Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-20
ALL ROUND THE SOUTH.

ARKANSAS CITY has a "Woodbine Club.D
There is where it twineth.
NASHVILLE is still troubled with smallpox
and earnest calls are made upon citizens to vac
climate.
MOURNING in Nashville Last Sunday. The
girls have got their spring bonnets but the wealth
was wet ana they could not go to church in
them.
The Canton, Miss, people have habtually
neglected TO vaccinate. Smallpox, quarantine.
and panic with collins and bitter mourning are
the result.
ENoCH FREEMAN has been sentenced, al
Rome, Ga, to be hanged for the murder of VIM.
Ware. The crime was committed less than three
weeks ago.
THE Arkansas Citv Mai sava the Anchor
Line Company and the Iron Mountain railroad are
cutting rates on freight over their respective lines
to Arkansas shippers.
They have a duck OF bird in the basin
OF the fountain of the capitol at Nashville. and
whether it is duck or not
THE Arkansas City Nal ssys the people OF
that State are heavy upon the blundering legisla-
such blunderers being elected.
ARKANSAS CITY MuiL: "The National
Board OF Health should be supported by all the
| muuity from the yellow-fever scourge."
Arkansas CITY Mail: "The farmers in
this neighborhood are starting their crops this
year with every prospect of a prosperous season.
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condition"
A SMALL war ia going on at Chattanooga,
Tenn. The City Council has appointed new 20
lice force. but the city marshal says the old force
remains duty also until the Council legally dis
charges the men.
MANY of the Nashville saloon keep fs-
closing on Sundays but, the american says the
proprieors ofthe houses that do most business on
sundays are never arrested, while Others are The
| sunday law is likely to be enforced upon all.
AN eight year-old orphan boy passed
| through Arkansas City Thursday, with tag on
| him showing that he was shipped from Monticello
| from whence shipped. and that he was en- orphan
| The little fellow looked bright and happy and
! communicative.
AT MorristowD. Tenn. n Mr.. Reed came
| home sick, it is said, Of smallpox. He died his
| mother also. Being greatly respected the lsdy's
funeral was crowded with visitors. Other deaths,
| having been present at Mrs. Reeds sickness and
| funeral caused great panic ana Quarantine, and
all the misery Of epidemic is existing.
| A coLoRED brakeman By the name Of
| stantly killed in the railroad yard al Arkansas
| City, on Friday. He killed in nneoupling
was horribly rnsngled- There are implements for
| uncoupling without danger 70 anybody. but the
| railroads prefer killing men to paying money for
| the patent uncoupleTs.
The Nashville American saws it ia strange
| to say that while nearly all the insurance com
| psnies have done profitable business in Mem.
| phls, Chattanooga, 6boAFlIte, Columbia ana
| GAINESVILLE for the past five years, they have
1 lost uniformly in Nashville and other Tennessee
| towns; there is not sufficient water supply nor
| Ere engines enough. The rate of insurance has
been raised and IS nearly three times the rate in
| Louisville. Nashville buildings are general y
without proper protection against fire.
| AT Nashville, on Saturday. George Simp-
| son was conversing with a woman in the street
| wren Reuben Kizer, colored wan, came by al q
| asked that they let him pass. The woman said.
| Excuse me-" Simpson asked what she wanted
| 10 excuse herself to negro Tor, but when hizei
| took IN mn replied he was not talking TO him but
l 10 the " oman The white man shot at him, the
ball striking him in the left side He went IN to
| the house Iook his pistol from the mantiepieee
| and going TO the door shot Simpson: snch !:
l Kfzerss own account. He was arrested hlzer1i
| sioe shows where Simpsons bullet gIazed him.