Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-15
VALENTINES.
Tender missIyes Sent 10 Various GEN.
LISmeu Yesterday.

| Yesterday was St. Valentines day. 1t is
| hardly necessary to say that Cupid, the little
exponent OF our hopes and fears," was as
| busy as bee, and that he carried thousands
of tender missives to maidens fair and hand
| some boys. The only person heard TO growl
was the postman, who had entirely outgrown
| the romance of the thing and looked upon
| each dainty love-token as an additional bur-
| den. Special arrangements were made by
| an APPEAL reporter to procure copies OF the
various missives sent TO certain gentlemen in
| this city.
PRESIDENT MADDEN
| received a suspicious looking letter about y
O'Clock yesterday, which occasioned him much
unalloyed qualification. When with trem-
bling hands he opened it, he read the follow
ing verse:
o. President
Why have you sent
Us to our Island home?
The gang we play
From day to day
As DER the town we roam.
You think you've set
Upon me, yet
I'll bet YOU I'll abscond.
III skip the Isle
In short VIII le
And be a vagabond.
Yours. TRAMP.
JUDGE JIMMY HUNTER
arrived at the Criminal Court yesterday and
found q beautiful valentine awaiting him.
Carefully concealing it about his person, he
hied him away to one of the deserted rooms
of the courthouse and read it. As he pc
rused a beautiful blush mantled his cheek,
and all the balance of the day he was OBJ
served to sigh like Romeo. The valentine
read as follows:
little loveaick maiden,
For your smiles do fondly sigh
Cast on me your beauteous eye,
Kiss me in the by snd by,
Boo-hoo.
Thoughts of thee around me Irvine
For thy presence am sighin',
Do not send me off a cryin',
want to be your valentine,
Boo-hoo
@. LESLIE PULLEN
WAS caught in the act by the APPEAL scribe.
He was punched all up in one corner of his
office perusiDg with wild, delirious delight
the following epistle:
You giddy thing,
Why will you wiring
Ny soul in style so doughty?
With Barlow knife
You've took the life
OF that divinest goatee.
Alas for
No more see
The goatee once SO winning
For I'll bedad
Ii can stand your Ginning.
JOHN BRADLEY,
the stalwart Chickasaw Guardsman who
lends an air of martial dignity to the chan
Gerry clerks office, was radiant when the
APPEAL scribe found him yesterday. So
much had his valentine fioored him that he
was sitting dreamily over his work, and
when he came to write one of the bonds
mems names in an attachment suit. he was 30
filled with dreamy ecstatic languor that he
wrote Cupid" instead. BY means of a man.
damus the reporter succeeded in getting hold
OF the valentine, of which he files the follow
ing attested copy:
Office of r. J. Black, clerk and master in
chancery, February ii, 1882 This is to GER
tify that the following is true copy of the
valentine received by John Bradley this 4th
day of February, 1882:
You're the dandy mnsher OF the courthouse gang,
And are known as a famous Chickassw.
You're daisy, darling, fluffy big thing,
And you shall be my dearest law-de-daw.
X. J. BLACK, Clerk and Master,
GEORGE MALLORY, Attest:
WILLIAM R. MOORE.
The following valentine was forwarded
yesterday to our congressman. He ought to
feel proud of it:
Ny name is Billy Moore
Billy Moore o;
Z he girls all me adore,
Me adore o.
When get on the floor,
On the floor o;
OF Congress Pm bore,
I'm a bore o.
CAPTAIN JACK WALSH
got valentine yesterday, which shows that
he is not forgotten. A smile illumined his
handsome face as he read the following
beautiful lines: