Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-04

ton will meet this afternoon at the
Office of c. NOurse, General Agent oil
the Phoenix Mutual Insurance Com
pany, At / o'clock. Punctual attend
ance Of every member is requested.
F. L. JAMES, Secretary.
How much more right has faro to
run than keno? VIII Bro. PeaTne tell
US?
Sheriff Curry will be home to-day.
He arrived in Nashville safely with
his prisoners.
DIR. Ivy WestbrOOk, of the Browns
vile Bee, Is in the city, stopping at
the Peabody.
The driver OF hack No. 80 Will
please call at this Office andinquire for
Capt. R. 7. English.
The members of Washington Fire
Company No. 6 will meet at No. IS
house tonight and reorganize.
The Memphis Club was receiving
a lot OF new billiard tables yesterday,
They look like very fine tables.
Peaches were being hawked
around the city in wagons yesterday.
They are becoming very plentiful.
The Ledger doubts the story OF
the Arkansian with the jim-ams. 1t
il true, every word of it, friend
Ledger.
There Is n movement on foot to
re-establish the wharfb0at system.
a petition TO this effect was intro
duced in the Board yesterday evening.
Charles Moody, accused of cutting
an unknown man in Hells Half Acre
Sunday, was sent 10 jail by Squire
Foley, yesterday, in default OF 5000
bail.
Capt. ThOs. Mynatt, it will beseen,
announces himself as a candidate for
Magistrate of the Fifth Civil District.
He is well known in this city and will
poll a big vote.
A letter received from Mayor
Leftwich was received yesterday an
nouncing that his health was very
much improved. We are sincerely
glad 10 hear it.
John p. Hill, ESD, returned home
yesterday after an absence Of some
weeks. He was welcomed by many
friends and is fully prepared 10 wrestle
with old king cotton another season.
The negroes accused Of the murder
in Arkansas, reported in the APPEAL
yesterday morning, were delivered to
Sheriff Harden, of Crittenden county,
yesterday, and carried to Arkansas.
There Is at the residence of orr
friend, Jesse W. Page, Jr., in this
city, a pear tree laden at tho present
time with ripe and ripening fruit,
green fruit and flowers. This is the
first instance Of the kind that we have
ever seen.
We received q call Yesterday from
DR.. Y. \. Carr, formerly a well known
citizen Of Memphis, but now the -four
ishing and pOrtly agent Of the South
ern Life Insurance Company for the
State Of Alabama. The Doctor never
looked better in his life.
Alderman Cartwright, while tax
ing a drive with his family on Mon
day afternoon, on Adams or Third
street, lost (off the arm of his baby an
old fashioned gold bracelet with a
stone setting. The finder will be lib
orally rewarded on leaving 1t at his
store.
A negro man, name unknown,
was picked up on the levee yesterday
evening, seemingly in a fit. On being
taken TO the First district station
house his symptoms became OF a more
alarming character, and a physician
being sent for, his disease was pro-
nOunCel TO be a clear a of hydro
phObia. AT midnight he was in a
most deplorable and awful condition.
There Is an old lady living on
South street, named Mrs. Nancy Ivy.
the widow Of a MethOdist minister.
and who is in destitute circumstances.
she lost two sons in the Confederate
army al Corinth, and has an invalid
daughter at home. Some of our chart
table citizens should visit Mrs. IVY
and alleviate her distress.
IS. C. TOOf, Esd, and family, who
have been absent for a short time on
q visit 20 the lakes, returned on the
Belle Memphis very much recupera-
ted I'm health. The Franklin Job
Office IS now graced with the presence
Of its chief, and will, as usual, turn
out work surpassed nowhere on this
continent. Now Is the season to get
your printing done, and at no other
place can it be done better or on more
favorable terms.