Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-30
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

10 CAL FARAGRAEEAos
There has not been 3 clear day IN
Memphis Ia two weeks-awful weather
on rheumatism.
The magistrases' offices are al ln .
chronic state of idleness. Ihere Is no'
ing doing. 80
A bsrrjesde has bs'n erected 81 the
south corner of West Court ard fTont
streets By parties starting SOME Ns"
buildings there.
There were one hundred and eighty
seven negroes registered yesterday. 10
day the Registrar goes to
and to-morrowC9e will be at Bartlett
The csse Of John Williams, eoloTen'
who was carried before Squire Herman
charged with having beaten = deck pas
senger on the Cleaner Magenta out OF
fty-one dollars, was yesterday on
tinued.
We rotlced yesterday 3 few sacks
full of green peas and cucumbsrs IN the
show windows CT the restaurants. These
vegetables were grown on the line OF
Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and are sold
st very moderate prices.
The new e~clsctie "Land We Love"
for Mag, came to hsnt yesterday. IL
contains it's usual %qudntuHl OF n
choicest reading mstter, cuiled rom 81
the periodicals of the day, domestic anu
foreign.
One u Of rabies among dogs With
heavy coats of hair or fur, like the New
fo~undlanders, is the heat, caused by suca
before they are shed, and persons
owning animals Of that description
should shear them in the spring as soon
the weather begins to grow warm.
"A derrick has been erected on the
corner OF Madison and Front streets for
laying the huge blocks OF Aisbsma lime
Of which the fronts of the build
ing which is now in progress there, are %
be built. TIE work viii, h~sncesorWarc,
rapidly progress.
"A Mr. Wood, formerly An Idternal
Revenue clerk here, aud more recently
assistant Registrar, has been EpIointed
Consul TO Honolulu, Ssnd yich Islands
understand that Nj. w. had no idea
Of his good luck until ne received his sp-
p~Ointment.
Col. Cockrell, of the Peabody Hotel,
has extended an invitation to ali the eG
itOrs visiting the Commercial Conven-
ton to make themselves at home at the
Peabody. As there are at lesst twenty
five to thirty expected, this sc ion on the
part OF CoEIIOckrell is certainly very
generous.
"A Mr.. H. II. Kimberly, for SEINE
time past Oversser and b0ok-keepsr for
Mr.. Moon, of Moons Landing, was ar
rested night before last by Capt. Ben
Garrett, and turned over to the Metro
politan police, on chsrge Of embszzling
twelve hundred dollars of Mr..
Moons money. The case Will have q
full examination to-day.
in that paragraph yesterday morn
ing Aaout the singing mouse, we meant
that Nwss the mouse which had eaten
the "cold pison" and would sing no
Ionger-nOt the gentleman-snd that IL
Was the gentlemen who was discoDs0late
therefor, and not the mouse-thoug1 we
the sentence was rather mixed,
Be will be the case sometimes where 3
has to do things up in such haste as
locals almost always do.
The Trenton Gazette notices the srri-
val OF another body Of emig5snts from
TIE Northwest. This is the third ia the
OF q few weeks, and, as the Ga
yette remarks, the Lfux is producing q
change in the dNsms Of Gibson county,
and give promissl0fa bright and happy
and peaceful future. May the tide CT i'm
migration continue TO rc!l into our vast
ana rich domain until every acre has q
hand to TIL 1t.
-LuSus nature, both humsn aud bru-
tai, sre becoming most slarmingly fre-
quent. A day or two ago We of q wo-
man with two heads, shortly after e child
with four legs, and in s country paper
from somewhere in Missouri, We nave
Just read Of a child with no head and
mouth ard eyes in lie shoulders another
with no arms, It's hands growing from tue
sides like fms, and q third with but n
body tsperiug of into one limb.
Will physiologists tell US the Cause OF
mCDstIOsitiss2
We had the pleasure Of meeting yes
terdey Mr.. Chizzlia ia, UVant courier Oi the
BrigUoli Opera T~rOupe-nOw il Mobile.
Mr.. ChizZols informs Us that Br!guoli,
the " price Of tenors,u will be with
Us and give Us q short season of
three nights, commencing the l0.h and
the 18TH of May. This will give
Memphis an opportunity OF hearing a
touch Of the italian Opera undet aus
pices that Paris or Milan or Vienna
might not frowu at-Wita the divine
BrIgnOli So frat tenor, and others scarcely
Iess noted in every role,
The police yesterday got iuformstion
that some gOods-several bolts of dOmes-
tic, two boxes of ledies' shOeR, some al
ps eca,e etc, hsd been stolen st New Mad
rid Bent, and they had reason to suspect
they were concealed in an Isolated
w~aterbuund house in hsppy hollow. Ia
king eskiff, come detectives went to the
house and there found two we'll known
uackersls, BrSdy and Tucker, snugiy
eDscOnsed with the stolen goods. They
gere taken Ia out of the wet and given
dry lodgings. The goods belonged to-
H. F, BeymeF, and were stolen on
Sunday.
Will stopping In front OF the Court
Recess yesterday afternoon during the
rain, We heard s negTU-cOsl black and q
Rsdical-teIl q white man who was
- blowing HTaboUt being o Southern man
born, and vet a Radical, and in favor Of
Hunter, that be (the negro) had mo
more respect Tor such IS him (the white
Rzdloa) than he had for q NANCY dog"
The darky further added, "d-n g
Southern man that would associate with
Yankees aad niggers, just foF place and
of1ee.p This was heard by several gem
tlenosD, and coming from the quarter 10
which it did was considered SIS decidedly
rich.
The Louisville Daily Express tells s
queer story about how Col. samuel Colt
invented the revolver that bears his
name. According to the Express the
pistol IVES the invention Of q gunsmith
OF Fayetteville, Tenn, with whom Colt
worked. Oaedsy Colt got a chance to ex-
anime the pistol thoroughly, gave up his
situation, went to Washington ,stook u
a patent, and now his widow derives q
yesrly income of four hundred thousand
dollars from the proceeds. The Tennes-
zee mechanic lived and died poor-as 1t
is supposed. "Such is life.h
, Our friend Col. Nose Parrish, Of the
Bolivar Bulletin, arrived Ia the city yes
terdsy morning and pus up at the Pea
body. He is now on his way 70 the " far
West,n (which means 10 this instance
Ar.zoDs), where be proposes 70 remain
q year on the boundary survey. The
Bulletin has been turned ' . to the
management OF Mr. G. NJ. O'Hsrra, who
will rGn it ia Col. Parrish's absence. Col.
Nose ssys that he has bsen in harness
for five years, and feels that s5me reore-
alton, or st least change OF labor, Is ne
cessary,r Our best wishes go with him.
Maanwhiie he will furnish the readers OF