Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-07
OCA PARAGRAPHS.

Joe Eeligman left the city yester-
| day for the North and East. He will
take in" the races at Buffalo and
Saratoga.
Mike McCoele and the Irish In
FAINT, O'BaldWin, are to have a set-to
at the National Theater, Cincinnati,
tonight.
Those who design going with the
Mammoth Cave excursion party on
the 9th should send in their names
Immediately in order to secure rooms
at the hotel.
The tickets for the Confederate
picnic, on the 2Ist inst, were put on
sale yesterday afternoon, and went
off ike hot cakes" Nearly two
hundred were disposed of within two
hours.
JEFF Burke was before Justice
Herman yesterday on the charge Of
| having assaulted ThOs. Woods. He
gave security for his appearance on
Monday next, and also furnished a
/ peace bond.
There's Il mean, contemplate
| Whelp, who prOwls about the river
| below Real street, and "gOes through
| the pockets Of the clothes of the little
boys for stray picieis, He'll catch
it" n of these days,
On Monday next Professor Thonlp-
son will devote the entire receipts of
the day to the orphans of St. Peters
Asylum. 1t is to be hoped that this
! fact will be borne in mind by those
WHO are contemplating a balloon trip.
Fruit of all kinds is yGry plenti-
full In the city at present, but prices
rule high. Lemons are the only eX-
ception to the general plethora, and
now command 81 % per dozen. Mel
ons are becoming cheaper, and really
fine mes were sold yesterday at from
/ 35 to 70 cents.
The S0dality Band, at the instance
| of the Conservative Executive Com
mittee, last night serepaded the offices
of the APPEAL, Ledgfr and 1p07
| JGRehe, and the newly elected officers.
| The music was well rendered, and es-
| pecially inspiriting from being drawn
| forth by the first general victory of
! the laW-and-Order party in Tennessee
| since the rehabilitation Of the State
Government.
From all sections come glowing
| accounts Of most bOuntiful haryests.
A gentleman from Texas informed
this writer yesterday that the yield of
| wheat in the western portion of that
| State was almost fabulous. "a bale
! to the acre" was spoken of as the
prospective yield of cotton, unless
some calamity shall ensue by which it
will be shortened. No sign of the
worm ten days ago.
-"Swearing the legs off an iron
pot - is not a circumstance to tho way
darkies will "pile u~p,evidencep when
they get a chance at Some one against
whom they may happen to have g
Foley. two "wards of the nation"
Bob johnson and Nelson, swOre
positively that they had seen enc
Wade Smith, also a negro, drive a
COW from the premises of its owner,
when the defense established an Gti6i
bv the evidence of half a dozen re-
spectacle white witnesses. The black
scoundrels were sent to Jail to await a
trial for perjury
-"Novice," a correspondent of the
Louisville C0urieT-J0m1dl, writing
from Glasgow, KY, under date of Sd
inst, thus speaks of a Memphian who
took part in a picnic held last Satur-
davi 1.-THE fnstlye board was spread
beneath the outrageous branches of
a cluster of l%ocusts, and groaned be-
meath a burden of the richest and
rarest delicacies of the season. The
CONNECTIONS were donated by Mr.. Rich
ard Brannon, of Memphis, Tenn,
whose Judgment of such matters is
only surpassed by the devotion he
showed in following the fortunes of
the Lost Cause In a word, the feast
was worthy of a Delmonico."