Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-19
PARAGRAPHS.

LOCAL
No prospects Of any abatement of
the heat.
The female Smith izzio still
fingers in a cell at the Second District
Station.
|V-Nothing of special interest trans
pred IN any of the Justices Courts
yesterday.
The very smallest sort of a rain
shower fell yesterday afternoon-not
enough to lay the dust.
Take advantage of the bright
moonlight tonight and drive out to
Raleigh Springs. A grand ball comes
off there, and lots of fun may be en-
joyed.
Belle Taylor, a drunken weneh,
fell from a window at the corner OF
Gayoso and Shelby streets, at an early
hour yesterday morning, and broke
her arm.
THE Second District, taking a re-
porter's view of the matter, was a
total failure yesterday. Material for
five line item couldn't be found about
the premises.
"A meeting of the Confederate Sol
diers' Relief and Historical Assoeia-
ton viii take place this evening at As
sembly Rooms, 1863 Main street, at
h~alf-past z o'clock.
Justice Norton yesterday dis
missed Thos. Warrenton, arrested at
the instance of Mr.. Bob Grindrod,
who charged Warrenton with threat
ening to set his house on fire.
Our friend Col. John Hallum re-
turned home yesterday from an ex-
tended tour through the Northern
States and Canadas. He looks re-
markedly well, and will no doubt re-
sumo the practice of his profession
with renewed vigor.
-Laborers were hard at work yes
terday arranging James Park for the
Confederate picnic on Saturday. Nj.
Mode, who is experimenting the
work, is doing his whole duty, and
will leave nothing undone to have the
grounds in perfect order.
Our special dispatch from Cairo
informs US that yesterday morning a
party numbering some eighty men
lOOh u LCSLO HULL INC jan anu AuLS
him. The lynehed black had out
ragged a white woman near the town
a few weeks ago, and richly deserved
his fate.
The Baptist Association of the
State of Tennessee (colored) hold their
annual session in this city this year,
and it will convene this morning at
10 O'Clock, at the Beal street Baptist
Church. About eighty delegates ar
rived yesterday. The main object of
the Association is the furtherance of
missionary operations among the
freedmen.
"A meeting of the County Com
missioners was held.yesterday, and a
tax of twenty cents on 500 levied on
all property in the county, for the
purpose of paying off judgments
awarded against the county by the
Municipal Court, and which amount
in the aggregate to S43, 200. This tax
added to that levied at the meeting
held on last Saturday will make the
whole assessment 81 80 on every hun
dred dollars worth of property. The
Board adjourned to convene again on
Monday next.
Certain interested parties having
put in circulation a rumOrto the effect
that Mr.. James Birmingham, to
whom was awarded the bar privilege
at the picnic to be held by the Confed-
crate Historical and Relief Society,
desires to withdraw his bid, we are
authorized to contradict the whole
story, and also to state that Saturday
will find Jimmy" on hand with a
stock of wines and liquors fully ade-
GUate to the wants of the immense
thropg that win be present.
The receipts of merchandise to-
day per river and rail were as follows;
Ale, 211 packages; bagging, 500 pieces;
boots and shoes, 272 cases; bacon, 3
casks and 2776 pieces; corn, All sacks;
meal, 10 barrels; cattle, Is head; cof-
fee, IS sacks; candles, 60boxesI chick
ems, 6 coOps; dry goods, 15l packages;
drugs, 50 packages; eggs, 4 packages;
flour, pa barrels; groceries, y pack
ages; hides, Is bundles; hats, Is cases;
iron ties, 1888 bundles; lard, 80 kegs
and 3 tierces; leather, $50 bundles;
lime, so barrels; oils, 80 barrels; sugar,
20 barrels and 3 hogshead; soap, IS
boxes; tobacco, 124 packages; tea, 6
boxes; wheat, 367 sacks; whisky, )
barrels merchandise, I25 packages.
Property holders are notified, by
an advertisement elsewhere, that the
assessments of real and personal pro-
pcrty for State and county are now
completed, and that they have the
privilege Of Directing to the same and
eldeayoring to obtain corrections dur
ing the next thirty days, by making
proper application to the assessors, af
ter which time no corrections can or
will be allowed, it being necessary to
place the tax books in the Collectors
hands at the earliest practicable date.
All parties desiring to know the val
ne oftheir real and personal property,
as assessed by the assessors of their
respective districts, a obtain such
information on application until the
Goth day Of Septsmber,
Within the past three months a
lady clearinghouse keeper Of this
city has become the victim of the
wiles of not less than half a dozen I'M
mitigated cheats, every mothers son
of whom claimed to be newspaper
men. The first of the lot was an ell
derby tail, gent, g0od-looking, luxuri-
ant, silyer-gray, mqttQR-chop whiskers
dressed in a shabby-genteel suit of
black, and occasionally garnished his
nose with a pair of gold Eyeglasses.
He wrote for weekly papers and mag
azines, he said. MAKE lots of mon
ey, you know, but prefer a quiet
clearinghouse TO the hustle of an ho-
fol He l~avonfad bafvUaan tu,O davS
carrying his baggage in the corner Of
his hat, leaving the landlaGy MINIS
the price of two weeks board. The