Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-03
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

MUIR, SteDDlnS Puaten, OF tins city, dled
at his residence neal Richmond, Va, on
the 18th ult.
Those who procare their daily PROV
ender from the markets viii take notice
that on and after Monday next the mar
ket hours viii be changed from > to 10
o'clock to / to s o'clock am.
Officer Cusick was ungallant enough
yesterda yafternoon to escort Miss Annie
Lewis TO the First District station, and
there enter against her the charge OF
, drunk. The truth of the accusation will
he looked into this morning.
Mr.. Waldran, the popular conductor
of the Memphis and Ohio Railroad, leaves
| to-day for New York and Canada, where
he expects to spend a few weeks of the
summer He has our best wishes for a
| pleasant trip.
The fishing season has again fairly
| commenced. AS will be seen by an adj
vertisement in another column excursion
trains III out to Ten Mile Bayou every
day. The ferry leaves the foot of Union
street al Z am. and returns at g PIN.
On Sunday evening last, about seven
o'clock, an affray took place at Franklin,
between two young men, McGavOck and
| DeGraffenreid, in which the former was
mortalIy wounded by the latter with a
bowie knife. The murderer was not ar
rested.
The season at Raleigh Springs opens
! to-day with a gEsnd picnic, bran dance
and barbecue. No pains or expense have
been spared to make the opening n of
the p~leasantest affairs that has occurred
this season. Trains Will run on the Mem
phis and Ohio Railroad, leaving at 913 and
NJ am. and 5 fGm., and return at 6 pm.
The Transfer Company's Omnibuses will
| he at the National Cemetery to convey
passengers to the Springs.
The report of James NJ. Stafford, State
| biologist, has Just been published by the
| State Printer. 1t is a book of over five
hundred pages, and embodies the princi-
pal results Of the geological surveys and
and researches made by that gentleman At
intervals during the last twenty years. IL
| contains q vast amount of scientific re-
search which will be invaluable in c0n
nectiOn with the interests Of the State.
"A little daughter. only four years old,
| of Mr.. JnO. FreehettC-knOwn to the
multitude as " French John "-straved
| from the house of her parents yesterday
| afternoon, and for a time the family We're
in great distress lest serious harm had be
fallen the little wanderer. She was pick
| ed up. however, near Wolf river late in
the afternoon by some kindly disposed
person, and when found by her anxious
father was enjoying nap after her four
hours tramp.
"A couple Of young gentlemen whiled
| away q = portion of the tedious and tasteiess
hours Of Yesterday afternoon 10y slipping
quietly into the Darkroom of . banking
| house near the corner Of Front n Madi-
son streets, and very museularly punch
ing each others heads for the space of ten
minutes. The entertainment was strictly
! private. and this reporter is unable to
chronicle which of the light-weights can
/ claim first blood. The abrupt entrance Of
a pillar Of the church" into the apart
: l4rru4 L-CnuIT tho a fair IN close without
the customary orally and knOck-dOwn
Tor the Wind-up." Freights steady al
previous quotations.
In the investigation of the fraudulent
use on C-ustOnhOuse documents of IN
celled Internal Revenue stamps. recently
made By Col. Frank +. Howe, Special
Agent Of the Treasury Department, it was
discovered that the practice prevails among
merchants of making use of stamps which
had been removed from maecepted drafts.
The question having been submitted to
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
the following decision has been given:
" When a stamp has been attached TO a
draft and cancelled, and the draft issued
or delivered, the efficacy of the stamp is
exhausted, and it is illegal to remove it
and afix il TO another paper. The accep-
lance or non-acceptance of draft makes
no difference. If any person removes or
uses a second time a stamp which has
been once used, he is liable, on conviction,
to Il fine not exceeding $1,000, or imprisOn-
ment not exceeding five years. or both
such fine and Imprisonment.
Calvary Church was crowded last
evening by the beauty and fashion Of the
city, present to witness the marriage of
Mr.. HoratiO Ward to Miss Mary MCGEE.
Precisely at half-past eight O'Clock the
Rev. DIR. White. Rectorof Cavalry, entered
the chancel. This was the signal for a
grand Outburst by the Organist. MIR.
Schultze, who continued to play a variety
Of appropriate airs until the arrival of the
wedding party, who proceeded to the altar
in the following order: The groom, es-
cOrting Mrs. DIR. Arthur Taylor; DIR. Ar
thur Taylor, escorting the bride. who was
dressed most becomingly and in n way TO
enhance her beanty; Miss Annie Taylor
and Mr.. Ed. Foster; Miss Sue Martin and
Mr.. Addison Hays; Miss Bette MCGEE .
and Mr.. Willie Gray; Miss Lizzie Baxter
and Mr.. Wright. Arriving at the altar
SO impressive and appropriate, upon the
conclusion of which the bridal party pro-
eeeded to the residence of DIR. Taylor, on
Adams street, where the bride and groom
received the Fluctuations and congratula-
ions Of their friends. In conclusion, we
may I've permitted to add ours, N to eX-
press the hope that the future Of Mr.. and
AiIS. w dIu may ne Cic VI tiiiltAtti udp- 2
piness and prosperity.
The old saw 50 often quoted, Truth
is stranger than fiction" if paraphrased to
- truth is more ludicrous than fiction"
and applied to many of the sayings ac-
credited to negro preachers, would be
equally aprOpOs and true. We have read
a good many manufactured negro SER
mons, but in none of them have We ever
with anything more mirth-eXciting
than the following, the authenticity of
which is VOuched for by q friend: The oe-
casioa was a big Saturday night revival
meeting, and there were assembled
some three or four hundred darkies of all
and sexes, whom three colored di-
vines " were alternately eXhorting, per
shading, seolding, threatening and argyll
into spasms OF religious ferver. All at
one of the said "divines,D old uncle
Charlie Wragg, as he was called land who
will I've remembered by every man, wo-
nan and child who lived in Mobile in the
good old ante bellHm times1, broke out into
/ load "yah-yah-yah shouting and
,lapping his hands, apparently in an ecs-
.asy of delight. What is it, brudder
What dat de Lord done bin said
% Nou?' asked two OF three of the breth-
anxious to- know what cid Charlie had :
: found.'' Vas brudders, - said he, as if /
discourse, "Old Satan is {
sharp, / tell yON-de old sarpent
bat he is; but, Dress Godl de Lord is a
sharper. What YOU think hesaid to I
lie Lord one dayY Helmet De Lord and /
Master walkin' round and round de /
and he had de impotence TO AK Z
eff he knNAged JoD.n WHAT my !
arventAJob2ptd de Lord axedi him. " d. 4
aryent JOb-dy sarvent job, indeed. ]
irvine to make dat same Job euss YOU to '
lour face Dat he did, my breddrin-de ]
I'D sarpent had de sass 10 say dem berry {
words Ca groan from the audiencel But (
le Lord hsAyas a shinin in a full blaze Of )
labaster glory all lie time-iust looked at :
i'm and said @you ~'eaitful, owdacious !
villinl Pm gwine to put you into de pit z
or a thousand years egroans from the I
audience and an a-neH}; yes / is, AN I {
a great mind tolpat you daf for two +
years (cries of glory You +
lear datf1 OATS SO, bless Godi') and !
len arter dat, eff l coteh you aroun' l
dateTYaylagin IN put yeuin dar (
or ebber, ef5 Thassr 20 DOH aide fiat ef .
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