Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-30
SHORT PARAGRAPHS.

Beau Hickman is giving lessons in
department TO large but select class
of unwashed Congressman in Wash
ingtOn.
Lester Wallack intends to make
starring tour through the principal
cities Of the country for the first time
in his life.
Affidavits published in the Phila-
delphia papers show that Paul
SchOeppe, oOnviGted in Berlin in 1852,
and Paul SchOepPe, convicted III Car
Isle, Penn, in 1863, are two persons.
The testimony is conclusive.
Luxurious Paris had but three ear
riages in 1850. One belonged to the
Queen, the second to Diana Of Puic.
tiers, ERG the third 10 "a very corpulent
nOblemdn, NAMED Rsne de Lavel,
who was unable 10 ride on horseback.
Themes Gordon, piasterer, COM
day night by taking laudanum. Be
fore taking it he wrote a note stating
his intentions, aud asking the Red
Men, uf which order ne was a MEM
Der, to bury him. Cause, inteInper-
ance.
The coliseum for the great musical
festival in New York in May will ac-
commodate $4,000 people. The attend
aRae Of 10000 musical artists Is 10 be
secured, and the first stars Of the lyric
world have been engaged for the Occa-
sion. -Four grand prizes tor musical
compositions are to be offered.
Rev. Theodore Peck, OF HobOken,
mysteriOusly disappeared the other
day with the wife OF one OF his deacOns.
This thing OF permitting clergymen
who wear corn-cOiOred kids and part
their hair in the middle 20 come about
the house will haze to be stopped.
It's growing serious.
Miss MHlddy Morgan, cattle-nlarket
reporter of the New York Times,
gave the Farmers Club talk on the
present breed OF hCrses in this country
a day or two ago, of whicn We await
the report. with interest, as having the
authority OF wOmaQ who knows
what she is talking about.
A youthful clergyman, addressing
a Sunday school IN Springfield, ONO,
last Sunday, said there We're two ways
10 spell lie-l-i-e, lie, was Ose way,
and f-i-h, lie, was the other way, when
a little boy in back seat piped out in
9 shrill voice, " That's hB," much to
the discontinue Of the youthful cier-
gymaR.
A correspondent who has been three
years private IN the army, complains
of the tyrannical way in which pri-
Yates are treated by officers, so that
they lesve the army after their term
of service Witd nothing but hatred for
the flag under which JEey have suff-
cred SO long. He appeals to the Mill
tary committee for an investigation.
The Dublin Evening Mail states
that the Rev. J. Z. McCau5land, rec
tor Of ClonmOTe, near DrOgheda, has
received notice of the late Mr.. Pea
body having bequeathed him a sum
of E2000, in Consideration OF the
" pleasuren with which MIR. Peabody
has perused a treatise Of his on The
Hope Of Israel"
The rumor that, az soon as a six
teenth amendment TO the COnstitu-
ticn shall have placed woman upon
perfect equality with man, the Hon.
Susan u. Anthony will challenge
Tom Allen, Jim Mace and Mike Nc
CuOle 10 a series OF mills for the cham
pionship and the excursion, money is
not generally credited.
A farmer in Sonoma county, Cal,
has SET out 100 ramie plants in order
TO test the capacity OF the rich soil OF
that region i0r the cUltiyatioH OF rd-
mie, which some persons believe
,VrfH lou f.fr GHe
flne article of ramle commands sixty
cents per pound; but at ten cents Il
viii pay The producer handsome
.. ~eat,
car Robert Z. Lee believes that
raynIsr and -ncsIanU labor in Virginia
can be secured on y by the lntroduc-
tion OF a respectable clG>S pi iaoOTefs
from Europe, saying that although
Temporary benefit might be deriFSu
from importation OF Chinese and Ja-
paness. he fears it would result IN
eventual in ury to the country and
her institutions.
New York papers say that the own
ers of rinks aud skating pond proprle-
tors are sad and dejec5ed over the
prospects ofa paying season. ana tnat
there has not as yet been aslngle Gays
skating in the metropolitan Kinks.
We believe the "ball has been up" for
two days, thus far, in Washington, but
we have yet 20 hear OF any one who
enjoyed skating on any OF the days
mentioned.
Tie report of gold in Scotland is
once more forming a sensational para
graph in the newspapers, but the ma
lives themselves seem slow TO believe
that there is a Ballarat in Inverness
shire. The story Is an old one. In
Queen Elizabeih's reign, when the
search for precious metals was pursued
with a keenness aud skill only parall-
eled Ia our own times, North Britain
was no doubt carefully "prospected, I"
for we find that In January, l60s, q