Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-25
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS
Clear and conl Yesterday.

Clear and cOOl yesterday.
Cotton is coming to town from the
neighborhOod in wagons quite freely ut
present.
The paved streets, considering the
length oftime that has elapsed since they
were cleaned, are in a pretty good con-
ditiOn.
Memphis and Mobile have III a
pretty even race in cotton this year, each
having received about 1900 bales so far.
The Mobile market is dependent on the
upper rivers.
We are glad to learn that a qestiOn
which has vexed the Board OF Aldermen
for twelve or thirteen years, is about to
be settled. The Improvement Committee
have decided to report to the Board in
favor of strengthening the bayou at the
intersection OF IIernandO and DesOtO
streets, throwing a culvert over IL, aud
opening up these streets.
"A very pleasant affair came of at the
residence Of u friend Aehle, on Wash
ington street, Tuesday evening, theo cca-
sion being a RufdtdUfscaDtaus in honor of
the christening of the infant of John K.
KIeiner, ESQ, Of Columbus, Miss, a
brother-in-law OF Mr.. Aehle. The com
pany was 4 gay one, and the health of der
kieine KTeiner was drank in numerous
bottles of champagne and Rheinwein.
The youngstcr, ofcOurse, drank LietfrdH-
eTniieh.
The remains of the droyer, West, who
WAS so cruelty murdered by "A man named
Moody, near Charleston, North MISSISSIPPI
nj. recently. passed through This city, yes
terdav, in charge of his brother, who Is
carving the body home to Kentucky for
burial. The fuher of Moody was at Grand
Junction yesterday, and seemed much
,4ponEal at tho =ftrht of his EOnFa hlnnnE
handiwork. The murderer is in Jail at
Charleston, guarded by United States sol
diers, who are necessary as much to guard
him against tho wrath of he people, as to
keep him from making his escape.
We are authorized in saying that
there will be a meeting OF stockholders
and others Interested in the White River
Packet Line. at three o'clock I'm. ut the
Chamber OF Commerce. We hope the at
tendance will he large and that the result
will be commemorative with the magni-
tude OF an undertaking. which, in the alb
senee OF a railroad sysi EN-, and especially
Of the Little Rock Railroad, IL II emf
nently desirable should be established,
encouraged, supported and controlled by
Memphis capital. We urge a prnmpt and
4 very large Attendance by capitalists and
business men.
That portion Of the suburbs beyond
IIupperstown, in The neighborhOOd Of
Capt. MohtgomeTy's residence, Is repre-
scented 10y the police To be infested with a
gang OF most desperate, VillaiuOus and
lawless negroes. who commit all sorts Of
outrayes, not only in The immediate
neighbOrhood but all over the surround
ing country. IL was a portion of this gang
that attacked Sergeant Wilkers0n and his
squad on Monday night. The headqudr-
tiers of the nj are at a grocery, or grOg-
cry, near Muntgumery's, and we are in
formed that there is not "A night that the
black dssperadoes do not collect there in
swarius. We hope the police will break
this iniquitOus resort up As soon as pos
sible.
Not long ago we heard a gentleman
Who had Just returned to civilization, AFTER
a protracied tour through the blckwoods
region of our " and adjoining States,
remark, that il he were the autOcrat VI
his country, the first general order that
he would give would be to knock a hole
in the bottom Of every f%ryingpan in The
land. While we might not go quite so
far, we certainly agree with the spirit that
dictated the utteranca. died Of frying
pan, lis, as n Georgia editor once remarked.
the epitaph that might appropriately be
written over hundreds and thousands Of
graves-not only OF Southern people, to
whom he would coniine it, hut of Ameri-
cans from the 81. Lawrence TO the Rio
Grande, and from the Atlantic TO the Pa
ciiic. The standard food of the inllabi-
tanlS of the country land by the country
we mean everything outside Of our large
towns and ci.ies il a greasy 6rg of some
thiHg-in the great mfi0rity OF cases, fat
bacon The . fried-OuJ Z" grease of bacon
is mixed with -four or meal, and fried into
s'tgj icks. fla chicken is TO be cooked. 1t
T. hacked up and npminally fried tbut
reaIl . simmeredl in bAcn1 grease. A beef
4teak, M matter how g. iuier and Juicy,
and viii h hroilud on q cIlls so I'D he
delicious, IL, by these prop c. considered
UNBEATABLE unless it iS dropped into its own
weight of bacon grease and 6r.cd-nird
until there is no taste TO It, except of the
sally grease. And when the chicken or
the steak is thus cooked" not content
" it'll soaking Tho moat with the grease,
their greasy slari1cks are "sopped" In
the gravy't?rto render them more palata-
be. Thus the material for good, whole
some food is converted into AN absolute
puisOn, the eating OF whiuh is the cause Of
ninety-uine eases of dyspepsia ont Of a
hundred. The sailors grOwl that " the
Lord sends grub and tho Devil sends
cooks is true 10 Ihe letter, with the
greater portion OF America.
THHannexed communicable appeared
in the Ledger of last evening:
Editors Leiger: In your issue ofYes-
terdBy appears an extract rom tie state
Controllers report. wherein l am report
ed in default TO the Stale S44a2. This re-
qnires an explanation. The state is ia
uebted to me for fees while Clerk of the
Common Law and q iminal COurtsSSl3l u.
all OF which has been certified, according
TO law, by the Judge and Attorney-Gen-
eral. The present State Controller and
his predecessor have thought proper to
dispute the correctness of soiue of the
accounts. and would II @ allow them, from
which | dissented, the accounts remaining
still unsettled. | certainly have n gOot
set-off against the State claim. If | aIn
correct, the State would he indebted to
me s40i0. Respectfully.
John DONOVAN,
"La.e Clerk Law and Criminal Courts"