Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-26
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Geo. s. Robbins, Esq, of the firm of
E. A. Levy q Co., has returned home.
"A. j. Donelson, once a candidate for
Vice President, was town yesterday with
thirty bales Ofnew cotton.
The attention Of delegates to the
Louisville Convention is called to Col. J..
S. Kerr's letter elsewhere.
Nelson Ruf1n was arrested last even
ing for stealing a clock odt of the Catho-
lie school in the second district.
The list of names of delegates to the
Louisville Convention, published yester-
day, contained that of Nv. p. Stratton."
1t should have been w. D. Stratton.
About 8 o'clock yesterday after
noon heavy clouds o~yerspread the heavens
and a strong wind sprung up from the
westward. At present writing the skies
promise rain.
Col. C. 8. Price, accidentally shot by
Mr.. Martin, is rapidly recovering-thanks
to the skill and attention of DR.. Joe f..
Lynch, II of his sOn-in-lay, Ell. Carson,
Esq.
In the Board of County Commission
ers yesterday, an order was made in
structing the clerk to advertise in the
APPEAL tor proposals for the burial of
paupers.
"A fire alarm telegraph Is one of the
growing necessities of u city-nOt that
we have so many fires, but so many false
alarms, which, with a proper system like
that of Mobile, for instance, would be
well nigh impossible.
-Four of our large oyster dealers have
determined, on our recommendation, to
try Mobile one more season and see if her
oysters are not better n more accessible
than those of Norfolk. If Mobile dealers
would only wake up, the Memphis trade
would be wholly theirs.
w. r. Moore, Esq, leaves the city In
a day or two, to canvas the interior cities
of the State on the merchants tax
Notwithstanding, If possible, to enlist
the whole mercantile force of the State
against so iniquitous an enactment, with
a view to its early repeal. We wish him
all success.
The following Marriage certificates
were returned to the office of John
League, Esq, County Clerk, during the
past week: Joseph Schultz to Mrs. +.
Smith, Dewitt G.. David and Miss Gerty
Banks, D. j. DOYLE and Miss Julia D.
Montgomery, George r. Badutt and Miss
Laura Geltner, J. Z. Hunt and Miss Mary
c. Lyon, Warren Gibson and Cora Ann
Taylor, Chris. Theme and Emile Humid
hansen; in all, seven.
-Aehle, the great Union street saloon
keeper, whose establishment on heSouth-
east corner of Second aud Union streets
is the resort Of every lover of a good
drink who frequents that part of town,
tomorrow (M0nday) commences TO set
those lunches for which he has for years
been famous. At half-past 10 o'clock pre-
cisely on Monday morning his usual hot
lunch viii be served, to which all of his
friends are invited.
Alderman MOfet's dig. a few DAYS
ago, at the Finance Committee, has not
been without its good fruits. One of the
members of this body--and, by the way,
one always ready and willing to do his
full share OF work, and take his full share
Of observation-disclosures Black, yes
terday raised, on his own responsibility,
and paid to the tiremen one months
wages, $4,000 90 This lOOks like earnest
ness. May we not accept it as a pledge of
better management in future9
The case of Mr.. O'Bannor, chief clerk
Of the Overton Hotel, charged with as
sault and battery with attempt to kill one
Sullivan, the head bell man of that hotel,
came up before Squire Ed. Herman yes
terday, and after an examination resulted
in binding him Overin the sum of 5000. to
answer to the next term Of the Criminal
Court. Mr.. Barlow was arrested as ac-
cessOry, and reminded for examiGation
on Monday, bail being fixed at $1,000,
which, as In the former instance, was
easily given.
The park in Chelsea stat nOpiiais ans-
Ora. 1t is a pretty grazing field for butch
ers' cattle. Lowing herds repOse beneath
the wide-spreaGing oaks, and swine do
disport themselves where pleasurs-seek-
ing mortals proposed to lind rural de-
lights within the city's confines. A citi-
zen would adOrn the square, and the City
Engineer has drawn a beautiful plan by
which walks and parterres, such as de-
lighted Adam and Eve in Paradise, were
to be perfected; but the Board of Alder
men, and Chelsea's representatives in that
body have sadly neglected the little
park in which the multitudinous children
of Chelsea were to lOiter each afternoon
through all the days Of coming Indian
summer. When will Bickford's Park
rival in beauty and attractiveness the
pretty breastpin of Memphis, sometimes
called Court SduareS
Our readers will remember a horrible
case of cruelty, reported by US nearly a
year ago now, perpetrated by a man
named John Pepper and his wife, on the
person of an orphan child left in their
care. These two devils incarnate were ar
rested on the Both day of October last for
=" branding and burning with a red-hot
poker or other piece of iron,'' this little
orphan girl, a child Of eight or ten years
wears of age, and otherwise most cruelty,
inhunanly and smamefully maltreating
and abusing her. The proof was clear
and conclusive, and the Police Commits
sioner fined the couple, so well mated,
fifty dollars each. From thisd DECISION they
appealed, and the case was heard in the
Municipal Court yesterday. Judge F09ts,
after hearing all the evidence, confirmed
the original sentence of the Police Court,
and ordered them to pay the fine and all
occruing costs, etc, The costs alone we're
nearly Sl9S, which with the ane of 500,
made S22S, which the couple had to paw
before leaving the courtroom. No being
able to do this they were turned over 20
the police, and spent last night in the
First district INSTRUMENTATION they
ought to spend their lives.
There is no limit to fields of discussion
and inquiry developed by the Annual Re-
port of the Chamber of Commerce.. Next
after our railway system, the cotton trade
of Memphis has received, at the hands of
the Secretary the greatest attention. We
not only learn the details of the modes Of
cotton culture in this aad many countries,
but the prices for every year, and the
number of bales sold in this city since
1927. The pamphlet is full of curious, as
well as Invaluable statistics. There is not
an intelligent cotton dealer in the country
who Will not study with delight tabular
statements which show the steady change
in the course OF the cotton trade of the
South, and how the commercial map of
the country has been turned up-side-down
bv combinations of railway CAPITALISTS,
aid by the consolidation of railway lines.
Celebrity of movement saves Interest on
capital invested, and the sum lost in in
terest by the ocean and river route, de-
Quoted from railway charges, makes these
as small as freight bills which a cotton
bale must pay when sent to New York by
water. In fact, the three competing di-
rect freight lines between Memphis and
New York. the Mississippi and Ohio riY-
ers, the Memphis and Louisville, and
Memphis and Charleston roads reduce
freight charges TO a minimum, and thus
attract cotton to this city from an area of
country which is constantly and rapidly
enlarged. Another fact Is discussed by
the Secretary of the Chamber which ex-
cites no little interest. The whole system
of trade of this city, like modes of life and
industry In the interior, undergoes a thor
ough transformation. The goods, wares
and merchandise imported this year Is
double in value, and our trade with mer-
chants of the interior is certainly double.
The number of country merchants Is
much greater than before the war, and
these, instead of planters, now buy at
wholesale. Each negro and each white
man buys for himself. Formerly the
planter was a wholesale dealer in dry
goods and groceries,. 1t has resulted that \