Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-21
ALL ROUND THE SOUTH.

They are putting in an oil-mill Ia Lex
ington, Miss.
ABERDEEN, MIss is discussing project
for a cotton-miil.
TEA raising is the latest experiment in
South Mississippi.
CLEVELAND, Tenn, intends to have a great
Fourth of July celebration.
ARKANSAS has seventy different kinds Of
wood used in the mechanical arts.
THE once very celebrated Cooper's Wells
of Mississippi have recently been cold for
$685..
TENNESSEE has twenty-five copper fur
naces, with an annual yield of nearly 3,O0O,-
900 pounds of copper. -e--
MARYvuLE TENN: "a good deal of Aux
and kindred -oowel disorders prevailing
in any portions of our county" -
In The Northern District of Mississippi
Deputy United States Marshal has arrested s.
couuterfeiter, who had a large quantity of
base nickels.
AT Nashville the colored people have APP
piled 10 have the colored schools taught by
colored teachers, and their desire will be
complied with.
AT Knoxville the police have resolved to
arrest all Migrants exercisiug no occupation,
even if it leaves every dry goods box out Of
doors and Gay street without tenant.
The last Legislature of Tennessee repealed
the charters of thirty-6ve towns, all of which
desired to avail themselves of The four-mile
law to stop the sale Of Intoxicating liquor.
THE meteorological observations reported
to.the tennessee Bureau of Agriculture for
the month of Ny show that Knoxville was
the coolest town in Tennessee during that
month.
r.
sheriff of Bradley, said 10 be the prettiest
man in Est Tennessee, will be on exhibition
in the contest for prize on the Fourth Of
July"
KNOXVILLE has been trying to grow virtu.
GUS and respectable, but the falling of pis-
tol cut of a gentleman's pocket during the
recent bali has been a sad exposure of Knox
vile manners and morals.
GREAT preparations are making in various
parts of the county around Memphis to go
into the fruit-evaporating and fruii-canniDg
business. This will make all the fruit pay
that did not get 10 market.
THE Knoxvilla Chronicle clai ms that that
city has more evidences of wealth, If com
mercisl prosperity, more and better built
heuees, and altogether more progress than
Chattanooga, which "has been overadver-
tised." Now il is Chattanooga's turn.
AN iron truss bridge, on the Alabama
Southern railroad, near Alfalfa, Ala, gave
way Friday night freight train was
crossing, and six cars were plunged into the
stream. Samuel L)thew, brakeman, was
killed, and Jose. Lee badly injured. Tbs
bridge had been tempered with.
KNOXVILLE Chronicle: "a mammoth fruit
dryer, the capacity of which is 100 bushels
per day, is being constructed by the McClung
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fruit drying establishment near Chattanooga.
This is said to be equal in size to the largest
apparatus in the United States"
The Nashville papers declare that on a
Fourth of July Chattsnooga is the hottest
spot on the continent. An experiment was
tried there last Fourth of putting an egg in
a bowl of broken ice. Il was put out Of
doors fifteen minutes, and on taking it out
the egg was cooked aud smoking.
TAZEwELL, Tenn, is making great prepa-
rations for celebrating the glorious Fourth.
Among other things, fifteen young men are
to contend for gold medal, The prize for the
best defamation. EIoquence is popular in
East Tennessee, but fifteen doses Of it on one
Fourth of July will be heavy operation.
BICYCLING has taken a strong hold on
Nashville. The Bicycle Club numbers nine
teen member, with as many machines. Be-
sides, there are several other wheelmen in the
city. The rules for club runs are those OBJ
served by the Washington Club. Their col
ors are blue and gold. The regulation uni
form consists of dark navy-5lne cloth, knee
pants, blue flannel shirts and dark-bue
stockings, bicycle cap with peak TO match,
and dark blue necktie.
CHATTANOOGA Times: Knoxville editors
pop away at each other on the public streets
Prominent citizens in twos and threes are
doubled Up full of lead 10 front OF the banks
The pistol is 4 part of the clothes, 80 to
speak, OF the average dude in our Tennessee
toWns. Take the guns away from the boo
bies, and let them improve themselves by
humping each other on the vacuum where
their brains ought to be whh bran clubs
Severe iolliug might cause growth in that
| region"
CORNING (Ark.) Advocate: "One day last
week We noticed on a wagon bound for
Cherokee Bay one of d. NJ. Osborne & Co.'s
improved reapers, and on inquiry learned
| that it had been purchased by Messrs. JOS
| Heron and John Wisuer, of the Bay, and
will soon be in operation reaping the excel
| lent wheat crop in that section. This is
| new departure with our neighbours, who are
! beginning to learn that cotton is king only
in that it keeps the heel Of tyranny upon the
necks of those who depeud solely upon it for
livelihood"
KNOXVILLE Tribune: Monday evening
a small colored boy by the name of Jarni-
| gan, approached q man Of business, and
asked him to change 81, at the same time
laying down a Sl00-bill. This of course
aroused suspicion, and he informed an officer
The boy was arrested, and confessed TO hav-
| ing taken the bill and others from the safe
in The Office of the Knoxville Marble Com
pauy. Two hundreS dollars more were
found on the boy. The safe had been left
unlocked"