Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-01

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in this city on the 9th Of May, grew L.
feet high, and spread over a space Of Il
feet square, and produced a barrel OF seed
"A poor fellow VINO mas been lifted thu.
gives utterance TO bis disappoingment, in
rhyme:
It's sweet to court,
But, obi how bitter
To court a gal
And then not git her.
Why do the present managers OF the
Mobile and Ohio railroad oppose so VizOr-
OusIy the Alabama and Ch-aLtaaOoga rail.
road, which connects with the former
road az Meridian2 Answer: Because the
Alabama and Chattanooga roa charges a
little over half the amount for freight and
passengers that is charged by the Mobile
and Ohio road.
Sometimes, the sO-csllsd Prentice IT,,
says 8 good thing. us strange be
shouldn't since he says 80 much. He
says Of new book published in New
York, entitled "The Way 20 the Bottom
less Pit" 1T has no sale among the
leaders of the Radical party. They know
more about that way than the man who
wrote the book"
There are two planters below the city
I on the Mississippi river, each Of whom
/ imported and employ ten families Of
/ SWedes. The one built new frame houses
with brick chimueys, and furnished g
garden spot with each tenement. The
other, Mr.. R., gave his employees the old
/ cabins Of his former slaves, and directed
no attention to the comfort Of his Swe-
dish families. Mr.. r. is tired OF his for
eign lsbOrers, while the wiser planter is
now in the city making arrangements for
the Importation Of fifty families.
The simplicity and mOdssty Of monu-
mental inscriptions constitute their chief
excellence. Very many Of the living for
| gsJths fact, as n may learn at ElmwOOd.
! On Charles Dickens tomb in Westminster
{ Abbey the words are Charles Dickens.
born February I, 1872, died the g5h Of
/ June, 1870" Men and women in tender
accents will breathe out these simple
words through countless coming years,
and contrast with the mOdsstY Of the cpl
taph the majesty of that genius whose
achievements and worth are thus PeTpeJ-
uated.
in old times, when Memphis was in
pinstOres and shorts ike some Of the
shivering little girls on the streets yes
terdsy, they used to baptizs people in the
Mississippi. There we're very sinful
people in those days, and they needed, II
is said, a power Of water" TO effect a
thoroughly satisfactory pUrlhcatiOu.
Wicked people used to talk his way II
happened not many days ago that Or. A.
\ T. II 0N nlls Vi EAL4 Hill WIS AI0M AEA
while being baptissd. He and the minis
ter happened to step into deep water, q
swares and the Doctor, being unable to
swim, lost his life.
According to the report Of the United
States Photographed engineers nearly
One-foUrth more water passes the nights
at Columbus, Kentucky. each minute
than rolls by Memphis in the same time.
The excess at Columbus passes into the
lOwlGuds Of Arkansas and OVerhOWs tbs
valley OF the St. Francis, by which
stream il is returned to the Mississippi
at Helena. When the outlets below Co
lumbUs are closed by POrters' road, the
whole Of this mighty volume OF water
will be confined 70 The river channel aud
Tennesseeaus will be forced to construct
a lsvse railway, and when and where
viii th@ process eudf
Memphis may be a very wicked city
there are places up north with which
this city can cOmpste in the enOr-
nifty OF crimes committed. In tbs Owl
of Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, one
night last week, a man was murdered in
a gambling house after Gring MS pistol
four times; there were fourteen witnesses,
some Of them "ths most distinguished
citizens of Butler county" and yet the
Cincinnati Commercial tells us the muir
derers cannot be Identified. There then.
ADn Z 4Ea US hear any AllLE AAAsA CRIT
icisms from that side of the Ohio, upon
poor, shocking, barbarOus old T5nnessss.
It seems there are people who "can't see
it, " In one State as well as another.
There is a musician in Fort Pickering,
who has won considerable reputation in
the remarkable character Of a performer
upon two horns simultaneously. The
piece that he performs is in shsrps, with
an allegro movement. 1t begins with a
rapid cresceudo n a flourish OF tbs
horns, followed by a hurried 5iniuusndO. /
notes are distributed literally throughout
the piece. The first performance was
given in q field last Wednesday A. Dur
ham bull furnished the horns and the
c~rescendO. The musician alighted OF q
rail fence. He says there WIS a dispOgi-
ton on the part of the bull 20 encore the
performance, but he declined. he ssys
he likes to encourage novelty in art, but
10 can be carried too far.
The Printers Union should b6 con
vened and care for the woes OF Nose Par
rish. He says: Think of tit ys metro
pOlitan t~huEder6rs and quilldrlvers gen
orally. Why, we've set up b tax list
mighty hard to dO-thrG6 columns = new
advertisements, and all the reading mat
ter in the Bulletin 'as she be- to-day; be-
sides, sung out to 'meself for copy, done
HAE IUn MDLh ~ AD0A e4u HAlA y AE1u aAEALn ]
corrected them, made up the forms, made I
a rOller-ths mould wasn't clesm either;
kept books, talked TO custOms-s-ppligi-
clans, answered ten thousand questions,
two fires every morning, uursed the
baby, done the square Cussin' for the =
whole office, drank a barrel of whisky
meauest sort, played hi generally, and
can do It sgainI' anu will DO it, before we
viii ever employ another struggling prin-
ter. Bully for we'Unsi Any sober, in
dustrious printer can get a job az this
shautyt" We believe every word Of the
above, and especially the hard joke On the
whisky key.
There is nothing new under the sun.
We have an urn, made Of pOtters' clay,
found in a m"Ouudbuilder's grave. On It's
sides, in raised figures, there are four rep
RESERVATIONS of the human hand and four
thigh one 1t seems that the sons of
Malta, in those ancient DAYS. adopted as
Of the order the hand and bones
instead of ''skull and bOnes,7 and from
the Dimensions of this whisky key. we
rest assured that the old fellows who
amused themselves by rearing artificial
hills, as the PharaOhs did pyramidal
mountains of stone, had a fondness for
the good things Of this world. The war
riOr or statesman of old, who was wont to (
drink deep from this urn, was buried two
or three thousand years ago, and his lug
WIS deposited with his remains, no doubt.
because his family, like others we have
heard of in later days, were disposed to
conceal the last evidence Of MS lOIliek-
ing ways. They buried him, too, in the
swamp across the river where water
abOunds.
There is a deal Of discussion among
merchants and s-teambOatmeu as to the
relative value of steamers made Of iron
and those or wood, rendered indestTUCti-
bic by the "kOremanizjng process
WoOdburne, WhOss experience
ana practical good sense is confessed. be-
Lieves that iron bulls will supplant the
use Of these made of wood, while steam
8rs like the Nicksburg and Eutaw. with
hulls which, il is said, will never decay.
are pronounced by others, skilled in such
matters Infinitely preferable. The OBJ
to iron hulls Is based upon the
that an iron boat strikes a
bar or goes over 3 sand~bank. 70
wtu not yield or bend, and must
broken II any event experiments
made ~ Cincinnati, St. Louis and
Pittsburg, which viii soop determine the
relAaiFs value Of the two descriptions Of
ooass, Those Of iron are lighter in pro-
TO their tonnage, and it was con-
seded that Iron boats are preferable for
ieep water service. This process Of Fore
nsniziug consists in imprsgnating wood
With 3 preparation Of arsenic, salt and CO.
'osive sublimate. The first iron steamer
built was constructed &C Perth. ia
scotland, in 1853. People then hardly be-
that iron could be made to foat.
q now aeems that iron vessels VIII soon
transport all the world's merchandise and
travellers.