Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-18
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

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More 10 yesterday.
Why do the Mobile papers come to us
so irregularly?
The pavement cleaners seraped up the
mud on Jefferson street yesterday. Bully!
Fuel thieves are on the rampage in
the suburbs. Coal and wood are stolen
nightly.
Our lady friend with the balloon skirt
elevator, has taken out a cdBeot, and in
tends to apply for aPatent., or.
There were only three arrests in the
First, and two in the Second District up
to 5 o'clock yesterday evening.
in spite of the snow, rain and mud,
the streets were full of ladies yesterday,
mostly strangers in own purchasing holt
day goods.
comes of on Friday evening, December
oath, at Coehrane Hall. Grand times
may be looked for.
Mary Clayton had one Jack Doyle ar
rested yesterday evening and carried be-
fore Squire Burke on q charge Of assault
and battery, with intent to Kill.
"A little girl, about seven or eight
years old, came to the bakery of Mr..
! Humes, near the corner of Beal and Main,
yesterday, and said she was lost.
Joe Locke has received Appleton's
Journal, Harper's Bazaar, and all the
other illustrated weeklies, besides any
quantity of foreign d~ailies, weeklies and
monthlies. Go and see him
The Chinese and japanese goods which
have been on exhibition and for sale at
Register, Trezevant &c Co.'S. for several
days past, have been packed up and car
ried otf-nQt meeting the ready sale that
they ought, we suppose,
We saw a dQg-a small white dog-it
loOkedHke a pet dog-with a bright me-
tallic utensiI tied 70 its tail, going like
Old Harry was after him ,ior her, up the
alley between Jefferson and East Court
streets yesterday evening. The owner
viii no doubt be glad 10 learn the where
abouts of-his pQrp.
At a large meeting OF the citizens Of
the Ninth Ward, 70 appoint delegates to
the Constitutional Convention. Judge
Swayne stated that satisfied with NUM-
cipal honOrs, he would not be a candi-
date for reelection, The meeting passed
heartily and unanimously q vote of thanks
tohim for his faithful and efficient services.
While other dealers generally take ad-
vaatage OF cold and gloomy weather aud
the scarcity Of fuel, to raise the price,
those noble sentlerasnf messrs. Bigfev.
Mellersh & Co, advertise their coal at re-
duced prices. II you wish good fuel and
cheap, we refer you to the southeast cor
ner OF FoOUth Court and Main street
Bigley, Mellersh &CO.
Mr., e. Lavisne, che hair yorker, No.
1904 Main street, has the largest and
finest collection of ladies' braid5, CHG
mons, waterfalls, etc., ever brought to
Memphis. He makes n style of hair
work to order, and sOlicits the patronage
of the ladies of Memphis. Gentlemen are
reminded that he has for safe the most
perfect wig ever invented.
Al the stated communication of De
Soto Lodge sNo.s 299, held. last evening,
the following officers were elected to serve
for the ensuing twelve months: John d.
Beard, w. NJ; r. c. Williamson, 9. W;
John W. Graham, j. W.; x. W. Shelton,
Secretary; w. n. Wilksrson. Treasurer;
Bun f. Price, ). D.; s.. C. McComar, J.
D.; IL. Sutton, Tyler; Rex. D. Burns,
Chaplain; J. IL. Cooper and ]. y. Smith,
Stewards.
"A notorious negro, nafaed. James Bar
rett, was arrested by the Second District
Police yesterday evening for being drunk
and disOrderly. Alter being carried TO
the stationhOuse ha was so abusive (aI-
though apparently not very drunk that
the police were compelled to haudcUf and
afterward to chain him. His behavior
convinced US OF the necessity Of some dis
cretionaTy 'c5rrectivs discipline being
placed in the hands of the police,
We learn that the Compress Compa-
MES made a proposition to compromise
with shippers to-day on a basis OF S7%
seents per bale for cOmpressing, but the
shippers, at a meeting, decided not to ac-
cept the offer, and a subscription list was
opened tor the purpose of building a
shippers compress, to be owned by buy
ers and controlled by them. The mount
subscribed was large we learn, and only a
few buyers were present, owing to the
v~aafhnP 8 nrnnnEfTFnn was made ny mar
ties in C1ncinnati to compress all cotton
shipped from this port at s. cents per
bale, but it also was rejected, being con-
sidered too high.
The highth OF mealness-tO walk into
a newspaper Office, ask for q paper, and
after standing at the desk OF the Office, in
every boGy's-way, until YOU have read the
paper through, shove IL back 10 the clerk
with, - well, / guess 1 don't want to buy
one this morning" or, - only wanted to
look at the letter list" or, &" lust wanted
TO see the telegraph. or ~ merely wanted
to glance over the local" The price of a
paper is only five cents, and the sct we
have described is as mean as 10 go 30 the
! pOstOfice, get a letter on which postage
is due, and after reading it, hand it back
to the clerk to save paying postage. Most
people who do the trick DO not reuect on
the trouble and annoyance it costs, or for
the sake of a pitiful " five cents they
would not act so.
The lessons taught by the war have
not all been forgotten by u ladies. Wit
ness a case in point, which happened a
night or two ago. Early in the evening,
before the return ofsnyOfthe gentlemen,
the ladies of a family living in the
suburbs, thought that they heard steps
on. the front gallery of the house. After
listening for some MINUTES they became
convinced that the parties, whoever they
were, were cup to no good" an opinion
which was verified when they heard the
strangers pass around TO the back yard
and make their way into the ~CoalhOuse,
where they commenced shoveling the coal
intO some which they had
brought with them. After listening 20
the bold robbers a few minutes the young
er of the ladies-thero were two, mother
and daughter-Went to her brothers bed
room, and took from its holster her
brothers. old army six" After exam
lining it carefully, and satisfying herself
that it was loaded, she walked to h back
of the house, to a window that COM
manded a pOiEt-blank range Of the coal
house door, and showing the muZZle
through the corner of a broken pane Of
glass. took aim as well as she could, and
blazed away. There was a hurried shut
fling of feet, a scrdmbling over h back
fence, and ali was still. No coal went out
of the yard that night. Of u stuff are
our her0ines madaL ~
ELEGANT N of dress goods, plaids
and1empress cfOthsiat cost.
4. SEESSEL & SON.
GREAT bargains this week at B. Lowen-
p 81 49, r.. nwgG