Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-08
COLLIERVILLE, TENN.
The Matrimonial ASSES Who Ran the
Swindles Gone Up-POlitics aad
Personals.

Special Correspondence of the Appeal
CoLLIERvILLE, October IA wailing and
gnashing of teeth can be heard DER our beau
tiful village. Fortunes made on the ebay
PLAN refuse 10 materialize and to be no
longer made. The festive matrimonial ass.
agents, with their syren voice, can no longer
be heard over our land, but like the dusky
Turk, has silently folded his grip-sack and
stolen away to fields of new and greener
pastures. Surely it ia a black Friday for
the marriage and natal association specula-
tors. Our market to-day is weakening; quota
tions are five to ten cents per 1000, with free
offerings, but no buyers. "They say" the
Louisiana State Lottery is safer invest
ment.
Granny Hawkins and his aids, Capt. Beas-
ley and Lieut.. Russell, are billed for Collier
vile on the 18th instant. We are anxious 10
see the triplets-curiosity merely.
Why is it ColiiervilIe is not included in
the list OF appointments for speaking by the
true Democracy? Send Us CAN'T, Hill, Tur-
ner, Patterson or some other Bate standard
bearer. Hawkins and mis- electors are grow
ing monotonous.
The Mail, of September Both, gave to It's
readers an engraving or wood cat OF the
Hon. VIM. K. Moore, our present miserable
misrepre sentative in Congress. The facial
expression bears a dispeptic look, caused, no
doubt, by the voluminous overdoses of 'pre-
ambles, "whereases," resolves" ETC., sugar
coated with tsffy, aud lately administered
through the columns of the Mail. You
tickle me and Phi tickle you. Eli?
The ArGianche has worn the flour mile law
to FRAGILE; isn't il now in order to begin on
the act ito protect fish" etc; the act "to pro-
vide Tor registration OF marriages, births, y
ETC.; the act "to reopen the navigation OF
the Hstchie riyer;;" the act, under the cloak
OF which, marriage, birth and natal associa-
tionr, and the 'day- plan" may become legal
vultures, to prev upon the gullible? You
see, the 10th OF June Convention did an
unwise thing to ignore" these statutes. This
is glorious opening for the great and good
"a misnomeI-to get in good work against
the short-sighted readjusters.
The Fusion ticket put out On the 4th in
slant will win in the Tenth District
Miss Lou Stout, a charming young lady
from Germantown, has been visiting lady
friends in Collierville for several weeks.
Misses Eliza Moore and A nnie Lacy, a
couple OF CoIlierville's fsvorites, attended
the grand opening display of fneries il
Memphis on the 5th.
The Collieryille Guards will. give Thes
plan exhibition and drill some time in the
near future. They will receive their uni.
| forms this week
One OF our townsmen went to Memphis
| lately 10 collect a little matrimonial claiH
from one OF the Memphis solid companies
On calling at the Office he was informed BY
a card on the door that the boss was out
but would return in half an hour. He 9TH,
collector) called again at the expiration o
the half hour. The little card still hun:
serenely there, to notify the gulled of th,
boss retsrn in half an hour. l guess GU
felloW-citizen is still waiting the prodigal'
return. "Tbey say" there Is a prospectiv
rise in sole leather. ECHO.