Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-18
OXFORD. MISS.
The Crops Almost . Failure, But the
People Will Poll 1broogh.

Special Correspondence of the Appeal
OXFORD, August I5-Iu q pleasant iaunt
OF Two days by easy stages across the coun-
try from your vicinity to this point, passing
through the prosperous villages Of Pleasant
Hill, CockrumS, Ind- peudeuce, Tyro and
Galley Hill, 1t has been my pleasure 10 call
upon prominent gentlemen and farmers 10
aCquaint the readers OF the APPEAL with
the agricultural, political and religious CO =
dition of this people, and when 1 assure you
they have had no rain in all that section
since The 24th of June you will realize al
once what must be their condition. With the
old corn and The large pea crop, with the
8 nall grain garnared, although the grow
Ing corn is badly damaged they will have
plenty, because they realize the necessity for
economy through the winur months snd are
housing plenty of rough.ess. Bot whenl
tell you that such men as Shinparks, Of
Pleasant Hill; Jones Il Cockrum, Of Geek
Euns Msj-Locks, Of Hickahala, and others
assert that the cotton crop is 10 better than
dis strous 1881, you eau readily perceive
that the crop for this section at least will be
a light one, yet this people, owing
but a small per cent. of their currenl
expenses for this year only, with increased
attention annually to diversifi. ID crops, stock
and grasses, are a cheerful, thrifty people.
This whole section trade either directly or
indirt city with Memphis, and all love the
old reliable APPEAL and read il, too.
Realty, too, is looking up in this State, and
all seem to feel that they nave touched bot
tom and reaction has already act in, Thew
are buying little or no meat this year, The
country is full of hogs and l nave yet to see
any that are poor. Politically | find much
unanImity, and but one political party, and
the very best men in the country offering
IhpIF apFyIacu Tha nA1araI IL
ing after their farming interests, with no dis
position TO go into politics. They do seem TO
realize that as politicians they are terrible
failures, and except for a few leaders, who
hope to obtain office by their stupidity, would
lei politics severely alone. A high moral
tone, as well as a deep religion, feeling, per.
vsdes the whole country. In almost every
nsighborhood good meetings are going on
Notably the one conducted by the Rev.
Mr.: Johns. assis,ed by Mr.. Farmer. at
Independence Baptist church, wher. tbe
writer saw 800 people In respectful attend.
snce upon worship, and many bsptisms and
additions to that church. Iuderd, it does
Sem as ii all this broad land of ours
was ready now to lin in one grand choruP,
and nothing but songs of praise to God be
heard, and this would only verify the recent
predictions OF those two great disciples,
Spurgeon and Talmage. The writer is now
enjoying the hospitality OF TIL Bufords (orig-
inally Bsauforte, scions of the Huguenot
B.aufortes who early sought shelter and
homes on these bospitable %shores). We en-
j1yCd II ride out this morning with Goodloe
W., who will be eighty-nine yesrs old in
September, and who paid the Iodiar IS per
acre for these lands fifty years ago, when he
might have bought a whole section for two
rIhss. This is tue hons of l.. Q. G. Lamar,
whom We all love b well to admire, he who,
by hiP splendid genius and lmpassioned elo.
qu4nce, has dons more than any other man
10 restore the South TO her position in the aa-
ton and 10 soften and heal up the bitter
prt JUDGES of the sections. and that, too, with
out any sacrifice Of his own or our dignity.