Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-28

ported by the promises OF several OF
our leading cotton houses, calls tor
subscriptions to a fund of $1,000 10 be
distributed by theSociety at its talr In
October to those who 81 al exhibit the
best cotton. We hope the example OF
the firms named in the advertisement
will be followed, and that 1t VIII De
I given us to chronicle the collections OF
/ the whole amount in a week or two,
AT least in time to enable the Society
to classify their prizes and state the
amounts.
The late terrible railroad disaster
ot Rudd's Creek bridge is to be care
friIv looked into. The Assistant
Attornev-General of Montgomery
| county lin which the accident oc-
! curred) has caused summons TO be
served on several employees of the
NJ. and l.. r. r., as also on
some of the passengers of the ill-fated
train, to appear before the Grand Jury
on the I'd Tuesday in September. The
( railroad officers are anxious for the
matter to be thoroughly investigated,
believing that they viii be ~exonerated
from all blame. aHF
DIR. White says that hereafter con-
tracts for county work are to be given
ont to the highest bidder. We hope
so. Such is the practice of all well
regulated and honestly conducted cor
porations. We hope the County Com
missioners will initiate it at once, and
that since the Grand Jury has COM
plained of the eXOrbitant rates for
county printing, charged by the Post,
thew viii withdraw the public patron
age now enjoyed by that paper, and
give it to the lowest bidder, the bids
to be published, and all bills after
ward.
Heads of families, clearinghouse
keepers, steamboat stewards-in fact,
every one interested in the price of
mutton will feel more than grateful to
the Agent of the Associated Press at
New York for furnishing them with
the very latest figures of the Kalama-
zoo (AIich.) Sheep Exchange. Read
il early, before you go to market, and
see that the butcher adheres to the
Kalamazoo p~riee-current, and when
YOU say grace over the meat at break
fast, thank the Lord fervently that we
have a Press Agent who would sooner
fail to report an attempted subVer-
sion of the Government than that you
should go to market unacquainted
with the state of the sheep trade at
Kalamazoo, Ypsilanti, Oshkosh, We
hawken and other important points.
The communication Of DIR. White,
the County Commissioner, which APP
| peared in the APPEAL of yesterday,
does not satisfy the public. 1t is
wholly made up of speculation and
| ouess-wOrk, and regarded as an effort
at stealing from the future to white
wash the past. The merchants and
property owners say it is not what Is
to be done in the way of economlzlng
after this that they are anxious; OF that
they will take care, but what satisfac-
tory explanation can the County
Commissioners make of their extra
ordinary expenditures and rumOred
acts of bribery and corruption, OF
this perhaps DIR. White can tell some
thing.
-The.Searcy ark Record, Of last
Saturday, among its personals records
the arrivals of w. s. Taylor, of the
firm of Taylor, Bradford d Co., of this
city: Charles W. KealhOier, of the
firm of Forster, kealhofer 4 Co; p.
l.. Forsythe, of the firm of ,. Low
enstein Il Bros; /. a. Mcneil, of A..
Seessel q Son; and Captain /. P.
Allen, of Walker, Bros. Il Co. We
are happy to be able to chronicle the
above as an evidence of a growing de-
termination on the part of u mer-
chants to avail themselves of the ben
aEt~af a rr~-A,vso &c - ArrTnanafn - hU
which the North and West have
hOurished and grown fat. If all u
merchants had been as well represent
ed during the summer as the above
houses we believe ii would have made
a difference of several million dollars
in our trade.
in abiding to a little unpleasant
ness in our last issue between two
Aldermen, we enormously stated that
one of them was from the Third ward.
The wording of our article lead some
of our readers to believe that Alder
man Black was one of the parties. We
do that gentleman only justice in say
ing that he would not be likely to get
mixed up in such promiscuous COM
pany. The facts are that Messrs.
Vincent and Marshall had a falling
out, though previously they had been
almost as inseparable as the Siamese
twins or the double-headed girl.
They met at a store on Poplar street
and the Alderman from Chelsea let
into Mr.. Marshall without gloves.
Hard words We're used and the pleas
ant information was conveyed to Mr..
Marshall that he (Aldermen Vim
cent? could send the Alderman Of the
Second ward to the penitentiary.
Every effort was made on the part of
the game little Chelsean 10 get a fight
out Of his burly eo-laborer in the city's
vineyard, but without effect, and Vim
cent came away master of the situa-
ton.