Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-22

General S. d. Weakly's residence
in Florence, Alabama, was burned lasi
Friday.
-Sky-blue is a pretty color for cell.
ings, but not so tasty for country milk
at ten cents a quart. na
Holly Springs on the fifth proximC
gives a banquet in honor Of the lady
members of the Dramatic Association o.
that delightful place.
1t is proposed by Trenton to tap the
Memphis and Paducah roadten or fifteen
miles from Ripley. A meeting of citi-
zens will be held there to-day to take
steps toward securing a charter for such
a road, that Trenton may have direcI
communication with Memphis.
We had another blooming visitor
yesterday, a cotton bloom grown by
Lewis Littlefield. colored, on Captain
J. u. Fosters plantation, three mile.
south Of Horn Lake depot, Mississippi,
by Messrs. Stanton 4 Moore.
AT a meeting of st. Andrews Socie.
ty last night as a large number of the
members wished to attend the Masonic
picnic, it was deemed advisable to post
pone their excursion for a short time,
1t was left in the hands Of a good com.
mittee, however, who viii give ample
notice when it will take place.
One volume Of the Memphis AP.
PEAL, from January 1862 to June 1862,
has disappeared from the APPEAL edi-
torial rooms, If any lawyer or other
person has it in possession, it will be a
great favor to this office if it is returned
Immediately. 1t is the record of i'm
pOrtant military orders, and its return is
~imperatively demanded. No volume
win hereafter leave this office except in
charge of the Sheriff, acting under an
order of a first-class court.
Crop prospects are just beginning to
come in; that of the cotton yield is pub
lished by the Bureau of Agriculture.
The general summary is good, the aver
age being a full one. The increase in
acreage is largest in the Southwestern
States, where immigration has devel-
Oped the resources of the country and
extended the areaof cultivation. Texas
has most largely shared in the benefits
of the increased producing element, and
reports a good condition of the yield.
The whole cotton producing region,
uoNcNCi, - ASpACoSuNCu d. III uIsJ-Iabe
condition.
The Union and American says that
a man at Johnsonville, on the Tennes-
see river, by supplying the Nashville
and Memphis markets with fish, was
enabled to buy a steamboat in the short
space of fourteen months. The banks
of the Tennessee are peculiarly agreea-
BILE TO the finny tribe. A fringe of will
low growing out from the clayey
sides dip down into the river and sup
ply cool retreats in summer for fish.
Along the banks during spring and fall
hundreds of the disciples Of IZaak Wal
ton may be seen praeticing the gentle
art" and a large proportion Of the peO-
pie living on the river have fish as their
daily food.
Max Adeler says tlat d catfish fell
from the clouds, near fernando, a short
time ago. Truly these are revolutionary
times. If catfish are 10 get into the
habit of tumbling out of the sky, we
may as well abandon angling in the
rivers, and stay at home and 60 up on
the roof and tie our fsh-hOoks to toy
balloons and stand on our heads and
fish out into ethereal space. And if cat
fish, why not sheIlfish? Why shall not
the fishermen rake the seductive oyster
and scoop the cOntemplative clam out
of the clouds instead of dredging for
them in the mud? And if things are TO
be turned upside down, we may as well
expect hereafter to dive down into the
river when we want to go cunning, and
to pursue the cartridges in a diving-bell.