Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-19
c PARAGRAPHS.

Sec new advertisements on our first
page.
Yesterday was the fifth anniversary
of the battle OF Chiekamauga.
One hundred bales Of new cotton
We're shipped 10 New Orleans yesterday
by river.
The cry for a bonded warehouse is
growing louder each day. A bonded
warehouse we must have.
Yesterday WAS a genuine summer
day again, the thermometer being mp
among the nineties for awhile.
Squire Swan yesterday sent Mrs.
Mary Greer To Jail in default Of hail'for
assault and battery on Mrs. Mary Kelly.
The case comes up OF Monday again.
The streets were alive with people
for awhile yesterday egening-by far the
larger portion of the crowd on the Main
street ~banquetts being ladies.
There was a grand ball at Bob
ChUrch's saloon night before last, Nc
which there were several tree n9hts, and
which made the neighbArhood howl for a
while.
Last week was the q%uietest in police
circles that has been known in Memphis
in a long time, there having been not
even a serious disturbance ia any portion
81 the town.
-Thenext regular meeting 0ftie Phil
harmonic Society VIII be held at the Pr
auo Rooms ofMr. G0egel, 375 Main street.
next Monday evening Septcmber2b th, a.
3 o'clock.
Madame DTelssiglcker, VINO keeps the
Monroe saloon, No. 80 Monroe street, will
set 2 grand oyster lunch and give an in
stTunIental concert Tomorrow Monday
al 10 am. Everybody Ia invited.
Any person having q furnished room
To rent, within three squares OF the corner
Of Main and Jefferson streets, can find a
quiet, respectable and punctu3l tenant by
addressing az. O." at this Office.
The two cases OF habaas corpus heard
before Judge Lee Yesterday resulted in the
discharge of Ell Guthrie, and the remand
ing Of Tom Haines. on Monday the sp-
plicatiOn of Mack and Paul Down, who
are held by the Sheriff for a requisition
from Mississippi, will be argued.
"A dispatch was received here yester-
day stating that the Supreme Court had
refused to grant q supersedeas in
the Curry contempt case, and had
decided that the question OF Judge Foute's
jurisdiction was not before the Court.
This is rather a hard slap at somebody.
The officers of the various courts COM
plain loudly of the old jury nuisance
chronic jurors-men who hang around
the courts, and when the Marshal or dep
uties are hunting for jurors, throw them
selves in their way. Some vigorous steps
should he taken against these d" profess
SIGNALS, " as has already been lone in other
cities.
THE city paid off on Friday a Judg-
ment OF $500, granted in the Municipal
Court to Amy Il Co. of New York, on
past due coupons. for which they sued,
and for which the Little Rock Railroad
stock had been attached. We understand
other heavy judgments have been or are
being paid. Tax sales are beginning to
have a salutary effect.
The follow ing marriage certificates
Were returned to the office OfJOhn Loague
County COurt Clerk, during the past
week; William Henghold to Mrs. Joanna
P6tersonl W, J. Sanders to Mrs. Annie
RogaR; J. K. Williams to Miss n. T.. Re
lOate; John BOothe 10 Miss Maggie Elvin,
Peter Atkins to Miss Sarah r. Collins;
hve in all.
The "annual statement of the trade
and commerce Of Memphis" bv Mr.. viii.
liam Trask. Secretary OF the Chamber OF
~Gomgnerce, viii Ia issued from the presz
on AoEday next. We hive been priyi-l
legged TO examine the proofs OF this
statement" and think we can safely
promise our mercantile community 4
truthful exhibit of our trade, and a fair
casting of the horoscope of our future.
In a notice by as Of the fact that
Mart Walt 4 Co.. shipped on Friday last
twenty bales of new cotton 10
d. K. CorrOll & Co., OF New Or
leans, we inadvertently printed the Mem
phis and Charleston instead of Missis-
sippi Central, with which Railroad the
Mississippi and Tennessee, running from
this city, connects at Grenada, We are
happy TO know TINT our friends of the
Railroad are doing well, and
have this year every prospect of the heav-
lest fall and winter trafic they have vet
known.
Residents of the neighborhoOd of the
old mill on the corner OF Third and Mar
streets, inform us that evory evening, |
sunset, myrlads on myriads of
swallows congregato arOundtheOld square
smokestack, and after wheeling around il
a time or two, dive into il and disappear. /
The birds come from avery direction, and
their numbers seem TO be absolutely
countless, the wonder being in the minds
1f those who see this strange proceeding,
the stack, although a large one, does
rot become perfectly filled with them.
When they leave their resting place, no
Dne knows; il must be very early in the
morning, however. as by daylight they
are ali gOne.
"A most melancholy death, and one
ghich, from attendant circumstances,
must be taken for a suicide, occurred yes
erday morning at about half past 3
,'clock-the decedent being the daughter
IF Alderman Renner. The circumstances,
70 far as W. are able to learn, are that Miss
lilly Renner. a young girl just budding
nto womanhood, retired to bed about
lalf past 10 O'Clock, night before last, ap-
,arently well and in good spirits. About
midnight the family were aroused by
rearing s noise like that of heavy breath
ng, and striking a light Mr.. Renner
ound his daughter speechless and in a
omotose state. A physician was sent for
nd the nsighbOrs called m, but all APP
OF medicine or friendship
we're in vain. At half past three o'clock
he sufferer passed away without
Iaving spoken to or ~recognizeds any of
Ter friends or relatives In the morning.
n removing the body ffem the bed. and
Fhile dressing it for the grave, a phial la
elled buchanan was found, still contain
ng a Few drops. Shortly afterWard a 1
Ittle note was discovered under the nil