Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-10
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.


THE Bismuthive Cream Is on my brow,
I've BeliadOna in my eye,
Then meet me, meet me IN the evening
When the balloon is on the fly.
There will be a grand picnic
shortly at Central Park. We will adj
wise our readers Of the particulars
shortly.
As an index of the feeling since
the election, it viii only be necessary
to state that a large amount of real es-
tate heretofore on the market has been
withdrawn. Confidence has been
thoroughly restored.
Another dull day at the First Dis
trict station yesterday. The only i'm
pOrtant arrest was that of Randall,
the negro who attempted to outrage
/ the young lady last week, and the
particulars Of which will be found
elsewhere.
Mr.. Muckler, the well known mu-
/ stefan, leaves the city for a few days
for much needed rest. His pupils
and friends need not expect him I'M
til after the 10Th, although he will re-
turn from the woods and perform as
usual at the Synagogue and St. Peters
Cathedral.
-Petar's Musical Monthly" for
August is to hand. 1t contains
the usual amount of useful and
interesting musical matters, and a
number of ballads, songs, WaltZes and
maZOuTkas, comprising a melange that
has never been surpassed by any sim
liar publication in this country or Eu-
rope.
We ask the attention of planters
and the business community to the
| card announcing the dissolution of the
firm of Moore, Whitfield Il Co., and
the organization of the new house Of
Lane, Moore d CO., made up of gen.
tlemen long identified with the cotton
faetorage and general commission
business of the city. The new firm
will occupy the late Office of Moore,
Whitfield d Co., at No. l Towards
/ Row.
Bee Milyons and Sam Haughey,
two young dare devils who are said
to have kept a portion of North Mis-
siSsippi in a chronic state of excite
ment for some time past, were nabbed
at COllierville on Saturday last by the
/ Sheriff Of one of the border counties
of Mississippi, and quietly "yanked"
/ across the line and thence to Holly
! Springs, where there are several in
dictments for the boys to face.
H. A. Partee, Esq, Cashier of the
Merchants National Bank, yesterday
morning purchased the Overton Hotel
and outfit at a cost of Sl24, 240. The
sale was by auction, and made by Col.
W. II. Cherry, acting as Special Com
missioner of the Supreme Court. 1t
is stated that the late owners havelo lost
heavily on this property, and that the
proceeds of the sale will not be more
than sufficient to satisfy judgments
and pay costs.
We were informed yesterday that
there is a poor woman in a starving
condition on Main street, opposite the
Mississippi and Tennessee depot, in a
small frame shanty, some distance
back from the street. Her name is
Burke, and she has an infant at the
breast. She told our informant yester-
day that she had been in the Church
Home, but had recently left there.
We hope that some of our benevolent
ladies will go and see the poor creature
and relieve her distresSes.
The Northeastern Chronicle OF st.
Paul, Mimi, of the date of August 9th,
has the following: 1.-The Very Rev.
Father Carroll, Provincial of the Do
minican Order in the United States,
accompanied by the Rev. Father
Kelly, o. s. D., of Memphis, Tenn,
reached st. Paul this week, and are |
the guests of the Rt. Rev. Bishop.
The Rev. gentleman, in company
with the Bishop, visited the many OBJ |
jects of interest surrounding this city
and Minneapolis, and were astOnished !
and pleased to see the evidences of
progress which greeted them on every
hand"
We are in receipt of the " Regis
ter" of St. Mary's Hall, for its thirty
second year, containing a curse of
instruction and catalogue OF the names
Of all the graduates from 1914 to 1869.
This, it will be remembered, is the
school founded by helamented Bishop
DOane, and from which so many Of
the first and best women in the United
States have graduated, and which be-
fore the war was so well patrOnized
by the ~Episcopalians of the South.
Its friends in this section will be glad
to know that it is still in a furnishing
condition.
We were called upon by Capt. Jas.
o. Durf, who denies that he ever
Joined a Loyal League organization,
though he has frequently said so as a
jest. He produces certificates from
Alfred Mathis, President of Lincoln
Council, as well as from j.. B. Wood
ward, a member of the League, to
substantiate his assertion. Nj. Durff
says that he is a Marylander by birth.
helped 70 raise and was a member of
the Maryland Battalion of Confederate
States troops in Paducah, KY, and that
for his sympathy with the South he
was inearcerated atPaducah along with
Hon. Emerson Etheridge by Gen.
Paine. We %cheerfully make the cor
rection.
Yesterday afternoon a pair of
horses attached 10 a carriage contain
ing two ladies, and driven by a negro.
took fright and started at a frightfui
mace through Union street in the di-
rectiOn of the river, and Just before
reaching Second street ran the car
riage against an awning-post, making
a complete wreck of the vehicle. The
horses were not brought to a stop be-
fore reaching Greenlaw Opera House,
and then only by the most strenuous {
eXertions of the driver, who had hero
ieally suffered himself to be dragged