Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-20
NEWS.

III
The Boston Posi- thinks the attend.
ance al the Cincinnati Convention viii
j be the largest that has-eoRgFegated at q
national political convention in many
years"
The women are getting along nicely.
Only two out Of the last dozen murder
esses are ON trial, Lydia Sherman, al
New Haven, Conn, and Fanny Hyde
at New York.
Captain William Dale, at one time
connected with an old railroad running
out of Natchez, and for forty years q
resident of Concordia parish, died In
that parish recently.
A correspondent Of the Boston Post
writes from Washington that General
Logan has asserted, in the most posi-
tive and emphatic manner, that he
means 20 go TO Cincinnati and do his
best TO secure the nomination of Mr..
Trumbull for President.
A Kentucky entomologist has kept
two vigorous mosquitoes under an I'M
verted tumbler for six months without
food, and they remain in a healthy con-
ditiOn. This clearly proves that their
annoyance of mankind is entirely UNI
called for, and not at all necessary TO
their sustenanee.
Corpulent old Iady-eI should like a
ticket for the train" Booking clerk,
| who thinks he will make a joke
"Yes'm; will you 90 in the passenger
Grain or in the cattle train2n Lady
" Well, if You are a specimen Of what !
shall experience in the passenger train,
give me a ticket by the cattle train by all
means"
The ladies of Alaska are said to wear a
cody dress of equal proportions of fun
md dirt, arranged to suit the taste Of the
wearers. The married ladies all wear
silver rings in their noses and needles
through their lower lips, while elderly
ladies add to their irresistible charms a
stopper, y whatever that may be, in the
upper lip. Ji
While descendants of the Pilgrims are
migrating TO the Western, Middle and
southern States, where better opportu-
| mites are perhaps offered for accumu
ating fortunes than in sterile New
! england, their places are being taken
1y English, Irish and Canadians. Some
# the oldest farms in New England
nave passed into the possession Of Irish
hen.
In describing the origin of the WdUerA
Magazine, q correspondent says the pro-
orietor hit upon the ingenious scheme Of
publishing any composition, prose or
verse, that might be contributed, OF con-
iitiOn that the author should take fifty
copies of the issue. The paper acquired
a large circulation at the start, and what
was better, the copy" didn't cost any
thing. H
Whenacapet is taken up to be cleaned
the floor beneath it Is generally very
much covered with dust. This dust /
very fine and dry and poisonous TO thu
lungs. Before removing it sprinkle the
floor with very dilute carbOlic acid &c
kill any poisonous germs that may be
present, and so thoroughly disinfect the
floor and render it sweet.
Fred Douglass, in a recent lecture in.
New Orleans, said all that he asked
for the colOred man was fair play and
let him alone. If be is seen on the way
TO school, let him alone; on the way to.
church, on the way to advancement, let
aim alone; if you find him on the way
TO Congress, let him alone; if he a
stand Congress, Congress ought to stand
him.
There is a woman in Springfield who.
is determined not TO be cheated. She pur-
chased a spool of cotton thread at a dry
goods store the other day, and insisted
on having the clerk unwind and mea-
sure it, to make sure il did not fall below
two hundred yards. IF this were TO be
come a general practice, cotton thread
would be up in price or the sale of it
would surely become improbable.
A#Nnn#fa, =, roTT,1 r. NJ De-
GrondA, of Mackinae county, Michigan.
She has twenty-three children. One of
her sons has fifteen children, one of her
daughters has thirteen children, another
Of her daughters has twelve children,
and all the rest of Mrs. Gronda's sons
and daughters have large and increasing
families. Further, the old lady wears
snow shoes, and can walk ten miles a
day without blinking.
The Pittsburg Chronicle says that Lin
coin once called the county in which
Pittsburg is situate 1.-the State of Allie
ghany," and then proceeds TO show from
the census reports how much truth lies
hid in the jest, it appearing that the
wealth of that county is three hundred
and ifty-five millions, one hundred and
eighty-One thousand and seventy dol
AdAol " noic IuaAA tuab VI TIE i've ctdlec
Of Delaware, Florida, Nevada, Oregon
and Nebraska combined, and in excess
Of that of either of the fifteen States of
Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, GeOr-
gia, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Missis-
sippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas,
Vermont and West Virginia.
The followingis believed TO have been,
as nearly as can be ascertained, the total
nrnanntinn Of irnn In ISL.