Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-16
SHORT PARAGRAPHS.

The peach trees in Charleston are in
bloom.
Canadian Indians prophesy an early
spring.
Shirt-tail-canOn is new town in
California.
Maryland's oyster beds cover 87a
square miles.
Oranges are worth two cents each,
by the box, in Columbus, Ga.
Ladies are being tried and sentenced
10 death for treason in Cuba.
Miss Bayley, of Louisiana, is called
the prettiest woman in Rome.
Boys are arrested in Troy for hang
ing around the Opera House entrance.
I'll female compositors in the BOs-
ton TrdCeller Office earn from Sl2 TO S3J
per week.
There were co. buildings erected in
Toledo during 1863, at a cOst-Of 81 ;
.S7s,OOO.
Five hundred able-bOdled Philadel-
phians earn a living by "roping in y
for gambling houses.
According to Miss Anthony's ac-
count, it has taken women six thou
sand years to become surfeited with
men,"
4 petiOn has been circulated at Har-
rodsburg, Kentucky, asking Congress
10 donate fifty thousand dollars TO
Oberlin College, Ohio.
No wonder the SUltan got mad.
The Niceroy Of Egypt sent the bill for
the irOn-clads to him, but forgot TO
send the vessels with it.
Judge Gerard lately made use of the
expression, "the press has always been
the friend of the bar" No allusiOn to
BOhemisns at balls, dinner parties or
receptions.
Necklaces of genuine gold beads are
now very fashionable among young
ladies, and hair-lOoms are called into
requisitIon by EOuld-be fashionable
de1oiselleS.
A centenarian negress in Kentucky
has become entirely white, much to
her alarm. Here IS 8 chance for an
other amendment to the unfortunate
Constitution.
A Frenchman was lately found in a
parOXysm of tears over the supposed
tomb of Washington, at Mount Yer
non, but it turned out to be only the
ice-hOuSe.
Miss Cushman has reached her
house in Rome better, but far from
being restored. She is troubled with
cancerOus affection, for which sur
gical operation has been performed.
During the year 1859, four hundred
of nNPnV~Cn ~ NJ ~
have been distributed to the Russian
fortresses, and by April next the army
viii have been all supplied with new
rifles.
1t is scarcely more than twenty
years since san Francisco became a
city, and already there are complaints
Of overcrOwding, and labOrers who
cannot get work in town are advised
10 60 TO the country.
The nct is noted with some aston
ishment that two American girls in
Indiana, who have been vainly try
ing 70 support themselves with the
needle, have determined to do house
work for living.
The Ninth regiment Of cavalry are
concentrating at Fort Davis, Texas;
from thence they will 90 on scout to
the Guadalupe mountains, and hope
TO render q good account OF the saw
ages who haTbOr in those hills.
England is fast showing signs Of a
grand and total break up. Well, she
has had her day, and, it must be adj
mitted, glorious day, too. But an
old house prOpped up by old and rot
ten timbers, instead of new and sound
ones, must give way.
Of seventy applications for admis-
sion to the Musical Conservatory Of
Paris, only thirteen have been sue
cesslul. The youngest applicant was
a little girl ten years old; and next
youngest to her was Marks Kaiser,
the noted child violinist of New Or
leans.
Musical criticism out West is some
times, 10 say the least of it, peculiar.
One of the village dilletdni on the
plains thus discOurse5 about the sing
ing Of his choir: Z" 1t is like driftwOOd
in stream; it drags on the bars, yet
don't amount TO DAM"
Napoleon has acted with firmness
and moderation in carrying out, de-
spite the unruly spirits of Paris, his
Were he twenty years younger, per-
haps. he would have swept them sll
into eternity. The prOvOcatiOn was
great enough, but he nObly resisted it.
Every one knows that the manage
naent OF our Indian affairs has been
and is disgraceful. But few were pre-
paBed for the fact that the hostile
tribes have been clothed, fed and
armed against the friendly Indians.
Such is the case, according to the adj
vices received by the War Depart
ment.
They have progressed so far as to
shoot unofending Americans down in
the streets Of Havana. DeROdas and
Fish are greatly excited. But why
worry over it? Is il not the natural
consequence Of the cringing obsequi-
ousness Of our Government toward
those Spanish cut-thrOats?
The Austin (Texas) Republican of
the 18th says tits reported that Gen
eral Reynolds has been appointed to
the cOlOnelcy made vacant by the re-
cent death Of General Mower, and
that he will be relieved Of the COM
mand Of this military district, and re-
port 10 his regiment. There would be
much rejoicing in Texas should this
be true.
Louisiana is blessed with a Legisla-
ture that would have just suited the
Puritans in the WITHDRAWING era. A
bill has been introduced in that body
of advanced statesmen Furnishing
with fine and imprisonment the fol-
lowing offenses: Going TO church
drunk; firing a gun within hearing Of
a church; running a horse TO, by or
near a church; chatting, whispering
or laughing in OF near church., This
il the last absurdity, but it will serve
until the next occurs.
New York News.
NEW YORK, February Is. - The
limited States steamer Seminole has