Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-02
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Grapes are still plentiful on the
stands.
The Mayor has come back, or left
which?
Dogs rejoice that the muzzling law is
suspended.
This day one hundred and sixty-nIne
years ago Spain was bequeated to the
Bourbon family.
We noticed a box of Mobile lemons
at a stand yesterday. Why can't Mobile
furnish us oranges and lemons as well as
oysters2
There was a caucus of Little Rock
stock buyers yesterday evening up at
the Mayors Office. What was done de-
ponent knOweth not.
in speaking of the Pepper case yester-
day, we said that Judge ThorHe made the
! argument in favor of the city. We should
have said Judge Pierce. The words are 50
analogous that we got them COMPOUNDED.
The Street Commissioner attention
is respectfully called TO the filthy condi-
ton OF the streets. II he can't make as
much by attending to his business as
lobbying he had better. resign.
Tho ledger thinks, like ourselves, that
Il Is funny that 50 many Aldermen do
their business with the city in the names
of their wives. Are ynu bankrupt, gen
tlemen, and want 10 swindle your eonstit-
uentsY
r. II. IiIohev, once wen known In
this city, and latierly editor and proprie-
tor of the ~. Louis Journal cf Commerce,
committed suicide q few days ago~by
jumping overheard from q propeller be-
tween Chicago and Detroit.
We are requested tostate that the sub
ject ofdiscussion at the Memphis Literary
Society this evening will be: "Eciecti- /
cism the Dominant Philosophy Of the 18Th
Century" and not."' electrician" as our
Joe Millsrish friend OF the 1udIdRche
would have it.
The PerkinS-Iee contested election !
case came up for "a hearing Yesterday, and
was argued hefnre Chancellor Summers.
His decision viii be rendered to-day. A
full resume Of the proceedings, as well a.
of those in Wallace vs. Hudson, viii be-
found in our legal reports.
DIR. Kane, well known in our theat-
rleal aud sporting circles, will leave to-
day or tomorrow for Cincinnati 10 assist
John Gilbert, formerly ofthis city, father
of little Katy Gilbert - and now mana
ger of the New Nashville Theater," TO
obtain q stock for the coming season. III
anybody can, Kane is the man to do it.
and we hope he will meet with the sue
cess he deserves.
1t seemed to us but a day or two ago
that autumn, sere and yellow, no longer
divided from summer by the pluny sheaf
and lingering flowers. but with features
of its own, marked with slow decay, was
upon us. Blu our climate, which is one
of the most variable in the world, fooled
us, and again we are having weather
scarcely less warm than that of June or
July.
The attention of the police was called
r~naFnrlnv~ 49, III 4.
the article of the city code, passed August
q, 1861, in regard to the bringing of pau
pers, thieves and mendicants to the city
by steamboats, and railroads. This law
provides very heavy penalties in case of
its infraction, and we hope that the vari-
avenues of ingress to our city named
above will strictly observe its various
provisos.
Yesterday was the Festival of the
Rosary" which was instituted originally
to implore Divine mercy in favor of all
the faithful, and return thanks for bene-
fits conferred on them. The Rosary, as is
well known, is in the Roman Catholic
Church a series of prayers, consisting of
fifteen pdteTS and a hundred and fifty GUes,
which for the convenience of worshippers
are counted by beads on a string. 1.-THE
Rosary +" consists of fifteen decades-eaeh
containing one pdteT, marked by a large
and ten ares, marked by ten smaller |
h original title of this Feast was
81. Mary Victoria, but was changed by ,
Pope Gregory XIII,
Yesterday afternoon a little, girl who
for months past has infested Main street
the OyertOn to the Peabody. as a J
beggar, called on a gentleman sitting in J
of the latter hotel, and in a most l
whining and lachrimose tone, asked for
something to buy bread for her sick |
The gentleman, whose sympa-
.hies were Immediately aroused, asked
,he little mendicant where her mother '
lived. After some hesitation she an !
swered the question by saying that she :
lived between Maui aud Market streets.
lie volunteered then to go with her to the
house and relieve her mothers distresses.
was altogether dehors Ie p-rO1rnmBae. =
md the little impostOr left without at [
empting to answer the strangers prOpO- :
ition, or Visiting for further parley. This
title creature, though apparently not
'ver seven or eight years old, is one of the 4
'ldest II most importunate beggars on
iur streets. She is in the habit of ssizin9 :
adieS by their dresses as they pass, and
" her opportunities, forping them 10
i've her something. In one single day
bat we know Of size made thirty dollars. n
hope our friends viii keep an eve on
ier. and as o as a w0rkhousa can be
'uilt we hope she will be put in it. Q
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MADAME Vincent has received her su- :
'erb Mobile oysters, and will be now able
o serve her customers with them " in the
isif SHE'LL" thirty-siX hours out of the -
iriDy Cult. Every lover of the bivalve p
fill remember this and visit the Madame
at her two places, corner Of Front
nd Washington, sitd Is Union streets,
JIMMY AsTE, at 296 Main street, would r
nform his old friends and customers, and
hose Of "Domiuic," tat the corner of
lain and Unionl, that he has the very
nest Mobile Oysters on hand, and will ~
srve them up on the half shell or other n
Use, la the most elegant manner. Jim
~ is an apt scholar of an Eminent CT
and we gnarantee him Incl de
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