Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-04

= just possible thaJ some OF lhehl may
be correct.
Gov. Clayton has designated the 18th
inst. rs a day Of thanksgiving, in accord
ance with the proclamation ui the Presi-
dent. The governors of several other
States haye done the same. and we sup
pose thai, Gov. Senter Will follow the ex-
ample.
Fanny Brown and Fanny Wiliets.
two wicked looking wepches, went for
and overiasttuElY chawed each other yes
terday. the consequence WAS charges
and CoUCtcrch1rges before 'SquiTes
Burke and Black, which viii be heard to-
day.
-Atthe premium cotton sale yesterday,
a full report Of which viii be found u
our commercial column, the premiumhale
sold for 30 cents, the second best for -
cents. The eest two bales sold for IS
cents; the second best two bales were not
sold.
Henry Nelson had William Robinson
bound over to keep the peace by Squire
Willard yesterday for threatening to
"knock The stufint out of him. break
his neck, cut his throat, split his giszard,'
and to do several other equally amiable
things.
"A vile, mean Western paper suggests
that If the names Of war vessels are in
tended 20 Brighten the enemy, instead of
calling our gunboats the Fury, or the
Terror, we had better baptize them the
Cholera. the Susan Il. Anthony, Barbour
Lewis, DIR. Ahite, or General smith.
The Radical aad rascaIly County Com
m~issioners cndeavOred. yesterday, to hold
a1nCetiug. but coulduOt secur a. quorum.
They viii, If not prevented, meet to-day,
and close out their years Of rasc1iity. We
hope a notification from the Legislature
viii reach the city in time to prevent tlHs
last rasrallty.
some months ago &c was stated IN our
exchanges that Charles c.. Tucker, claim
agent al Washington, had been suspended
from practice by the War Department for
malpractice. We sec by a o of the
Washington Chronicle that he has been
reinstated, and the order OF suspension
revoked.
Same in quantities is beginning to ar
rive in the CITY. We E0tisa among the va
Tieties hanging IN front of Victor Fuchs
place Of business (on Jefferson, near the
Opera iouSei, geese. swans, DUCKS, snipa,
Wild turkeys, Venisou, bear. squirrels,
Lares, fish, and indeed almost every va
riety Of game. We extend our thanks To
him for = splendid pair Of Aiallard ducks.
When the new Union Hotel OF Leland
Brothers, at Saratoga, is completed. twill
be the largest hotel in the world. IS will
have a frontage OF IHj0 feet. five stories
high. 70 viii L2 built OF brick. and the
building VIII be divided HitC nine com
~pariments. almost fire-proof. 10 is TO be
Euished and furnished. ready for The re-
reptiou If guests, by the lst day o. June
next.
-Fhe thirty-Grst annual session Of the
Most WOT-hipful GraHd lodge Of Free
and Accepted Aaaddis of Arkansas, COM
E1cnced lis session at : pm. Monday, at
Little Rock. Distinguished Masous, who
are also SnoWnftv0rably IN the ordinary,
MANY Of them in the public walks Of life.
ere ia attendance, adding to the thrUng
uPop eur stsesta. and ~eniiVeniug business
as well as appearances.
One OF the greatest wastes in our
domestin economy Is the loss questioned
hy the leaving Of garbage aad NhGg ma-
nurei in the streets To be washed away by
rains. There is no telling the amount Of
fertiliziug power that Is washed away and
lost to our land by this stupid policy. Ia
Mobile and other Southern cities, market
gardeners readily pay tatse pricea for
these fertilizers, Whynot hercf
Some OF the Gernan.names for beer,
and lis distinctions and varieties, says an
exchange, are amusing. They call il viii
t~age-dcyjl. sh2ky-hcad. mule, shaky-cap,
death-blow, acsih. head. I~don'tknoW-
INV AtbAANA AHhAh A@h" - AA#Na -
beard, peace and unity, cool blonde. trash.
cIack, %go-down, cuckoo, buffalo, oil, and
other appeilatipps more or less signih-
can't.
The Grenada sentinel * by all odds
the best and most attrac i've paper which
reaches US from the interior. Il is edited
with singular moderation, Hberality and
good sense, and in all its mechanical iea-
snres Is surely unrivalled. We see
tE, .sft,-AF fT.a G..ggas1T FTa ,t~4a posrar
In Memphis, and therefore we cannot
speak Of his personal WORTH VS. caa
only Judge Of his intellectual and moral
attributes by reference to the Sentinel.
-Gcntiemen who frequent the thoator
much can appreciate Jones remarksto a
friend a night or two ago, as they LEFT the
thedter together: " Did YOU ewes give a
Dog q thcater check ," inquired Jones.
Never" (" Ever see a man give one?''
No" Ever hear OF IT, being cone2'
"NO." "Well, il never was done hat
once. A great many years ago, a man
coming out of a theater gave a boy a
check, The boys heard of 1t, and they
have been Waiting for that man ever
since"
A little Niger baby was found yester-
day morning in front of the double tene-
ment building known as the Greenlaw
Block. on Union street, No. "a, between
lllfu uitfa lDtItH clitGt1s ~ was wei
dressed, and though very young. was as
vicious as any other little "impOfdark-
ness" black or white. that we naVe ever
seen. 1t was given to a negro woIBan
named Caroline johnson, who lives in the
n~eighboThoOd, to take care of. If things
keep on this way, We shall soon be conn
PEELED to establish a Negro fouHdling hos
pitaI. This is the fourth that has been
picked up in the past two weeks.
a. - -,raa Il naraYsa pf
opinion as 10 the relative merits of Tho
peanut and e~ottousSed salad oils eXbib-
tied at the late Fair. having tested both,
taking olive oil as q standard, we have no
hesitation in giving the preference to the
c~otton-seed oil, as being the closest imita-
ton Of that OIL Which, for centuries, has
been the only one used for salads by
g0armdHdS and bon Uiged7s. The peanut
oil is excellent. and, 10 those who like a
peanut flavor in salads, is a'splendid ar
ficle Of salad oil, but the advantage that
the cotton seed OF has over it is that IL
the cotton seed is without any positive
taste or favor, and can consequently not
impart any to a salad.
We were informed Yesterday by
Messrs. Seossel & Sons that they have
on exhibition and for sale at their we'll
known dry goods house, a very large lot
I Of German linen table damasks, napkins,
3 L0Mtl1iiH. SnttAiAAAr rls. Aht NIftiAvLitf
Of German table linens il well known, and
these goods ook the prize geld medal at
the Paris Exposition. The goods are in
charge of Mr.. T.. Alschuler, who brought
them with him from Germany, and as the
Importation is direct, he can afford to sell
them at figures far less than similar arti-
cles of goods have ever been offered to our
Memphis public. As Mr.. Alschuler's stay
is limited, our lady housekeeping friends
should not fail to avail themselves of an
early opportunity to replenish their table
linen, napkins and toweliing.
The work upon the new iron bridge
on the Mississippi Central Railroad, across
the Tallahatchie, is complete, and the
public are only prevented from crossing
upon it by the approaches not yet being
completed. The contract for the building
of the approaches was awarded to Mr.. J..
l.. Fletcher, to be completed by the first
dav of JanuarYsnext, and we understand
that be is busily engaged in getting out
the timbers, and confidently expects 10
have the work done before the time speci-
lied a. a limitation in his contract. Tie
bridge is Of the kind known as " Kings
patent wrought iron tubular arch, and
built bv Messrs. BarbarouX x Co, Louis
willie. XIV. who own the patent right fer
these bridges in the Southern states, and
is in three spans. The central span is one
hundred and eighty feet in length, and the
two end ones thirty-fye teet each, II IL