Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-30

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etersmelt. Then everybody concurred IN
! the opinion that it was catfish. On ex-
animation it was found that the French
man, misconstruing his economical in
/ struetions, had bought q whole calf and
q whole chicken, and mixed them,
thinking he wa making "half-and-
half salad. The idea is a new one,
and so was the salad. Half-and-half
salad viii become popular after this.
1t Is sad to relate how Davy Scruggs,
a colored member % the African Thugs,
became nearly deprived of both Tugs last
| evening in q fight. Davy had a misun-
/ Outstanding about an accomplished col
ored person Of the name of Sus with a
party of the name of Elias Brown. This
/ misunderstanding found suitable eX-
preston, in strong language when Brown
met Scruggs on Washington street last
evening. Davy had a stick which lent
/ force to bis argument and gave courage
| TO his bold heart. With the stick he
wadedin, and no doubt could have clean
ed out Brown but for q strong natural
antipathy on the part of Elias to be
licked by any one. Elias pulled out a
knife with which he unfortunately at
tackled Scruggs, and in the course of ten
OF fifteen minutes managed to place the
latter hors du combat, having done
! which be wiped the blade of his dagger
in his immaculate handkerchief and
slowly retired. All this was beyond
Third street, near Fourth, and only q
few minutes after dark.
All sorts of terrifying prognoshca-
lions were made last week in reference to
famine-prices for coal. The prophets
were ali mistaken. Yesterday the sky
commenced thawing, as well IS the
rivers and creeks, so that all things be-
came damp. The slush on the streets
deepened, But did not thicken, and the
mules and horses went splashing and
fioundering through the mud. While
this was the picture outdoors, within
every economic hOusekeeper was cur
tliling her coal consumption. Fires
we're reduced TO half-size, and in some
cases were eXtinguished altogether, so
that the coal supply might be made to
hold out twice, or ven thrice as long as
was expected. Thus did kindly nature
interp0se in behalf of the poor. While
the mild weather is working in our ia
vor right here, we joyfully learn of sew
eral baTges coming down this way
loaded with q generous supply. In a
few days We shall have more than an
abundance of coal in this city and
prices will meander back other former
stiff enough figures.
The quantity Of stock killed on
railroads, and the amount of injury and
damage resulting from such accidents,
forms an item of no proportions n
tie financial account. Here is a state
meat careful made out Of payments
for stock destroyed on the Missis-
sfDpi and Tennessee railroad-about one
Hundred and fifty miles-during the last
seven years: September /, 1865, to Sep
l, 1866, 81, 1852; September !,
1865, TO September l, 1857, $3,2l2; Sep
1, 1867, to September l, 1868, |
81, l3l. 80; September l, 1858, to Septem-
Der 1859, s3,0ls-75; September !, 1853, TO
], 1870, 50, rs; September !,
to September l, 1871, S4,60S.ST;
September l, 1871, to September l, 1872,
s., 450.S0. Total, 81, S80.14. To this
should be added at least about twice as
much for damages to cars and engines,
ETC., caused by the same. In one in
stance about a month ago, an engine
and four freight cars were ditched-two
Of the cars a total loss, and the engine
badly damaged, which, with loss and
damage to freight, will cost between
five and ten thousand dollars.
The CHEEKY and hopeful man takes
consolation from all things. The bulk
of the sun is shrinking at the rate Of
third of a mile per day. How pleasant
to know that the earth is shrinking too,
and that we approach the sun just as
surely and regularly as we would draw
our chair closer on a cold night to a de-
fire in the parlor CRATE. We will
thus 90 on warming ourselves at the
nose of Old Sol until we both gOto sleep.
But what has that to do with the faetl
that our finger and tOe-nails grow at the
rate of an inch in a thousand days? The
information induces reflection. Methu-
selah lived Tor nine hundred and sixty
nine years. Now, suppose he had
never cut his nails-he would have gone
down to the grave with about sixty feet
Of finger and toe-nails curling about his
venerable form. If Adam had lived I'M
til the present time, he would have had
about thousand yards of nails about
bis person. When we think of these
how deeply ought we to be Inn
pressed with the wonders Of nature, with
he strange and awful mystery of the
human body, and with the fact that if
had sold out to a glae manufac-
.urer, he could have realized enough to
1ave bought some other equally good.
What a splendid fellow he would be
among a community afflicted with any
sort of cacecthGs. He would have been
Useful, if living still, even for the pur-
bose of scratching the backs of all the
little Adams down TO the end of time.
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