Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

AristocratIc young gentlenef.' now
have their cigars manufactured to order,
with their monograms stamped upon
them in gold. Unless this thing can be
stopped, the supply ofthe precious metal
is likely to run short.
It IL asserted that three out of every
! five matches made at Saratoga end IN
an appeal to the divorce courts. These
must be the kind known as lucifer
matches. 1t requires but little friction
to cause an explosion.
Mr.. Eugene Schuyler, secretary to the
United States legation at ST. Petersburg,
and who obtained permission to accom-
pany the Khivan expedition, has been
obliged to return to his post in conse-
quence of the sudden death of Minister
Orr.
Mr.. Hinton Rowan Helper, author of
| The Impending Crisis, who is now IN
| New York some lime this fall, when, it
is rumored, he viii publish work cal
culated to make quite a sensation in the
political world. -
It is said that there is a 10y in Detroit
who ''feigns death so perfectly that ex-
perts only can discover signs of life"
His friends might find out the difference
between his eounterfeited death and the
reality by giving him an ounce Of strych-
nine, and it is strange that they don't
do it.
An affectionate wife in Des Moines
gave her husband a dose Of morphine to
cure him of the habit of chewing tobac-
co. She didn't find out what fool she
had made Of herself until she discovered
that the expenses of his funeral, eeo-
nomical as it was, would have kept him
in the best of tine-cut for at least two
years.
The British husband Ito speak within
bounds) is sometimes brute. At BilstOn,
England, the other day. woman told
the stipendiary magistrate that she had
been married forty years, and had been
beaten by her husband every day since
fourteen thousand distinct and Separate
beatings. She didn't say whether she
had enjoyed her married life or not;
but, at any rate, her daily discipline
doesn't seem to have shortened it.
AT the next session of the Canadian
parliament an effort viii be made to
have law passed to prohibit the carry
ing of pistols by civilians, unless under
circumstances that shall be deemed
sufficient to warrant local magistrate
in granting permit. But what viii be
the use of such law unless it shall be
rigidly enforced. We have law in this
and other States forbidding the carrying
of concealed deadly weapons, and yet
every man who wishes to carry pistol
does so with impUnity.
In Nashville, on Monday, a diaboli-
cal outrage was perpetrated on the sus-
pension bridge at half past ten O'Clock.
A negress named Elizabeth Cook,
OF good reputation, had been over
to Edgefeld to view the body of her
aunt, Charlotte Cook, who died after a
two days illness. On her return home
at the time mentioned, she was followed
by a negro and mulatto, who cursed her, |
kicked her, and then suspended her
over the ratings by her heels, soaring
her almost out of her wits. After the |
wretehes had turned her loose she went |
to her home in south Nashville.
A letter to the Goshen ind Demo
crGt dated fifth instant, gives the fol- |
lowing particulars of most distress
ing horror: "Last night Wednesday,, |
about nine O'Clock, the house of Jos. |
Dalrymple, of Harrison township, caught |
fire and was burned to the ground. 1t |
is supposed that the fire was caused by |
Mr.. Dalrymple's little son, Eddie. |
He was sent to bed up stairs, and it is
that he set straw tick, which /
was not in use, on fire with the candle.
Mr.. Dalrymple had retired; and gone to
sleep, when some of the ladies of the
iamily, who were up yet reading, dis
covered smoke coming down from the
lpper part of the building. They awoke
Mr.. Dalrymple and Immediately ran up
stairs to rescue the boy. Mr.. Dalrymple /
an up after them, and dragged the
straw tick, which is supposed to have
Ieen first set on fire, down stairs, thus,
n his bewildment, trying to prevent
he fire from making more rapid head
way that any attempt to extinguish it
must prove Hnavailing. By this time
Mr.. DIS son-in-law, who lives close by,
vas aroused, and an unavaiIing attempt
vas made to rescue the old lady, Mrs.
Miss Clara Dalrymple, and
ne little boy Eddie, who were up
tairs yet. The fire was by this time
asst spreading throughout the house, and
here was no chance of rescue from the
inside, 50 they tried to save them by
means of a ladder from the outside
through a window, but all of no avail;
be three perished in the flames. After
he fire had made considerable headway,
numbers Of the neighbors gathered in,
,ut could do nothing but bestow un-
Ivailing pity on the three who perished,
md on those of the family who were
eft to mourn their said fate. This
morning the ruins present a
sd scene. The neighbors do all they
an, but can do nothing more than
,ather the charred remains of the three
'Odies which were burned. Nothing
vas saved of the household furniture,
.nd the survivors of the family barely
scaped, with nothing but their night
lOthes on.n