Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-21

AT the young Hebrews picnic, the
ticket No. go, held by a fair young lady
of the city won the costly Chickering
piano.
"A negro on the chain-gang for fifty
days broke away and ran m~agnificently.
He passed two blocks, holly pursued,
dived into an alley, was shot at and dis
appeared.
1t is requested that all persons wish
ing to donate provisions for the Bethel
picnic ON Saturday next, will notify Mr..
VIM. Vosburgh at Orgill, Bros. q Co.,
that they may be called for in time and
occasion no delay or inconvenience To
the donors. Baskets will be properly
labelled and returned to the owners on
Saturday evening.
The durability Of the soles Of boots
and shoes may be greatly increased by
coating them with gum eopal varnish,
which also has the effect of making
them waterproof. -Four or five coats
should be given, allowing each coat OF
varnish to dry before the succeeding one
is applied. Soles thus treated possess
twice the usual durability, and generally
out last the best uppers. The leather
uppeTs of boots or shoes may be rendered
soft and waterproof by rubbing into
them, while warm, before the fire, a
mixture composed of four ounces OF
lard and one u of rosin. =
"A letter with the following super
srription, transmitted from Norfolk,
Virginia, reached Captain Steinkuhl
yesterday:
To want this to 20,
WHO is a boOk-keeper in a boot store
| At Memphis, Tennessee, Is sure 10 be found,
The l~oveliest place upon top of the ground,
You win md him in the office posting books,
Or else at the front telling Jokes:
II not there, at Chris. SIS saloon,
Stirring his grog with a silver spoon.
III when you get there it's difficult to choose,
Hand il to the man with a little pug nose,
- this fails to greet,
Civ 1t to W. s., another dead beat.
Farmers from nearly every portion
of Fayette county represent the crop
prospects as unusually good. Corn and
cotton especially are looking splendid.
The laborers, the Falcon says, have
worked remarkably well, and are better
up with their work than usual. One
old farmer told us that he had not seen
crops look as well, this early in the sea-
son, for forty-five years. The indica-
tons are indeed hopeful. Unless a
drouth or heavy rains should Overtake
our farmers, they will realize by far the
finest crops raised for years. We are
profoundly thankful for this blessing,
for without prosperity of the farming in
terests everything suffers.
-" Poor poll is dead!" Such was the
melancholy exclamation of one lady
guest to another in the Central Hotel,
Yesterday morning. The 'fpoll" re-
ferred to was a favOrite parrot belonging
to Mr.. Harry Cranmer, the well-knOwn
detective. Poor poll, who has gone the
way of all parrots, will never more be
heard TO call out " Come in again, Liz
zie,u for its voice is stilled forever. Poll
was a general favOrite with the guests Of
the hotel, as he belonged to the polite
portion of the parrot tribe, and never
INDUCED in anything but the most
chaste language, and hence the tears
shed yesterday to the birds memory.
The obsequies, which will be on a scale
commensurate with polls merits and
standing, will take place to-day.
The two negroes, Napoleon Turner
and Sam. Gay, who We're arrested by
Detective McCune, on Wednesday, on
suspicion Of stealing a watch on board
the steamer Phil Allin, were brought
before Recorder Winters yesterday, and
remanded for examination till Friday.
An Open-faced gold watch was found on
Gay. 1t is numbered seven thousand
seven hundred and eighty-four, and was
repaired at Clark's jewelry store in
March, 1871, the owner giving his name
as +. ID. Ellis. An owner is wanted for
the time-keeper. Gay and Turner We're
AL u-,,,fr- &C. I,IIaH- E,r an ~
ing conceded weapons, and ordered to
give bonds in five hundred dollars each,
to appear before the Grand Jury in the
Criminal Court.
1--WE have all heard this year the
songs of the lOcusts in the woods, but il
is rare TO hear one sing. i'm a ducks cr1tU.
A young lady near this place heard a
noise resembling the singing of a locust
coming from a duck which was ambling
along very complacently, charmed, no
doubt, by the music within herself, but
as such a noise was very unusual in a
duck, the biped was caught and held,
when the singing was distinctly heard
for several minutes i0ithiR the crdW Of
he duck" Such is the story told by
he Trenton Nel0s. We do not like to
the yarn, for fear that unsteady
Inclined girls and others may be killed
Dy swallowing locusts. 1t would be so
sweet TO incline ones head and listen to
the soft humming of the imprisoned
.Ocusts.
The ladies never took to bloomers,
but they are extremely fashionable just
now with cotton planters. We yesterday
received a cotton bloom gathered on the
on the farm of Kit Home
an industrious and go-ahead colored
nan-near Shelby depot, Shelby county,
Jones Brown also forwards
rs one from the plantation of Chamber
ain d Marshall, of Pleasant Hill, De
Soto county, Mississippi. The stalk
contained two blooms, and the crop
prospects in that vicinity are very en-
.,ouragiHg. w. NJ. Coleman, Esq,
hands US a bloom gathered on the nine
zenith on the farm of A. L. Privit, Esq,
If Big Greek, Shelby county, Tennessee.
We have also received from Messrs.
joodlett & Co. a cotton bloom gathered
IN the plantation Of j. r. Shelton, Esq,
# Bray's station, Memphis and Ohio
1ailrOad.