Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-29
Personal.

CnAOl SAoBhoPAN OAPoh AAstiC hsONA'
is in town.
Col. .wiIloughby williams, of Nash
Vile, a large property holder in this city,
is at the Peabody Hotel.
Gen. AlcOrn, Republican candidate
for Governor of Mississippi, is in town,
and stopping at the Overton Hotel.
"A good tenor singer is needed at st.
Peters Catholic Church. Such an one
may apply to Mr.. Winkler, the organist,
at Benson's music store, SIT Main street.
Charles Noyes, and his great circus,
will be in Memphis on the sth and will To-
cate on the bluff. He has been every
where since last heard from in this direc-
ton, and now claims to have the best
show in the country.
Morris, the recently elected Conserva-
tive Mayor of Nashville, had 2Z36 major
ity over his Radical competitor. If the
Conservative people of Memphis act upto
their own interests, they, too, will be able
to defeat their Radical or Universal Suf-
frage competitors.
Gems. Sedgwick and Rosecrans left
San Francisco a few days ago to inaugrate
the work on the a Diego and ella Rail-
road, the western end of the Memphis
and Pacific Railroad. A second company,
cooperating with that of Rosecrans, the
New York Bulletin says, will at once be-
gin work at Memphis.
WIN. r. Moore, ESQ, left for Nash
vile and other points last evening to Sc
cure the cooperation of merchants at the
different commercial centers in the matter
of the merchants tax bill prepared to be
submitted to the Legislature. We COM
mend him to the attention of the mercau-
tile fraternity of the State, and hope he
will be as successful as his important mis-
sion deserves.
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inc that Col. d. NJ. Nelson, Revenue
Assessor of the Second Congressional Dis
trict, has been removed, and VIM. Rule,
Clerk of the Knox Circuit Court, appoint
ed. Col. j. J. Duck, Assessor of the Sixth
District, has been dismissed also. 1t is
said that a general removal Is contempls-
ted at Washington.
"A letter from Murfreesboro says DR..
Munsey, of the Baltimore Conference, to-
day preached one of the grandest sermons
l have ever heard. / have heard Holland,
Hammer, Young, Green, Pierce, Pitts and
others, but they are like mole hills COM
pared TO mountains, and atoms to worlds,
when compared to Munsey. I hesitate not
to say he il the greatest great preacher l
have aver heard.
we find the following names among
the large arrivals at the popular Peabody
Hotel: Thos. Boyle, JnO. Ii. Bills, Boil
var III Gtls I. n I1t1ulTtt III No.
+. Allen, Ark; Col. Jas. L. Watkins, Col.
w. r. Patton, Huntsville, Ala; Col. w.
NJ. Inge, Miss. DR.. j. Hull and family,
Holly Springs; Col. J. II. Madame, Col.
D. G.. Jordan, Fsyette; Col. Willo Will
Jams, Nashville.
The Masonic Order of Tennessee has
lost one Of its brightest Jewels by the re-
cent death of REV. Mr.. Huntington, who
for many years has been regarded as the
best ritualistic lecturer we ever had in the
State. He belonged to a family that has
furnished congressman, Governors and
Bishops, Some two or three years since
a brother, a rich East Indian trader of
Massachusetts, left him in his will prop
erty worth S300, 900, the income from
which yielded him a handsome support in
his declining years. The Nashville Com
rnandery paid the last tribute to his mem
Dry.
Gen. A. B. Bradford, of Mississippi,
now il this city, was the first District At
tOrney of this State who appeared in a
court in Memphis. He came TO his city
in 1923, when there were not more han a
dozen cabins on the Chickasaw Bluffs.
Then there were -four or five citizens of
Memphis whose names and deeds became
memorable In local history. Gen. Marcus
3. Winchester, aid-de-canp to Gen. Har-
risou at the battle of TippecanOe, occu-
IiSO perhaps Inc BldlellcSb residence I0ab
stood far up in Pinch not many hundred
yards from the mouth of Wolf river.
lsaac Rawltns, the first Mayor of Mem
phis, whose Dortrait adOrns the walls of
the City Council Chamber, William Law
renee, Clerk of the Court, one of whose
children still resides in the city, Col. Nat
Anderson, whose son not long ago was
Lieutenant Governor of California, Mai.
Young, of whose subsequent history we
know nothing, and Tilnian Belts were at
that time citizens of M.mphis and eonsti-
tuted, with their families, almost the
whole population of the place. Gen.
Bradford's district was co-eXtensiye with
that portion of the State known as West
ern Tennessee Joshua Haskell, father of
the famous orator, Gen. VIM. r. Haskell,
and grandfather OF the excellent attorney
Of the same name now of this city, was
Circuit Judge. What is most singular is
the fact that Gen. Bradford is still youth
full in appearance and as vigorous and ac-
tive as when be addressed the FIRST
common law oou ever organized in this
end of the State. A great city has sup
planted the little village, and a region
sparsely populated by white men, within
the life time of Gen. Bradford, has be-
come n of the wealthiest and most
densely populated regions of the South.
1t is needless to say that Gen. Bradford
eyinces a keen interest in every measure
that affects the well-being ola city, whose
morals were shaped by himself, when il
was yet in its swaddling clothes, and
that he watches the growth and prosperi-
ty of Memphis with the keenest satisfac-
ton.