Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-10
THE GREAT FALL OF SNOW.
The Sudden Change in the
Weather.
Plenty Of Snow but no
Sleighing.
IFS Sudden Disappearance.

Memphis was visited on Friday nigh
last by one Of the severest SNOW storms
we have had since 1856. All day Friday
the weather was very mild-pleasanl
enough to have been called q genia
spring day. Toward evening it com
menced blowing. High winds followed
which was succeeded by some rsinr aLc
a complete change from s pleasant to
very cold evening. AS the night sd'
vanced it got colder, and toward mid
night it commenced showing. 1t goI
[ To fall faster and faster, until toward
ven o'clock in the morning, when u
ceased. The house tops, the trees, The
streets and sidewalks, were lost in The
large quantity of snow which mad
fallen the night previous, and
Memphis looked like a city in the
north Of Canada. All day Saturday the
bays we're playing 4" snow bal" q We
dare say many a youngster went hom'
last evening with a black eye from the
effect, Of stopping a hard lump Of snow
/ The weather commenced moderate 9 to
| wards noon, aud the snow began to dis
aDpear so fast that all those WAC haC
faneied that they we're going to have
good sleigh ride were quite disappointed
Strange as it may appear, though the
winter has been very severe, and sno"
storms have reached as far down as New
Ori-aus q much a. y month ago, this l.
IN. first We have had here Turing tn
season, and We had commenced to hAttei
ourselves that old BOTess was about tt
forget US. The storm was Of short dura
ton. but while it lasted it came down
heavy and reminded Us OF q real nor
wester in New England. IL is the first
cold weather that brought heavy {
coats, fur collars and every other COZ
c-ivabIe apparel that is needed to guard
against the biting winter wind. 1t, how
ever, hardly lasted twenty-four hours f0I
last evening old Sol was smiling his pref
test, and everything save the snow and
the Iesfess trees looked like spring time
ISTHES NOw.-Esrly yesterday morn
ing, and while the falling snow was
coming down in torrents, We saw q mar
poorIy clad, with broken shoes and buI
slight covering on his head, in the shapG
of q cap, trudging his way against the
peItiug fakes that numerically beat IL
his face. On he went Shaping his arms
20 keep the circulation Of his blood II
| motion. He reminded Us Of the prodiga
son in the last stages Of his poverty,
seeking some spot to warm his frozer
limbs. On be went, and the vino
howled about him as though it moanec
a dirge at his perilous situation. He re-
minded us Of
"The snow. the snow. It chIlls with woe,
And sad wOul be tue tale II told,
OF all the poor out IN the cold
But ssdder still is the story of this man.
who was out in the snow yesterday morn
ing. We remember him when he wa;
an ornament to society and D Of the
brightest lights Of his profession in Mem
uhis, But in an evil hour be fell. Ht
met with some misfortune and took tC
hard drinking, and soon became q vic.
tim to king alcohol. His property com
menced getting out Of his hands, and in
a short time he was left g pennies
miserable man in the world. Those VIII
had been his friends deserted him, and
he became q confirmed drupkard. We
have seen him in several wretehed stu
atoms, but none that so awakened oul
pity for him as when we saw him, al
most unprotected, at the mercy Of the
snow storm. W. followed 10 his wake
for about four squares, and the last We
saw Of him was entering 3 saloon foI
the double purpose, we suppose, II get
ling near q stove aud begging the
~barkeeper for 3 drink of whisky, for
" he who self T, spec doth lose
Fees uaUght 100 low tor rlm to choose