Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-12
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Six arrests in the Second district
up to six o'clock.
Another blazing hot day yester-
day. "Syrius was indeed raging"
The hotels are rapidly filling up
with delegates to the Labor Conven-
ton.
-Mansford, at the Catholic Book
store, has all the latest weeklies and
illustrated papers.
Col. j. W. Jefferson left yesterday
for the seaside watering places, to be
gone until October. We envy him
the trip. -rna
Capt. Duff G. Reade, of the Louis
vile OOmier-JournGl, arrived in the
city yesterday and is stopping at the
Overton.
The T" Queen Sisters " are in Nash
Vile, doing a fair business. The pa
pers of that city speak well ofthe fair
trio.
The churches yesterday morning
were not very we'll attended as a gen.
eral thing. In the evening, however,
most of them were full.
"A darby went into a drug store
Yesterday and asked for " a small in
junction pipe" The druggist sent
him to Chancellor Smith.
It's that SOP" this reporter asked
of a young friend who was thrown
from his horse astride of 4 picket
fence. Eyes, it's sore!"
"Dead-beats" are fitting their
way silently out o ftown every Oppor-
tunity that offers. The summer re-
sorts are more than welcome TO the
delectable company.
The intense heat drove large
crowds to the suburbs and country
YESTERDAY. A first-class "sommer-
garten y would do a good business if
located so as to be reached by the
street cars.
At the meeting in the Fifteenth
Civil District, on Saturday night,
Venable presided, and the fol
names were appointed: Geo.
Washington, a. Morehead and Judge
Venable.
George Howard INDUCED i'll his
usual amusement Saturday night
walloping Mrs. Howard. The cOnse-
duence was that he landed in the eau
sew street c~alabOOse, and spent his
Sunday there /" against the bars"
The steamers Geo. w. Cheek,
from Friar's Point, st. Francis from
st. Francis river, Thos. H. Allen from
the Arkansas river, and DeS Arc
from the White river came in yester-
day crowded with delegates to the
Labor Convention.
Mai. Waldran, the popular con
ductor of the Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad, returned yesterday from
a trip North and East. He attended
the great peace jubilee at Boston and
that he don't hear quite as well
as he did before he went there.
The Iuka Gazette says with truth:
The Iuka Springs Hotel is in much
better condition for the reception and
comfort OF visitors than it has ever
been since the surrender, Splendid
tables, elegant servants, most accom-
modating hosts, and most refined and
accomplished hOstesses in the Union.
j. b. Stewart, who killed Francis
at Decatur last Monday, ian account
Of which was given in the APPEAL,)
Was tried on Wednesday before Il
Magistrates Court and honOrably ac-
quilted, it heipg proven that the kill
ing was in self defense.
There were tWenty-QIe arrests
made in the First district up to six
last evening drunk" being
appended to every name on h dOcket,
and qualified as follows: Fight
ing drunk, g.; drunk and disorderly,
simple drunk, 4; blind drunk, 3.
q.
Henry Gaines, forgetful Of Mr..
Watts beautiful hymn about "bears
md lions" etc, let his angry passions
Use Saturday evening, and went for
Ford with a big club. Ford : dust
ID and never stopped running until
ne struck the Second district station
house, where he found officer Brandy,
Who took his assaulter into custody, |
md entered against his name on the
locket, " Assault with intent to kill"
Though the mills of the Gods
rrind slowly they grind exceeding
mall" Garner, who was shot and
clled at Decatur last week, is snp-
,oSed to have been one of the assas=
ins who murdered Fenelon Ragland
t SomerVille some months ago. May
uch a doom overtake every cold
flooded assassin who Stays in so cow
rdly and brutal a manner so brave
nd true a man as Fen. Ragland.
Tomorrow will be an epoch in the
of the Southwest, and from it
will date a new era in our affairs
Domestic, social and political, for its
are destined to revolutiOnize our
Whole labor system, on which (since
are an agricultural people, all else
based. Great interest is taken inthe
IeighbOring States if we may Judge
rom our exchanges, and we have DO
.oubt that the Convention win be
umerOusly attended.
The Rome (Ga.) Commercial, I'm
Deaking of a late visit of Gen. For
est to that place a few days ago, says:
here is no man on the continent our
would be more pleased to en-
ertain than Gen. Forrest. Long may
e live to wear the honors he won in
ne late war, and especially by his
apture of Streight's 400 bully boys
18th ESQ worm ont, half starved,
rebelsi Al the boy babies in
MS section were named Forrest in :
onor of the man who saved Rome
'onA the IXandals on that memorable
eeasion.
The worse than Noudoo orgies
ED nightly during last week in Still
Hail, by the negroes, was a
Onfounded nuisance to every one
wing near the corner of Second and
curt streets. Under pretence ofhold-
~ a sfair," a gang of disorderly
ucks and wenches would make the I,
hole vicinity resonnd with the most
cunning song in their not over-ehoice
sporterie, "busing up,i' as our boot {
lack calls it, about three O'clock In
le morning, until which hour it
-ould have been, impossible to have ,
ept within q block of the place. 1t