Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-21
OLDEP.
How He SnOrts and e I'm Hem-
phis-What the People
Think Of Him.
Effects I'm fhe City Ten Days from
NOVA Horrible State OF Things
Mules and Goats Falling
Victims 10 the Dread
Sneeze.

The horses + leaving, by the score"
That is the common cry on the streets.
| All sorts of wild epizootie rumOrs and
alarms are prevalent.
At the hotels Yesterday each guest
that appeared was asked whether he
was affected with the horse epidemic in
his neighborhood. Galloway, at the
Peabody, was told in answer to such an
interogatory, mo sir, l have it not, but
my mules sneeZe powerfully G.. felt
muIish. Barney Hughes reports two
iron horses down with epiZOOte,
and the mad-dog that was chased by a
great mob about the Memphis and
Charleston railroad depot vas not mad.
He frothed frightfully at the mouth, but
it was Old Epi, and not the common
imam with the poker that gets after
dogs and whisky guzzlers. Whenever
a dog gets whisky on the brain, and has
regular hydrophobia, he may always be
known BY the tin cup he carries at
tached to his tail. Even then it is the
boys that are mad. The dog is still de-
Gently sober.
THE BIG SCARE.
The people are getting scared now.
They didn't believe us when we first
said Old Epi was cumming around in
these parts, and some persons were not
well pleased when the fact was public
Iy announced. People were ex-
pelled from the city, business
was corked up, and horseflesh
was looked upon suspiciously. But
people have generally quieted down,
and take it for granted that there will
be no horses in the city 1T for use in the
next ten days. Oxen are already in de-
mand. The street car company will
want all it can get by the middle of next
week. Draymen will be harnessed to
their own vehicles, and hauling a single
bale of cotton to the railway stations.
There'H be no mules capable of this little
lob. Men that have cotton orders to fill
will 90 at it this morning and buy
enough to last their mills for three or
four weeks. Meanwhile some enteTpris-
ing chap will persuadealight locomotive
on broad driving-wheels to make trips
on planks laid down the streets from
Front row to the Memphis and Charles
ton depot, and this road thus made ac-
cessible will get all the Memphis cotton
business. We whisper this as q lively
good suggestion to Colonel Jaques and
Major Ross. Let them put broad tires
the driving-wheels of their lightest
locomotive and run a train of drays.
The iron horses viii be the last of all
quadrupeds Il suffer from Old Epi.
Several correspondents, about a dozen,
have written letters to US on the dread
malady. Doctors of law, of physic, and
of divinity, have attempted TO rush into
print on the subject of the horse. There
is painful apprehension. Those who
have goods at the Exposition wish the
date of closing "hurried up" so that
they may have a chance to take their
things away before the Epihippic shall
have set all the horses noses watering.
Here is Thomas" who has troubles Of
his own to complain of:
THE ACTIVITY OF THE CAMELs.
DEAR APPEAL wasn't down town
in three weeks until yesterday. l was
astonished myself and Bettie) to hear
about the h~orse-cough. My wife Bette
is much troubled about it. She was in
the habit of riding down town every
morning for a pint of rum TO battle my
equity legs in, and now she will have TO
walk. She swears she won't do it. But
| have the dead-wOOd on her there. Our
mans horse gave out this evening,
and she cannot get any more of that
fluid TO wash her neck with and make
milk punches unless she walks for ii.
If l have to go without my rum foot
bath she will do without her
punches. But the greatest is not
told yet. We have a great fear
of fire in our locality; my wife hollers
fire every night. II the engine-horses
get this Internal running at the nose,
there viii be no more running to fires.
We might get burned up before the
police you'd throw a bucket of water
our blazing homes. l sympathize
with the horse profoundly. l don't like
this complaint. l wish the horses were
like the camels. We attended the cir
cus-that's what we came down town
for, and while there we were much
pleased with the activity displayed by
the camels. There is no fear of the cpl
zooty there, l think. Why couldn't we
get camels as a substitute for the horse?
THOMAS.
GETTING UP A CORNER IN HORSES.