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

"A thing OF beauty is a joy forever
and so is a fast horse a most deiectable en-
toyment, especially when you sit behind
her in one of Diggs & Wofford's elegant
turnouts. This writer has "been there"
and knows whereof he speaks. Should
you desire to cake the air" this evening.
or any other evening for that matter, give
these oblfging gentlemen a call and our
word for it,you will not regret it. Remem-
ber-third loo south of Gayoso, east side
of Main street, for fast horses, magnificent
vehicles, and all that.
Two negro men entered the store of
Mr.. RaggiO, on Elliott street, on Friday
night, just IS the place was being closed,
and while one of them assaulted Mr.. r.
the other grabbed a side of bacon and at
tempted to make off with it, and being
interrupted by Mrs. Raggio, left the skirt
of his coat in the hands of the lady, the
garment being rent by the exertions of
the black bacon-bagger on the one part
end Mrs. X. on the other. The seoundrels
both escaped, and what is more, carried
the hog meat off with them.
A PENNSYLVANIA paper announces that
a delegation is about to visit West Ten
nessee for the purpose of picking out a
location for a colony of Pennsylvania farm
ers. Let them come! We can show as
fertile lands, as fine a climate, as cool
water, as big trees, as quiet a people as
any portion of the Southwest, and we are
sure that after looking at the lands along
the line of the Mississippi River Railroad,
they viii go no further.
That redoubtable hero Maj.-Gen.
Cooper, of the Tennessee militia, was re-
Gently appointed to a position in the In
ternal Revenue Department of Knox
county, and tried to get his bonds fixed"
in Knoxville. It was ''no CO." however,
and he then tried the wholeof East Ten
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dorse him. The last we heard of him, he
was in Nashville, trying to find a bonds
man there, in no very good humor at his
| East Tennessee friends who had thus gone
back on him. What success he Will meet
with in Nashville remains to be seen.
The Agricultural Congress, assembled
in Nashville a few days ago, passed the
following sensible resolution, viz: THAT
in behalf of societies and associations
which we represent, and as individuals,
we extend a cordial and earnest invitation
70 all good men who are seeking homes
where they may enjoy in peace and reap
in abundance the fruits of their labOrs, to
come to Tennessee. To all such we prom
Use a hearty welcome. and do aSsur them
that within the broad limits of the United
States there is no spot where the enjoy
ment of life, prosperity and the pursuit
of happiness are more secure than IN
Tennessee. Nowhere are the people more
hOspitabie nowhere are they more peace
/ able and law-abiding.n
Some time since, when making our
returns to the Internal Revenue Assessor
at this place, we claimed the right to de-
| duct from our gross income the amount
paid for rent of UNFINISHED rooms. 1t
was denied by the Assessor, and we sup
pose that as in our case, there are large
numbers of young men in the city who
ave been compelled to pay tax on the
amount of money paid By them for rent
no inconsiderable amount in every in
stance, at the rate at which unfinished
rooms rent in this city, from into TWEEN
ty dollars per month"; The matter has
lately been brought before the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue, who ruled
that a person who "boards" has a right TO
deduct from his income return the rent
value of the room or rooms which he
occupies, ~supposing those rooms unfur-
nished. The occupant of a hired house
has always been allowed to deduct from
his income return the amount actually
paid as rent for the premises occupied by
himself and family, but the boarder has
never before been alloeEed to deduct. the
rent of his unfinished rooms.
Maj. Sykes has laid upon our table
two specimens of coal from Fayette coun-
ty, Ala. One of these is a biJuminOus
coal, of a Illuminated formation. strongly
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Carbon coal, containing not so much lig-
neOus matter, but more bitumen. The
other is found in large Jumps, covered
with a reddish coating a thirty-second
part of an inch thick, which gives of
freely. The bQSy is a very dark reddish
brown, fine grain, and breaks with con-
chOidal fractures. 1t is easily cut with 3
knife. and is susceptible of apolish. When
the polished surface is scratched with 8
sharp instrument, a red line is left, and
when scraped, the serapings are of a dull
red color. If held in thes*pHne of a can
die, it readily ignites and burns with q
clear, brilliant white light, makes very
little smoke, and if blown out leaves a
char exactly like that of burnt cork
showing that il is composed of vegetable
remains. Its nature and chemical com
position should be Investigated by those
owning the lands upon which It is found,
Both the specimens are most valuable adj
ditions to the already well known mine
raj wealth of North Alabama.
When adarkey takes it into his head
to do, or not to do, n given thing, it
takes more hard argument to persuade
that darkey to 90 against his wishes than
it would to make a Radical office-hoideI
keep his pickers-and-stealers ont of the
public pocket. As a case in point: OH
Ger HOFFMAN, yesterday evening, essayed,
with all that persuasive elOquence for
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Moody, a very black and very pig-headed
specimen of Hunterite, to go to the Gala
1 bOOSe, "Iike a good fellow, and not to give
unnecessary trouble" But nary a peg
would the muscular and disorderly ward
of the nation move in that direction; and
he told Mr.. Hortman that he would see
him d-aged first, and then wouldn'tr'
As a clincher that he would't go, Moody
let fly his left duke and caught the oficeron
the end of the nose, spreading that organ
out all oVerthe face which it had before or
namented. This stirred Hortman's blood
up-in fact, made it boil over on his shirt
front, and he vowed that "dead or alive,
that niger shall go TO the station" And
he went; for the baton welded by the
officers good right arm was an argument
that had not before so forcibly struck the
gentleman'S observation, and under the
powerful influence of somed dozens of Wig
Orous awacks therefrom, the obstinate
son of sam was finally induced to step
in out of the wet. The Police Commits
siOners of the Second District, in consid-
Grafton of Moody's character, fined him
S25 for his share of the sport. Hortman's
nose is getting better.
THE greatest supply of water was fur
nished the great picnic at Bartlett, by
Balding's Patent Pump, throwing it
! through 100 feet hose from the spring. If
I NOu Ndiit tuO DtSt pump Cfth
tured or offered to the public, call at No.
40 Jefferson street, and see it.
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THE vocal and instrumental concert
| rendered Miss Z. NJ. ClemmOns by her
pupils will take place at the Assembly
! Hall OF Friday evening, June 4th.
STOCK GRAzING.-A limited number of
horses will be received at the Memphis
Association Course for grazing purposes.
Terms moderate. Applications TO be made
TO A. w. Small, Superintendent, at b
track.
EXTRA reductions on mosquito nettings
and bars. HERZOG & BRO.