Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-24
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The sky last night promised the much
needed rain. VIII it keep its promises?
There were ten arrests in the First
and nine in the Second, up to dark last
night.
The weather was not so warm yester-
day, the thermometer ranging among the
seventies and eighties.
Read the article headed "A Big Spec
ulation." 1t accounts for some Of the
milk in the cocoa nut, but not for the rind
on the outside.
The Screen Stockings, jr.," OF this
city, departed on Wednesday night for
Helena, on the steamer Dan Able, to play
a match game of base ball with the Lone
Stars of that place.
We are sorry to learn that our friend,
Mrs. NJ. C. Hunter had a congestive chill
on Wednesday night, which well nigh
ended her earthly career. Her physicians
inform us, however, that she is now out
of danger, and will soon be around again.
The bonded warehouse question is still
being discussed among our importing
merchants. Everyone wants it, and we
think it is one Of those necessities that
commerce must have. We cannot, with
u rapidly increasing trade, get along
without it, and our merchants may AZ
well note the fact and make some ar
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city declared a port of entry.
Several of the oyster dealers Of this
city have sent orders to Mobile for BIZ
valves. This is sense The waters of the
Gulf are of the same temperature and de-
gree of sadness superior to that of the
Atlanticl the year around, and the oysters
are consequently goOdin all seasons. Be
sides this, Mobile is t~wenty-four hours
removed from us, while Norfolk under the
present management, is often siXor seven
days off. Give Mobile a chance.
"A darkey came into headquarters yes
terday with a wonderful yarn about how
the Ku-klux murdered an innocent dar-
key several weeks ago, and east his body
into Big Creek-hOw the body refused to
sink, and has since fioated on the turbid
waters of that classic stream. and how it
now lies half in the water and half out,
seven miles from town. Some steps were
taken to verify his statements, but up to
the hour ofgoing to press nothing definite
has been learned.
Our d~og-show idea is already pr0du-
cling fruits. We are in receipt OF three
letters from spOrtsmen who propose to
enter their dogs for the prize. Won't Col.
Charlie Stone, of the Chickasaw Jockey
Ciub-always the nrst in everything per-
tanning to the turf and field, make a
move in this lnatter2 He can do so if he
will, and we are assured that there are at
least twenty gentlemen who will make
entries if the affair is properly started.
Let's have the dog shOwl Fetch up
your purps."
Quite a commotiOn WAS raised around
the Overton yesterday afternoon about
half-past ? or 3 O'Clock by a row between
Mr.. O'BannOn, h chief clerk, and Ed
Sullivan, head bell man, in which the
latter got pretty roughly handled. The
chief cause of connection was the acei-
dental firing of a pistol during the %scuftie,
the ball from which luckily did no lam
age. Sullivan, we learn, was drunk, and
only refused to attend 10 his duties
and obey the clerk, MIR. O'BannOn, but
was insulting and defiant. Mr.. OBJ. not
being used to anything of the sort went
for " him, and mauled him pretty badly.
DR.. Lynch was called in to dress his
wounds, but say they are not dangerous.
In our yesterdays report of the case
of EdmOnds, Pettigrew * Co. VS.. the
United States, We gave, as we generally
in such cases, the statement of both
sides, that by the attorneys of h firm
and that by the United States officers. In
what we published from these last, the
was conveyed Of suspicion OF fraud
in Virginia or elsewhere by parties who
do business with EamOnds, Pettigrew &
Co., of which il is presumed and believed
by the officers that the house is entirely
They do not assert, and so far
as we can learn, il cannOt be proven that
there is even the faintest suspicion of any
thing wrong with a house that stands
among the best In our city.
In the old Greek laws of Lycurgus,
with all their severity, there was no law
That punished patricide or matricide.
When, in the course OF time, a ease of
this most horrible of all crimes was COM
mitted, there was no authority on the
book to authorize the punishment
Of the offender When the founder of the
was approached with his remissuess,
be said that it mad never entered his mind
that so hcinOus r crime against the gods
and man could be committed, and had
consequently not provided for il. Luck
lily, our lawgivers were not so remiss, and
Bill Parker will to-day be held to an
swer for the infamous and horrible crime
If assaulting his aged father with intent
10 kill him. The brutal designs of this
young devil were frustrated, and he ar
rested by the Opportune arrival of a pO-
.icemau.