Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-04-27
HOLLY SPRINGS. MISS.

F.om the Regular Correspondent of the Appeal.
HOLLY SPRINGS, April 25.-Raini rain
rain nearly whole week of gloomy.
cold, uncomfortable weather. We hope
| none of our young gentlemen Will get
| droopy in consequence. Such weather as
we have had for the past week has pre-
| cluded the possibility of their playing
marbles, or throwing silver dollars at a
| hole in the ground-these being the favor
ite pastimes during the day.
Court has adjourned, and the entertain
ment by the little Bridges twins and the
bazar are among the things that were; and
not single unsuspecting, innocent-look-
| ing, unsophisticated country dog has come
to town, "to hear de noise an see de fight, +"
for them to entice into some store for the
purpose of attaching tin can with nails
in it to his caudal appendsge, and then,
| together with all the other dogs in town,
pursue the frantic creature Il came very
near saying fei}0tD-creature) around the
| square; so it really must be dull for them,
| poor things However, the first bright
| day they will all come out again, looking
so fresh and happy that it will make ones
heart glad to see them; and they will en-
| Joy their little games all the more after
1 DclnR ueDTlVeu Oh In6m SO long,
| The bazar last Friday night, in spite of
| the weather, was a success. The supper
gave out before 10 o'clock, and most of
| the fancy articles were disposed of They
cleared about 5000.
There was congregational meeting at
Christ church this afternoon for the pur
pose of electing vestry. The election
should have been held on Easter Monday,
but the weather prevented. Same vestry
reelected.
We are glad to see some improvement
going on in the way of repairing houses
and sidewalks.
years, died near Byhalia on the 9th of
April.
Miss Henrietta Blumenthal is on visit
/ to friends in Oxford.
Levi Manning will make his future
4 home in Tucson, Ariz.
3 Mrs. Sarah p. Lea has returned from
her visit to Grenada.
Mrs. J. M. Crump and Mrs. J. S. Finley
are in Memphis this week.
We see that our esteemed townsman
Capt. James F. FAINT is spoken of for Con-
gress. The Oxford Eagle favors his nomi-
nation, and the Ripley Adyertiser says it
will support him. We don't think bet
ter selection could be made. He has been
our district attorney for number of years,
and so popular is he and so ably and faith
fully did he discharge his duties, that no.
body could beat him for that Office as long
as he chose to fill it.
w. j. Brannon's kitchen caught fire
Sunday morning from defective fiue, but
| fortunately the flames were extinguished
before any serious damage was done.
was reading the other day Emerson's
description of American country roads.
In speech he made in London he said
/ that you start out on an American road
and all is very lovely. You go out, for in
stance, from the city of New Haven, with
elms overlooking above your head, over
j the smooth macadamized pavement, aud
| you go out in the country between hedges
and stone walls, and little further on
| you come to a common dirt road with
fences on the sides of it, and further on you
reach the old-fashioned causeway, and
then. on further the Indian trail, and he
said it finally ended in a squirrels track
and ran up tree. There is more truth
that poetry in that description, and speak
j iron sad experience. Some time ago a
friend and | had occasion to go some
twelve or fifteen miles, and neither of us
knew the road exactly, but thought We
would have no difficulty in reaching our
destination. We had gone eight or nine
miles, and were driving along a beautiful,
| level road, through lovely strip OF
woods, chatting merrily and enjoying
ourselves to the utmost, when all at
once our beautiful road came to fence,
and all trace OF it was lost NV companion
got out and walked some distance in