Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-30
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Yesterday was one of the dullest days
of the season at the Second District Pc
lice Station.
Gen. Albert Pike was lately in Angus
ia, Ga, on business connected with the
A. A. s. R.-so say the papers of that city
"A friend lately from Middle Tennes.
see SAYS that in many instances planters
were blowing up cotton and putting In
corn.
Mime. Aline de Pelegrau, nee Maggie
Cox, has beer rendered a benefit by Man
ager Thompson, and has m Friday
night next as the time.
A white man was knocked down anC
robbed ofthirty-one dollars bythree Negro
rufians, on Friday night, near the corner
of fernando and GavosO streets. The
villains escaped beforethe officers arrived
-Gayoso street is becoming a perfect
nuisance. The officers of the Second Dis
trict are kept on the qWi Uire looking aftel
the ragamuffins who make their headquar.
tiers in that detestable th%oroughfare.
We are glad to learn that the Rev. DIR
Wheat, the beloved rector of the ST. Laza-
rus church, is fast recovering from his re-
cent severe in~disposition and viii be able
to preach, ii is expected, on Sunday next
Registrar Williams yesterday said in
despair, when the writ of mdadamuS was
& td OA III IALA III - liz 0A1
bothered man in America-what with the
Democrats with their mGadamuses, and
the Radicals with the G-d-dam-us'es
that he couldn't tell which way TO turn
Look in at Toofs job Office, on Court
street, and examine his fine and elegant
stock of papers, cardboard, type and his
samples of printing. They cannot be sur
passed. In tine line of commercial print
ing, especially, he cannot be excelled.
-Viear O~rleaaGise, citizens Of Mobile,
and bon UirdRts generally, will always
find at GastOn's, Adams street, all the
delicacies of the season, prepared in the
choicest and most recherche manner.
Officers Rice and SWEET, ofthe Metro
politan Police, wounded by Johnson a
few nights since, are. we are happy to
say, doing well, and bid fair TO recover
from the injuries so wantonly inflicted.
The great comet of 1853 is again APP
preaching the earth, but cannot yet be
seen except with a telescope. This comet
makes its revolution around the sun in
about five wears and a half. 1t viii be
visible with the naked eye in a few days.
People in the suburbs are not without
their fun, despite the dearth of amuse-
ments generally in the city. A man
named Anderson and his wife spent Fri
day evening ina jolly row, for which they
paid ten dollars each to the Police Com
missioner yesterday morning.
Elsewhere we publish the advertise
ment for a concert to be given by Henry
Farmer, the popular fiutist, assisted by
Leo Wheat, the celebrated pianist, and
Miss Generes, an amateur vocalist Of New
Orleans, noted for her culture and great
ability. Her voice is represented as the
purest of sopranos, and of a compass n
sweetness riyalling that of Mile Durand.
Mr.. McGill, one of the attaches of this
office, and who was deserYedly elected by
his fe-llow-eraftsmen of the typographical
profession to represent them in the Ma
tional Typographical Union, leaves for
Albany, n. Y, tomorrow, where that
body will meet on the first Monday of
June. We commend him to the good of
ficers of the craft as a gentleman and a
faithful representative of the brotherhood
of the press.
The Somerviile Falcon announces an
other change on the SomerviIle Branch
Road. 1t says: "How long this sched-
ule viii continue we cannot tell; whether
it will be the same tomorrow il is not for
or any other man, TO know, as the
thing changes so o~ftenitis difficult to keep
with it. We viii probably announce
another change in our next issue. The
schedule, to-day, is as follows: Leave
at GAO an; arrive at Mem
phis 9:I0 am. Leave Memphis at 6 pm. I;
arrive at Somerville Mt 9:l0 PM"
The Vineennes Sttn thus notices the
of Gen. James @. Veatch to
the Adjutant-Ge neralships q We are glad
this self-sacrificing patriot has
at last been provided for, but if he had
possessed the shrewdness which one or
two of his transactions In the early part
of the rebellion indicated that he pos
sesses, he might nave done better than to
take Buck Terrell's .leayings.' For in
stance, why didn't he make Grant a deed
to President Island7 That would no
doubt have brought something hand
The young people composing the Sab
hath Schools of the Methodist churches of
the city participated in a very agreeable