Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-29


Some Of the bummers continue to
keep up their Christmas drunk.
-Remember the falherless and. orphan,
and go to S. Peters fair tonight.
John League Is taking Tennessee
Bauk money IN payment Of taxes
The Nicolson on Second street Is be-
ing repaired u front Of the Greenlaw
Opera House.
-BrOOm's Opera House programmes
resemble a blanket newspaper. Charley
is spreading himself.
Never before have tho streets of Mem
phis been So gay, or adorned with so
many beautiful p-romenddsrs.
Tho River 4dgcrtiser is the name Of a
very neat little paper printed here Tor
gratis circulation on The river.
Read the advertisement of the Mil
tonian TahicaUX. This remarkable pro-
duction viii be here IN a few days.
james Barrett was sent TO jail yester-
day evening by squire Norton, for MALI
eious trespsssing on the grounds Of Mary
Crump.
Mat. Mcleod, accused of wouoping
Mrs. Jane Rogers, submitted his case and
was fined two dollars by Squire Norton,
yesterday evening. Cheap fun.
Officer Walsh arrested Charles W.
Steele yesterday on complaint ola citizen.
Steele was locked up on the voluminous
charges Of being drunk, lawdness and re-
sisting an officer.
August Rosenthal was arrested yes
ter on complaint Of Armistesd Perkins,
who ceuses him OF assault and running
and drumming" fhG case Will have u
hearing before the Commissioner this
morning.
John Cassidy and John Keogan are
the names of the two lads VINO were ac-
cuseG OF firing On the poor old darkey on
Christmas day. Squire Foley discharged
them yesterday evening, Tor lack Of evil
dencs.
We acknowledge the receipt OF an in
v~itation To a grand holiday party 70 be
given 10y the Young Mems I-erpsIchOCean
Club at COchrano Hall on New Years Eve.
It viii no doubt be one o. the plsasan,est
affairs of the season.
Mr.. II. D. Slower was at Squire Nor
toms office yesterday evening, hot foot
after n Bill Green, who had stolen his
fiddle. The Squire granted Slower a War
ant for Green's arrest, and O taking the
document MIR. 5. ~innocently inquired if il
gave him liberty to shoot Green when he
found him.
The San made a slight mistake yester-
day morning IN the price bid for the AP-
PEAL newspaper 1T The Chancery sale on
Monday. II was twenty thousand one
hundred dollars (S2O, 400, instead ortweu-
ty-Oue hundred. The mistake was q typo-
graphical error, no doubt.
The Masonic Relief Association Of
Tennessee. designed especially for the
benefit OF the widows and heirs of Master
MasOns III become members, me at
Knoxville on the lUth. Mr.. Samuel r..
Akin was nominated and elected Presi-
dent, and Mr. L h. Rogal was reelected
Secretary and Treasurer.
We have received Il card of invitation
to the second annual Bail Of Hebron
Lodge No. IL, /. o. 3. B., TO bo given
Thursday, Jan. 18th, at COchraue Hall, tor
the benefit Of the widows and orphans.
Tickets, admitting 4 gentleman and Ia
dies, may be had OF Messrs. Martin Cohu,
sam. Peyrer and L. Kern, for two dol
lars.
"A poor fellow, whose name we could
not learn, was beaten out of two hundred
and thirty-tive dollars yesterday morning
on jefferson street. by a sharper who LETT
him a thousand dollar gold-beariug bond
of the Montana Silver Mining Company
as a pledge for the sum. The bond,
though genuine, was unfortunately not
signed, and consequently worthless.
The city is full of country negroes lust
hONs LAEF CtAcANEh~N @At1hA AAO~~tI
Row, on Shelby street. Hell's Half-acre,
on Gayoso street, and in Fort Pickering,
and make night hideOus with their orgies.
Many of them are i'll own on a lark, but
the majority have been brought here by
the Radicals to be used in the coming mu-
Hicipal election.
Tie alarm of fire which was sounded
yesterday morning at ten minutes past
One, was caused by the discovery of
flames issuing from the billisrdroOm over
the Brilliant Saloon, corner of Center al
ley and Whisky Chute, and owned by
Mr.. Louis ZanOni. The engines were
promptly on the spot, and succeeded in
saving the bar and building. The loss
will be covered by a thousand dollars.
The Commissioner passed sentence on
the following hardened offenders yesteH
day evening at the Second District sta
tionhouse: Ben Franklin, (shade of tho
mighty :! drunk and d~isorderly, SO or ten
days; Ed Gent, larceny, sent to a magis-
trate; Adam Sha, larceny, sent to a mag
~istrate, (which he said was a dam shamej:
Lucy Partee, . very Loosely party. for
benzining too much, parted with an X.
We nave received from Mr.. VIII
Mansford, Of the Catholic bookstore, a
copy of "Sadliers' Catholic Directory Al
ms and Ordo +" for 1870, which is one
of the most valuable publications OF the
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beside the usual ch~ronOlOgic tables, astrO-
nomical dates, religious Information, the
full returns of the various diOeeses in the
United States and British Provinces, anu
a list of the archbishops, bishops and
in Ireland. Mansford has the
book for sale, and it should be in the
hands of every Catholic family.
We are sorry to learn, as we do ofici-
ally, that the contractor of the overland
to Little Rock has notified the De-
partment that he cannot get any more
mails through in the present condition Of
The roads. There are now three mails
days past due, and which are sup
posed to be somewhere in the swamps be-
Madison and Devall's Bluff. In
consequence of this notification the Post
master has determined to send the mails
BY boat Until further notice. This viii
1--WE US burtwo mails per week for some
ime to come.
The Italian Benevolent Association
organized temporarily night before last,
their charter, with the following
officers: President-CoL. +
Augustine Signaigo; Vice President
frank Cazaza; Sseretary-L. Podests;