Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-12

White rabbits, Tor Iuf ana looui are
said to be a profitable cropi in the suburbs
Holly Springs has three jug factories
and yet, a sober population and nary
ghost.
2 The net proceeds Of the ghost-su
awful ESh story, Negroes were the gud-
geOus caught.
The Green county (rennessee) mar
row-gsugs road is only thirty inches wide,
Andrew Johnson approves It..
Bolivar, the Washington of South
American States, having been q druggist,
the name should be popular wherever
patriotism is q drug in the market.
Tomorrow, the APPEAL will contain
a detsiled description OF the magnificent
steamer Illinois, recently built by The
Illinois Central Railroad Company.
Nine murders have been committed in
Pamela county, Mississippi. The last was
that of p negro who was Ound dead az
Long Greek last week with a hole in his
head.
A colored preacher named Daniel
Gray, afUer REVEALING the COlorsds OF
Humboldt last week, walked on with a
wagon and team Of oxen belonging TO one
Of the brethren.
Mr.. Wharton, the efficient assistant
clerk Of the Second Circuit Court, was
presented with q fine tie by the jury last
evenings very delicate and Well-mer-
tied con pliment.
During the cloudy snd damp hours Of
yesterday we we're enabled to look at the
Sun through the Noon, This was accom-
| plished by means of an invention Of the
Memphis Printers Union.
There are III orphans of Confederate
soldiers at the Lauderdale, Miss, Springs
Asylum. Captain Z. !. DuPre, late Of
Colonel Piusen's Mississippi cavalry, has
charge, 40 loco parents, Of the institution.
"A cotempOrsrY states that ice and
arsenic are the only two things used by
man which are untaXed. Our cOtempO-
rsry is greatly at fault. Both are covered
by the Cincinnati whisky tax.
Captain Ben. g. Blssingsme, Of
SearCy, Ark, formerly of Walton county,
Ca, fell down the courthouse stairs at
Sesrcy, and was almost instantly killed.
He was once q member Of the Arkansas
Legislature.
The committee Of the Chamber of
Commerce, appointed TO confer with the
managers of the Allan Line of steamers
and arrange for a permanent system Of
through freights from Memphis to Liver
POOL, leaves tomorrow for Norfolk.
The West Tennessee Wing a that
the REV. W. H. Milburn is the blind
preacher immortsIizsd by Writ" The
editor has forgotten how rapidly years
have fed since be and Wirt's preacher
we're boys together.
Our gardeners should know that New
York City now consumes or sells annu-
ally $4,000 bushels Of peanuts. There's
half q bushel for each inhsbitsnt, and
this story Of the Scientific american is
itself & hard nut to crack.
Multiplied propositions are constantly
made by northwestern farmers to eX-
change property north Of the Ohio for
lands near the city Of Memphis. Isn't it
curious that Illinois and Indiana people
won't believe a word Of Beast Buffers and
MOrtOn's hU-kluL stOries2
The cities which have grown most
rapidly during the past decade are: Chi
cagO. which has increased its population
l75 per cent Jersey City, I79 per cent;
San Francisco, l63 per cent; Cleveland, 1
ll3 per cent; Memphis, 80 per cent; st. |
Louis, so, and Detroit 70 per cent,
-Mehemit Ali was a barber, and, like
D1mitisn, used 20 shsve OF peoples noses,
Virgil was a potter, and loved a Jug Of
wine. Our Barbour was q Canadian
tinker and repaired the machinery OF our
lecLeu 'cawsts" when he tlnEered the
military court that used to "shsYe" the
people of Memphis.
The steamer Usage, in passing down
White rive one day last week, ran
against q pier Of the new railroad bridge
at Devsll's Bluff. and did such injuries
thereto as nEcessitates the pulling down
and rebuilding Of it. This, Of course. will
cause much delay in the final completion
Of the road,
Travellers should not forget that the
5:45 pm. train on the Memphis and
Charleston railroad does not run on Sun
HnrH This aRnaTFHnn HakEE EHHunf On and ]
after Sunday, March 18th. A train will
leave Memphis every Sunday at n pm
running as far as COllisrville. The sChed-
lls Of other trains remains unchanged.
Judge Flippin yesterday morning ss-
signed quarters, at the expense of the
STATE, to the following named parties, for
.he period opposite each name: Charles
Link, horse stealing, ten years in the pen
Tertiary George Walker, petit larceny.
lne year; Lewis Rssde, larceny from per
'0n, ten years; Stephen Walter, murder,
i've years.
The following parties made life en-
yagemeuts last week, for the purpose Of
Increasing their mutual happiness, as
hey tOddls down LIES path together:
George E Rudesil and. Miss Emma f.
Howell, Thomas C.. Lowe and A. @. Boyle,
John Bullock and Mrs. Mary Wiegsnd,
j.. Chase and Miss Matte l.. Ward,
Harry NanhOok and Miss Emily Stewart.
France, left to herself, is in as great
Of desOlatiOn ss when her cities
we're subjected to contributions levied by
5erman armies. Therefore many unCer-
affecting the cotton market which
.DsculsJors don't know how to anticipate -
n provide against. TIE p-ermsnency Of {
government in Paris is questioned, ]
nd Memphis, to some extent, shares I
wills incident to Red, as in former years ]
hose Criginatingin Black Rspubicauism.
The purpose Of the Arkansas Packet !
company TO add two iron steamers to z
heir line hiss been talked about and sp- 2
.rOy6d. Il the subscriptions proposed 7
70 made 10 the capital Of the company z
nese iron steamers may soon De ordered. Q
he first iron vessel was built al Biz y
bingham, England, in 1757-a canal ;
args. The fact that il h0sted sstOnished \
be natives. The FIRST iron ship that went I
D sea was the Aaron Manly, put together >
D London in 1870. The whole s~hipDuild- p
X world nov gives preference TO iron .
ssssls alike for inland and ocean nsviga- Il
on.
Comic newspapers have a hard time 7
Z It everywhere i'm this country. Frank
nd Frei, a German funny newspaper a.
l.. Louis, has gone TO the cold and silent
"alJer a brilliant and ephemeral tX- Ii
t6uce.' People who start COmlC news sI
in the United States do not suhi- III
emily consider the extreme versatility m
journals which make no p~retense to a as
comic vein. There is 8 sort of N.
sObriety about French and English III
5wspapers-great dignity and sometimes AZ
c6st dizziness. Hence there IS a Geld for oo
in London and ChNrtUGri in Paris an
hich doesn't exist here for a like publi- ~
ition. In these facts consists the dan r
5r incident 70 the peculiarly gnOstlv ~
kes Of some Of our contemporaries. ~
heir fun viii be the death Of them, even 70
it is fatal to their readers. W
are indebted to Mr.. White. mem co
n of the Mississippi Legislature from th
OXubee, for many valuable and Stats 10
ssl papers affecting the condition Of his tn
ate. Mr.. White is One Of the stauncb- pe
c advocates Of the bill regulating rail "a
ad freight and other tariffs introduced su
z Mr.. Landrum, Of LOwndes. The bill sd
opposes % compel the Mobile and Ohio pa
ID Mississippi Central roads to do a So
are OF Justice TO the producers OF local
snd no longer force them to pay ar
e cost OF transporting through freights. IL
in fact, is the result OF the present M
stem Of composition between through yt
los. The opening Of StantOn's route &C
lm New Orleans to New York viii craze tt
cCOmb and the masters OF the Mobile SO
"a Ohio road. Stanton has the shorter ia
and better cars aud the best road, az
Alabama, in the United States. no
The railroad bridge across White river nt
the only one in Arkansas hat spans a 81
.ylgabls stream. This fact, and that Il Is ue
Mt by Memphis citizens and viii soon
We Memphis access TO the capital city Of }
-kansas, renders a description proper. az
lsre are SIX piers, -four in the river
sting on a up-rsp foundation inclOsed
piles. On each shore there is a stage
or The Hp-rap and pile foundations SCI
II lest high, and the piers so feet. The at
bridge kink's patiently is 672 feet long. IN,