Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-22
c PARAGRAPHS.

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Emerson Etheridge speaks at Macon,
Fayette county, tomorrow.
New oranges are becnmingquite plen-
tiful, but they are still very dear and are
not sweet.
Jimmy Gallagher denies that he shed
tears as big a. onions The SAYS they were
not bigger than hickory ants.
u. ID. Edwards has our thanks for a
can of splendid Norfolk oysters-as sweet
rs If they had just come out of the water.
Another warm, dusty day yesterday
the sun being occasionally obseured with
clouds. The country is suffering for rain.
l. Lemons are very scarce and dear, and
what few there are to be found are very
poor and juiceless. They have sold as high
as SIP err dozen recently
The keno players were fined SIS each
yesterday morning, while the dealers
ehalked up an J.. The Commissioners
made a lively haul of 1t.
Citizens living in the vicinity OF the
negro church on BeaIe street complain of
the nightly orgies held there, which make
the whole neighbOrhood howl.
"A blind woman sat at the northwest
! corner of the Square yesterday all day,
grinding ont the most dismal music on a
hand Ryan pitiful sight, indeed.
The annual reportof Capt. VIII Trask,
Secretary OF the ChambeP of Commerce,
has been placed on our table. We will
notice it more at length Tomorrow.
There were thirty-one cases on the
! Second district docket yesterday afternoon
Naniong them z bakers dozen DANES de
p1atsir from the celebrated bagniO of Mrs.
Gamer. These were fined SIS each.
/ MIR. Psarne, the Chief of Police, de-
serves end will receive the moral support
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right citizen in his endeavors TO suppress
gambling INC vice o fevery description In
this city.
The past due city taxes amount to
over four hundred thousand dollars.
Meanwhile, while the Wner Of prop
erty on which this sum has accrued are
| enjoying their ease and plenty, the poor
street laboFeTs, the firemen, and other city
employees have not been paid of in
months.
"A large drove of Texas cattle, looking
extraordinarily sleek and fat, were
! driven through the streets yesterday
! from the Mississippi and Tennessee
railroad depot, to the great terror Ofladies
and children. Although there were n
or two vicious looking critters among
! them, we have heard of no deyilmsnt done
/ by them.
-Messrs. T.. B. Haynes Il Co, 264 Front,
yesterday received the first bale of Henry
county cotton, raised on the place Of y.
Ward, and for which he received the DEM
| iiOhn Of g old rye." On the 18th inst, the
| same firm received the first bale from
Leighton, Ala, shioped by A. & II. C,
Lecky, who were rewarded therefor by
the case of champagne.
| Our railroad depots are not bloekaded
with freights, as is reported in New York,
though we must confess land with pride)
that they are as full as they can hold and
flowing over. Extra clerks and
have been employed at II depots, n
every facility extended toward a clear
ing of every days receipts before a sue
: ceeding n could tend TO confusion, but
it is found all but impossible, 50 great Is
the importation of goods into the South.
There are lively times ahead of us, and
I profit for all.
Mayor Swayne, in his regularly fort
| nightly message to the Board yesterday,
calls the scheme of the railroads running
east of us to buy up the Mississippi and
/ Tennessee Railroad stock, and cripple up
the road bv using h stock adversely to
its interest and the interests Of the city OF
Memphis =" a dirertiRg purpose Well
it NAV lie dirertiRg, but the diversion is
all on one side-like the boys and frogs
what was fun to the boys was death to
the frogs"
Several OF the merchants who have
gone into the direct trade with Europe,
yesterday determined to take steps in re-
gard TO a bonded warehouse. We must
have one here. Besides being a conYe-
nieace to the merchant, ana the means of
saving large bills for forwarding goods
from the pOTtsof entry, the establishment
of a proper bonded warehouse would be
equivalent TO adding hundreds of thou
sands of dollars yearly to the capital en-
harked in importation here. A merchant
who now Imports ten thousand dollars
worth, might with the same capital i'm
port fifty thousand; for instead of order
Ing his goods in small quantities and pay
ing for the same with drafts at sight or
short time, he conld order any desired
stock at once, and sell il from the bonded
warehouse as occasion demanded-mak-
ing monthly returns for the same to the
parties from whom the goods were pur-
! chased.