Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-08
c PARAGRAPHS.

HE APPEAL IS delivered Tor 70 cents q
q week.
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Tho Gallon troupe and DeLave family
leave to-day.
The weather was clear, cool, and
t bracing yesterday.
The usual Sunday d~ullness pervaded
both districts yesterday.
Frank Mayo opens at the Memphis
Theater tomorrow night.
There were six arrests in the second
| district yesterday up to d pm.
The hotels are crovSed with sport
ing" people, gathered hither to attend
the races.
The arrests at the first district. yester-
day, CONSISTED of two DRINKS and
three fights.
iectured in Columbia, Maury county, on
Saturday last.
-In spite of the lack of green leaves,
Court Square was literally ~patronized by
Ioungers last evening.
"A countryman was swindled out of
$500 by some rascal Oh the steamer Ma
tCmd at the landing on Saturday.
The County Court organizes today at
10 O'Clock, and the funeral ceremonies of
the late County Commissioners will be
celebrated at the same time.
Livery stables did their usual guam
tum Of business, last evening. There
was not u carriage or a buggy TO be had,
for love or money, at one o'clock.
Mr.. J. 5. Thrasher. formerly Superin-
tendent Of the Southern Press Association
during the war, has gone to Galveston,
Texas, where he takes charge of the CRU
ian.
The Memphis Christian Advocate
! thinks that speeding horses ON the track
ut the late Fair was a foul blot " on the
Agricultural Association. 1t is lucky all
the world doesn't think alike.
Madame Vincent has at her two
houses, No. Is Union, and the corner Of
Washington street and Fro mt Row, the
best oysters in Memphis. If you don't
believe it, go and try them.
Two spOrtsmen who went down into
NOnconnah bottom hunting yesterday
morning, returned loaded with SQUIRRELS
and birds. They say there never was
such plenty of small game seen before.
To get coal free from dust and at mod
craze prices, go To Bigley, Mellersh Il Co.,
corner of South COur and Main streets.
Hotels, steamboats, and private families
supplied: Orders for wood also received
and filled.
Judge Hudson denies that Ed. Shaw.
either rs agent or otherwise, had any right
TO use his name in any manner connected
with that application for a mandamus to
compel the payment of certain salaries i'm
advance.
The people of Maury county held a
public meeting on Saturday night TO pro-
test 10 the Senate against any Limitations
or restrictions OF the part of the conven-
ton proposed to be called by the people
Of tennessee. Should the beople of Shelby
not follow suit?
Nothing illustrates the age of steam
in which we live mora forcibIy than see
ing fresh fsh-mackerel from the banks
of New FOundland and s~heephead from
the Gulf of Mexico-exposed for sale in
our game and fish stands.
The alarm Of fire. ung Yesterday
morning, was caused by the rapid ring
ing Of Il steamboat bell, which was mis-
taken by the watchmaH for a ire alarm.
10 the schedule of time of running
cars during the race week. see the notice
Of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Company.
john Stevens, a white man, went to
a negro crib on Jefferson street, below the
theatcr, and got into an alteration with
two wenches named Jane Raney and En-.
Reed, who finally went for him and gave
him "A tremendous hauling. The row re-
suited in all hands being locked up i'm the
flfSt DiSJrlct station.
The following marriage Certificates
were returnedt othe office ofJohn League. (
County Clerk. during the past week.: A
Bohm to Miss Mary Boxer. james
McCune to Mrs. Ellen Morgan, J.. J. Phil
lips to Mrs. =. A.. Reynolds. G. d. Hart to
Mrs. A. F. Wright, ii. X. Navel to Miss
4. Wood, II. &. Pitt to Miss CynthiA NJ.
Gross, j. {. Treadwell to Miss Phoebe w.
Clement.
We are sorry 10 %announca to our read
crs the destruction by fire of the heauii-
ful residence of Mr.. Smith, of the firm of
Naleott, Smith d Co., together with about
six thousand dollars worth Of new furni-
ture. The house was situated on Manns-
sas avenue, belonged to Mr.. Stauwood
Menken and was valued at $4,000. 1t
WIS insured at $4,000 in the Knickerboeker
Insurance Company. Tho furniture was
insured for $3.50. The fire was the work
of an incendiary.
1t must not be forgotten that a meet
In- comes of to-day at 81 pm. at the hall
ofthe Chamber of Commerce to discuss
the question Of the State tax upon mer-
chandise. Further action must be taken
in this matter if our merchants want 10
get rid ofthis great incubus on our trade.
Il Is very important that all interested
should attend. Those not belonging to
the Chamber are also invited to take part
in the mestiug.
The place 10 got a fresh and foaming
glass of beer, fit for G4mhrinus himself
is ut Henry's. No. 33 Monroe street,
There is also the place to go when you
want a lunch, consisting of picked pigs
ieel, sdrdellen, anquiiloti, herring salad,
schW eitzer or ham sandwiches-indeed, of
anything in the way of cold lunches. and
something good TO drink. Besides beer.
Henry's bar is well supplied with liquors
and cigars, and everything pertaining 10
a nrst-class b1r-roOm. Remember Hen
rvs, at No. 53 Monroe street.
j. d. Edwards has established at 80 {
Jefferson, next door 20 Victor Fuchs, a
branch ofhis noted fish and game depot.
and IL is TO lie in charge of Charley Mar :
tin, a man SO we'll known to every old =
Meinpbian that TO praise him, or to tell
who he Is, Is simply superiiuqus. It this
branch house Will be kept every deiicacy a
IN the line Of fish, flesh and fowl. the wa
ter, the woods and the air affords. We I
are indebted 10 Mr.. Martin for a fine pair i
Of mallards and a bunch OF fish as a re- :
nnnder Of his opening. Edwards, :
Branch is to be the title Of the new es- I
tablishmept. The best xxx oysters will =
be retaised there at 60 cents percan-eheap :
enough for anybody.
Yesterday morning early a gentleman
q passing store No. $50 Exchange block, u
ipticed the door Standing ajar, and show &
lag il open a ghastly sight met bis eyes. y
Lying on a pile of straw, stark naked and 4
esaaeiated 10 mere kin and bone, lay the A
dead body Of a negro woman. He gazed h
onit 4 momen and then closingt the doors 5,
notified the police. Sergeant Dea came Il
srolnd, and after examining the body and Il
surroundings, put a guard over il, and D
made a further examination of the prem Il
lses. A pair Of stairs lead from the store q
in which the body was found, up TO the IL
iisseciing room OF the Medical College, d,
two more bodies, half dissected,
found. This discovery accounted L.
lut the indecent manner in which it was =,
oft by the persons who brought it thitheF n,
AN haze no possible excuse, and we hope eo95
he authorities will look into the matter. W
From the New York Stakeholder we h,
extract the following touching the fnan- 81
'iai condition and bonds OF Arkansas. AZ
0he article viii be seen to give to the AZ
state officials of 1850 the credit, which it nj
las been a custom to deny them. of maxi
ng active efforts then to redeem the out in
landing indebtedness of the State. The sill
says: 1.-THE new Arkansas q,
TX per cent. State bonds are now in IN
curse OF delivery at the American Elk te
hange Bank, In exchange for old bonds err
ARREARS of interest. This action on pa
he p4rt of the Stat of Arkansas is as
redifable as it is just to the holders afEns
Id bonds, who for a long tern of wears NJ
ave waited a resumptsfSn of interest. M
ntszandA1Rnding OF the matured
'onds, The last Of the old State bonds NJ
in 1868. The funded debt bonds DO
issuing, including principal md ar III
ears OF interest on old bonds, will Pc
mount 10 only about S4,00o.000, avery co
ooderate Indebtedness for a State with a re-
population OF over 600, coo, and natural
sources and advantages unsurpassed. w
he cotton lands of Arkansas are admit ris
10 be among the best in the Union. We
he crop this year will DO nearly 800, 600 ste
ales. II was the intention Of the State I'M
, adjust its Indebtedness In 1881, when aic
be earliest of its bonds matured; but the ere
reaking ont Of the late civil war put an Es
end 70 Preparations for adjust We
tent when We're making in 1850. Ar of
ansas issued her bonds about thirty oal
cars AGO. in aid Of Siaia hanka takiur n.