Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-26
T. d. MALLORY,
II. G. KING,
J. A. ANDERSON,
W. NJ. RANDOLPH,
Il IL ELEED
c PARAGRAPHS.

-Jlear ana peasant Yesterday
Squire Griffith is convalescing, ard
will he out in a week or ten days.
The work of registration goes on but
slowly. We cannot urge on our people
the importance of registering promptly
and Immediately.
We are glad to see hat the authOri-
ties are turning their attention to the
NicolsOn pavement. We notice some
repairs going on in Madison street.
The report around town yesterday
was that Judge Hunter was dead. on
inquiry we learned that he was very III,
and not expected to live through the
night.
Quite a connection was caused on the
corner of Main and Adams streets about
noon yesterday, by the accidental dis
charge of a pistol, which fell out of the
hands ola gentleman who was examining
it.
p. H. Nokes, who some months ago
was sentenced to twenty-One years in the
penitentiary, for hOrsestealing. and took
an appeal to the Supreme Court, died in
Jail yesterday,
Madame Vincent's houses, No. IS
Union and the corner Of Washington and
Front Row, are the repositories Of the
finest oysters that Norfolk and Mobile
produce ana no one Knows now 10 serve
oysters better than the Madame.
The work Of converting the corner
stores in the GreenIaw Opera House into
a postofiee building, will commence next
Monday morning. The boxes, shelving,
etc, are now being made by Messrs.
MOOres & Eader.
The cutting case reported by us yes
terday morning was carried before Squire
Herman at two o'clock yesterday after
noon. The wounded man meanwhile had
had a talk with the prisoner and eOmpro-
missed the matter. As he refused to pros
ecute the case the Squire dismissed it.
The four-story brick s~tore-house, No.
go Main street, was sold yesterday, I'M
der the hammer, by Messrs, ROyster,
TreZevant IL Co., a-uctiOneers, for SIS, $50,
to Nathan Adams, ESQ, of Haywood
county. The other piece of property ad-
vertised to be sold was Withdrawn.
An old nesro came into the city yes
terday pretty badly bruised up, and COM
planned that he had been beaten by some
man for whom he had been working, about
fifteen miles in the country, Squire
Norton issued a warrant tor the arrest of
the assaulter, and sent three officers out
to bring him in.
Squire Norton yesterday issued a war
rant for the arrest of one Henry C. Huff, for
assault and battery on one Annie Collins.
Huff plead guilty, and was fined 81 and
costs. From the gentle Anuie's conYer-
sation, the only thing that we think he
ought to be fined for, was not giving her
enough.
The magnificent new buildings on
the corner Of Madison and Front streets
are rapidly receiving their finishing
touches. The plate glasses are being put
in the windows, and the painter, grainer
and varnisher are showing their work
throughto completion with great rapidity.
The railing around the corner building,
on Madison street, is up, and is n Of the
handsomest pieces of work we ever saw.
There were a very large number of
guests registered at the Commercial HO-
tel Yesterday. The Messrs. Allen are
making this one Of the most popular, as
well as one of the very best, hotels in the
country. They have enlarged the estab-
lishment, and it is now as capaciQus as
in the city. 1t is centrally located;
near the river; not far removed from the
railroads, and sets as good table as any of
them. Go to the Commercial when you
to town.
The cry is still they got" There is
a day but two or more emigrant trains
pass through our city seeking the other
side of the river and the wilds OF Rack
ensack or Texas. why is this thus?"
Have we not in West Tennassse 40 rich
lands and as berignant a climate as Ar
kansas or Northern Texas? Cannot the
tide be stopped? Ought not our people
in this matter2 Something should
done to retain these people ia our
State, and that something should be done
quickly.
Street music in this country is said to
be improving in character everywhere,
we suppose, on account of the
of genuine wandering MINISTRIES
from Germany. These bands often include
ten or fifteen instruments, and play the
most admired and difficult operate music,
with skill, correctness n taste. There
was such a band in Memphis some weeks
ago, and we have seldom listened to better
band-musie than they made, their selec-
tions being frequently from Rossini, Au-
Der, and other composers of renown.
They disappeared from our streets upon
being called upon for a hcensce, and left
us only the little italian harper and no
linist to cheer and console the lonely
hours Of our midnight toll with " Dixie"
Captain Jinks."
We are informed that several gentle
men have formed a combination in this
city which Will knock The old Ice trade
into a cooked hat, and that arrangements
are even now being made to manufacture
Ice by the steam process on a scale that
will supply not only our city, but if need
be, West 4enpessee aud eastern Arkan-
sas. For a century or more the problem
among scientific men was to convert heat
DOWer, and it was eventually accom-
oiished by tbs perfection of the steam en-
zine. The more recent problem presented
the economist to the scientist for soIu-
ion is the conversion of POWer into cold
n other words the construction of a ma
chine, which by the application of power,
shall produce ice. This, we believe, has
aeen accomplished, and it is by means of
his machine that the new company pro
to reYolutionize the ice trade. The
blowing calculation shows how easily
his can be done. In the conversion of
into power there is a loss of eighty
Tx to n~inety-five per cent, but with a
rood ice machine, such as are now being
Used in Paris and London, there Is no
ueh loss in the conversion of power back
o Negative heat Tor cold). By ACTUAL ex-
it requires ~ foot-pounds OF
lower to extract an unit OF latent beat,
onsequently a fOur-h0rse-power engine
would extract nearly one hundred and
eYentY-one units of heat per minute.
Is one pound Of water at the temperature
f 62o requires 309 of cooling to bring 1t
0 freezing point, or the abstraction OF l40
Inits of latent heat. q four-horse engine
7ould convert one pound of water into
le every minute, or sixty pounds to the
our. A forty-horse engine would make
90 pounds per hour, or 5000 pounds per '
day of ten hours. The expenses
re the first outlay, labor and fuel. A {
)rty-horse-poweF engine will cost, COM
lete, $1,000; interest on capital, wear and I
ear, say $40 per week labor, say $50 per