Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-06
c PARAGRAPHS.


New bill at the Varieties tonight.
Oysters are beginning to come in.
OILY six arrests yesterday by the
First District Police.
Good congregations at the
churches yesterday.
Why not clean mp the bluffs for
promenade grounds?
The Sun and AUGldRche are dis
cussing the snack-hOuse question.
Most of the business houses con-
Quoted by Hebrews will be closed to-
day.
Two local Hghtweights are trying
to arrange the p~relimiaaries TO prize
fight.
The string to "Our Jim's" kite
has broken. He says he will be home
tomorrow.
Have we a Saengerbund among
US? If not, why not? Let our Ger
ma friends answeT.
Good news for lunchists-mOst Of
the prominent saloons open the season
with a big spread +" to-day.
Country merchants, prospecting
for fall and winter stocks, are COM
mencing to arrive in the city.
The city was quiet and very dull
yesterday. Not 50 much as a dog
hight disturbed the calm Of the Sab
bath.
"A country pumpkin lost 81
Saturday night, by depositing It for
safe-keeping III the hands OF q woman.
He has not complained to the police.
"A negro baseball club lately or
EaRiZed in Washington city has
adoptea the name, "ArOmatics."
Who shall ay there's nothing in
a name"
The Poplar street cars dida good
business yesterday, carrying passen-
GER to and from the pleasure resorts,
situated at the extremity of that thor
Oughkre. g.
There Is 10 be q tournament al
Galloway Station on Thursday next.
The Memphis and Ohio Railroad will
carry intending attendants by the
morning train Of that dsy.
People south of Madison street
behaved themselves yesterday. Or,
If they didn't, the docket of the Ser
1nd District Station failed TO show to
the contrary.
A smart chap is getting up a di-
vOrce excursion TO Chicago. Tickets
will be sold very low TO those desiring
4 dissolution of partnership. Further
particulars as to time, etc, viii be
given hereafter.
Some negro children were playing
on a lumber-pile near the depot of the
Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad
yesterday afternoon, and one of them,
a boy Of ten years, had his left ankle
crushed by the fall of a heavy jOist.
He was taken home by q negro man
who passed a few minutes after the
accident.
"A negro man named Dan Ills
went TO sleep yesterday afternoon OF
the bluff below the lower cotton press,
and is supposed TO have rolled into the
river and drowned, as his hat was
found at the waters edge by his little
sOn when he went TO call his father to
supper. The descent here is very
steep and almost unbrOken, a V near
the water, where there is a narrow
beach, and il was upon this strip the
hat OF the supposed drowned man
was found. a party OF negroes have
gone down to Presidents Island in
search Of the body.
-KOOpmanschaap, as is known, is
the chief engineer Of the Coming
Man-the expected Chinaman. He
Is nov among the Orientals arranging
for An army of the Acknowledged, who
are to take the place Of the negro i'm
the manipulation of the shovel, hoe
and other implements of agriculture.
A California poet thus addresses him
on the part Ofthe Celestials:
We are coming, Father kOOpmansehaap.
A hundred thousand strong;
We viii bear each man & riee-bag,
And each will bear a gong.
We will drive the sambos lively
Before our mOOn-eYed hosts,
And whip the poor white trash, sir,
From out these golden coasts,
Then wen take this mighty nation,
And sell il for a song;
For were coming, Father kOOpmanschasp,
A hundred thousand strong.
- A commercial corsespondent of
the Brownsville Bee, writing from
Memphis, speaks Of this as a dry
goods market in the highest terms
aud SAYS: " The severe financial crisis
through which We passed in '66-7 |
crippled many of u best merchants. |
and drove from our midst the +" sharp-
ers" who fattened off Of the Deeessi-
ties of our people just after the close
of the war. The past years business,
however, has given strength and new
life TO our market, and our city can
now boast of as strong, liberal mer-
chants as any city of its size in the
Union. In every department Of bust
Ness there is new life and Vitality.
The stock of all kinds of goods ON eX-
hibition here now, would be- credit
70 q city OF four times the population
of Memphis"
= BY careful computation, it has
been estimated that there are 848 quin-
duOdecilliOns, 2lZ quartodecillions, |
sos triOdecilliOns, G3 duOdecilliOns,
SS9 undecilliOns, S34 decillionS, 32s
nOnilliOns, 97s OctilllOns, SD septiI-
lions, 457 seXtilliOns, 209 quintillions.
7S9 quadrilliOns, 704 trillions, 73i bill
lions, 3s9 millions, 1919 thousands and
29 flies in the world. According to
this, II would require 60 triOdecillions,
453 duodecillions, s72 undeeillions, 72S
decinions, 707 nOnilliOns, 537 octil-
lions, 754 quintilliOns, l29 quadril-
lions, 7s2 trillions, 507 billions, 500 /