Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-27
c PARAGRAPHS.

Beautiful weather!
Everybody seems TO have had a merry
Christmas,
Yesterday was a quiet d~ay-consider-
ing the holidays.
The livery stables did a land-onice
business yesterday.
-Elmwood had more visitors yesterday
than on any previous day in years.
There were five arrests in the First
and twenty in the Second district yester-
day.
Mr.. G. c. Porter has been elected to
the Convention, by a majority of 4S9 from
Haywood county.
The police stations were devoid of in
terest yesterday. Drunk and disorderly
being the character.
Hon. Humphrey b. Bate is suggested
for President Of the Constitutional Con-
Yention, soon TO assemble.
in spite of Father Pearnc's order. fire.
works of all sorts were "let or Gd HbitiBl
night before last and last night.
st. Peters Orphans Fair is the grand
rallylng point at present. Everybody
to 60 there tonight.
Read ''Transmigration - on our second
page. 1t is the first chapter of a Dumas
story, now being published in the Mobile
Weekly Register.
-'AH souls' and Christmas dsy ought
to fall together, for there is no day in the
journey Of life when one halts and thinks
of the past SO wildly as on christmas
DAY.
Mr.. E. S. Francis, organist of the
First Baptist Church, was presented by
the pupils of his singing class with an ele-
CANT gOid-headed zane on Christmas day.
The cane was worlhily bestowed.
The Merchants Tax Bill, recently
passed by our Legislature, requires, in adj
dition to the ad valorem tax on the first
five thousand dollars, a license of ten dol
lars, and for every ten thousand dollars
over, twenty dollars.
George Williams became engaged in a
free and easy fight with Maria Oldham
yesterday, in which George got the worst.
Both were locked up in the Second Dis
trict Station-house, and will have a hear
ing this morning.
"A difficulty occurred yesterday even
ing between Z. IL. Young, a mig, and
another mig, named Augustus Barton,
just opposite the Synagogue, on Main
Street. Some high words passed between
them, and Young drew a pistol and fired
at Barton, missing him. however, and
raising quite a lively swell on Main street
The police have certain rules of their
own, which outsiders should not in
fringe upon, without good cause. For in
stance, three whistles means that the
party whosoHnds the whistle is in trouble.
IL sometimes happens that the policeman
on the beat is busily engaged at that
time, or perhaps does not hear the whis-
tie; when he does he should come at once.
M. Caro- & Co., proprietors of the
well known sales stables, 81 Third street.
have on hand one hundred and fifty head
OF mules and one hundred head Of horses
for sale, from which our farming ana city
friends would do well to make selections
before they are disposed of. Caro- q Co.
are reliable stock men, and deal fairly
and seuarely with customers. Call and
see them.
We learn, with pleasure, that DR.. Theo.
is TO be the professor of chemis-
try in our Medical College. No filter or |
better appOinttee could have been selec-
DR.. Hoerner is a graduate Of one of
the best universities in Germany; he is
pupil of the celebrated Liebig' and Is
thorough chemist. and consequently we
hink him eminently qualified for the po-