Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-05
c PARAGRAPHS.

Yesterday was terribly dull-a
calm before a storm.
Ten lads and youths were arrested
yesterday for bathing in the river
naked.
-Wylie Keeling was arrested yes
terday. by the First district police, for
stealing cows from Mr.. w. j. Bran
non.
The tiger is still an inhabitant OF
our fashionable jungles, from which
keno has been driven. Which Is
worst2
"A darky named Wade Bolton
was arrested yesterday charged with
the malicious shooting Of Henry
Hunter. The case will be heard be-
fore Squire Griffith to-day.
The Gazette, of Dyersburg, says:
"There is no tailor in DyersbuTg, and
our town offers a good opening for a
sober, competent workman. No other
kind wanted. Exchanges will please
copy"
We learn from the COrinth Repu6-
icaR that d. w. Miller, under arrest
for AQrse-stealing, in attempting TO
make his escape, was fired upon by
the guard at Bonneville, Miss, last
Sunday, and instantly killed.
in our report Of the Council pro
ceedings yesterday morning we mad
yerteptly used Alderman MOftet's
nameiu place Of Alderman MarshalIs.
1t was the latter who thought the
ApalqRche ought to have the printing.
The bondsmen CT Lucinda Lee, ar
rested and put under bonds sometime
AGO for stealing Il bolt Of calico from
Howell, Wood d Co., came to the
Sherif's office yesterday and deliv,
cred Lucinda up, and she was cent tC
Jail.
Henry Fleming, an ambition,
darkv, was arrested yesterday for per.
~SOnating ar officer, He bad q whistle
in his pocket when arrested, SnG had
used il once or twice, to the beWilQeT.
ment of the officers, who thought tina
the whistles proceeded from one o
their own number.
A man named Cash Fuller va:
arrested yesterday at the instance @
Mrs. Whitehead, who seegsed him O
having robbed her Of ten Or twelve
dollars, When the case was brought
up for tr;aI before Squire Willard, the
lady refused TO appear against the
person, and the charge was dlshilseQ
A certain Alderman, who shall bC
nansiess,G AG 9 heavy city contractor.
got into 2 .gaHae Oh af&N E9Eer on
Tuesday might, which resulted IN thC
Alderman skinning the contractor.
| ginning even his clothes. The last
stake Vas g gair Ct hreeehes, which
the Alderman was trying 10 sea ses'
terday to pay for drinks.
- PARTY numbering seventeen
citizens Of Bolivar Jeff tke city yester.
day on a trip to the Mammoth Cave.
This IS becoming the fashionable triI
of the season III this section, Already
we have sent two excursion parties
from Memphis, and on Monday next
| will forward q third. So much for the
| energy of our friend, Col, sam. jones
aided by the interchangeable Capt. james
Speed.
Two well known hack-drivers had
a friendly little stand up and knock
down" yesterday morning about
O'Clock, in front of the 0yertCn Hotel,
The affair was conducted On the
strictest etiquette and punetiliO of the
| prize ring, and several rounds Were
fought in gallant style, the police
! kindly keeping at a distance. The
affair was, we are assured, all for di-
Yartisment."
Our friend W. Y. Gir9de, Esq,
returned home day before yesterday,
We are indebted to him for late New
York papers, which should have been
acknowledged yesterday morning. He
left his family on "Old Long Islands
Sea Grit Shore" within a mile Of
Rockaway, where they will enjoy the
| salt water and sea air until fall. The
little invalid, for whose sake the TRIP
was made, is, we are glad to say, rap
idly becoming hearty again.
The Post of yesterday has the fol.
lowing characte ticparagraph: "The
Appedt exposes q one legged g chival-
ry chap" eX-Confed. Col. WestmOre-
land, the right hand man of Stonewall
Jackson, the friend of Lee, the adviser
of Joe Johnston and the boon com.
paniou of Jefferson Davis, who has
played the role of a first class dead
beat pretty successfully among the
eX-COnfeds of Memphis lately" No
body but the dirty dog who wrote that
would be guilty of so infamous and
lying a Misrepresentation.
We remarked a day or two age
that Moody, now under sentence o.
death, was President of the Colored
Young Mems Christian Association.
The Colored Young Mems BeaeUoteai
Association write US that MOodynever
belonged to their Society. We cheer
fully make the statement for them
but will say that in a talk held with
Moody, shortly after the sentence Of
death had been passed upon him, he
told us that the difficulty between
himself and Kagy Bedford originated
in that Association, and was some
thing about running for President.
Commissioners White offered the
following excellent resolution in the
Board Of County Commissioners yes
terday evening: 1t was ordered, on
his motion, that the County Clerk fur
nish, by a week from to-day, an item
lied account Of all monies received by