Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-27
SOUTHERN SETTINGS.

New ORLEANS is again threatened will
smallpox.
TOBACCO will be cultivated in the cotton
belt of Florida.
EIGHTEEN counties in Georgia have
abolished fences.
CoTToN-sEED is worth ffty-six cents a
bushel at Brownsville, Tenn.
MoRRIsTowN, Tenn, has a woman bar
Der who does n thriving business.
T~wENTY-DoLLAR counterfeit greenbacks
are circulating about Fayetteville, Tenn.
The shores along Mobile bay on both
sides are becoming lined with orange
groves.
IL Texas towns brick and stone masons
get - to So per day, and all the work they
can do.
Mississippi was S27 So in 1874, while il
was only Sl5 80 in 1882.
\ COLUMBIA Is. O. baby, five days old,
weighs Il pound and n half and wears the
clothes of its sisters doll.
by the Mississippi overflow of last year
Louisiana claims to have been damaged to
the extent of $4,000, 600.
\ WORM similar to the army worm is
iidNihS ttITlblS ldNOC WITH llt pea crop
in portions of West Tennessee.
TlrE attendance on the public schools at
Chattanooga, Tenn, is rapidly increasing
among both whites and blacks.
GEORGIA now has a local option dog
law. Each county will decide for itself
whether it will have sheep or dogs.
4 PERMANENT exposition will be estab-
llshed at Birmingham, Ala, for the dis
play of Alabama's mineral resources.
THERE are eighty-seven counties in the
State OF Georgia where ii is absolutely inn
possible to obtain alcoholic stimulants.
FIVE young men left Monroe county,
Tenn, for Sherman, Tex, last week who
had never been OF a railroad train before.
PALo PINTO COUNTY, Ten, boasts the
youngest grandfather on record. His name
is Reese Butler, and his age thirty years.
NEARLY 1000 Mormons will leave Chat
t%anooga, Tenn, next month for Utah.
They are from various points in the
South.
a VARIETY of cotton known as the Sene-
gambia is attracting attention in some por-
tons of Alabama. 1t is said To turn out a
pound to fifty bales.
Their is a strong tendency in the South
generally to establish societies for the pre-
NShtlon OF cruelty 10 nlmalS q feeilng
that should be encouraged.
TnE peanut crop in Virginia, according
TO the latest reports, is a great failure. Ii
is believed that owing to drouth not much
more than one-fourth of a crop will be
made.
SOUTHERN farmers have been expert
menting with tomatoes as food for cows
with very satisfactory results, and they
consider NJ nm nhSnlnfa nraNanfaffNp .f
cholera.
Mas. w. j. SYKES will soon begin the
publication OF the Industrial Record, semi
monthly, at Birmingham. 1t will be de-
voted to the manufacturing interests of
Alabama.
The Murireesboro TENN Neps saws
the colored congregations are still in a
revived state. In one of the churches in
that city the revival has been going on
ever since the close of the war.
An stalk OF cotton was ex-
hibited in Natchez recently. Ii was seven
feet high, with close branches, all of which
were filled with bolls. These numbered
over 250. II was raised by Allen Car
penter.
The Marksville (La.) Bulletin tells OF a
stalk Of cotton from Buckland plantations,
Red river, the property of the clerk OF
court, which contained $50 bolls and forms,
the majority of the bolls having five
clocks"
OK the farm Of Mr.. r. c. Madden near
Williamsville in Pike county, Ga, is prob
ably the largest grape vine in the country.
II is eighteen years old, thirty inches in
circumference at the base and is q quarter
of a mile long.
HIRAM BARRY, the oldest printer in
Tennessee, ii not the South, closed his
job office at Knoxville last Wednesday, ON
account OF declining health. MIR. Barry
| was born in Loudon county, Va, January
2S, 1902, and has been working continu-
ously at his trade for sixty-seven years.
AT a recent old mems gathering at Lew
isburg, Tenn, l64 members were present,
the oldest being l04 years old. There
were ia between the ages of sixty and
seventy; forty-two between seventy and
eighty; five between eighty and ninety
two between ninety and 100; over 100.
one. OF this number l02 were born in
Tennessee, forty in North Carolina, eight
in Virginia, five in SOUTH Carolina. thres
in Kentucky, one in Maryland, one ii
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