Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-07-19

LITTLE hoCks AK, July lf-may-
or Kramer has gone to Illinois and Wis
consin for a two months cooling off.
Little Rock is not a lukewarm place for
anyone at this season of the year; it is
peculiarly warm for office. holders this
summer, anyway, and many of them who
cannot get away would doubtless be glad
to escape for q brief space.
This week party CT
OUR "BIG" CITIZENS
took run up to Mount Nebo, for which
they claim cool, invigorating and refresh
ing atmosphere, abundant springs of pota-
BILE water. and surroundings OF maenifi-
cence, grandeur and beauty.
Two of the party might have been chos-
en- because Of their ability to tell with the
word-painter's pencil or the scenic artist'a
brush, of the ravishing scenery. only tbs
well known that Messrs. Opie P. Read and
James Fortenbury are gentlemen Ct strik-
ing social qualities.
OUR HAND5oAR GovKRsoR,
s. P. Hughes, was one of the company.
Many OF our citizens prefer seeking
home watering places" to going Moth or
outside of Arkansas, and our States won
derful resources in this line are developing
with astonishing rapidity and success.
'THE COWBOY"
was with us last night and the night
before. As success in Hot Springs he
was pronounced gigantic failure, and l
haven't heard very much about him here.
Perhaps few Indians along would make
his campaign more successful, though
public attention is turned quite generally
to more serious wa. fare of thst kind with
out our borders.
We OF certain quarter OF West End
have most trying times endeavoring to get
any sieep. Mosquitoes are bad enough.
dogs land where is the crop greater than
here p bay at the moon or lament its ab-
sence, musical instruments melifuously
mu'mer until late, but all these
"YoICEs OF TEE NIGHT"
have been borne and snored through. and
we've rejniced each morning in knowing
that we still lived; in spite OF the fact
each felt himself 20 be "a denied. damn.
moist, unpleasant body" earnirg his
breath by the sweat his brow, ard she'd
eng pefepiration 20 SIEVE does water.
But of lac night has b en- rendered
more than hideous and life made bur
den by the seseGading attempts of a
band OF
HALF GROWS BOYS WHO wARBLE,
out OF tune, sach tender love dties as
The Cd Q. ken Buck-cat" and "Swan-nse
XIV Vur.
The mosquitoes ingloriously fuYl their
whapgdoodies and bite without warning,
while all other singers listen in silent
alright. Those who would sleep Qikc
shakespeare 8 &c ldiers) "swear a PRAYER or
two" and WOO in vain. Can you tel why,
IN Christian land, such outrages are per
mittedP
l spoke last week about Little Rocks
darling babies and pretty, sweet little
girls. Don't think we have no little boys
here, for ws have many Of
"THE STUFF THAT MEN ARE MADE or"
IN spits OF generous supply of as bad
little tramps as are anywhere TO be foupd,
and don't blame the young rascals too
much. They have been turned out" you
know, by fathers and mothers who make
home less attractive than the street cor
mere. Recently 1 heard a lady say, "a
mothers life is dogs life, anyway, and
I'll be glad when my children are grown"
Poor little folksl Until parents appreciate
their responsibility as well as their bur-
dens, material will be manufactured to
supply our institutions for wrong doers
with inmates.
DEATH HAq KSTERRD ORR RANKS
again, have just heard that Miss Mollie
Blanks died to-day of typhoid malariai
lever. The young lady was saciety belle
and a general favorite with the young peo-
pie. The death, July 18th, OF
THE HON. J. A. DACUs,
st his home in Watslula Springs, Ark.
has taken from us a man wS3 known in
literary circles-his first work of that ma
ture being done as an editor in your city.
Though only !orty-seven years old at the
time of his death, Prof Dacus had accom-
plished no considerable literary labor, be-
ing best known, perhaps, rs the author of
the famous Life Of the James Boys His
history is, no doubt, TOO well known sbroad
to need arecapitulation at my hands
Attorneys Benz amin, Battle, Williams
and Martin have FLED bill in the Chan
Gerry Court asking au injunction against
the city and its officers restraining the col
lection Of taxes under the city bill. The
case is set for hearing on the 23d instant.
ARNI.