Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-18

revenue sensible AEkhusaSs
The Brownsville Bee ssys: 1.-THE ex.
trems scarcity OF corn JIM this county
ought to suggest 90 every farmer to SOW 5
crop Of oats this spring. Sow Norway OF
any other way, but be sure 20 SOW a croI
OF oats to help out" next summer.
The heavy rain of yesterday. and
moistened surface Of the streets last night
prevented the attendance Of many at the
thegter, but the house was well filled
and the -persOnatiOn of Falstaff by Mr.,
Jack was admirable.
At a meeting of the bar yesterday res.
OlUti0ns expressive Of respect for the vir-
tues snd honor to the memory Of n. B.
Winchester were adopted, and attorneys
were designated to present them TO the
several courts of the city.
Colonel ohm L. Poston, Clerk Of the
Haywood County Court, is taking in the
balance of Tennessee money in that sec
UiOn for State license. The mercantile
portion Ofthe population of Haywood, the
Bee says, are " ponying up" lively.
Rev. R. A. Holland, d. D., the elo-
quent young Methodist minister, whose
sermon in this city, a year or two ago.
excited so much admiration, has with
drawn from the VI. E.. Church. South. and
become a candidate for orders in the
Episcopal Church.
Referring to a recent dinner at the
Peabody Hotel, at which twenty gas COM
pany presidents and sUperintendsnts sat
down, reporter says: i is not clearly
remembered who made the last speech,
and the reporter couldn't take it down.
for It was all gas
Two or three people in this and other
places attribute the shakiness Of their
nerves 10 the fact that they drank cider
drawn through l6aden pipes. 1t is rather
true that they have drawn pipes of cider
through lesdeu lips, beneath lsadsn
eyes, into a stomach lined with sugar Of
lead.
"A planter from Bolivar county COM
plains that 3 writ of replevin, issued upOu
g bogus bond executed by a penniless me-
gro and worthless securities, has enabled
negroes, without right, 60 secure posses
sion of five bales of cotton. The cotton
was az once spirited away. The planter
thinks that officers Of the law shared the
spoils with the blacks.
People, for weeks past. have beeu
staring at celestial luminarles through the I
telescope at b corner Of Jefferson and
Main streets. Some Wag directed the in
strument 90 q gas lamp down Main street,
and a h~alf-druuken loon soon discovered.
In a gnat or fly on the lamp. a mastodOn
in the NOON. He didn't see monkeys, as
most people do in his FIX,
Mr.. W. B. Worsham was arrested ON
the night of the 10th instant on a charge
Of being accessory 30 some felony in Ar
kansas; was taken before EsQuire Miller
for examination, bat the parties prOsecu-
ting having become satisfied Of his limo
csnce, dismissed the prosecution and paid
the cost. Mr.. WOrshsm is a stock trader
IN this city, and stands well, Is we are
reliably informed.
Seventy negroes in COahoma county.
who had made contracts for the wear.
recently ssduc5d from one to enotb-
BIZ plantation, Thus a large part of one
'r0p IslOst, and there is no assurance that z.
negroes viii not desert their present
employer, and thus both places may be-
valueless, There is great de-
for laborers everywhere in the
south.
The P-enusylvanis Central Railroad
company was Chartered TWENTY-FIVE
7eaUs ago. It's capital Is now sfxty-fve (
Millions, ID it controls nearly THREE
THOUSAND NILES Of railroad track. It Z
travis trade TO Philadelphia from an en- {
lire. Southern railroad managers NAV :
isrive an invaluable lesson from these
acts. The Memphis and Charleston road
must be consolidated with lines to Nor j
Ok, and the organization thus effected
hould issue through tickets from Liver /
'Ool and Paris 20 Memphis, Little Rock
nd Fort smith, and over a packet line.
Ike John ID, Adams, to Shreveport. ?
The Planters Convention at Jackson. =
itss., condemned the policy Of farming on >
har6s, urged the production Of more corn =
meat, recommended Che organization ~
comfy agricultural societies, and fay-
red the division of large tracts Of land
ITO small farms, and the sale of the same
pom favorable terms to the coI0red peo-
The convention also declared itself g
be earnestly in favor OF the education q
al classes Of the people, the introduc- o
OF lanOr-ssYlng Implements and ma n
the increase Of immigration and D
be- encouragement of manufactures. "
1t is believed by most persons who eat =
all that the system Of market-bouses ~
lould be abolished, and that grsen-gro- =
rs and meat-bOuses would infinitely L,
sitter subserve public interests and necss- =
ties. Combinations among huCksters =
I'D and others would be impossible. and ~
10 cost Of living less8ned. To conformity y
I'm provisions OF market regulations, an y
Junction has been issued bV one Of The ~
.urts restraining huckstsrs and ali deal y
g from selling meat At retail outside Of -
10 two market-houses. People in Chel- ~
- and In the suburbs are thus subjected u'
great inconvenience. In tact the law -
.nnot be enforced, and the people must II
~ for risks involved In its violation.
The lady who called at the APpEAL ,
yesterday in our absence and sub =
.Quently leN q note remarkable for or u
biographical accuracy and literary taste, v
NOT the person meant In our new rem mi
tlon Of the Merry Wives Of Windsor" -
be person meant lives iu q different m
tfl OF the town; aud the John CAGE
is not the John Casey she is think
g about but another John Cses Of dis
putable habits; a contemplate sort of Jc
fellow from whom any lady would be Pf
al IN ~aannnna thu HanmnanH oh. .---HH ] MF
me to know him. Our excellent lady II
respondent says We are a very pOar "
.riber = q charge that we sOrrOwfuIIy "a
knowledge to be too true; but shall try
do better Is we get along. Let as have
ace.
Two Cinnamon, who spent some weeks j,
this city, and in travelling over the ca
nth, have written very curious letters
out things in Memphis. The produc-
translated, appear in q California ~
per and viii be reproduced. Nh. Ri ~
os thinks it strange that Americans u.
mt hold offices in Memphis, that they 81
mt sell dry goods, that they suffer .
smselves 70 be taxed by those IN NJ
zed, and plundered by an army Of ~
l6ng o~fiee-holders. Particularly is q
lestial struck with the relations Of the y,
res. BE saw q husband and wife walk -
ok and forth one hundred times To- 80
A9A b4 9aNAAAAlAas ACNA AnH BAA D4A 80
5 affection OF newly married people, in ~
bic, stupehed the philosophical letter
tier. an
are said to DO twenty-eight Is !
liquor dealers ia the State. atf
pp0se they, tbeir run shops and regu- a s
customers, with the starved wives and The
ldren of all these, were gathered ia tho
; place, what a hell on earth would ties
mankind by its oaths, aud curses, rec
tears, and hide0Us want, and madness, ves
4 rags, az unuttsrabls W-retchednessl age
en- q city exists in Tennessee, though pr
population are dihussd, and their NUM-
5 exceed hundred and fifty thou \
"a. lI al the novels and palaces Of Din
tnksros Were gathered In spot the Is I
y O1M1nAty would be greater than auC
sEVAle Knoxville, Memphis. Chatta- Cat
enc dozen more Of the largest Rfs.
a IN tne state. Its nights would be Pie
nbsa WIN osAssless ares. Red-handed ID B