Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-20
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whose writers sign themselves Cain, y
q Pluto" The Familiar Devil" etc. .
An Ohio boy sacrificed his life to save
his father from the Lima coal mine dis
aster, the other day.
A simeon recently destroyed a South
Carolina cotton crop as effeclually as a
fire could have done it.
Vienna dispatches say that it is re-
ported that General Deschweinetz, Ger
man Envoy to Austria, is TO espouse the
daughter of the United States Minister.
A Detroit boy and girl, each with the
weight of eleven years upon them, cele-
brated the Fourth by elOping and look
ing all over the State for somebody to
them. They were unsuccessful,
and finally found by stern parents, who
sent them supperless TO bed.
a British dispatch states that Bis
mark has received assurances from
three OF the great Catholic powers con-
senting to a conclave of Cardinals, in or
der 10 have a perfect understanding be-
tween the Cardinals and the govern
meBts interested in the Pope.
We knew Smiggles was going to get
a drink, although he emphatically as
sured US that he was going to get a cob
bier TO mend his shoes. He explained
away the dissimulatiOn afterwards by
saying that he meanta sherTy-cObbler to
his narrowed soul.
Hereafter any person who seeks to get
upon jury in Indiana is to he fined for
contempt of court. The general impress
sion seems to be, however, that if any
body succeeds in getting upon jury he
ought to be sent to the lunatic asylum
for contempt of common sense.
That was a sly old Scotchman who, on
a very young wife, was rallied
by his friends on the inequality of their
ages. "She win be near me,n he re-
piled, ''to close my Gen. ''Weel,n - re-
another of the party, 'I've had
twa wives, and they opened my cen"
Toasts to the President of the United
States and the President of the new Re
public of France were drank at a BAN
quet given on the Fourth at the Grand
Hotel in Paris amid great enthusiasm.
q France and the United States, once
and always friends was the closing
sentiment.
Lawyer-"How do you identify this
Witness-''By its general appearance,
and the fact that have others like it."
Lawyer-"Tbat's no proof, for have
one Just like it in my pocket"
Witness-''I don't doubt that, had
more than one of the same sort stolen"
The intelligent compositor has
broken out at Natick, where, aid
ed by the vigilant proof-reader
he entered into 4 conspiracy against a
dead clergyman, and remarked: "Fraud
after fraud departs ~ The, same youth
described a May-day ceremony as
Drowning of the May-Queen."
DR.. Lowenfield, the biographer of Al
exander Won Humboldt, has succeeded
in purchasing for the University of Stras-
boerg the whole scientific apparatus and
all the instruments which belonged to
the great scholar and philosopher at the
time Of his death. The collection is said
to be one of the most valuable that has
ever existed.
DR.. HOpp thinks there are passages in
Plutarch which cannot be understood in
any other way but as a description of
America. There is an account of an an
cient vessel found half-buried in the
sands of Honduras of Egypto-Phpnician
build, and of cedar of Lebanon. We
fancy that nothing would amaze the an
clients more than to know how much
their modern readers imagine they
knew.
On the tenth of June, 1872, the re-
sources ofthe New York National banks
We're three hundred and forty-eight mill
l..r,,.Ns..1 -. sr-E,f
thousand five hundred dollars. Six
months prior to that date their resources
were three hundred and thirty million
five hundred and thirty-two thousand
seven hundred dollars, showing a gain
in that period Of eighteen million doll
lars, or nearly nineteen per cent.
a colored preacher at Sparta, Geor-
gia, sometime ago was heard to
say in a funeral sermon, of de-
ceased bruddeT: ''He ruminates no
longer among US; he have eXonerated
from the syllOgisms of this worlds dis
and when he gets to de
cold, dry stream of the river JOrdin, the
Kerosines and Periphens viii meet him
dar to row him over on dry land to the
silverstering city,
A man painting the cOrnice of his
house, fell from the ladder, and
it was supposed that he was
badly hurt. Immediately after the
fall, young mar ran to the shop TO in
form the painter of the misfortune that
had overtaken his workman. The mas
ter listened to the thrilling description
Of the fall, and with the ruling passion
still strong in him, asked, anXiously,
did he spill his paint"
A gray-haired old man tried to get a
room on KeaTney street, San Francisco,
the other day. He asked the woman
who answered the bell: "Have you a
room to let?n "Hes.n she replied, ''but
- "BUt what?'' asNou cannot have
It," "Why not?'' asked the old gentle
man. "YOu are more than sixty years
Did, are you nOt" 81 am siXty-fiVe.
What Of thatg'i 'fThe landIady won't
allow any funerals from her house. +"
A few days since, one of our popular
attorneys called upon another member
Of the profession, and asked his opinion
upon certain point Of law. The lawyer
10 whom the question was addressed
drew himself up and said, ~ generally
get paid for telling what 1 know The
4uestioner drew a half fdollar ''fractional7
frOm his pocket, handed it to the other,
and cOOlly remarked "Tell me all you
know, and give me the change.n There
IS cOldness between the parties now.
A preliminary and informal investi-
cation of the alleged cruel treatment of
he inmates of the House of Refuge, at
St. Louis, was made by the Board of
Managers this afternoon. The infor-
nation obtained showed that the eases.
reported by the Grand Jury were true.
The boys have not only been cruelty
but confined in cells on bread
and water, and forced to stand on
post, about six inches square on top, IN
Lhe sun at midday, withol'i hat or
shoes, and subjected 10 other harsh pun.
shments. A formal examination VIII
be made tomorrow, at which sworn
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