Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-18
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

cided yesterday.
The Hon. NJ. r. Ryder has our thanks
for a copy of the Geology of Tennessee.
We heard il rumored last night that a
grand moonlight picnic is on the tapis.
More anon.
The Nicolsun pavement on Main, be
tween Union and Gayoso, is receiving q
thorough Ovcrhauling.
Pears have made their appearance ON
the fruit stands. or cherries, large, red
and luscious, there is no end.
j. b. Lawrence, Esq. of the Jackson
Tribune, is in the city, stopping n the
Peabody.
The flower girls haye begun to bring
in a few dahlias, We noticed a few superb
ones Yesterday.
-Chas. Seayy assaulted Spencer Shield
Yesterday, and for doing SO was sent to
the Second District lookup, there TO ru-
inmate upon the folly Ofhis ways.
Twenty-Five prisoners were commit
ted to the county, Jail during the past week.
Ofthese, sixteen were discharged after a
short incarceration. There are now nine
ty-eight bOardeTs in the institution.
A brick fell from the building which
is being erected on The corner of Madison
and Front streets, yesterday and struck a
little white boy, severely injuring him.
No one seemed TO know the name of the
little sufferer.
~ number OF the police, taking advan-
tage Of the exceedingly duh times, went
Il fishing yesterday, and returned with a
pretty good string-that is as far as M
bers went, though we cannot say mucHtor
the size of the take -
The notorious Emma Lowery" no
sooner got ont of Jail than she got intOit
| again. She was committed yesterday by
I fGgnira Eriff4b nhh hos NO 1acc fhoSs
three warrants for her, 'Squires Elliot and
Willard have each one, so Emma is likely
to stay in hOcklety agood whilethis time.
We noticed in the show windows and
on the corner Of Main and jefferson
streets, yesterday, numerous well eXecu-
ted photographs of the Peak Family Swiss
BELL Ringers, who are soon to he here, to
commence an engagement at the New
Memphis on Monday night.
In our per%egrinations around the CITY
Yesterday, among all classes of citizens,
we heard but one expression of sentiment
in regard to the proposal to sell the city's
railroad stock. EverX thinking man was
opposed TO it. We want the next meeting
Of the Board of Aldermen to be open, as
the law prescribes, in order that we may
note the Aldermen who vote for it.
A row occurred up in Pinch yesterday
morning between two negroes named Jas.
AbbtttS anu a. y. IOliSilldh, men pUitu
in the latter drawing a derringer and
''takinga pop'at his antagonist. Although
the spirit was willing, I'VE were robbed of
a sensation, for the bali, after striking the
cheek bone, refused to go any further. and |
remained lodged in the flesh, doing very |
little damage.
The distribution of prizes al
the Memphis Ladies' Institute of
Mesdames Southworth n McGehee
tobias r1aa, % OJO nnG.t. atu1o. - L.. -. 4
9 O'Clock. At night there will he an exhi-
bition at the Memphis Club Hall, where
compositions will be read, prizes distri-
buted, ete.:;1 the whole i~nterspersad Nithi
music, vocal and Instrumental
The United States Court was engaged
all day yesterday on the famous Decatur
cotton case which involves the title to ff-
teen hundred bales of cotton, now claimed
by Geo. NJ. Gill and A. Il. Burditt. Yes
terday was the second day of the trial. and
occupied like the first, threading de-
positions; The Court Will probably gel to
work to-day.
-Strelitz was yesterday re-arrested at
the instance of certain friends of Sail
frank and carried before Squire Herman
on the same charges as those on which he
was discharged by Squire Griffith
Squire Herman committed him in the
sum of two thousand dollars 10 answer az
the IeAI term OF tne Ofllnfnal Court,
This, it strikes us, looks something like
persecution, and We're Squire Herman
not so well known as an upright, honest
fearless Judge, we would think that
il was so. At any rate, the principle
9 non bis IN fdem seems to have been for
gotten.
Prom the Lafayette Daily Journal, of
the 18th inst, We learn that Mr.. n. b.
DonGho, Of this city, IS lecturing in that
place upon The South" endeavoring to
present the claims of our section TO the
attention of capitalists and practical men
Of every class. The lectures are free, the
speaker merely wishing to havetan oppor-
tunity of presenting to Northern citizens
some facts in regardto the natural resour-
n wants of the South. He visits the
North under the auspices of the National !
Commercial Convention, which lately met
at Memphis, and we trust will have 4
good hearing from every community.
The history OF Jack Bradford, the +,
Confederate guerilla lately murdered by {
the Loyal League in Henderson county,
Is one of singular romance, and though, I
as we said innoticing his death, he was a
bold, bad man, shows him to have been a {
man ONO ordinary calibre, and possessed
withal of many redeemjng traits. He I
was not over twenty-six years old when :
he was so uatimely taken OFF, having en-
erred upon his career as a guerilla when
only about seventeen wears OF age, He
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