Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-11
NEWS.

Il
Charlotte Cushman recently appear
ed in a new role. She was driving
out, when the buggy turned over Oh a
hillside, and she rolled entirely to the
foot.
a young lady a Fond du Lac was
married without shoes or stockings
the other day, in accordance with an
Old Whim that such an act would
bring good luck.
a little negro girl, of Clayton, Ala
oama, was set on fire by her brother.
aged eleven or twelve years, during
the absence Of their mother, on ls5t
Monday, and was burned to death.
"Sunset Cox" remarked recently
that "he hoped he might die if the
President didnOt say, IN send in my
message TO onc't,' when waited on
by the committee in December to in
form hlm that the senate had con-
vened.
James Nelson SAVERS, husband of
the woman who killed his parmOur in
Stockton, California, some months
since, is now telegraph operator at
Treasure City, Nevada, where he has
dropped the SAVERS, and goes by the
name OF James Nelson.
Since the government owns nine
hundred anq seventy-fOur million |
acres OF land west OF the Mississippi /
river, 1t does seem, says the Louisville |
Ledger, that it might pay q heart
broken widow lady Tor the little bit Of
soil stolen from her Gin the heat of
passion"
In view Of the nominations made
by the existing political parties now
IN New Hampshire and Connecticut,
Republican politicians in Washington
now set these States down as likely to
go ~hopelessly Democratic in the spring
elections, in which event the Demo.
Gratis would gain two United States
senators.
An Irishmsn writes to the L0uis-
vile Ledger to say that he is in favor
OF the new amendment to the eonsti-
tuition proposed by the Cincinnati
convention, but he wants the Pope
and st. Patrick recognized also. We
suppose the friends of Joe Smith and
Mohammed will also Wantto be heard
on this question. {
A tunnel of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, at Richmond, Virginia, was
begun last week. The Enquirer re- :
marks: "The late Professor Rogers. of l
the University OF Virginia, in his re-
searches In this n~eighborhoOd, found
that the hills Of this city were based
upon a coral formation, which was 7
unlike any other substance known to
geolOgists."
The sharp Republican politicians
are alarmed at the widespread dissat-
isfactiOn with Grant, and, with but a 9
few exceptions, assert that Grant can O
not be renominated if the proper can 4
.idate h3 brought forward against n
him. Henry Wilson is credited with r
the observation that the Cincinnati q
convention, by selecting either Trum- b
bull, George Palmer, or Gratz Brown. a
VIII name the next president of the s
United States. q
No large newspaper establishment, q
says the COurier-JOurnal in lugubrOus n
IS If a sufferer, should be with n
put eolOred employees who understand o
he business of building fires and 81
: sweeping up" In every instance s
he employee should be eOIOred. The u
employee, though he rarely b
builds a fire when asked to do so, is n
ready to tell where the kin II
may be found, and that is "
! great deal in his iavOr. al
The special train which convened o.
Tom Scott and the railroad Of tL
icials travelling with him, from New
orleans to Mobile, over the New Or.
cans, Mobile and Texas railroad
made the unprecedented time of one Il,
hundred and fOrty-five miles in three "
lOuTs and thirty-seVen minutes, The
ngineer was presented with a pair of
horses along with a silver Oc
medal, bearing an appropriate in fel
criptiOn, with which to decorate his LEI
ngine. st
An amateur theatrical performance sa
7as given in Selma, Alabama, recent tn
7. which came near havinga tragic eV
Onclusion. The amateurs were burn We
lg blue lights to highten the effect ne
I a ~tableaux, when the dress Of Miss far
lila Goodwin, coming in contact with an
powerful flame, was at once ig- ne
tied, and being composed of very tie
ght material, was almost instanta- Gel
in a blaze from top TO bottom. SW
he flames were soon smOthered in a be
trpet, but not until the u~nfortuuate Oh
Dung lady had been rather severely bri
1Fned. raj
There is much apprehension now Ia;
at the White House with re- 81
renee to the present aspect OF pOliti. 1OI
affairs. Grant would relieve Bah. L
and Porter tomorrow if he ~
ought it would allay the popular ~
dfgnatiOn caused by the develop teLnss
emit Of corruption in the New York Wy
but he says that such 81
nouct on his part must be a con- W.,
of the charges of the compile w
7 made against the presidential fam vi
Z by the Democratic and indepen- ~
MT Republican Press. Uoi
The Evening Wisconsin says that
llwaukie has the finest haTbOr on
Ike Michigan, and the finest site for :.
great city in the West; that it viii n :
ry soon have a system of railroads
to that OF no other in the
)rthwest; that it has a vast territory
tributary to it; that that @
is rapidly developing and in the
.asing in wealth; that it has first last
IS facilities for the manufacture Of mar
kinds of fabrics used on the farm, Rio
the workshop, IN the railroad and tbsi
} water; that it must be one of the Hill,
tlets for the trade and travel Of the wve
Pacific road; that its situa- nan
a is unrivalled for health, and. wve
ally, that 1t is already a city that, cam
for the wonderful growth Of Chi som
o SO close to it, would have been Con,
a marvel of progress and nnol
erprise. HIM,
DR., @. o. Davenport, says the and
lrler-JOurnal, a member of the Com
rginia legislature, rises to explain top
Y he made a motion to change the SiOu
mes OF two counties in that State. war;
use are the counties OF Lincoln and Ben
mt, which MI. Davenport moved who
reatter to call Davis and Lee, the {
eTeupon the Radical papers OF the you1
be raised a howl Of v~irt1oUs indig- him