Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-17
Q PARAGRAPHS

Olive Logsn's play Of "Guy" was pro
duced st Rsnkin's Theatre, st. Louis on
Monday night last.
Services will be held in the Catholic
church Wednesdays and Fridays during
Lent, a. hslf-past seven in the evening,
We are promised a good supply Of
coal at Memphis in q few days. In the
mssntime the woodhsulers are reaping q
harvest.
The fire department and police are in
receipt o ftheir monthly pay, n the
odorous Whit Of the soothing Partsga is
more frequent tina usual
"A crszy white man was taken 10 the
lower ststionhouse last night n put into
6 cell in which drunken End thievlng ne
groes occasionally find rest.
Some il-nstured Old bachelor says the
reason women speak less in February than
sny other month is because it is shorter,
and al the same time there Is more time
fur freside scandal,
The Msrdi Grss committee have coY-
cred themselves with glory by their gem
erous dOnstiOn of the surplus proceeds Of
the festivities TO the orphans, without
distinction Of race, nationality, religion
or language.
The cold must DO intense in our
Eastern cities sometimes. The oysters
which come here in the shell are fire.
~oueutly frozsn so hard thst 1t takes 3
6archet to chop them up before they be-
come susceptible to any impression from
the molars.
Il is said that many persons have
contracted smallpox by handling soiled,
ragged fractional curreacy, and bank
cashiers are growing nervOH shout 1t.
To relieve them we would state that the
- ~kn NHnnnw hoe haan uuOnf-
mated shout hfseen times.
A lodge of the Knights Of Pytbiss
was organized in this city last night and
elected the following Jas officers: ]. Nc
Cal, V. P; h. S. Reynolds, NJ. o. A /; J.
McGsrvev, V. c ; Charles A. LeClerc,
Banker; @. 81. POmor0y, X. and g.; I, A,
Nor6y, +, S.; r, W. Britton, NJ. q.
The fine pavement on Desoto street
is wearing ont rapidly. This is cue prin-
cipally to its dirty condition. Other streets
where Nicolson is laid down come in for
a brushing up once in g while, but Desoto
is left severely alone by the chsin-gsng.
1t is In 3 very filthy condition at present.
Mr., H. A. Partee, contractor for the
sissippileveeimprovements, has about
q dozen gangs Of man working along the
line between Horn Lake and the lower
psrt Of CoshOms county, who are rapidly
EFECLlUE JIG lCWCuf HLADAf HA1A AulaAC4f
will protect nssrly two million acres from
overflow.
The weather progncstics are contin-
ued in some Of the Slmsnscs even to this
One Of that reliable and meritorious
class OF books under this heesding, ITEM
psrsture snd westher for February at
Memphis" we find yesterday marked as
'-fair0 and 70 dsy "snoW," Tomorrow
we are promised 'tfsir' weather again.
The criminal court got through q vast
smount OF miscellaneous business yester-
dsy. In the early part of the dag a num-
ber Of l~srcenists and other petit criminals
were sentenced to various short terms of
Imprisonment Later In the day the judge
took up the violstors of the Sabbath law,
and fned them by the dOzsn, The cases
were sll submitted.
-Df, BOYD, whose little idiosyncrscy
was noticed yesterdy, was taken before
Recordes Winters, but as he waived any
examination on the charge of seduction,
he was ordered to be held tor q re acquisition
the governor of Arkansas. He
freely offered 500 to n skillful lawyer
who would procure his release. He even
agreed to surrender himself into the Is
tOdvo of the girls brothers, to be led by
them TO the blissfUl and happy shores of
Arkansas, 20 20 with them unto b boun-
To- hFAEH OF O0LAEzN AAIa III EAEAC kANO hAD1-
self Hp to the custody of the sherifs; but
his oilers were not accepted. He was sit
ting in the s~tRtionhOuse awaiting good
news when our reporter last saw him.
The offer of DR.. Allen TO take care of
the Insane and demented Of the county
until they could be Transferred to Nash
Vile vas accepted by the county court ut
she last term, yet no practical results
to have come of it, Squire Miller
3 lady to jsil the other day because
there WEs no other place TO keep a per-
s0n In her distracted condition. She was
evidently an accomplished woman with
s~!nRulsfly regular features and sweet ex-
PRESTON Of fscs. She was also possessed
a thrilling voics, combined with great
dramatic power. She seemed to have q
sort Of g religious monOmsnia and was
anxious 10 have "sOms good, kind soul on
she could rely-in whom l can
trust" she would eXclsim p~sssionstely
and then buEst into q food of tears. It
a spscies Of of bsrDsrism to send
such q person TO jail.
In our list a. bills ordered to be psid
by the Mardi Grss committee, there was
one of seventy-6vs dollars to Captain
Schley. It ought to have been twenty
FIVE. It is but Justice to the ~proprietors
the WOrsham 10 say that they pre-
no bill TO the committee, but cheer
fully bore all the expenses themselves.
One Of the COMMITTEES suggested that the
twenty-five dollars IN question ought to
be paid TO the ~proprietors whether they
were willing TO receive b money or not.
The appropriation was voted unanimous
~ without the liberal and philosophical
proprietors OF the WOrshsm house being
sWsre OF it even, In connection with
his explanation, It is put Just to remark
Aar a1wa-u1 vnana haru Of tho nnnnnnFHNaa
in the meeting COntrRsted the lberalitY
Of the gentlemen in question with the
conduct of others from whom
things might naturally be expected,
-Merdi Grss evening about nine or ten
q masker got n 8 crowded
street-car and pretended to be much ex-
hsusted. The car was oiled with people.
The clown greeted some one in the car
whom he knew, though himself I'M
The gentlemen asked him how
Il was he came 20 go home so early: why
wait for the ball2 "Well," said the
mssker, in = stage whisper, 81 felt unwel
s1d consulted DR.. Brown, and he told me
had decided symptoms Of the small
poxV" -Four b1mbshslis and sn earth
quake! Whew! The ladies precipitsted
themselves out she door on to the pave
without notifying the driver TO stop,
were scattered sprswling about the
streets for fifty Yards in the wake of the
rolling wsgOn." When all hands had
IF; the car, the clown gave q hysteric
sugh and leEped but also, taking the next
ar going the other way, and played the
trick,
"A shabby and hesrtless trick was per-
the other day on an excellent
ady Of a certain age, who had kept an
economical boarding house in the south
I'm part of the city for q long series Of
7esrs. BY a system Of prudence and fru-
.slity, such as dividing q large egg so as
o make 1t appear like two when fried
nd upon a plate, and splitting 3 stout
match whenever she came across one In
be bOx in order 10 make Ii light the
.Osrder'g candle two nights in succession,
be had accumulated a trihe Of money,
which and an aged cat her
rusty affections were shared. Being at
hat Dlscid tins Of life when the hey-day
( the blood is becoming Wstery and the
lercurial passions are sinking down to-
ards zero, there appeared before her g
Teet vista Of peaceful years yet to come.
Ter little hopes were blasted by sdemon,
,hO appeared in her little psrlor a month
20. He hired q room, and ate his grub
ard v e tesrfully; had 3 broad
reps in his hat and carried his finger
sils out through dilspidated black
loves. The good lady pitisd him. Hed
nperceptibly Wesned her affections from
10 cat, and in sn evil hour she consented
marry him. She threw herself away In
ne spRsmodic gush OF love. He got hold
D Der money and fed Monday night,
lviDg fret hung her cat with q clothes
in the back ward. She is not expect.