Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-16
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Col. Sam Tate is at the Peabody.
Lots Of greens in market yesterday
Read the proceedings Of the Commit
tees OF the Commercial Convention
The weather wss again Msyiike
yesterday.
Mosquitoes and gnats are becoming
q torment.
Large quantities OF 6sh in market
yesterday.
There were only four marriage CO..
tifestes returneAls5t week. All daTkie9
The Supreme Court Ju3ges thus en-
dorse Mr.. h. Clay Kings Digest OF De
%cisIons:
There is to Be a grand procession on
Tuesday morning. See b programme
elsewhere.
We are indebted to Dr., B. Thomas
for s small box Of delicious and very
large strawberries.
All. Burnett, the HUmOrist, will ap-
pear tomorrow evening 1t the New
Memphis.
Delegates to the Convention are be-
ginning to arrive. Numbers were ex-
pected on the morning trains.
LISTERS and mail mstter generally
/ for delegates to the Commercial COnven-
ton, will be delivered at headquarters.
The gentleman whom the "ladies "
/ raghidsd so numerically On Thursday
hiss gone TO the Hot Springs for his
health.
-Iuka Springs Hotel opens June 1st
under the auspices Of Sttffey & Addict,
two gentlemen, who, although their hair
does not curl" yet know how TO keep
8 hotel.
The Bankruptcy Court, w. Y. CT
rode official assignee e, is paying dividends
as high IS % peg cent, in some in
stances, we learn. This is gratifying
news indeed 10 some.
Our friend Billy Mansford, of the
Catholic Bookstore, has the latest Ap.
pletoa's Illustrated, Scientific american
and other Weeklies. Hs viii accept 4
thanks for kind renembrances.
Col. John G. Thompson sud Capt
Alexander J. Porter we're appointed by
The directors Of the Nashville snd North
SesterH railrosd Thursday to represent
the interests OF that road in the Com
meTcisl Convention
We regret to announce that the re-
port ciYculstgS9 around toHu, to the effect
that Gen. Lss would be at the COnven-
ton, is an error. The news was too good
to be- true. How proud we would be to
have the old hero our guest!
Mr.. F. S. Richards, recently ap.
poiated Consul TO Leeds, England, is in
Nashville, where he will Temsin for a
few days. He viii leave New York for
England on the steamship Persia next
month.
Aim Prior, indicted for The murder
Of J4 Hodges in Jackson, Teao., on
the IN inst, was srraigned before the
Circuit Court on Friday last, aud the
case continued until September, st the
request or his counsel.
The great Masonic Fair commences
Tomorrow. The ladies composing the
committees viii meet at ten o'clock, at
the Club Hall. TAis is the first tims that
the Masonic body has appealed to the
public for assistance, and We know they
viii not ask Ia vsin.
The Msthodist Strawberry Festival
commences at the New Assembly Hall
on Tuesday, anA CONTINUES till Friosy
night, Toe festiWl is for the benefit Of
the Central Church edIhc5, and deserves
to be well p~2trOniZsd, as We hope 1t viii
be-.
We are informed by a responsible
party that some prominent pToJsSSedy
Southern men, and sound Democrats sre
getting q registration papers for
- RebsH 10 Use their OwD wOrCs) who
viii promise to vGle Joy Smith t1T Chan
ctUOr, Saying that Csruthers and the
Democratic nominations "stznd nc
ohsuce.n If this be true, and from the
character OF our informant Es have no
doubt that it is, the names Of tdsse traitors
should be given, and they should be held
Up TO the se0rn and contempt Of every
true man. VS. call for names, and gn
investigate o..
"A new railroad ssst has been in
vented. By s simple movement OF the
back of the sest the passenger can change |
his position to a reclining one, and By
another change he secures a rest for his
hesd, while = third change gives him en-
additional essy posture. Two passengers,
occupying two adjoining seats, eaG, "a
hail p minute, make . cushioned sofa
with a eoss pillow, aud sleep as comfor-
tably IS IN q sleeping bsrth.
We received yesterday morning By
the fret mail, San Francisco papers Of
the 6sh inst. Iney EErived the night be-
fore, and we're consequently bg- six days
and a half c-miug to Us. The sane !
mails brought Us Mobile papers OF the {;
IIth, which we're four days on the way. |
So, at this TGte, San FrAuciscO is only
two and a half days journey further of
thSn Mobile.
The body OF Dr.. Samuel Miller was
Yesterday recovered 1t was first seen
by q deckEGaj on the fsrryb0st, near tbs
place where the dire cgtastrc1hy occur
led, and was picked GpGna 6rclekt 10 this
eide. Coroner Ssnels08 being engaged, /
sg.-sva Norfn1 mad q Eurw pyffk I
I. 3. sullivan as foreman, and sat en-
the body. T. verdict was rendered in
accordance with the facts IS detailed by
us last Monday morning. fhe funeral
Lbtice viii be found elsewhere.
The Franklin ResisW Of a late date
SAYS "a negro named Willis was
killed at Q dance IN Saturday night, |
some ten miles northwest Of This pl9ce,ou
South Hsrpeth. L. Gems there had bseD
a wedding on Saturday, which ycpnd
CD IL q dance at night. Liquor Gircg-
lated freely, and the affair eaded in a
rsgular melee, during which q pistol was
discharged. by whom unknown, the bali
penetrating Wills thigh. BE bled TO
death, and was buried OF Mo1day."
Bill Webb n native e0iOFsd R4diesl
awept forD Ed Shaw at the Charleston
depot yesterday, and gave him = tFe-
neBdoQs cursiug, drawing a pistol on
him and thrssteaiBg the County Com
miseioper's lie. It is said tie nstive
negro Radicals Sre as bitter Gu carpet
bsgn nigg5Ts like S5sW, Carter, etc., as
the decent whites sre toward the white
carpet bsggers. Our informant Ia the
above instance WAS q negro Radical, snd
his werCs were /" that some Of these foe
mornings these carpet bag niggers would
have to git up and git" Just what we
say Of the white ones
We understand that Mayne, Whiting
and Darker are now at Litde Rock,
moving Heaven and earth, our inform
ent says, to get the miiitis back 10 Crit
tenden. They. have manufactured The
most unblushing lies about the eitiz ens
OF Marion and other portions Of the