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

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ST. feet nigh from low weter mark TO top
Of lcor. The central arch rises 70 g high1
Of eighteen feet above the floor. The
ioigfs and floor are OF the best white
oak, Two and a half inches thick
the former from fourteen to eighteen
inches deep and the latter from eight TO
ten4nches wide. The whole snPeTstruc-
ture is supported on "fvesl patent east
iron supports" placed and securely fas-
tened to white oak piles driven below low
water mark. It is calculated to sustain
safely q weight of W. hundred and fifty
tons, distributed equally over the surface
Of the floor, and VIII, undoubtedly, sGs-
tain a much greater weight, probably four
times as great as it viii ever be subjected
to. It presents an airy, graceful appear
anca, and is quite an ornament to the
river, and will stand az a monument Of
public enterprise exhibited ~ our citi-
zens 10 future gener.t oTs, an1 Will be an
evidence Of the prosperity and financial
credit of our county to those who may
visit us with the intention of locating In a
country Of fine farming facilities.
There are at the present time over
fifty horses at the race course. Among
the stables we may mention the follow
ing: Gen. BufOrd, Jackson IL Loud,
Richards 81 Kilgour. and Jennings, Of
Kentucky; Col. Bacon. of South CARROLL
ma; Conlisk, Of Ohio; Babcock, of New
York; Crafts, of Indiana; Brady, of Mis-
souri,, Messrs. Craig d Barnes, Ward, Pat
terson, Cheatham and Hayes, Of Tennes-
see. We will give a fHll list of the horses
tomorrow. Several others Will arrive
to-day and tomorrow.
The Washington, (Arkansas) Post, of
the 8Ist uIt.. has the following: 'Messrs.
Chidester q Searle, proprietors Of the
Arkansas stage lines, reached our city
Tuesday evening, on a tour OF inspection,
and favored us with a call. These gem
tlemcn deserve great credit for their OK
ertiOns to improve our means of
intercommunication; they have already
done much, and we believe it Is their in
tention 10 give US adaily mail to Little
Rock, and also to establish a stage line
hence to Boston, Texas. We wish them
success in their enterprise, anda pleasant
trip to their destination.
To-day is 'the day of a saint whose
name should be revered above all others
by the natives of this cOntinent-St. Elm
eric, the pious son OF the pious st. Ste
phen, King of Hungary. 1t is a curious
story low this somewhat obscure Hunga-
rian saint should have given his name to
Que of the grand divisions of the earth.
Through his celebrity his name became a
popular one, M was conferred in the
fifteenth century on an italian named
Nespucci-the same who followed up the
discoveries Of Columbus, and by a strange
current OF circumstances this continent
became known as america. In an article
in the GeHHsBidR's NdGuziae, for July,
I772, the stoyy is told in a charming man
nCr.
r. z. Harbert, Esq, Of our city, has
received a letter from the Danish Emf
grant Agency in Chicago, from which we
make the following extract, which, in
view OF the scarcity Of farm labor IN our
country, is important Information: Re
terring 10 nay conversation with you dur
ing my short stay South, l have found
out that the laboring class | represent
have no objection 10 20 down South, 50
that if some Of you friends and connec-
tons, as You mentioned to me, want a
good class Of help, / will be willing to
furnish them or anybody else the quanti-
" they may wish. like the South very
well myself. and, in my opinion, emil
grants can do a great deal better down
there. Suppose you send me orders this
fall for from SEQ to 1000 hands. The re-
sult viii be that they viii write to the old
country and get ten times the quantity
over next season."
The Little Rock State Journal gives
the following account Of the manner in
which Capt. VIM. EiIiott's son Harry met
his death:
This morning Harry Elliott, a young
gent Of about fifteen years, died at the
Anthony House. Yesterday morning. at
the departure of the train from DeNali's
Bluff, Mr.. E., who was accompanying his
mother (an invalid en- route to the
Springs by some means or other, failed to
get on the cars when the train started, and
1t once ran up the track 10 Overtake the
train, not being aware OF the trestle-work
just beyoud the depot at the Bluff, he fell
through, iuiuring himself badly. The
#.s, moo 5000 nn2 FLa QAanuraI noe
assisted on board. On arriving here he
and his mother stopped at the Anthony
House, and NEE. seemed to be in a fair
way O~frecOvery. This morning, however,
he was found lead in his bed. The de-
ceased is 4 son Of Captain VIM. B. Elliott,
of the White river packet Legal Tender.
The body Of deceased viii be conveyed to
Memphis by to-morroW's train"
About midnight night before last a
paragraph headed, A Injustice" came
to the cOmpOsinz-rOom of the APPEAL,
in proof from the Sun. II was taken by
tbs foreman. as IS usualin such eases, and
printed, much TO u chagrin and NORTH
cation. Che deeming what was fit and
proper 90 20 into n paper, ft and prop
er for another). The party, whoever it is,
who wrote it, who pirates so loudly about
''Ofici0usDesss't should lock a little clos
er n homo beforezsenqing articles of that
sort to newspapers. We beg to assure
Mrs. Il. NJ. Apperson, who is reflected on,
and the public, that awe neither endorse
or believe the statements made in the
paragraph. We would also state 10 the
public that if we had chosen to publish
the various cards of disappointed aspi-
rants for premiums at the late Fair tac-
cusing Judges and others of iniusticeL,
we could have filled our paper up, at
twenty cents a lin0v Modification ut such
a result is natural enough, bHt putting
cards ia newspapers is but Il pOOr mode Of
healing wounded vanity.
In view of the various spirit-rapping
humbugs aGd swipdles that are Just now
~galaVautiug around the country, never
forgetting to give Memphis a call, the let
Per of . Mr.. Faulkner, recently published
la tie NcW York Times is Of the highest
interest. Mr.. F. is a mathematical and
philosophical Observation-Disclosures, and
writes, tllst for many years he has bad Il
large sale for Spirit-rapping magnets and
batteries expressly m1ja for cOncealmeut
under the floor, in ~cuphoards, under ta-
bles, and even for the i-uic;ios Of the CEN
ter support Of large rouul tables and
boxes; that he has supplied to the same
parties quantities of pfepared wire to be
placed Under the carpets and oilaioth, or
ander Che wainscot and gilt beading
around ceilings and rooms; in fact, for
every c~o4ceiPah.e placer that sll these OBJ
yi0uSly were used for spiFit-rapping, and
the connection 10 each rapper ana battery
was to be made BY means of a small but
Ton, Ike those used for telegraphic bell
ringiOg purposes, or by means of a brass
Eeaded or other nail under the carpet at
particular patterns known TO the spirit
u9list. He describes these rappers as
''c~aiculated TO mislead the most EaiY,n
and adds tl.at These are spirit rappiug
magnets and batteries constructed eX-
pressly for the pocket, which viii rap at
any part OF the room. He has also made
drums and bells which will beat and ring
at command; but these two latter are not
so frequently used as the magnets are,
because they are too easily detected.