Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-10
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Tho memphis ~dsiesatiSnt 10 the Louis
Vilte E~oHyention leave today.
-Remembarihe widow and orphan. o.
TO the benefit on Monday night.
Fish and game ara beginning 10 come
into markeI quite freely. We noticed the
first bear 1neat Yesterday.
Night before last We were visited 10y a
succession of refreshing showers. Yester-
FdayywasRslea and beanfifhf as heart
eSuld wish. ~ AOAC0asGAsDa
We refer with pride to the number Of
a~dver;isemsnts that appear in this days
iss1es They are evidence of the este0m
In which the sold reliable" Appeal Is
held by our mercantile public.
Il -Mortuary report for the week ending
Saturday, October 9, at Il m. RecapituIa-
ton: whites IL, blacks 7, total =.
w. E. Rooms, NJ. D.,
Health Officer.
The adjacent country seems 10 have
eInptied itself into the city. There were
more semi-famiiiar faces on the streets
yesterday than we have seen before in q
long time.
-McCaffrey e. Cornelius. received the
contract for the burial of Paupers- at the
meeting of the Board of County Commits
siOners yesterday. The price therefor be-
ing four dollars for children and eight for
adults. .gHsGWa4 9.8Ef
A large number, of delegates to the
Louisville Convention LEFT yesterday af-
t~ernoon, and more will leave to-day.
Gen. Boyd was kept busy yesterday
making out free railroad passes for the
delegates to the Louisville Convention.
-Laborers are in much demand just
now for cotton picking. Wages offered
are so high that many hands have been
attracted from the river trade; hence the
high prices now ruling among boat-hands,
their scarcity, as also their inclination TO
jump boats just as they leave port.
"A late occupant OF the Adams street
station complains of "only two or three
short blankets to twenty men," and de-
nounces in no measured terms ''stEingy
soup" ladled out to prisoners twice a day, |
He leaves for Nashville to-day to lay the
matter before the Legislature. ic
Lovers of sport should not fall to re-
membe the race advertised to come of
next Thursday afternoon over the old As |
ISOLATION Course. The horses named in
the entries are we'll known as mays that
do their work i'll style, and Mr.. Shaw,
manager Of the track, is Just the man to
make an OccasloR of the kind agreeable TO
every one.
Tho following marriage certificates
hbIb lCAhIltd ~ cue OlAt0t bttAuIH LQAAud, 1
for the week ending October Q, 1859: JAS.
w. CroOney and Miss Harriet A. Branch;
Geo. Granger, Mrs. NJ. r. Riest; W. II. |
Cave, Mrs. Mary f.. Herring; l.. II. Coo, |
Miss Pamela \. Clarke; Adam Bauer,
Miss Laura Frank; Moses Schwartz. Miss |
Hattie Flumfeld; Jos. Oswald, Miss Lena
kerHi Leepold Johl, Miss Lettie We'll; \.
Bore, Miss Hsmaah paHla assef,
-.Pfe board Of officers OF the Chamber
of Commerce, at "A meeting held yester-
day afternoon, decided that merchants
and others who are not members ara here
after to be refused Aecess to the books Of
tho Chamber. AMI they shall be e~xclnded
from the privilege OF obtaining accounts
OF imports and exports Of cotton, unless
they become contributors or members Of
the Chamber. This is a very proper de-
cislon, and We i.rSt i Ti;l 70 stEictiy |
enforced ii "H =
"A genteman. a d.scipie Of Faust. went
On a " tesnIig odd spree" a few weeks
sIRtR. which eqlGliGaled yesterday Fl an
attempt at suicide In hroHu iTE, aud
which would have heeu a complete sue
cess had not a charitably-inclined gentle
man pulled him out OF the water, The
would-be suicide l. o lacked up in q
room, and passes his time between Killing
the snakes ard quoting Byron TO the nion-
Keys which, heinsists, infest hIs chamber. /
" R.S.@Lst whisky bo.azwaFning."
The attention oionr odmmereisl read
ers Ia called to the letter Of "Toritas," Ia
b. fonnd ia n commercial column. u
Is iil4 oA saRnq sense aiid good adViea fdr
u faFmers, Commission merchants act-
Ing IN the interests of their customers
should see that their planting friends are
put IN possession OF It.. The " Of
cotton must do something to protect
themselves against the rapaeity of Bout
well, COrbin, Fisk. and the whole Grant
gold ring We will reproduce this letter
III the NkEALC ARPEAL, which will he
ready on tuesday next, ~ tsf
ran accident occurred on the Ohio
railroad yesterday Afternoon about four
O'Clock which, although il resulted Ia no
damage, might have been a terri
Die htialr. As the outward bound train
was passing the machine shop, it was run
into about a half milaafrOm town,
Us 4 loeomotlve which had been
moved on the Inaip IraEk. The
rawtatehoFs were heut in and broken,
and snAO furthaF damage done to. the
otherwise, but sprovidentially
beyond a little Earring, incident 10 the
stoppage ofihe train, no injury
Inconvenience resulted TO the passen-
gers. "a -
Mr.. W, L. Trask, who for the past
year has filled the Office of Secretary of
the Memphis Chamber of Commerce ac-
ceptably to the MERCHANTS and to u citi-
generally, Yas yesterday reelected
I'LL the Same position by the board Of
for the ensuing commercial year.
Capt. Trask has worked earnestly, and
the result shows eHeetuaily, to keep up u
proper spirit in the community regarding |
the Chamber, and II is now not only
free from debt, but promises TO. be
of more benefit to Memphis than ever
before. The Memphis Chamber of Com
is n power in the land, and we
hope may continue 10 prosper with each
succeeding year.
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