Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-09-23
ALI OVER THE SOUTH.

GALVESTON, IEX., is experiencing an ice
famine:
TIE new lunatic asylum at Meridian,
Miss, will soon be finished.
THE business of Knoxville. Tenn, last
year amounted to S23,e06,C0
FLORIDA wants somebody to try the cul-
tivation of the cinchona tree in that State.
A YAzoo COUNTY (MIss.) man received
S130 for 400 watermelons raised by him
this year.
THE ,drcbth is SO severe in Natchez,
Miss, that water has to be carried in carts
from the river.
ALAReE forest IRE has been raging in
Copiah county, Miss, doing much damage
to fences and cotton,
THOMAS r. GRIFFIN, of Holmes county,
Miss, weighs $40 pounds, and is said to be
the largest man in the State.
UNIos Cry is the livelest manufactur-
ing town in West Tennessee, and is con-
sequently the most prosperous.
SEVERAL cases of smallpox are reported
in Washington county, Miss. The in
fected places have been quarantined.
FARMERS in Madison county, Miss, are
abandoning cotton as their principal CROP
and will devote themselves to stock
raising.
THERE are now in the Tennessee peni-
tentiary $50 prisoners less than there have
been at any time in the last fourteen years.
The whole number is 1856.
JUDGE EDWARD BANCROFT, of Miller
county, Ark, one of the most prominent
lawyers Of the State, has been adjudged
insane and sent to the Little Rock asylum.
DR.. G. d. SMITH, of Sulphur township,
Ark, purchased a barrel of syrup. The
syrup was found to contain the jawbone
of man, with three teeth in good state
OF preservation.
The death rate among the negroes
always exceeds that among the whites in
the mortuary reports from Southern cities.
This is universally true, but still the ne
gro increase in population is much greater
than that OF the whites.
THERE are 124 manufacturing establish
ments in Knoxville, employing capital TO
the amount of $3,25S, 800. The aggregate
of wages paid 70 hands in these manufac-
tories last year was 81 ,627 ,403, and the
value of the products was S5,3l6,000.
IN East Tennessee there are S,127, ,S95
acres of land; in Middle Tennessee, TO-
272, ,965, and in West Tennessee, 6, ,79S, ,71S,
making total of 25,lS6,57S acres. The
land with the town lots and other taxable
property OF the State is worth S22l ,917 ,S13
a FARMER near Newbern, Dyer county
Tenn, while digging a well recently, found
at depth of eight feet portion OF hui
man skeleton, which shows the person to
have been over seven feet high. A few
stones were found imbedded with the
skeleton.
THE farmers around Gadsden, West Ten
nessee, have quit raising cotton and are
giving their whole attention to raising
fruit and vegetables. During 1881 the
! farmers of that section received $4,000 fol
| their fruit crop. During 1882 they re
ceived S99,9Sl for the same crop.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, claims to have in
vested nearly 81 100000 in building in the
last twelve months, classified as follows
! Over 100000 now actually in progress
| fully $500, 900 completed, and 100000 con
| templated. 1t is estimated that 250 dwell
| ings are i'll course of construction. This i!
good showing, and it has a solid basis.
ATLANTA, GA, has natural-born snake
charmer in the person of Dow PoolO,
half-lndian boy, aged eleven years, VIII,
has three monster rattlesnakes, which h,
| captured only last week, but now handles
as though they were kittens. He take
them out of the box and puts them arounC
his neck, when they will dart out thei
| tongues and explore the region beneatl
! his shirt without manifesting any signs o
a hostile nature.
MURFREEsBoRo (TENN.) NecS: ''Las
Saturday evening Mr.. Isaac Rosenfield, o
this city, bought very large and beauti
full fresh-water pearl from negro maj
for which he paid 500. The pearl wa
found in Stones river, and is perfect il
form, color and luster. 1t is pronounce,
the finest ever found in this river TIL
pearl-fshing excitement has been revived
and an army of fishers is destroying tn
unsuspecting muscles in search OF tn
gems"
A LoNG-sUFFERING farmers wife, nea
Hamilton, on the Tennessee river abov
/ Chattanooga, who was supposed to be o.
her dying bed, and had bid adieu to he
family, was informed by the buxom gir
who had been presiding in the kitche
during her illness, that at the end of
proper interval after her death she 9TH
girl) was TO become mistress of the house
hold. The sick lady disapproved of tn
arrangement and resolved to defeat i
This she did by getting well and changin
girls.
THE negroes of Florida are prosperous
In Leon county they own some 1000
acres of land, and their property in Talls
hassee, which has a total population {
about 5000, must be worth $4,000. The
own in the county S25 head of horses an
mules, have over 1000 head of cattle an
sheep, nearly 2500 head of hogs, and thei
other personal property is valued at owe
$4,000. There are other counties i
which their condition-is even better. The
show no disposition to emigrate from tn
State. They appear to be anxious to hay
| their children educated.