Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-25
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IS" will find letter at the count
ing room of this Office.
The LAW Reports" will have
interest for the general reader TINS
morning.
"A St. Louis dog-fancier has ar
rived in town with several kennels oil
sporting CANNES.
The attention of our readers Is
called 10 the new advertisements on
y. +. D." Will see that his re
ouest was complied with in the APP
PEAL of Yesterday morning.
Superintendent Pearne presided
over the Second District Police Court
Yesterday, disposing of a long and te-
dious docket in short order.
The Daily APPEAL G~ncluding
Sundays issue) is served to subscrl-
bers in the city at the low rate OF y
cents per week, payable to the carrier.
The storm which passed over our
CITY last evening, ard which cooled
the atmosphere so generally, passed
of in the direction OF Cairo, where 1t
spent itself.
Fifty thousand dollars has been
subscribed in Little Rock for the build
ing of Q new frst-class hotel, which,
even the mos ardent friend Of that
city must confess, has been sadly
needed.
Contracts have been made for the
completion of the Little Rock ana
Fort Smith Railroad before the close
uf the year 1870, a consummatloh
devoutly 10 be wished for.
Copies % the mammoth Weekly
APPEAL for this week, can be had on
application at the counting room, done
an in wrappers ready for mailing,
prlee only five cents. The contents
are unusually interesting.
Two Justices of the Peace are en-
gagged in trying negroes charged with
having committed perjury in giving
evidence in the case Of jim Butler,
convicted of larceny a week or two
since before the Criminal Court.
The Little Rock Railroad con-
tractors want several hundred labor
ars. They pay the best wages and
promptly. We learn that the Little
Rock and Fort Smith Railroad adver-
tisa for one thousand of the "hard
fisted" sons Of toll.
The W%1ell-trained and cultivated
choir of the Jewish Synagogue, COr-
ner of Main and Market streets, is re-
hearsing under the lead Of Professor
WInkler, in preparation for the jew
jsb New Year which commences next
Sunday week.
We heard, last night, from Macon,
Fayette county, the scene Of the negro
riot Of Monday. All quiet. The
strongest part OF this affair is that the
authorities Ofthe eOBRty cannot find a
negr who knows anything Of,
or who in the least participated
in il.
-"Long looked for come al last"
Is the girl said when the fellow pro-
posed. This section, which for weeks
has been parched with a terrific
drought, was visited yesterday with
most bOuntiful and grateful showers.
Al writing, the skies give every pro
mise of a continued supply Of the
much needed element.
At a meeting Of the Board Of Di-
rectors of the Little Rock and Fort
Smith Railroad Company on Tuesday,
Messrs. ID. II. Barnes, L. NJ. Rose and
Jas. A.. Martin, of Little Rock, and
A. J. Ward, OF Van Buren,, were
elected Directors 10 fill vacancies &C.
casioned by the resignation OF Messrs.
J. w. Smith, J. II. Lewis, S. L. Grit
nth and Thomas NJ. Bowen.
Mr.. /. L. James, Secretary of the
Committee, respectfully requests gen.
tlemen who obtained from him tick
cts TO the late Confederate picnic 10
sell or dispose of, to call upon him
to-day and make returns Of the same,
as il is the desire Of the committee t.
close up all business As 0 as posi-
BILE.
Mr.. COwperthWait, Of the firm o
Cowperthwait, Chapman q Co, 90.
Main street, was sunstruck yesterday
about twelve O'Clock, and vas con
yeyed to his residence, where prOmp
attention soon placed him out of dan
geE, though he was very weak at darA
last night. He will probably be able
TO leave his room to-day.
-Rutter, the reported school fund de
faulter, is bankrupt Is well in funds al
In reputation. He has been living
from hand to mouth for some time
past, having failed TO obtain employ
ment ia New York. He has not
dollar in the world. His share of thu
school fund was secured by th'
shrewder rOgues Of the Radical ring.
in a fit of malignant spite toward
the people ofthat village, Gen. Anne.
has engineered the reappointment a
Postmaster at COrinth, Miss, of thai
dirty old scalawag and renegade
"Dr."J.J. Gibson, who was removed
by President Johnson in answer 20
petition signed by a majority of those
who receive their mail matter through
that office.
We are certain to have a big trade
this fall, winter and spring. In an
~tieipation Of II merchants should now
be advertising their wares. Country
merchants are looking TO the columns
of the APPEAL for the advertisements
O the leading houses. They fine
many, but not all. Our dry good,
men have not opened up yet. In re
spect OF advertising some of them ar,
behind the boot and shoe trade.
in a paragraph which appeared il
the APPEAL a few days ago, referrin,
to the first settlement OF Tennessee by
white men, reference was made TO tn
fact that some Of the descendants O
Russell Bean (the first white chile
born in the State) residing il