Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-24

lnebriates met al sons HAIL., IN Union
street, Nashville. at 3 O'Clock Monday az
%ternoon for the purpose of organizing.
Anna Dickinson was run of the track
by a locomotive on Tuesday last while on
her way to lecture in Cincinnati. This
looks ominous for the fair Annals future.
The Secretary Of the Treasury refuses
to restore the swords of General Twiggs
until the suit of Miss Florence vs.. Beast
Butler who stole them) is decidedly the
courts.
1t is said that an Indiana clergyman, in
a recent sermon, denounced the eating of
oysters as "a sin OF which nobody but
~loafers, gamblers and similar characters
are guilty..
John Mosber writes the Ontario county
N. " Times that he expects TO live long
enough to see a niger President, So do
We. Then we viii be sure that the " end
draws" nigh.
The Executive Committee of the
Grand Division, Son Of Temperance,
met in Nashville on Monday afternoon,
and transacted business of considerable
interest TO the order.
One Of the greatest proofs of friendship
that one can bestowupon another.
says the Saturday Revie,g, is to give her
the pattern of some unhsckneyed, un-
~purehasable article of dress.
The floor of a new French Catholic
church in Fall River, Mass, fell through
the other day, carrying with it a congre-
cation Of two hundred persons. Result,
twelve or thirteen fractured limbs.
Scion Robinson, author of "Hot Corn"
and formerly of the staff of the New
York Tribune, a day or two since killed a
negro who was trying TO enter his Florida
dwelling. Scion needs constitution.
Colonel John ". Park, for a time one of
the editorial staff of the MiIledgeville
Union, and for several terms Comptroller
General of Georgia, died at his residence
At the Indian Springs, OF Wednesday
last.
At a recent election in England a card
bearing the following was extensively
circulated; Nottingham Election, 1870
Miss Seymour %solieits your vote and in
terest on behalf Of her father, Mr.. Digby
Seymour.
The Chinese are very economical in the
use of coal. They prepare it for use by
grinding or pounding it to powder and
mixing it with clay, and sometimes the
powder is soaked with water and laid
around the fire.
at is a pleasant thing to reflect upon"
says Dickens, land furnishes a complete
answer to those who contend for the grad
usl degeneration of the human species,
that every baby born into the world is a
finer one than the last"
Don Piatt (Radical) writes: 1--WE have
given the negro the ballot. We hsve ex-
pended vast sums on his education and
Tor his support, and yet the legislation in
his behalf has no limit. It is the hope
less legislation Of vengeance"
The Paris journalistic organ of the
Prince Napoleon demands" the with
drawal Of the French troops from the
Holy City, the absolute remuneration of
the Coaoordat, and the suppression Of the
French budget estimates for public wor-
ship.
The Nashville Banner, Of Tuesday, saws
Col. Joseph H. Blackburn yesterday en-
tered upon his duties as United States
Marshal for this District, E. R. Glascock
retiring. The latter had held the Office
since 1861 to the entire satisfaction of the
bar and community.
The New York Herald Of Saturday
says the school book publishers Of that
and several other States are still in ses-
sion at the Craftsmen's Life Assurance
Office. They think the public are not con
cerned in the matter, and therefore don't
tell what they are doing.
The Oxford Miss Falcon says: Farm
ing operations have been greatly retarded
by the continued cold and rainy weather.
Very little has yet been done by the
farmers, and from appearances it will be
near the LIST Of April before anything of
much Importance can be done"
1t has been suggested that the City Of
Boston has been run down by some Brit
ish mail steamer, whose Captain forgot to
mention it on his arrival in port. It
might do well to ask some OF the British
Captains if they did not feel as light jar
at any time during their passage.
The petition and protest addressed to
the Congress and President of the Uni
ted States, which was made public at the
meeting Of citizens, held at the Court
house in Nashville, ON last Monday, were
extensively circulated and signed, and
started to Washington on Tuesday.
That very able journal, the New York
Times, complains of the luminosity the
Southern press and people bear toward
New England. How can they help its
Have not the New England people ever
been the national Pharisee's, saying to
the South: ave are boiler than your"
Captain Albert De Groot suggests that a
meeting Of sea Captains be at once called
to express their admiration of the conduct
Of Captain Williams, of the Inflated
Oneida, and to urge upon the Government ]
the propriety Of erecting a suitable mon
ument to Captain Williams at Annap-
oils. f,
An exchange says it is a very poor con
ceit that an instrument should be suited !,
to its work. In this spirit, we learn the
sculptress, Winnie Ream, is at work upon l
a bust in the city Of Rome. The bust in '
question is that OF Brownlow; and the
lady is said to be blasting out the work t
nitro-glYeerine. I
The fashionable style Of prefix Of titles S
70 the names Of married women-as Mrs. T
DR.. What's-her-name-is condemned and ;
mas been laid aside. Instead OF that stu :
Did style. we have now the sensible one Of !,
addressing married women as " Mrs. l
Mary Sophanisba Beeswax." L
Fashion is a great thing. '
Old Jim Lane was recently baptized in a
by the immersion process. The U
who oficiated would not let his t
be watered in the same stream, for r
days after, on the ground that q
Lane was so impure, so dirty and so wick r
d that even the brutes might be injured !,
~ being soused at the same place. :
An alteration occurred in Selma, Ala, :
asst Sunday night, between John B.
)'Conner and James Ryan. bootmskers, :
which resulted in the serious cutting Of '
he latter. The Selma Times, OF Tuesday, b
avs the attending physician does not d
onsider the wounds necessarily fatal, but 2
recovery doubtful. O'Conner is in
in default Of a thousand dollars bond.
Every one Of the principal Radical pa
'ers Of the country condemn Butler, of I
'ennessee, as a disgrace to the State, and a
$ worthy being expelled from the United L
House of Representatives. The "
Philadelphia Telegraph very Radically
so far as to acknowledge that the a
sfussl 70 expel Butler fixes a suspicion y