Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-06
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

for the summer.
The weather was bright and balmy
yesterday-more like April than June.
There was not a single murder last
week. Memphis is improving.
Capt. Mont Pepper of the Western
Union Telegraph Company is in the city.
We are indebted TO him for theYery latest
files of New Orleans papers.
John Connors and Daniel Brown, COM
mitted ny Justice Maillard under the va
grancy act, were discharged from custody
by Judge Hunter, on the grounds Of in
formality in the mittimus.
Police matters in the Second District
were in n cOmatOse state-not the force,
by N means-but the evil-dOers. Only
a few arrests, and those for trifing Of
lenses.
The proposition of Messrs. T. L.
Brown & Co., which has caused h effu-
sion of so much printers ink, and any
amount of "iaw = lately, was set at rest
yesterday evening by being Withdrawn.
How is it that Hunter has not had
Morton, the Haywood county school
teacher, before his court on a writ of ha-
beas corpus? Is this most righteous
Judge going back" on his ''pals?"
-Beal street market was well supplied
yesterday, and we were glad to notice a
material reduction in the price of vegeta-
bles-caused, no doubt, BY the showers
which fell within the last few days.
Thomas Ryan, who lives on Concord
street, was "fOoling" with a pistol last
evening about seven o'clock, when it
dropped out o&his hand and was dis
charged in falling, sending a bullet
through his knee. The wound is serious
but not dangerous.
That abomipable locality, the neigh
borhood Of theGorner of peSoto and Gay
fight yesterday between a pair Of black
viragoes. They were cared for by the
police of the Second District.
In another place will be found the
card of u friend John Lilly, Esq, dealer
in groceries, No. 351 Main street. By some
accident a notice of it was overlooked in
our yesterdays edition. Our friends wish
ing anything in the grocery line, either
staple or fancy, cannot do better than to
visit Lilly.
-OHr friend VIII Mansford, at the Cath
Ollie bookstore, has the latest Appleton's
Illustrated, Scientific Americap, and in
deed all the newest and freshest iIIUstra-
ted and literary papers of the day on his
shelves. Catholic serial literature is y
speciality with him.
-tEOWuS OI negroes unt OiHeFS were
drawn TO the neighborhOOd of the Circuit
Court rooms, yesterday, by the inves-
LEGATIONS which were then going on, n
in expectation of the return of the
writ of mandamus compelling Regis
tray Williams to grant the certificate of
election 10 Gen. Wallace.
Mrs. Leon T~roGsdale sent to the Edi-
tors of the APPEAL a bottle Of strawberry
cordial, which, aftertrying, We pronounce
to be really the most delightful drink of
the sort that we ever tasted. 1t has the
true strawberry flavor, preserved in all
its purity, and reflects the very highest
credit on the housewifery of Mrs. Trous-
dale. We return her many thanks for 1t.
The latest indoor amusement is
termed the printers delight" and is
performed in the following manner: Take
a sheet of note paper, fold it carefully,
and inclose a ban note sufficiently large
TO pay up arrearages. and a year in adj
vance. And what adds immensely to the
feat, is to send along the name Of a new
subscriber, with cash 10 balance. Try it..
reader!
The annual examination of the va
riOus classes in the Memphis Female
Seminary, No. 100 Madison street will
commence tomorrow morning at o.
The Seniors Will be examined
Monday; Juniors, Tuesday; Primary and
classes on Wednesday. Pat
and other friends of education are
cordially invited to be present.
We noticed yesterday afternoon a
understanding girl driving TO
market in an elegant buggy. The horse
which looked like q fine spirited animal,
to know who was driving him,
md travelled along the streets as if proud
Of the burthen he bore. This is one phase
Of woman's rights that one of us viii OBJ
iect to.
The Journal Of Chemistry publishes
this remedy for water-bugs and cock
reaches: Boil n ounce of poke root in
pint OF water until the strength is eX-
tracted; mix the deeoction with molasses
and spread it on plates in the kitchen or
other apartments which are infested with
these insects. All that have partaken of |
his luxury during the night WILDE found
organic remains the next morning."
Somebody started a report yesterday
that an old darby junk-dealer had found
roll ~ofgreenbacks amounting to 5000 in |
IN old mattress. III less than half an
after the gained credence /
were no less than two hundred |
newly found relatives rushing TO and fro
seach of the said-tO-be newly enriched
Done-gatherer.
The Grand Lodge of Georgia in 1857 |
a resolution disclaiming all con-
lection with the institution known as the
Georgia State Lottery for the Masonic
Orphans Home. The Masons of Rome
lately, by a publication in the Rome
Courier, again denounced the lottery, and
warn all their brethren throughout the
to beware oft.