Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-13
C PARAGRAPHS.

The smallpox is in Nashville.
All the ladies' hearts will go pity
patti tonight.
-Remember that charity ought to
cover a multitude of shiBS, and go buy
boots for the poor.
The Patti-MariO troupe arrived in
the city at half-past three O'Clock yes
terday afternoon.
The fashionable people had not an
opportunity TO display their elegant tot.
lets last night. They can be grauheo
this evening, however.
SO far there are only about six thou
sand c~ertifcats of registration issued il
the CITY. There will be a great run on
them to-day and tomorrow.
The matrimonial discontents are be.
coming numerous. Three or four Of
those who weary of the yoke applied fOl
divorces yesterday in the Second Chan
Gerry Court.
Jerry Enright is out on bail of two
thousand dollars, on a charge of shoot.
ing with intent to do ~grievously bodily
harm to a fellow citizen in this burg.
He was so accused last night, and will
have 20 further answer this morning.
"A small negro boy fell violently in
love with a spherical lump of popcorn
Yesterday and sought to satisfy his un-
holy passion for the same by suTrepti'
tiously hooking il from the stand of 3
costermonger at Sturla's corner He
was caught. The punishment he re-
ceived was terrific. The proprietor o
the stand gave a practical lesson to thai
little darkey which will make an hon
est man of him.
Until quite recently W. were con-
tent to call a sudden approach Of cold
weather a 'cold snap, {" ora "cold spell, y
and we were well satisfied that these
words expressed precisely what we
meant; but since the meteorological ser.
vice has come prominently before the
public, journalists no longer descend to
such commonplace as those We have
mentioned; albeit they are hearty anC
blunt Anglo-SaXOn. 1t is now 1.-THE pO-
lar wave.n We extract the following
from a contemporary as an example OF
the effort of giving a new name to old
things: 1.-THE late swell of the polar
wave spread eastward, and its intense
frigidity caused the death of one or two
Door people last night who We're without
HlEllEL III AlE 1AAEENCs 4LAe AANAha IA
| plain English, zone or two poor people
were frozen to death in the Streets" To
be be killed by a "cold snap is very
vulgar in comparison to being swept
away by a polar wave"
There is a curious fraud going the
rounds of the press, in the shape of al
extract from Fosters life of Dickens
which is meant to show the intensity o.
feeling with which Dickens wrote. The
thing is overdOne. At the end of n o.
those letters of Charles, in which he de.
picts his feelings, his WORKOUT hot brain.
his utter exhaustion, there is a huge blot
showing where the pen fell from his
nerveless grasp. If the thing was sc
Iefs, the impression would be fine; il
would be a capital hit; but is it not
altogether overdone, when Charles takes
I'D the quill again and writes" there,
that's where it fell?" This knocks the
sincerity out Of the whole letter, and let.
us see that the novelist was merely
straining after effect. He would not be
likely 10 drop the pen upon the page he
had written, and if he did drop il from
utter exhaustion, he would not resume
il again to notify his friends Of the fact.
The operation is not natural.
What can be more joyous and sweet
than a happy conceived marriage-One
in which an the details are carried out
successfully? We were much cheered
and edited last night in St. Mary's
Cathedral, on Poplar stseet, by witness
Ing such a marriage. The beautiful lit
tie structure was not Overcrowed, but
was cOmfortbly filed by the respective
friends of the parties to this happy
union, Miss Annie NJ. Armour and Mr..
John c. Hook. They were attended by
three couples, whose names we could moi
ascertain very readily. The ceremony
was performed by DR.. Harris, Rector OF
the church, according to the solemn
ritual prescribed in the Book Of Common
PRAYER. When all things were ready
and the blessings Of the officiating min.
lister was descended on the heads of the
two now made one, the party moved
| from the church and repaired to the
gentleman's house on MOsby street
where the invited guests were received
and entertained. We beg to add Oul
congratulations and good wishes Il
those Of the numerous acquaintance o.
both, and hope that the union thus
blessed by the church may prove happy
and long, and that their days may bC
frightened by every domestic JOY ant
social blessing.