Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-11-24
TRIP NOTES.
Memphis, Nov. 10. 1883.

upon the weather, but since leaving
home the weather has so completely
absorbed everything else, or more
properly neutrality-suspicious., everything
else has absorbed so much weather,
there is scarcely anything else so far
upon my trip to write about. 1t
rained all day long in Nashville yes
terday, and it gently battered against
the car windows, or came down in tor
rents all along the line from that city
to this last night. 1t continues here
today with as good a grace as lift had
not rained in three weeks.
This should be the busiest season of
the year with Memphis, and while
the volume of business is very great,
yet the city is short about 100000
worth of cotton in receipts as COM
pared with this time last year.
Owing to the bad weather the plant
ers are very much behind in getting
out the cotton crop, and the continued
rains are calculated to injure the crop
to a large extent. This condition of
things has brought about quite num-
Der of business failures in this vicinity
in which number of Memphis mer-
chants have lost very heavily. lam
told that the retail trade of the city is
particularly dull just now.
In my rambles this morning, de-
spite the rain, / found a very indus
trious little establishment at 257 Main
Street, which is new industry here,
and quite unique in the fact that the
manager and all the operatives are
young ladies. They make umbrellas
of any size and of any material re-
quired, and at all prices from 81 80 up
to $35. l was shown one with solid
silver handle, the covering of very
fine, heavy silk, double woven, black
on the outside and a beautiful change
able blue on the inside. 1t was only
worth $25. / didn't purchase from
the simple fact that / had discovered
from practical experience with 81. %
one that an umbrella is of no service
in Memphis. 1t rains down, up and
sideways here all at the same time.
The atmosphere seems a moving,
whirling mass of moisture. / pre-
sumo, however, that Memphians buy
umbrellas to use when they 90 else,
where, and visitors here get them to
take home.
Memphis is by long odds the largest
trade center in Tennessee. 1t has
four daily newspapers, all doing q
flourishing business. This of itself is
enough to show that it leads all other
Tennessee cities.
1t will makea country newspaper
mans head swim to step into the
business Office of the Memphis APP
peal and see the amount of business
done and the way it is done there
| 1t looks more like the systematic
business of a bank than anything
else. Two clerks are kept busy al
the time filling up receipts for sub
scriptions received for the Weekly
Appeal, and they cannot keep W
with the work. Wouldn't about ont
week a year like that be pie for {
country editor? fE
There are seven railroads running
into Memphis on the east side of tn,
river, and three on the west side
With all this competition for bushes
the city is assured the most favorable
freight rates, to say nothing Of tn
river, which is an everlasting checl
upon eXhorbitant rates, pools, etc.
on the part of the railroads. 1 walk
ed down to the wharf for a few min
utes this morning and found tel
steamers loading and unloadin,
freight-in the rain. The streets ar
thronged with people and vehicles
and altogether the city presents yer.
busy appearance, notwithstanding
the complaint of business men that i
is dull.
| would like very much to see NOR
of Memphis and write more about il
but it is positively too disagreeable t
stir out of doors for anything short {
necessity.
leave at 600 this evening for Sa
Antonio, Texas, via the Iron Mour
tain Route. r.
TEXARKANA, TEXAS, Nov. 20.
i left Memphis at 6:15 yesterda
evening in company with Col. Kea'
ing, of the Appeal, and reached thi
place at 1885 this morning. Ate
breakfast we walked for an hou
over the Texas side of town, an
witnessed one rough and tumbl