Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-19

they behaved well.
"A man who became suddenly poor
in Cincinnati this winter, says he suf.
fered less from cold feet than from cold
shoulder.
Mr.. Thomas W. Knox, the well
known army correspondent, arrived re-
Gently at st. Petersburg, having jour
neysl there overland from Siberia.
The Cincinnati business men are
fitting up a boat for the drummers of
their houses. The reveiIIe of the drum
mes to be that favorite air,
'rTls5ust before the bottle, mother"
Rev. John Beckworth, of New Or
leans, Rev. DR.. Hall, Of Washington,
D. c., and Rev. SIr. Euer, of New York,
have been spoken of in connection with
the vacant Episcopal bishopric of Geor-
gia.
Spare moments are like gold dust Of
time. OF all portions of u life, spare
moments are most fruitful in good or
evil. They are the gaps through which
temptations find the easiest access to the
/ garden OF the soul.
1t is said that Reverdy Johnson was
frightened into voting for the Sherman
bill by visions of confscation that the
| present congress will enfore unless the
question of reconstruction is speedily
settled. The con and other fs-catiOn
questions should be left to Hon. John
Morrissey.
An Indiana exchange says it is re-
ported that large numbers of turkeys,
geese, ducks and chickens are dying on
the farms neal Jacksonville and New
Albany from a disease known as the
chicken cholera.
An old Scotch lady had an evening
party, where a young man was present
who was about to leave for an appoint
ment in China. As he was e-xtravagsnt
in his conversation about himself, the
@zSady said, when he was leaving,
"Tak guide care o. yersel' whe We are
ava for mind We, they eat puppies in
China.u
"A lay Methodist preacher, in VIZ
braham, Mass, with a weakness E5r
using big words, and evidently LILLE
knowledge of their meaning, recently
commenced his prayer thus al
mighty, inferior and equal God all suf-
fcient, insufficient, and self-suficient
Jehovah 3"
The New Orleans Picay1He says
that, on Thursday evening last, the
French play, LA Jennesse DIES Nous
quetaires," at the opera house, COM
menced at seven o'clock of the evening
and did not end until a. quarter before
one Of the next morning-ive hours and
three. quarters. The audience bore it
very patiently.
Five hundred and sixty-one thous-
and nine hundred and ninety-six dollars
constitute the grand total of contribu-
tons to the sufferers by the Portland
co~nfagration.
Not long ago a gentleman from Co.
than, in Chicago, being thirsty, entered
a saloon and saw the ex-wife Of his
bosom waiting on customers behind the
bar.
The Indiana senate recently passed
a bill to amend an act concerning inter-
est on money, Afterwards it was dis
covered that the act proposed to be
amended vas not on the statute books,
been repealed in 1861.
The Detroit Free Press relates the I
case of a child of Alfred Woodson, of /
Greenfield, Michigan, who was bitten by
mad dog, and suffering horribly from s
lydrophob:a, was smothered to death, !
q severe parOxysm, under the ad-
vice Of physicians. {
Benjamin Egen, eighty years of age, !
living in Csss county, Michigan, at j
empted to murder his on, Anathan, a i
ew days ago.. He shot him with a rife, !
nfiicting very severe wounds. There Z
vas trouble between the two, about the 5
to a piece of land. 4
One Jim Adair, a freedman, near 3
Union Springs, stole a musket a few days y
go, and shot another negro through the d
tomach, on sG@srge Of having stolen C
ONE flour from him. The Union Springs $
Ines says that is the fourth killing of n
niger by Niger in that community. "
he murderer has been arrested.
"A correspondent writing from Hell Is
Montana, says the mortality Of that -
ty is extraordinary good for a new and h
iining country, az only a dozen men lie
ave been killed within the last four j,
eeks. q,
recent earthquake in the island
Cephalonia was terribly destructive of az
e and property. Many villages are in "a
Tins and fifty thousand persons are said y
be without homes or bread. In the RI,
wn of Eixuri more than one hundred
dies have been recovered, and the u
arch is not yet finished. "a
-On the night Of the 5th inst, Isaac
ark, employed at Fort Leavenworth eli
watch a lot Of corralled government De
ules, was shot by some person I'M 40
Iown, and died some two hours after. h,
ark was recently from Perry county, ]
lio, and was about tweniy-six years old. ~
AT the Columbus, Ohio, opera house, ~
Monday night, Lester, the gymnast,
attempting the feat Of dropping head !
INWARD and hanging by his toes to a ~
PEE, lost his hold and fell into the or the
In falling, however, he con- sui
we'd 70 change his position, so that he ole
uck upon his feet, sustaining no other Ger
ury than a spralned ankle. The dis ma
ice from the trapez to the stage was cor
n thirty feet, Sci