Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-04
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
League is in Vicksburg.

John League is in Vicksburg.
The Quorum Court meets next Mon
day.
Read the notice Of check lost" by
Theo, Hoerner.
Squire Griffith IS conyalescing, and
will soon be out.
The thermometer stood AZ 40 at il
O'clock last night.
Squire Norton was the only magis-
trate in the souShern district that had
any business yesterday.
The q~uGeStio peTata yesterday Was
"whO fathers the dogder?'
Work is progressing on the n5w post
Office rapidly. Two doors were cut on
Union street yesterday.
-Messrs. Otis & Lonsdale, agents of the
st. Louis Mutual Insurance Company,
have dissolved co-partnership. See
notice.
In the Thirteenth Civil District F. C.
Stephenson, Esq, aud Maj. Lundy were
chosen delegates to the Convention to
meet to-day.
The origin of the dirty nigger-sufFrage
dodger has been discovered. The town,
luckily, vas not oUeTUheEaed by the
avalanche.
The Helena, Ark, steam ferry crossed
n hundred and sixty wagons last week.
Each wagon was accompanied by three or
more persons, bound West.
Emma LOwary, the notorious, had Of
fcers Scaefer and Jones arrested Yesterday
for assault and battery. Squire Norton
promptly discharged them on examina-
ton of the case.
The trains on the Louisville and
Charleston roads came in crowded yester-
day. The streets were alive with
strangers during the day, and ali the
places Of amusement were full Of them
last night.
"A nesting of the friends Of Father
Walsh, held in Chelsea last evening, was
very enthusiastic, and resulted in assur-
ances to the good Priest that his efforts TO
build a church in that part of The city
viii yet be erowned with success.
The local paragraph in yesterday
mornings issue GuOtingthe lines of Spen-
Ger on December was written and intend
ed for publication in the issue of the FIRST
Of the month, and was totally ~inapplica-
bic to yesterday or the day before.
-"Bill," said 4 cub yesterday, IN n
Job Office located on Jefferson street. to
anOtherOne not far distant, my boss is a
better MA than your old man. My boss
amt forever and ever a pokin' around the
Office and a interferin' with his own bust
ness"
Al u Ll1tLAllA u tue DItAlItl OF L4Ell2
Scott Lodge, +. A. NJ. No. 259, held at
their lodge room last night, the following
officers we're elected TO serve the ensu-
ing year: r. w. Mitchell, W. NJ; II. II.
HigOee. s. W. Thos. H. D0nnelIy, J. w;
Sam'l II. Brooks, Treas. ). SJurm, Sec.
VIM. IL. Timberla6e, S. D.; A. +. Davis
J. D.; A. j. Murray and VIM Calhoun,
Stewards.
The Helena. Ark, Carion Of the Ist
fpeFarnr garrc- ffnN ,rC r,asa rw-fCaAaa- 49,.
been established in this county, on the
route leading from Madison to Helena.
Ore at the store of. II. Jones, with Geo.
A. Thompson as postmaster, and named
Calvert; the other at Hughes ferry, on
PAngUille river, named PAnguille, and
Capt tr1sDee as postmaster"
The name Of Col. J. j. DuBose has for
a few days past been prominent before the
public in connection with the Constitu-
tional Convention. We think that as a
delegate to amend the organic law he
would reflect credit upon himself and
serve his people with the fidelity of an
ardent nature. He possesses many of the
requisites necessary for the position and
we hope will receive a nomination to-day.
Climbing a balcony behind the foot
lights, aid in sight Of a hreathless u
dienee, is one thing, and getting over a
bacE-gaIery railing, with nothing but the
moon and two old tom-cats to look at
you, is another. This reflection must
have suggested itself to a certain thespian
yesterday morning about three O'Clock,
as be wendell his lettering steps home
ward after a high old time around own.
Verb sap.
The bail given at COchrane Hall on
Thursday night by the young men of the
congregation Beth FL Emeth, was deei-
dedly The best attended and most brilliant
S0iree of the season. The hall-one of the
finest in the CIty-was crowded to its ut
most capacity, and among the dancers
there were some of the most beautiful and
graceful ladies' of our city. The dressing
was very elegant and rich, and in superb
taste. The supper which was gotten up
by Mr.. Loeb, was very fine affair, the
table literally grOaning under the weight
of good things, and the Wines-especially
the R~henish-Were all that could be de-
sired. Taken as a whole, the ball was the
affair of the season.