Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-20
a CHILD WONDER.
Strange Episode in n ballroom
FOOTBALLS on the boundaries Of
Another World.

! From tie Nashville Banner.l
The gay company at the bail given al
the Courthouse by the Nashville Base
/ Ball Club on Thursday night, were
somewhat startled about eleven O'Clock,
by most extraordinary and singular
| occurrence. A little girl named AIMS
Daisy, apparently thirteen years OF age
had made her appearance in the ball.
room at nine o'clock, and, as far as could
be ascertained, without an escort. She
had danced every set, and had partaken
freely of all the refreshments given her
up to eleven O'clock, when, Overheated
and looking very pale, she ran to the
nearest seat and sat down. Here she
pressed her hands to her forehead and
leaned forward, as though she were
about to faint. Her singular conduct
having attracted the attention of a young
man who sat beside her, be at once has
tened for water and fans, with the hope
OF speedily relieving her from her preca-
riOus situation. All the simple remedies
that could be thought OF or recommended
were used without avail. Size sank into
kind of stupOr from which il
was thought she would never
awake. Her respiration wss hard and
frequently attended with commissions.
She was laid out upon some chairs and
seemed without the power of moving
either limbs or body. Her eyes all the
while being wide open, ali believed her
in trance. DR.. Menees was summoned,
and administered several TestOratives,
which seemed partially to relieve her
from the stupor, but not from the hysteF-
zeal condition into which she had fallen.
Her countenanee then assumed lively
appearance, and she commenced bend
ing the foreinger Of her right hand soon
after, and most gracefully, raising her
hand, pointed it toward heaven, and
said, " Mother.n She next let her baud
fall upon her breast and for q moment
her countenance wore an expression OF
deep melancholy. There issued from
her lips q most beautiful and eloquent
prayer, the language Of which was select
aBd appropriate, insomueh that all were
astoDished. She next repeated great
number OF verses, and where her mem
DRY lacked she supplied with q remarka-
bic degree Of aptitude. After this, she
tsld stery, following out the thread,
and clothing it in beautiful language.
She made the following expressions,
her countenance changing with the senti-
ments: Jesus is my friend.v "Cruel
brotkers.n I" o, II ! should go astray,
what voice would there be to WOO me
from an erroneous path ?p All her re-
marks were seemingly addressed to her
mother, though dead, yet living in the
memory Of her child. She sang q seng,
"a am dying" with so much pathos
that every eye was filed with tears.
All this lime DR.. Menees had tried in
vain to attract her attention.
She sEoke st quarter to one, and
said she would again enter the same state
when one O'Clock should come, which
was verified on the striking OF the bell.
She continued in this condition, which
was not so severe as before, for an hour,
when she awoke and became extremely
lively aud vivseious in conversation.
She resumed the floor and danced until
late in the morning. 80 .
She Is represented as being very pretty
and intelligent for one of her age. Her
mother died some time since, leaving
her with her father and three brothers,
the first OF whom seems to care little
about, and the last three to abuse and
cruelty and brutality beat her.
One of her brothers is now in the work
house, having been sent there for seven
ty-two days, for his violent treatment Of
her. While she is cruelty beaten, she is
also starved for days. Her appetite st
the ball room is represented as having
been most raYenous, and she Is said to
have eaten much more than three heal
thy persons ought to have done without
suffering 3 arrangement OF the system.
It is believed that il she were given