The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-30

lar literary success, as /. will certainly de-
serve TO do, 80 at least say the tea table
coterle, and SO, too, will join in many
a goodly number OF jokes, some rather
grim, were perpetrated during the
Quarantine siege last week. A traveller
wanted 10 stop at Holly Springs, but was
informed by a policeman known as No. /
that the town was garantined against the
word and distificate would be needed
before he could leave the train. Can't. Bob
Leach shipped friend at Grenada lot OF
Doquets and fish frozen in the middle of a
block OF ice and sent his friends word that
the fish were not caught in any infected
district. Bob was little off temper be.
cause he said the Mississippi people would
not allow him to ship several car loads OF
iron to his customers. AS there was not a
bit OF straw or wood about the shipment,
the captain could not understand how it
would do harm; but 80 runs the world
away, says the great Shakespeare, and
when it runs we must all run with it.
AT this particular season of the year,
when cotton pickers are wanted at rs cents
per 100 pounds OF seed cotton in the bot
toms, and 80 cents on the hills, labor is in
active demand all around. The river men
have deal OF trouble TO get hands to man
their boats and $50 per month offered dur
ing the past week failed to secure crews for
several departing vessels, one or two going
away with less than half the needed force,
besides laying in port considerably beyond
their usual time in an effort to get their
wants supplied. The White river steamer,
Chickasaw, rs well as the Arkansas river
packet, Eugene, were both troubled and
delayed on account OF scarcity of hands.
This has been standing worry for years
and there seems TO be no remedy for il as
the supply always governs the demand in
this as in other lines.
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Our congressional aspiring citizen, L.
b. Eaton, is a thrifty person, well able to
pay freely for the nomination, whether or
not he is elected. Col. Eaton is reported
10 be worth fully $500, 900, and he has an
income OF not penny under $50, 900 per
annum. He is really one OF the richest
men among us, is active, not to say spry,
and OF late il has been noticed that lie
has become what is termed quite
dressy. The colonel is called q very clever
man by his friends, though one OF the tea
party remarked last evening that hades is
full OF such.
Our weather chief, Gen. Greedy, missed
IL few points when he said that frost
would be likely on yesterday morning.
The fact is that the temperature fell 80
lower here on Friday morning than it did
yesterday morning. II was down to 400 in
the outskirts OF the city, and this was some
thing more than degree lower than IL
went at the government weather station
on Front street. Out ut the brickyard,
east Of the city, several persons claimed TO
have felt frost on bridge timbers by the
roadside, but ii is more than probable they
were mistaken. The frost point is 46o with
all conditions favorable, and this means
no wind, an atmosphere well saturated
with moisture and a clear sky. Some
scientists claim that frost can form at 4S0,
but this is doubted, though II may be pos
sible. Anyway, killing frost would need
q temperature below 40'. But the weather
has been very cool for several days past,
and Yellow Jack could no more live under
such conditions, even II any were near
this section, than man could fly over the
Mississippi river without wings.
Out at Denver Col, the typhoid fever
has been very severe this autumn, and
tourists recently home from there say that
moro than 200 cases have been reported.
ihlH - hot ih ucloN tne ytioW rover To-
ports from Florida, while the fatality Is real
~ much in excess OF the Florida trouble.
The disease at Denver caused many Of the
inhabitants 10 leave that city for health re-
sorts higher up among the Rocky mount
aims. The foregoing budget OF gossip aud
general chat on topics, fashions and iollies
current just now is about all that our read
ers will care 10 peruse from the Tea Table
Coteric this Sabbath morning. Other
subjects will be taken up on another oc-
Casion