Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-15
THE News.

We discover Dick De. s tracks in more
than q dozen Arkansas papers.
There is telegraphic communication
now between the Hot Springs, Ark,.zaRd
the 'rest of the world" a."
The Democrats of Alabama are discuss
ing the most available point for their
coming State Convention.
Hon. J. L. Morpbis has appointed Ed
win d. Coleman, Of Aberdeen, Miss, 70 a
CadeJship at West Point, from the Second
Congressional District
W. ON. Perkins, Speaker of the Ten
nessee House Of Representatives, is an
nouncsd as a candidate for Congress from
the franklin district.
The Nashville Banner, whose blood
IS all meridian" says the good City of
Rocks is TOO quiet for health; too quiet
for growth aud prosperity.
The Summit Miss.) Times reports de-
strucIive Iire at BrOokhaven, last week.
Ten houses were consumed, which must
have been the whole place.
The Grand Lecturer, H. c. Robertson,
of Masons, for the State of Mississippi, viii
deliver a lecture, both day and night, on
Monday, the 10Th inst, at SenatObIa.
The Columbus jMiss.) IRder says:
% General Forrest has received a splendid
new engine for the Memphis and Selma
we ever saw"
Strawberries have bsen shipped lately
from the vicinity of Columbus, Miss, to
Chicago, and brought IS per quart. Also
Esdishes, raised upon one acre of ground,
have netted $50.
The Holly Springs MssoDs are about to
build a large three-story building for
lodge purposes, costing 81, 600. The con-
tract mas been let, and the lower story
will be ready for occupancy by fall.
The survivors Of the Fifteenth Missis-
sippi Regiment, viii meet at WinOna, on
the y inst, to take into consideration
the prOpriety Of erecting monument to
the memory of their dead who fell during
the war.
W. A. Ambrose, of Salem, Lee county,
Miss, had wheat five feet high on the 4th
instant, that was sown December 3. Capt.
Wilson, Of LOachapOka, had wheat in full
bloom, April 25 that was sown Deem
ber %.
A. Dumas, IT., in his work, " "L'smi des
Femmes," i" declares that woman "can no
more be emaneipated than she can be re-
made; that her duties have been estab-
hshed from the beginning, as have
MANS
During a recent visit of Mr.. and Mrs.
Bale 10 Adelina Patti, the great canta-
trice expressed a desire to assume the
principal role in the opera of ." La Rose
de Seville, p written by the Irish composer
Tor Nine. BOsio.
Eugene hes dismissed five of her maids
of honor on account of a horrible suspi-
cion that their characters justified neither
of the substantives of their title. The
gentlemen concerned were certain en-
ployes at the Tuileries.
Cairo has a long-snouted, slab-sided
white pig which feeds almost exclusively
on chickens. Although quite a small
porker. he seizes upon full grown hens
and steTs, and demOlishes them with
ease and the most perfect satisfaction.
The Grenada Miss. Sentinel says: 'The
Union Passenger shed for the Mississippi
Central and Mississippi and tennessee
railroads at this point is to be one of the
Einest in the South. We understand work
on the same will be commenced some
time next July"
The subject OF the disappearance of
Isaac Il. Jones of the State Reform
School. Manchester, n. H.. is still a mat
ter Of great speculation, inasmuch as his
sccOunts are found to be perfectly cor
rect. Il Is believed he is labOring under
mental hallucinatiOn.
The Paris correspondent of L'EtOiIe
Beige writes: "The Empress Eugene is
positively growing old, and, despite the
pains she Tskes 70 conceal the traces of
years, every body can see that her face is
2urrowed with wrinkles, and that her
hair is growing very thin"
The Boston AdUertiSer says: " Miss
Elise Holt is certainly the best burlesque
actress England has sent us. She can
dance better, sing with more shades Of
expression, and deliver the chaste but
sparkling dialogue Of English burlesque
with greater effect than any Of the Lydia
Thompson tror e.