Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-20
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few months since, and has been attacked
with dropsy.
The Somervills (Tenn.) Falcon says:
1--WE regret 10 state that The health Of
Hon. George w. Reeves continues to i'm
prove but slowly, and some time will
elapse before he viii be able to be out.
he can now sit up for a few hours at a
time but is still very feeble.
Edward A. Pollard is writing eulOgies
upon Grant and attacks upon Mr.. Jefer-
son Davis in the New York TFl6uRe. The
New York Democrat says If Grant and
the Tribune can endure Elm, no one else
will complain, and the Southern people
viii be only too happy to be rid Of him.i
1t seems there is an effort on the part
Of some to build the railroad known as
the El~izabethtown and Paducah Rail
road, from Greenville, KY, to Memphis,
Tenn, instead OF Paducah. IT. however,
we are to judge from the Herald, the fact
is not at all regretted by the people Of Nc
Cracken.
The Holly Springs Miss Reporter
says: ave know of no more disgusting
and annoying habit than that Of splitting
tobacco juice on church floors And we
know of no place where the habit prevails
more extensively than in Holly Spfings.'
They need an Anti-TObacco Society in
Holly Springs.
The dwelling house OF Mr.. Louis Ma
lone. who lives near Ta~llaloosa. In Mar
shall county, Miss, was struck by light
ming on Friday night, March Ilth, and
totally destroyed. The lightning set the
house on fire, and the flames progressed
with sucn rapioity that the inmates
scarcely had time to escape.
1t is reported that the proprietors Of the
Fort William Henry Hotel, of Lake
George, and the Arlington House, at
Washington, have purchased six hundred
acres Of land near Harper's Ferry, for
the purpose Of erecting q colossal hotel
among the mountains, to accommodate
six or eight hundred guests.
On Monday night last the dwelling
house Of Mr.. Pleasant Meador, living two
miles west Of Jacksonville, in Marshall
county, Mississippi, was struck by light
ming, set on fire and totally destroyed.
The fire progressed with such rapidity
that the family saved but a small amount
Of their clothing or furniture.
The Lebanon (Tenn.) Herald Of Thurs
day SAYS: "Fruit and wheat in Wilson
rave been slightly damaged by the recent
frost. Peaches in SEINE localities were
blooming, and pears and plums were bud
ding out. The damage though, we think,
is not very serious yet. From what we
can learn, the wheat has been frozen out
in some neighborhOods, but is not badly
hurt"
The Humboldt (Tenn.l Headlight says:
" On the evening Of the I4th, three col
ored men, armed with beech limbs, ran
down, caught and severely whipped a CO.
laborer not far from Humboldt. The diff
fculty originated from personal animos-
ity and threats. The aggressors were ar
rested and fined. Details to be sent to
Benjamin Butler and Jerusalem Smith,
to be used as an argument for ~reconstrue-
ton"
The English journals assert that ten
ders of a psersgs have again been made
to Mr.. Dickens, who has recently lad a
private interview with the Queen. If
this prove true, Mr.. Dickens viii most
probably accept. His 6~ecIination of the
profiered honor on the last occasion was
50 decided and explicit that we hardly
think the proposition would have been
revived without an understanding that it
is TO be accepted.
The Philadelphia Press says: "The fact
that Revels is a negro, no doubt, accounts
for the desire to hear him speak, as, we
believe, he was not particularly distin-
guished as an orator or a statesman before
he entered the high social and political
circles in which be now lives and moves
and has his being. DR.. johnson was once
asked what he thought of a female
preacher whom he had just heard speak.
Why, sir, replied the Doctor, "a woman
speaking Is like a dog walking on his
hind legs; you do not wonder az his not
doing it well, but you are surprised at his
doing II at all"
A champion Of the violin argues, in a
London paper, the propriety Of teaching
that instrument to boys, as the ~pianoforte
is taught to girls, and this brings the wri-
ter another suggestion, Why should not
girls as wen as boys learn the violin?
What a blessing it would be in families
where there are several daughters des-
tined TO learn music, if one might escape
the eternal pisnoforte and take to the yiO-
linz Think Of the wearisome work it is to
listen Of an evening in a dull country
bOUse-tO three or four young ladies, sue
ceeding one another. each playing a piece
Just like the other that went before IT,"