Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-19
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.

The Biloxi, Miss, orange yield promises
to be very large.
PoRr GIBSON and Vicksburg ara now tele.
graphically united.
The prospects are good Tor falr fruit
crop in Lee county, Miss.
The value of orch ard f.-oaasta in Missis-
sippi, in 1850, was s37S, l4S.
In the neighborhood of Winona, Miss,
1900 mortgages are given annually.
The PaasoIa (Miss.) STR says thers are
prospects for half q fruit crop in that section
A NEGRO, while attempting to escape from
police officers in Columbus Miss last week. was
Shot.
The Magnolia (Miss) Gazette says that
thsir town will soon be ornamented with new
courthouse.
THE Handsboro (Miss.) AdUertiser sayr tina
the peach crop does not seem to be destroyed IN
that region, but gives promise OF good yield,
The Cay County Miss Leader reports
severe wind-storm which unroofed houses, de-
stroyed fences gnhousss ETC., but no loss OF lie
The Columbus (Miss) Dispatch is of the
opinion that the peach crop has been ruined IN
that section OF the country by the recent cold
snaps.
OZARK ARK Democrat. "Wbiskv is sold
here every day right in the face OF the law, and
the parties know that 1t Is direct yioiation
Somebody prsscIibes whisky and somebody sells
whisky.
CoRINTH Stl5soiIer: "Mi.s Rebecca Kerr,
a most estimabe LADY of good family, was brutal
ly outraged on sunday evening last, on the home
premises, a few miles north of Kossuth, by Il white
mana fend in human shape-who escaped.
Hanging is entirely too easy death for such
eharacters-they deserve being burnea-"
The Pdnol1 Star says that On Sunday
moraing about O'Clock, mob of seventy five
went down to Batesvlle and forcibly released from
si RnSaeS foT fe no for 1 the IsuFder Of ois
Reynolds. They MADE Mr.. Miller, the jaller,
prisoner and he had TO submit or lose his life.
The New Mississippiaa states that james
Ricketts, was making inquiry at blacksmith shop
about some work he was having GONE. when John
Morarty, who was sitting in the shop al the Time
rose and enped eo1n osf1es o. snosgan linz ln,p
II as said Ricketts, had informed upon one of the
murderers Of Dr. williams
Tom EDWARDS j. the pame of a mau who
has lived in Lincoln county, Tenn. for fifty years,
/ tended church school. He was never at the
Lincoln county seat, until summoned there, last
i week, to testify in criminal case He lives by
himself and has no companions but some dogs
I; and pet deer that he keeps IN an enclosure.
K sCIUsKo IN iss) STIR: ave would not
81 we could and could not If would conceal the
fact that the exte1slou of our railroad on to Aber
deer will take from this town great deal OF trade
which hitherto has bsen hers, and unless some,
thing is done to counteraet it. the prosperity OF
| our business men will be crippled. free turn
pike across the Yock.nookany is projected"
The town OF Cleveland, Tenn, during the
| past two weeks has been visited by an epidemic
| of smallpox. So serious have been the ravageS OF
| this disease that the civic authorities snort time
| ago issued an order prohibiting the various reilg'
| i0us denominations from meeting on sunday. Ihe
| order was issued in order that careless pc rsons
| might not have an opportunity to spread the dis
| ease; the sensible people generally admitted It's
| vision. But the local clergy have shown much
| bitterness at seeing their occupation thus taken
| away from them, and charge the town ON.
Gals with tyranny, sacrilege and al manner OF
| wickedness. one OF them mas written letter to
the New York Churchmdn, in which he says: Ten
| wears ago when worse than the present v1si alton
~ smsfi1ox prevail ed here. this simple commu.
! nity would have been shocked at sueh open and
undisguised skepticism is implied in the act Of
| or unbeli-f of the town officials may have been
| public opinion required Respect ior the common
iaith in the existence of a merciiui ruling PIoyl
dence, the encAey OF prayer ILo' 1e9s ~, ~ NJ
| right of religious folk 10 worznip Goo unoer al
| circumstances vii hout let or htndrance