Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-22

her years and experience, were truly won
derful, and predicate for her a bright
future IN the musical world. Miss Kate
Hartman, as Maria, in the DAUGHTER of the
Regiment, presented the character almost to
perfection. Her singing, looks and gestures
were IN accord VITA the character she was
delineating. Her voice is of good register.
musical, and under perfect control. Her per-
sonnet is good, and all she said and did was
graceful. Mr.. Won Gundell made splendid
Sulplzlo- he sang and acted in a very
artistic manner, and showed himself possessed
of high order of talent. Mrs. r. NJ. Mansford
has musical voice, and acts with dignity
and grace. Mr.. ]. o. M'ClintoclS az
'ToDio," in the Daughter of the Re0i,ne,,f
and Lorenzo" In Fra Diauolo, acouitted
himself in manner that must have won the
admiration of every person of cultivated taste
In the audience. He was always on time
with his music and In accord with the orebes-
ira. His voice Is pure tenor, and of the finest
quality 1t Is OF good register, and seems
capable OF making any note of the scale. well
and true, from the lowest almost to the high
est. He sang some of his solos with fine
effect. His acting was perfectly free from
pedantry and pretension, and as original as
1t was graceful and natural. It may we'll be
SAID that every member of the club did well.
and we do hope to have the pleasure of hear
ing them In some other opera at no distant
day. OBsERyER.
The Butler Anderson Fund
EDITORS APPEAL-The music loving pub.
lie of Memphis having shown a substantial
appreciation of the Memphis opera club in
their line performances of last week, would it
not be fair in tune'' for the club at some
early day to give a benefit for the Butler An
derson fund? Subscriptions come in very
slow and in small amounts, and if our differ
ent amateur societies do not lend helping
hand the cause will probably fail Let them
not forget the hero who sleeps the never
ending sleep, and the cause for which he
yielded his life YOUNG.
Are we to have Chinese Cheap Laborg
EDITORS APPEAL-What say the farmers
OF Shelby county to an orgaGization for i'm
porting Chinese labor to work our farms ?
The great hegira of the negroes TO Kansas
and western Arkansas will leave more than
half our lands next year untitled. The indus
trlous, law abiding. humble heather Chinee
Is certainly superior to the inIsolent law
breaking, insolent fetish negro as laborer or
citizen. The ''retributions of politics., from
the partition of old Virginia and the enfran-
ehlsement OF the negro to President Hayes's
late veto OF the Chinese bill, stills continue,
and will prove the salvation of the south,
VIZ: the immediate importation of two mil
lion coolies between Tennessee and Florida.
and the Carolinas on the east, and Arkansas
and Texas on the west. Will the farmers
respond promptly, before bushes cover the
fields, or adverse legislation prevents its
Now is the time, under the
BurliDgame treaty. This stipulation will be
changed IN perhaps one year, certainly in
two, and the immigration will be forbidden.
1t Is useless to think of European emigrants,
tor they cannot stand our climate like the
Celestial Asiatics, nor could they be induced
to come here since our late terrible epidemic
WOODSTOCK, TENN, April 10. 1879.