Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-13
ITEMS FOR WOMEN.

Jane Grey, of La Crosse, Wisconsin,
left her husband because he was poor.
I Six months thereafter he fell heir to q
fortune. Jane made her appearance al
her husbands door one stormy evening
about that time, and being refused adj
mittanee passed the night in the cow
house. Not one of the neIghbors would
give her shelter or a meal.
From Rising Sun, Indiana, comes the
history of a husband and wife who have
not spoken to each other for more than
twenty years, although living in the
same house and eating at the same table.
The trouble originated in a dispute
whether the old GOV died from being
strangled by a eorn-cob or a squash.
Cisterne de Courtisas, Vicomtesse de
Saint Mars, died recently in Paris at an
advanced age. She was a native of that
city, and once held a distinguished
place in society. She married young,
suffered a reverse O~ffortune, and, retiring
from fashionable life, devoted herself to
literature under the assumed title and
name of the Comtesse Dash.
Molly Strong, of Newton, Miehigm,
dug q well forty feet deep last summer,
and received one hundred and thirty
dollars from her father therefor. She re-
ceived numerous offers OF marriage from
young farmers just after her job was
completed, but refused them all, de-
claring she would marry no man who
wanted her just because she could work
like a horse.
A couple of Cincinnati girls who had
been to see the Black Cr0o& appear
ed in the streets Of that city the other
day with so little clothing that a Blush
ing constable took them into custody.
The Judge said to the officer: 'Let them
go for the present. Go to all the public
places of amusement in this city where
the women are more exposed than these
two girls, and arrest them"
An ulinoisian advertises for a female
servant. mot" he says, "the ordinary
girl, who comes into families and stays
for her board and clothes, a bowling in
FAINT with a red face and no teeth,
swathed in flannel and very partial to
collie, but a broad-shouldered, deep-chest-
ed, tWo-fisted servant girl-red hair,
freekles, and general ugliness preferred,
on account of the oldest boy in the fam
ily.p
The Springfield Republican says:
''Sabrina, the dusky maiden belonging
to Amherst College, has been engaged
in several grave misdemeanors lately,
having been caught with an apron full
Of apples and q half-eaten one in her
hand. which she had evidently pilfered
from q neighboring orchard. Shortly
after she made her appearance on the
college grounds one morning dressed
only in night clothes. Verify the ways
Of this brunette are decidedly dark"
"A Mrs. Cations, of Loudon county,
West Virginia, is under suspicion of hav-
ing poisoned her daughters, two young
ladies, aged eighteen and twenty-one
respectively. They died suddenly, a few
days ago, and the mother had prevented
a physician, called by neighbors who
knew Of their Illness, from attending the
elder one The rumored motive of the
mothers action in the > Of the elder
daughter was to hide her shame and pre-
vent family disgrace. Her motive for
poisoning the younger daughter is a
mystery.
The Norfolk (Virginia) Journal says
that they have ia MecklenbuTg q most
remarkable dog. he has been a regu-
lar attendant upon all the services at
one of the churches in that county for
the last ten or twelve years. Whenever
the bell rings, whether for morning,
evening or night services, he repairs inn
mediately TO the church and remains
quietly and orderly until the
congregation IS dismissed. he was seen
last Sunday, nearly blind as he is, reel
up the aisle Of the church to his ac-
customed place.