Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-02-20
SOUTHERN NEWS.

scottsborO, Alabsms, Is enjoying leap
year parties.
The Columbia, South Carolina, boy.
ale flying kites.
Austin, Texas, is to have a Martha
Washington society.
The Mobile, Alabama, girls are eager
Tor Iesp-yeaf party.
Covington, Tennessee, is going to have
a jsWeler and barber.
Josh Billings ia to visit Chattanooga,
and 80 is Booth, the actor.
| }. r. A!cee, Ga IthrC aux recently COW.
hided prominent lawyer in New Or.
leans.
Colonel A. J. D. Thurston has four
legged chicken. Ho, Ior the Centennial
with the fowl.
H. P. Outlay, OF Hartford, Connect
cut, Was recently killed by a train at
Lynchburg, Virginia.
A lot of prisoners tiisd to break lsil at
| shreveport, Louisiana, last Sunday
week, but failed 20 get out
Chattanooga ANNUALLY consumes one
thousand million gallons Of water, much
OF which Is used in toddies.
Jackson clamOrs for a city-engineer.
She might obtain half-a. dozen in this
| city. All orders promptly filed.
An unknown mau, from Pamela coun-
ty, Mississippi, died in the depot at Lo.
noke, Arkansas, one night last W. ek.
The Knoxville Press and Herald
thinks that the Jackson Sun wants
Congressman WhitthOine for governor.
Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson has ac-
copied an invitation tn address the liz
ersry so3ieties eff the University Of Viz
ginia.
Solicitor VIM. Msgill Fleming, of the
seventh circuit, South Carolina, has been
convicted OF official Observation-Disclosures
ual drunkenness.
Austin (Texas) Gazette: The States
man is opposed to the new constitution.
Self, as usual. Vote down the press that
would lead you to ruin.
A Somerville girl wants to know of the
Falcon "why there is 80 little written
on whisky drinking Because men
are "tOo full" for expression.
The Pulaski Citizen, with an sir of en-
ergetic innocence, asks: SIS the typical
society girl to be blamed for being and
doing precisely what she is taught to be
and DC?
Humboldt Journal: These are indeed
times tsat "try mems souls" Wicked
ness sits in high places and should be
Gethroned. Let every one exert his in
tuence for good.
Dyersburg Progress: Our merchants
ale having lots of fun Just now, getting
returns for their cotton at six and eight
cents per pound, for some of which they
paid ten and eleven cents.
Jackson MISS Clarion: If Morton
ever finishes his speech on the Missis-
sippi election, we would suggest q post
SCRIPT embracing the testimony in the
Davis and CsrdOZa impeachment trials.
Mrs. Lawson, of Bedford county, sub.
stituted arsenic for cream Of tartar in
making pancakes. Six persons who
psTtoOk OF the pancakes were poisoned, |
but tue coroner has not yet held an in
quest.
Holly Springs (Mifs } Reporter: Six.
ty-Two Mile Siding mas been burned |
down, and the editor of the New Or |
leans Times will get fried-horse blankets
and brOiled curIyo9mb5, for a dollar /
there no mora.
LOnOke (Ark.) Democrat: The stu
dents of Lo0Oks cole se propose starting |
the publication OF a college paper in q |
short time. Ii they will promise us not
to cry after the legal printing, We will
help them all we can.
The Humboldt Journal rightly SAYS
Of our Mardi GIas: Arrangements have
been made for the granGest display ever
witnessed in Memphis. All railroads
and boats running into the city give re-
duced rates to all persons wishing to
attend MGrdi Gras.
fernando Press and Times: Peach
and plum trees are again out in bloom.
The clerk Of the weather has his doubts
about the weather for the next month,
and thinks there will be some "heavy
freezes" which will make vegetation l.
take back position.
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph says:
Though the Independent has received
many Communications of late, the high
est compliment yet paid il is the abuse
lesped upon it by the disreputabIe Aus
tin State Gazette. Its praise would
make US doubtful Of cur standing.
Jackson Sun: The Indiana editors,
Who are an organized band of dead
beats, have been travelling and living at
)ther peoples expense ever since the
war. They beat Jackson in one Of their
POUNDS, as they have heat every other
place where free rides, free hash aud free
thinks could be had.
jackson Sun: We have in our possess
zion copy OF the National Lateliiqencer,
)sar,ng the legend Washington, d. C., II
July the 9Th, 1925" This i
ancient relic of the past days OF the re- =
public contains among other interesting ,
natter, an eloquent obituary of Thomas ,
Jefferson, the author Of the declaration I
# Independence.
Paris LnteUigeacer: A severe hail t
torn visited a streak of this county,
vest OF Paris, last Sunday evening. SO {
ar as we have learned it was half mile I
q width, and extended about five miles !
q length. We are told by eye-wit-
Iesses that many of the stones that fell t
we're as large as small hen-eggs, and I
anne in great abundance, and was &C.
by heavy fall of rain. g
Little Rock ARK Gazette: The many :
rlends of General +. ]. Churchill and I
smily were sorely panied yesterday at
ne announcement of tie death OF his .
ldest dSughter. Although Miss Abbie .
ad been quite Ill for several weeks, her .
,iends fOnOly hoped she might be spared Z Z
ircle in which she was favOrite, and =
} to!sce the declining years Of her low !,
% parents.
During the attempt to arrest William n
outhard at Elliston, Kentucky, a few n
avs since for obtaining goods under +,
slse pretenses, Sheriff Springmeir, of Il
incinnati, was aided by Pesrce Kent, q.
hitch SO eXasperated the citizens Of Ell q,
afn Inc Lott 1, -
pom by mob and rearly killed. Sheriff q
pringmeir has gone to Elliston to ar o.
st the assailants, and it is anticipated -
lat he will meet with resistance, as the n
lob Is reported defiant and threatening. "
How He Weighed His Wife. Re
swistown (Me) Journal -
She Is woman weighing, 1t is sup a. ~
)sed. about two hundred and fifty ~
)un0s, but her husband could not in y.
Ice her to be weighed. So the other ~
" he was driving out with his wife and ~
owe up to Mr.. DOrmsn's store in Au- n,
I'm. The wife did not notice that the
am stood on Mr.. Dorman's bay-scales. "a
nile he was talking with a gentleman tSS
the door his whole team was being ~ -
sighed. He then drove over to Lisbon ~
rect and left his wife to do some shop ~
Dg. Then he drove back to Mr.. Dor s.
ans hsy-scales, and the team was
sighed, minus his wife. It was but q Fl
nple SUM in satisfaction to discover
e weight OF the woman. On getting ce
me the joke leaked out, but his neigh 49,
rs declare that Caleb will never see Jus
other day Of judgment in which he
Il be more sorry for his sins than he On
the hour when his wife learned that tai
; weighed two hundred and forty odd do