Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-26
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Universal Suffrage ms plaNeu Out
y The Mackerel Brigade has played
out.
The repairs of the New Memphis
Theater are progressing.
Read the new advertisements in
this mornings APPEAL.
Don't fail to read the Grand Jury
report on first page.
The people talk a great deal about
Andy johnson for Senator.
The people OF Memphis never
enioyed better health than at present.
-Murrain is alarmingly prevalent
among the cattle lear Fort Pickering.
-Wsuted-IO,O 1000 subscribers, at
- % pacS, to the mammoth WEEKLY
APPEAL.
We understand the Confederate
Picnic netted something handsome.
Hope so.
The Nashville BaHaf5' leads the
Iiberals-and they are nix beyond
that Office.
We ought to have an elevator as
well as a barge line. Who'll initiate
the movement?
People generally are preparing Tor
the best seasons business ever Mem
phis has known.
"A few disappointed gbirl-a-gig poll
ticiaus curse the APPEAL, Inats
what we thrive on.
New cotton begins TO arrive in quan-
titles predicating big yield anda good
market ia Memphis.
~ -.-4 - -.-,a .-1Vau vu-n RIM 3rau-
terday Notwithstanding the heavy
rain of the day before.
Seven out Of the thirty-fve OH
Gers on day duty in the First District
are on The Sick-list.
We are promised a rOusing and
attractive theatrical season. All sorts
OF good things are in prospect.
A note from Mrs. Kremer denies
that her husband had any hand in
"scalping - the co~untryman.
The talk Of the town yesterday
was the Indictment by the Grand
Iury of TWO Of the County Commits
Sio8eTs.
Justice Griffith sent p. Duprc be-
fore the Criminal Court yesterday tor
malicious mischief. Bond fixed at
5000.
The Citizens onion Is going to
spend money in the prosecution Of
derelict County Commissioners. 80
il IS said.
Justice Griffith will look into the
caSe of Martha Hodges this morning
at g0'ciOck. Martha is said to be 4
%perjuress.
Memphis is now the most law
abiding city thanks 70 Hudson and
HOrrigan) ia the Union, and the most
thriving.
The old aph0rism, hunting for a
needle in q hay stack" has been
changed 10 hunting for a Liberal in
Tennessee"
A negro Gance-house on Fourth
street, ue5r Jefferson, Is becoming a
nuisance % adjacent residents. The
police are notified by these presents.
Everybody goes for the State Con-
stituU0nalC Convention, and everybody
il in favor Of a clean sweep, if we
have 10 elect many officers over again.
The county officials are much
orcised. The Grand Jury report IS
worse than the seNpn-mOnths' collie TO
a baby. 1t occasions an everlasting
howl.
Seventeen cases We're tried It the
Second District court yesterday after
noon. Fines TO the amount Of SS5
were levied, but only S35 Of the sum
was collected.
The Agricultural Fair of the Shell
by County Society, 20 be held in De-
tOber, promises to be equal, il not su-
periOr, 10 any given before the a
So mote it be.
-Kremer and Vance, the hackmen
who /" scalped" the hOOsier the other
day, will answer for their peccadil-
los before Justice Willard this after
noon at 9 O'Clock.
Commission merchants and bust
ness men generally are preparing for
the coming season. The most active
and shrewd Of them advertise. See
the APPEAL of to-day on every page.
Some stupid has started a para
graph on its rounds, giving credit to
A. T. Stewart, the misery haber-
dasher, for the discovery that judi
cious advertising pays best in dull
times.
Memphis has the credit Of the
presence of the most able bar" i'm
point of numbers, in the Union. We
mean the illegal" bar and not the
Iiauid of which duringthe hot weather
we have heard frequent encomiums.
Very many Of the old hack poll
ticians are preparing states for the
Convention, but especially for county
and city offices. 1t troubles them TO
know whittier to drop on the Demo-
cratic Oh the Universal Suffrage side.
We shall see what we shall see.
The OvertOn, Peabody and Com
mercial hotels are ready for business.
Come on We s~pendthFift thousands.
We have a legitimate theater, a
variety show, beer cellars, paFlOr
concerts and all the other evidences
of high, nineteenth century civiliza-
ton.
Next to litigation, the chief de-
light ol a negro. comes stealing chick
ems. When there are no chickens to 1
be reached, he sits down to a game Of
4soid sledge," as a paStime the most
ENJOYABLE. Five Of the cOlOred sports
were g0bbled yesterday afternoon
and taken to the Second district sta