Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-05
HERNANDo, MISS.
Sensations RoR-The Great Want of the
Modern W0man-A Determlalag Rule
In Doubtful Cases.
Registration E~lectIOns-New Courthouse
-Crops-Weather.

Editors Appeal-Hernando, copying
after Memphis, like small potato wo-
men after the big-bug variety, IN
Joys q sensation hugely. In lieu
| of a " pink ghost." a "yellowjsck phsn-
TOM" a Horace Greeley lecture on farm
ing, or q scandal thrown st Neptune and
Venus, it contents itself with the eccen-
tric illustrations of b term '~'fast," IS
furnished by recently imported feminine
editions, the freaks of msd-dogs. TENS of
gossip, once in q while in a d~issolving
view, still more occasionally by circus.
spd the very latest is the big m5etingi
Were you out last night? Oh, you ought
to have been there ; such a splendid
preacheri Really theatrical, and oh, so
1OwerV! I know you would have been
carried away He is 8 French Canadian,
and looks Just like George Francis Trsinl
He had on The loveliest little boots, and
wore his hair parted in the middle" Oh.
that music last night was rsvishing. I
sat by the sweetest girls, all in swsnsdown
and ostrich plumes, and thought Lilly
Dale" sounded 30 charming be
fore"
Let me tell you, Mr.. APPEAL, after
studying the woman question for four
vesrs, I have come 10 the conclusion that
70 get along with them, as q general rule,
among the ~efervescing, grsmmsr-mur-
dering specimens Of my acquaintance, it's
only necessary 70 tonic them with excite
ment and frequent sensstionsi Give
them plenty of money, let 'em go to Mem
phis every week n r~estsurate at the
Peabody, and q fellow may metsmorphose
the sourest vixen into the most complai-
SAINT Of dsrlings.
Another result of my close observations,
is that every one of tbem-desr little
tricks that they s~re-regulste their hnsn-
cisl, astheticsI and etiqEetticdi affairs by
4 a. LAaIH ~ FhnTE cats
circle within s circle, you know. rich
Mrs So-and So has her dress made Mar
chioness Of Lorne, her table set Duchess
de Aleneon, her house furnished like
somebody in Memphis; the Memphis
woman like somebody in st. Louis; and
she has 3 New York model Obi what q
good thing il is that there Is milk for
bsbesl What an awful thing for amsn's
head accidentally TO get IN q womsn's
shouldersi If I ever marry, it will be one
Of the dear little su0dT-Gnd -lOdteT SOTtg
They are registering in DssOt0 like the
woods sfre. and the Conservatives are
nearly two hundred ahead. Our people
are all excitement on the political ques-
lions, and intend to beat the Radicals
The black wing of that party are
running independent candidates, and will
have to be bsrbecued again before the
election to get them straight. The Fiji
tenth amendments begin to van to have
a finger in the ''picKins and stealins."
The new courthouse in Hernsndo is
rapidly Fastening to completion, and will
Re very imposing in appearance Those
patriotic citizens who subscribed so liber-
ally to it have resson to congratulate
themselves. With q handsome new court
house and S corps of honorable and intel
ligent Representatives, DesOto may count
itself peculiarly favored.
Our people are getting in their cotton
fast. and Dol the big new bales will be
rolling into Memphis, provided she
up with New Orleans in the sent
and 3 half premiuml
The female college here is in full blast
and well patronizs7. Professor Fonte,
from Memphis. has dissolved his partner
ship with Mr. Lipsey at the free school.
and Is running an independent academy
fo- boys, on Holly Springs street.
We ere having delicious westbar-cOol,
bracing mornings, that make q little FIRE
'Ral good 70 ones inRers; dews that
OF the yellow grass. and q hsz'ness
l. the golden atmosphere that throws over
the r~egal-vested woods AT enchanting
glamour. The crisp air gives q clear echo
to the hunters horn snd the woodman's |
Ak; and At night the moo ridos like a |
globe OF ~hre-psles to q disc of silver,
that down
"Ths gl'tteriuR PIeisdes,
wise or throush the mellow shade,
Shining like sswarm If hre flies
September % 1871. vDC G.