Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-27
ODDS AND ENDS.

The principal wheels in "A gold
watch are sold at 800 per cent. profit.
A company Of citizens have struck
oil at Terre Haute, finding a very good
supply at 1890 feet.
A citizen of Wisconsin has invented
an automatic machine that will cut,
bind and deliver grain in a bundle.
A Selma (Ala.) dispatch says the
army worm is committing fearful raw
ages. The cotton crop will be materi-
ally lessened,
An Iowa boy made a sewing ma.
chine with a jack knife, from pine
boards and some wires, that make,
perfect stitches.
Philadelphia has 763 lawyers, 1913
physicians, and q $50 domestic SER
wants. The number of lOafeTs and
politicians is not given.
VIM. T. Turley, of Knoxville, Tenn,
has q volume of poems in press, under
the title of Glittering DewdrOps."
The poet is thirteen years old.
One of the best young lawyers in
Columbus, Ga, and an excellent
speaker, was not able even to read
when he was nineteen years old, and
has lifted himself out of the slough.
Some curious and ancient relics have
been dug up at COrdova, Mexico. A
number of rude images of human
body, and strange heads Of clay and
stOfes, cut in the shape of cannon
balls, are among them.
An eminent New York barrister
and a Baltimore heiress went out in
boat at Cape May the other day,
strangers, and came back engaged,
and seaside bellies are tearing their
false hair. Men are very scarce at Cape
May, also.
The "Abyssinian stretch" has su-
perseded the Grecian bend and the
kangaroo droop among the bellies of
fashion. 1t is supposed that this will
have short run, as the madagascar
fiutter" and the "Figian sprawl" are
waiting to be adopted.
Having heard that an English NJ.
P. is coming to this country to study
the American systems of treating
drunkards, the New York EUeninQ
Post says: "He will learn little. They
are generally sent up having spent
all their money for whisky"
Celia Burleigh, in one of his SER
mons, says: 81 have known folks who
have never committed a blunder,
whose hearts are as dry as dust; and
others who have constantly trans
gressed, whose sympathies were as
warTa and quick as those of an
angel"
An enterprisinO scissors. grinder
prOpels about Philadelphia machine
that is protected by gable roof from
which wave the stars and stripes.
Every revolution of the wheel causes
| one Of several bells 10 strike. prOduc-
| ing a sound resembling that of min
iature church chime.
The suicide of Amelia Garcia, in
New Orleans, has excited unusual
sympathy for great GrtiSte. Deceived
by a lover, for whom she had given
up society and the profession she
loved, she procured some laudanum,
and so ended her days. The residents
in the neighbOrhOOd OF her residence
saw that about the time the poison
must have commenced its fatal work
she went and seated herself at the
piano and for more than an hour
PLAYED and sang. Her rich, thrilling
voice, running to its full compass, re-
yelled in the sweetest music they had
ever heard. Strains of passionate sor-
row, mingled with the sOrrOwful cad
ence ofa funeral dirge as the dying
cantatrice sung her life away. Amelia
Garcia was about twenty-three years
of age and a native Of the West In
dies. Her father was aSpanish Gre
ole and her mother q JeWess, a native
OF Germany. Her parents came to
New York when she was quite young,
and she commenced her professional
career In that city. She sang one
season at the Academy of Music In this
| CITY. and one or two engagements at
other theaters. She left the stage,
however, in 1869, and has not since
appeared professionally in public.
such, in brief, was the career of one
of the sweetest singers and most beau
tiful women of the age. Whether her
life was good or evil, beh0oves us not
now to say. II she was reckless, frivol-
ous and gay, she had at least pas
sionate and loving nature, and died
suicide.