Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-20

l QUICKLY fepaiIeut anu TIE press oSoAh
was in working order yesterday morn
/ ing. The Chickasaw press is idle by
reason of its boiler being out of repair.
The press on the levee, having been
damaged some time ago, cannot resume
work until the parts of the machinery
are restored by the original makers.
1t is curious to study the system of
compensations that nature carries out.
The moment smallpox began to abate
in the city it took possession Of the cOun-
! try. Three weeks ago people kept away
/ from Memphis, for fear of the conta-
gion; now they have reason to fly hither
| to escape it. There are two deaths re-
corded as having occurred from small
pox at Collierville. The people out there
are rejoicing in the timely establishment
of a pesthouse, which has one case with
in its walls now.
Every night this cold weather lit
tie wandering harper, only eleven years
old, finds his way into the station to dry
and warm his poor little feet. The
great, rough, good-natured police show
more kindness 10 this little waif than
would the sympathetic spectators about
the wrongs of certain women. He re-
pays the kindness by playing some of
his choice arias in such style as TO cause
! tears to flow down the hirsute, weather.
beaten cheeks Of the city's guardians.
The Catholic World for January,
1873, is out with the following attractive
table of contents: A Son of the Cru
saders, At the Shrine, A Christmas Re-
cognition, Fieurange, Sayings, Prince
Won Bismarck and the Interview of the
Three Emperors, A Christmas Memory,
The House that Jack Built, A Retros-
pect, The Cross through Love and Love
through the Cross, EurOpe's Angels,
The Nativity of Christ, The Progress
sionists, A Legend of st. Ottilia, The
Year of Our Lord 1872. MansfOrd has
it for sale.
The mudhole Just below the foot Of
Union street was navigable last night,
and it was thought at two o'clock this
morning that if the good Mayor would
go down there, he might be induced to
90 aboard the fiatboats and fall in the
lake and get drowned. Potatoes, onions
and apples, corn and oats shave advanced
from fifteen to fifty per cent, because of
this unearthly hole in the desperate,
horrible wharf. Everybody wants the
articles for Christmas on those flatbOats,
and they are utterly inaccessible. May
or Johnson is a progressive man, and
we now live under his administration
certainly twenty-five years ago. Its
savage.
Several fiatboats, certainly dozen,
we are informed, have passed by Mem
phis without landing within the do
mains enriched and aggrandized by
Mayor Johnson's splendid executive
wisdom. Each flat is charged for land
ing and wharfage, one dollar per diem,
and vet they can have no access to the
city, such is the wretched condition OF
the wharf. The law compels them to
do all trading through a commission
merchant, and no merchant can get to
them. A hard-headed Mayor might
make a good wharf pavement. We
mean, of course, that he could build
one. The boats should pay no wharfage
when there is no wharf. Flats can sell
here as cheaply as in Cairo or Evans
vile, and yet the stupid Memphis gov
eminent repels the cheapest products OF
industry brought to this unfortunately. |
The jewellers in Arkansas and Mis- |
sissippi will be interested in learning |
that thick wooden wear is about the best |
protection against the bite of rattle /
snake. It is generally supposed that the |
two fangs of the Tattlesnake, which cor
respond to the eye-teeth, are hollow, and
act as tubes to conduct the poison when
a wound is inflicted. This is denied,
and it is asserted that the poison issues
from the poison glands, when pressed,
as from a gumboil. and, instead of run
ming down through the interior of the
tooth, courses down the outside. The
fang is unquestionably hollow through
its entire length, but is closed at the tip.
This important statement as to the
source from which, and channel through
which this deadly poison is elected, is
made on the authority of Mr.. w. r.
Morley, chief surveyor of certain rail-
ways running through Colorado and
New Mexico. From the same authori-
ty it seems that the rattlesnake will bite
more than once. The wooden clothing
will absorb the virus and thus save the
flesh.
The ladies of the country are called
upon to lend their aid to the perfection
of a plan for defraying the eXpen-
ses of the "Lee Monument now in
process of completion by the talented
and accomplished Virginia artist, Mr..
Valentine. In order to give them an
to aid in raising funds for
the purpose, piece Of music, composed
by Prof. A. Lutz, of st. Louis, accom-
panied with a striking likeness of the
great hero, entitled "IN MEMoRIAM-
r. +. LEE" will afford to each pur-
chaser a token in remembrance of the
part she mas taken in this grateful trib-
ute. 1t is obviously an easy and mod
est way for every one who sympathized
with the great and peerless hero, who
sleeps in the chapel of the Washington
and Lee University, to manifest that
sympathy, and to those who admired
only his greatness, to make record Of {
heir magnanimity. The ladies of the
are invited to a consideration of
his "graceful tribute to the memory of .
General r. E. Lee. The music can be I
got from William II. ClOpton, 304 Olive {
Itreet, st. Louis, for fifty cents.
An item of interest is given in AL
ems New History of Kentucky, from
which it appears that six miles east of ,
in the level barrens of :
Kentucky, is a hole in the earth, circu- :
ar in form, sixty or seventy feet in d. 3
.meter, of funnel shape for twenty \
i've or thirty feet, when the diameter is !
Unfinished to ten or twelve feet. Be :
ow this point it has never been explor- Z
d, and sinks to an unknown depth. :
l.
ink, it rings as it strikes the sides, +
dies away without being heard !
0 strike any bottom. 1t is supposed :
hat visitors have thrown more than
ne hundred cart-loads of rock into it. .
md yet there is no discoverable bottom
o that hole. This curious fact has led
0 the supposition that there must be
lst such another abyss into which all q
he vast sums, gathered by enormous 7
axation imposed in this city, are plung-
d. Who can fathOm it? Who can tell !,
he amount that has gone down into J.
ONE chasm dug by folly, and, at for g
1er period, by Unblushing knavery? u y
ear after year the taxpayers are levied =
n, and year after year debts grow great =
r, credit worse and taxation heavier. :
Who will cork up the leaks-the faith u
mless chasm?
The Recorder had the pleasure, yester-
ay, of sending three persons to Jail, /,
here they can repOse in security and y
eace for awhile. Lamont, one of the \
arties, was accused of the unsocial =
rime of "roping." 1t is not expected v
nat refined readers will at once cOnpre- n
end the full rascally meaning of the Il
srm nroping.n The meaning of it is n
OF given in Webster. Lamont was sue 2,
essfully charged with doing an unfair r
hing toward the young man from the \
Duntry who confided in him. This a.
Dung man swore that Lamont rOped Q,
inn into a faro room ON Jefferson street, n
here he lost two hundred dol n
RS. AfteTward, Lamont borrowed 81
yenty dollars, promising that he &
,ould pay him back, and representing Of
rat he belonged in Arkansas, whittier 81
lev would accompany each other after s,
comfortable, though somewhat sor- 81
,wful, snooze at their inn. Lamont n
,ok the first opportunity to disappear, c
nd then the young mans suspicious ID
ere aroused and he told the police II
nnnt IL HENCE the Jail commitment. NJ