Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-21
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS


Southern Editor just now is one of the
most interesting ard improving Of
spectacles. He has belteG on his pis-
tolls and poignards, and with q six
shooter in his left hand, pen dipped
in boiling blood and gall in his right,
and bowie-knife between his teeth,
is vainly endeavOring to express his
tumultuous sentiments on the subject
of Coolies.
The Government has official news
from Mexico that a revolution has
brol-en ,,ut in San Louis de POtosi,
and that tbn Mexican authorities re-
garded a rehalnnn in SinalOa quite
immineut. Troops had been dis
patched TO that western country IN
the hope Of preventing an Outbreak
TO this instruction. The whole AsA-
lean territory was more peaceful thAn
1t has been for many years.
4 San Francisco paper describes the
music in a Chinese theater of that city
as follows: Imagine yourself in a
boiler mandatory where 400 men are
putting in rivets, mammoth tin shop
next door on one side, and q forty
stamp quartz mill on the other, with
a drunken charivari party with GOO
cats on the roof, and a faint idea will
be conveyed of the performance Of /
first-class Chinese band OF music"
The Paris Tenn HltelligeHcer says
of the Henry County Fair, that dur
ipg the entire exhibition the attend
ahee has been quite large, and, as is
nsu2i EpOn such occasions, the inter-
est manifested by all parties has been
pGaff a
themselves 10 the fullest extent. The
exhibition of frnits, cakes, wines,
pickles, embroidery and ladies' work
in general, was the finest we have ever
witnessed, and demands especial at
tentiOn, but our limited space fOrbids
further mention in this issue. Next
SVeek we will publish in full the list of
aEamiums awarded. The Union City
Brass Band were employed for the Oc-
casion, and have enhanced the pleas
N5re OF all iB attendance by their eX-
cellent HHsiC The entries have been
numerous and competition highly
spirited.
4 young Philadelphian, who has
pe,aIi in Paris dining with Rosa Bon
heur, thus gOssips about her: ''She
has tha SsFnchman's A way of placing
her index inRer along the full length
of her nose, which ) never before saw
a woman dos and she Parts her hair
On one side, like man, iellpg il iall
on her forehead. it IS entirely grEyy
except where il ia sROw-white. In
deed, the lady looks older than her
mother. She talks energstically,
clearly, and rather didactically, bat IS
extremely pleasant. Harry showed
her his pistol, and she said; oh, yes,
know, / carry one just like IT., and
she pulled II out Of her pocket to show
it 10 Us. As IL was loaded, it fright
ened the family considerably to sec
gler maneuver it in her Of-hand way.
After dinner she smoked her cigar like
the other gentlemen of the party
The failure Of I.egrand Lockwood,
the noted New York banker, j. every
where regretted, and a host Of friends
Ofsr him assistance. Ills house and
grOaBds at NOrWalk, Conn, are val.
aied, ia taeir incomplete state, q $780,
900, and il gas his Intention tOeXpend
more than tailliOn upon them. The
owners chambeF is furnished with
eiabOrately inlaid rosewood, the
bedstead canopied with graen, form
ing a framework OF gold and jet. At
taehed are a dressing-rOOm and an Or
atOry, the latter fre5cOed in imitation
Of huted white satin, the windows
hung with Persian fabrics, and the
ceiling In rose, drab and gold, with a
dome Of sky-blue studded with stars.
la Measure for Measure" there il
an obscure passage in the Rpeach of
Isabelle, act IL, scene 1, which has
puzzled many commentators:
" Else let my brother die,
Ifnot a feOdary, but only be,
owe, and succeed thy weakness"
Nary Cowden Clark, the we'll
Lrnou1. Shakspearean commentator,
thus eIuc dates and interprets the text
=, FeOdary > signifies a feudal vassal;
also an aeeampi.oe, a confederate, a
s,ompaniOn, an ass1Riate. In the pres
ent pas4age the word eombinss these
senses, meaning one wbO holds, by |
common tenure, and one Of the hu- |
man fraternity, cove" IL used for |
a. own " succeed 4" for "inheFit," :"
and "thy weakness' - refers to the |
frAilty which Angelo has Just con- I
ff4zsed that he has in common Yith all 1
mankind. by the words, " We are I
tr Ill" Therefore we take the iHter- (
nra, zion of the entire speech to be 1
his. =. Upless We are sll frail, let my |
brother ana. If he do not, IS one Of his /
cooanoon bre 'apen, holding by their /
common tenure but only as he him /
sfI1 slone-pOssess and succeed TO the |
inheritance Of that weakness Whicn /
YOU allow i yours a. We'll a. al
mems"
The Knoxville Press anil Herald of /
The I5th inst. contains the following |
paragraph: cit is humiliah2g fact |
that at the present time the treasurer
of the great State of Tennessee Is un-
able TO pay the smallest warrant 90 |
re State Treasury. SheEiffs and of1- |
GERS OF the law, who are forced TO 60 |
IN Nashville on official duties, nnd II |
imDossihie 70 get enough funds 10 pay |
their expenses, and have to borroW |
mopey. In many instances, to detray
their necessary bills. More than this, |
the Treasuner has borrowed from banks
over so. 600 to pay small warrants, |
ranging nom so to e2O0, until ne has |
stretched his credit as far es the banks |
are willing to GO. In additio1I there !
are about 800, 200 of outstanding war
rants that cannot be paid for Lack OF |
funds. This Indebtedness Is all on ae- |
count of current expenses, ana Is in |
addition to the amount OF unpaid 4
SRlS interest on the btalS DohOs anu i
the deficiency on account of ths money /
borrowed in New York to pay the /
last January interest Something 4
must be done and that right speedily, /
20 enable the State to at least pay It's /
running expenses" To which the /
Union and american says. The |
members of the Legislature viii see
from this statement the necessity Of /
prompt action 70 preserve the credit |
Of the State. We are within few /
weeks Of the time vixen the semi-an- |
nQal interest on the State debt, |
amounting to something over y ,OO0s- |
,O18, ought to be paid, and yet II ap-
pears 4, l,ere IS not a dollar in the treas
sary with Ehieh 70 meet this demanos
which Is alaclutely necessary TO pre-
serve the ereeit q the state Tbs
Enatter should receive flee early atten-
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