Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-25
LOCAL

The weather still threatening and
cloudy.
Ladies will read McWade's card,
and go to his benefit.
There were eighteen marriage GER
~tiiestes returned to the County Clerks
office last week.
The Registrar went to Whites Sta
ton yesterday morning, and conse-
quentiy there was no registration yester-
day.
The testimonial to Mrs. Cline, which
takes place on Wednesday night next,
will be q most elegant evenings amuse-
ment.
ten. John Hamilton, exc Jvernor
Of Texas, accompanied by his daughter,
were passengers on the New Orleans
train Of the Mississippi and Tennessee
Railroad this morning.
Andrew jackson, eo'ored, was arrested
for ho~usebreAking yesterday, and locked
up with George Washington, who was
"in," charged with swindling and conf
denee game. What's in a name?
Our friend Bernard L9wenstein, OF
the well known dry goods house OF 3.
L0Tenstein & Bro, left yesterday for q
four months tour ia Europe. We wish
him a pleasant journey and q safe return
home.
AT Whites Station, yesterday, the
Registrar enrolled one hundred voters,
all OF when we're black. There were but
two white men out there, and they were
under disabilities which prevented them
from registering.
There will be 8 meeting Of the Cham
Der of Commerce tomorrow (Mondsy)
evening at h2lf-past three o'clock. The
time for the meeting of the Commercial
Convention being close at hand, there
should be a full attendance OF all the
members.
-Messrs. Francisco & WiggiD, appre-
ciatiDg the loss of our best tile by the
fire the other day, called Us 10 and fitted
US with a splendid new Fifth Avenue
silk hat. They have among their spring
styles tae very ne pIus Of summer hats
the Cucumber aud Tropical. Fashion
snd comfort have been combined in
these hats and they are perfect.
Fred Wilson's Ministries, who drew
so well and gave such general sstisfac-
faction to our play going public q few
weeks ago, will return to this city next.
week and give three entertainments, on
Thursday. Friday and Saturday after
noon New features have baen intro
dnced into their already splendid and at
trsctive show, which will make 1t with
out q peer.
Between Auction street and N41
mouth of the bayou there are lying
exposed, in the bayou and on its banks,
from fifteen to twenty esTcSses Of dead
animsls, Of every siza, from a dog to q
horse. The sultry weather is rapidly de-
composing them and the stencil is horri-
bic. The attention of the Street Com
missioner or the Sanitary Polics is called
to the fact, and they are begged to abate
the nuisance.
1t is curious to 3 person who has trav-
eled much, to notice the local peculiari-
ties or fashions $50 to speak, which per-
vsde and govern the shape, appearance
and character Of the signs of various
businesses in different cities. For in
stance, in one town the accepted sign OF
a tobscconist is a PunchineuO, il another
q North American Indian, in another a
killed highlander, and in another a
S)uth American Indian. OF course, IN
most cities sll OF these signs will DO found
occasionally, but in each q particular
sign will predominant. Again, the con-
venliODal sigH Of q jewelry store or q
watchmaker's establishment is a large
time-piece 10 their show windows. In
s0me places there are large, round, me-
tallic pendula attached to alternate bars
If polished brass and steel. In Memphis
the usual style is a pendulum consisting
Of a bali, generally of blue enamel stud
ded wits gold so arranged that lie motion
instead of being backward and for ward
is rotary, and by an ingen GUS attach
ment communicates its motion to q clock
below. There are at least q half doz5n
Of such time pieces in the city.