first snd
second Glass and ii applies to alcohol as well a:
whltky. Why should not we all unite in favor oil
the three-mile law?'' A morphine suicide, the
ought to help the BeGcon's appeal.
Friars Point (Mies) Gazette: "Befofe tn.
RsEell break In the levee could be repaired TIE
waters encroached upon it so that nothing could
which is gradually filling up The bsyous and low
lands In the rear OF town and helping to swell the
santiower, which is already bank fun
The Iron Mountain road has sold and
issued deeds to s7Strscts Of land during this sea
son in the State of Arkansas; III the same STATE
during the month of January, the Iron xountaiu
road sold 10 600 acres of land. During the mouth.
OF January and February the Fort Smith road hal
paid. N- ~ '--1 w "1''' '-' 'NAii was al
Dyer, Tenn, lie situated on the Mobile and
Ohio railroad, seven miles north of Trenton has
about 500 inhabitants, aud does an extensive
business. She has five dry goods houses. two
drug stores. one family grocery, two saw mi Is
three steam cotton gins, one Touring mill, one
foundry and plowhandle mandatory two
wagon and blacksmith shops, also good schools
and churches.
Jackson, Tenn, has 5000 Inhabitants.
property valued at 81 500. Geo. an oil mill doing a
business OF $500 eee year, ice factory, express
once, union depot, Mobile and Ohio railroad
shops and Illinois Central railroad shops and
freight depot, and the Memphis Conference Fe-
leges in the South.
Jacksonville, Tenn, is in trouble with
TO quarantine against it. The neighboring towns
ought to know that such quarantine is inefficient
The Inc, true plan is TO send doctor with police
man, woman and child to snow a satisfactory scar
Or be vaceina.ed on the spot.
COLUMBIA Tenn Democrat: "Robius have
been roostiDg in George NcCerd's canebrake' in
great aoDs. One night last week Webb Ridley
tapping, as 1t Is called. The night alter Abbott
ward, Jim Booker. Jim Goodloe and Joe Stewart
oagged over 800. These birds are veTy delicious,
particularly when made into pie'
Little Rock Democrat: "lmmisrsnts pour
INTO our State by continual stream. The great
bulk OF the tnmi grants brought into the State BY
the Iron Mountain road are from the NORTH and
Northwest ihe travel on the Memphis and Lit
tle ROCK road Is exceedingly good. The Memphis
road has handled IS 900 bales OF cotton during the
season. The Fort Smith road has handled g6, 5O2
bales OF cotton during the season"
w. L. Psrham relate. in the Jscksop
lTenn) Dispatch bis experience with the red Bra
zillan artiehoke, imported seed from which was
distributed by the Washington Agricultural De
partment. He nnds it next TO clover as land rem
oyator and the cheapest OF hog food yielding more
nsn anything else that is grown $40 TO 1000 bush
els an acre. The artiehokes lie in the ground all
winter without rotting and the hogs root them out
anu grow lat they contain much sugar and are
yery easy TO cultivate. They are excellent Tor i'm
proving poor land.