Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-31
VARIETIES.

The statistical B0stOniaBs have
| figured out that their thieves do 2
business annually Of Sl32 .000.
The female population Of Edinbure
exceeds the males BY nearly $4,000,
and In Glasgow the excess is Is, 900.
The excess of these two cities is about
equal to that Of the State OF Massa-
chusetts.
Bret Harte cODtemplates settling ia
New Jersey. He Is now at the Viii
low Haven House, PumT8po. He
does not think he will be called on "a
read any more poems for stupid o.
casions.
A New Hampshire girl says she is
not weak in love matters, for she new
er cared so much for man that two
rainy days together Ia a country
house with him would not effectually
cure her.
Since the Ist OF September, 1870,
there has been received In New York
| 4 OBS, 900 bales OF cotton. The quanti-
ty generally remaining on hand varies
from 59,O09 bales in September to
$50, 900 bales in winter.
Warren Garner, a negro preacher
of 3Oldsboro, North Carolina, has been
arrested for an attempt at wholesale
murder, by poisoning wells OF white
some high Federal Office.
John G. SAKE Is creeping along il
birthdays. lie Eas been at Saratoga
for eighteen summers, and thinks he
knows whereof he speaks. He says
women have neither originality, in
ventive genius nor beauty.
Martin Gross, Of Lancaster, Pa, has
q horse who left his stall the other
night and walked up steep stairs to
shed above, where he was found
the next morning eating corn. There
were fifteen or twenty steps Of the
stairs.
A Mr.. Farley was struck by light
ming in his house, near Richmond,
Virginia, during a recent storm at
night. His wife led him out of doors,
and the rain brought him to conscious
ness, when his first words were: "In
torment at lsst"
The Sunday-schOOl teachers of Day
ton, Ohio, male and female, are on
an excursion to New York. The con-
temptation of such thing is as de-
mOralizing as if they had gone to
Louisville, which is bad place. The
Courier journal is there.
Colonel Carter, Speaker of the
Louisiana House of Representatives
and the leader of the Radical party, is
disposed TO tell the truth. He says
that the eolOred peo3le Of the South
supply the brains as well as the body
OF the Radical party.
A school committeeman OF Boston
says extravaganza in dress and other
things has become such a general
Characteristic ia connection with
high school exhibitions that unless
the tendency is checked poor people
will be deferred from sending their
children to these schools.
Hon. Calvin NJ. Duncan, Penn
sylvania State Senator from the
Franklin district, is so i'll OF brain
fever that his life is despaiTed of. He
is one of the most earnest, eloquent,
and intelligent Of the young Demo-
crats Of Pennsylvania, and his loss in
the State councils would be severely
felt.
The following telegraphic CORE
spOndence is a model of brevity and
point: "Ou Regions, June 10, 1871.
To Miss Laura: VIII you 90 to the
strawberry festival with me tonight?
Please answer quick. Yours, Herb"
"June 10, 1871. To Herb: Yes. Har-
ness up your mules; l am fixing my
curls. Laura"
Lady AvOnmore Mrs. YelvertOn)
is reported to beseeluded in a delight
ful summer establishment at Sauceli- /
TO, ten miles from San Francisco, and
is diligently at work on literary mat
ter for English publication. She pro.
poses returning to England shortly,
taking the Sandwich Islands, Japan
and China in the route.
A match between newspaper folders
took place ia Boston on Tuesday
night, between John Carsin, of the
Journal, and James Fitzpatrick, of
the Post. The latter won, folding
1901 papers TO Carsln's 1850, each
making four folds to each paper in |
one hours time.
Let me here say that one of the
greatest nuisances at a hotel is 9 hand
some young man. He is an intOler-
able bore to all the ladies Of good
sense in the house. II l might be
allowed a suggestion, would sdvise
every father who is threatened with a
handsome man in the family, Just TO
take a clothes FOUNDER and batter his
nose to pumice.-NelgpOrt Letter.
Sir Walter Scott, in his days of law
practice, once defended a house |
breaker at Jedburgh. After the trial |
the prisoner sent for him, thanked
him for his eXertiOns, and said he was |
sorry he could not give him a fee, but /
he would give him two bits Of infOr- |
nation: First, that a yelping terrier |
inside a house was a better protection |
than a big dog outside; and secondly,
that no lock so bothered q house |
breaker as an old rusty one.
A lady correspondent of a western
paper says: women generally have
an instinct against organizations COM
posed OF women only, and they are
right; no great good can ever be efiec-
ted by them, because sooner or later
they fall into the hands of that one
among them who has the strongest
Will, the greatest spirit of appropria-
lion, the most persistent selfshness-
the one, in short, who is most like a
man, and the whole concern becomes
her little machine"
A sister-in-laW of Mrs. Wharton.
the alleged Baltimore pOisOner, writes
81 private letter to a gentleman in
in which she says that
The knows Mrs. Wharton poisoned
her (the Writer's) husband and child
i0ur years ago. The letter is replete
with all the bitterness of a woman
who imagines herself to have suffered
such terrible wrong from another, but
It Is also somewhat incOherent.
The claim that the maize of Indian
corn plant is indigenous to the soil of
the New World has lately been con-
tested, and recent Investigations of
,ertain Chinese records are cited to
grove that it was cultivated in China
priOr to the discovery of America.
Chinese authors maintain that il came
from countries west Of
china, and that it was introduced into
mat country long before the first ar
rival Of the Portuguese, in 1917.
A Haverhill Mass man, who late
v lost his pOcket-bOOk with ninety
lOllars in ii, has TO console himself
aith this anonymous note from the
indeT: 81 am poor man and nv
health is poor, and it seems to me that
Hou lost that money to benefit me.
Therefore l shall borrow it, or most Of
{. 1 send yOU back four dollars and
lie change. You are rich and profess
G be Christian. / claim to belong
@ the same family. II the Lord blesses
ae, will repay you all i'll can; if
lOt, you must look to the Lord for it,"
There are five living BOrgias in the
United States, as follows Mrs. Fair,
4 California; Mrs. Sherman, of Con-