Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-15
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Gen. Alex. w. campbell, of Hum
boldt, is at the Peabody.
The Second District docket was full
yesterday, but the cases were all of a triv-
ial nature.
Memphis has the best paved streets,
and the worst paved sidewalks Of any city
that we know OF.
Gen. II. B. Titus, of the Treasury
Department, is in the city on business
connected with his office. He is stopping
at the Peabody.
Mr.. Fowler, agent of the Peak Family
Swiss Bell Ringers, is in the city making
arrangements for the arrival Of that
troupe.
All the children injured by the runa-
way horse on Friday last are recovering
very fast. None were killed, as rumer
had it.
A clustering, chilly wind sprung up
from the Northwest last evening, and at
eleven o'clock pm. clouds of dust were
whirling through the streets quite like
winter.
There is 4 movement on foot in the
city to have the postOfIica removed from
its present location to the Ayre's Block.
A petition is being circulated to that eff
feet and receiving numerous signatures.
The front Of the Clay building has
been treated TO a coat of dazzling white
paint, preparatory to marbling. It will
then be the handsomest building on Main
street.
The arrangements for the grand Ma
sonic picnic in celebration of st. Johns
day, cath inst. J are being showed forward,
and there is no doubt but that it Will be
the affair ofthe season.
A oantlap,o, - ,A,roLa-s- n fs.l-ot ot
the Charleston Railroad Office yesterday
morning picked up q well filled pocket
book which had been dropped by some
one who had been in there before him.
He left it with the agent at the Office.
Capt. Henry w. Smith, President Of
the Memphis and st. Louis Packet Com
pany, and j. z. Chichester, proprietor of
the Little Rock and Hot Springs and
other stage lines in Arkansas. are
at the Overton.
The Board of Aldermen meet this
evening at three O'Clock. We hope they
Will take into consideration the condition
of the stone Gaping of Beal street bridge,
we spoke of a few mornings ago.
We learn that the Hon. Dan VOORHEES,,
of Indiana, who is now at Oxford, Miss,
was telegraphed yesterday by a number
of our prominent citizens inviting him to
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the issues of the day.
Dan Cunningham, the negro who was
so very dead on Saturday evening
Happy Hollow, by Henry Hall, is not
dead, but cannot live. The wound is
through the body just above the left
groin.
The picnic for the Steamboatmen's
widows and orphans fund yesterday was
not so numerously attended as il should
have been, though every arrangement
was made for the entertainment of large
crowd. We learn that tho receipts Will
not more than defray the expenses in
Henry Farmer, tho 1utist, left yester-
daY for Nashville. We wish him all the
success which his great merits as Il musi-
clan deserve. We recommend him espec-
tally 10 the kind offices Of our Athren
of the press, who win find in him @hOle-
souled, heightened, clever fellow, as well
as the sweetest lutist they ever listened
TO.
We received yesterday the May mum
Der of the photographic Adr0c0te, a
monthly magazine devoted TO phonetic
reporting. 1t is edited by James L. Nun
Esq, the author of 1.-The Complete
Photographer, " a treatise on p~honOgra-
ply, which has received the very highest
encomia oftho press, rs being the latest,
and in all respects, the best book vet pub
lished on tho subject.
About ten DAYS ago the house o Capt.
Seabury, on Linden street, was robbed OF
q lot Of silver plate. Up TO Yesterday no
trace of tho stolen goods had been discoy-
cred, but during the day Special Police
man Jones came across a portion of them
a house on st. Martin street, occupied
by two negro women named Martha Bobo
and Mary Anderson. They were arrested
andwiu be examined before Squire Black
"A very interesting religious ceremony
took place on Sunday at the Third Pres
byterian Church, Chelsea, being the in
st8llatiOn of the Rev. +. NJ. Richardson
~ pastor. The installation ermOn was
by the Rev. DIR. Steadman, and the charge
by the Rev. DIR. Bowman. The church
the ceremonies the principal members of
he congregation went forward and were
introduced to their new pastor.
A Thousand men arc wanted to work
on the Little Rock Railroad. Mechanics,
and brick and stone masOns
are especially wanted. and can command
three TO five dollars per diem. Day
Iaborera readily obtain two (2) dollars per
iiem. With this offer open. there is no
excuse for the gangs Of idlers around
Town who complain that they can find
nothing TO do.
We understand that Memphis Is soon
10 have another silver eornet band called
he Stonewall Jackson Band. It is COM
posed of some Of the original members of
he Sodality band, and most OF its MEM
bers belong TO the Sodaiity Of st. Peter.
The young gentlemen have displayed
rnngf aOrRr Rata1a he gaa1 - IL, ,lr+a--
have already subscribed over six
hundred dollars toward paying for the
Instruments.
We notice Il petition in circulation
by a large number of our most in
.elligent citizens for opening fernando to
Union street. This is a very important
Improvement, and we hope orr City Fa-
hers will at once open the street. and
build the bridge across the bayou. At no
'uture time can the work be lone at as
title expense Is at present. Public ne
,essity, as well as the greatest good TO
he greatest number" requires it.
Officer Orr, of the Second District. has
)een on the lookout for several davs for q
notorious negro horse and mule thief from
salisbury, named George Hodge, q most
outrageous and desperate character. Con-
George Hayden yesterday came
cross the desperate in Hell's Halfacre,
ordered him TO surrender. Hodge,
icing taken by surprise, yielded to
ieOrge's opportunities (Which were
by a Colts navy six y and was |
'onveyed TO the lookup 10 await q train
or Salisbury. We are informed that
here are no less thar twenty-five cases of
lorsestealing traced directly to him.
Squire Norton seems about to have |
he benefit of the Saturday evenings rev
n Helfs Half Acre, which resulted in the
of Phil. Cunningham. 1t Is an
ineXplicable muss, but so far it has
in one peace and two States war
ants before him. Eliza Foster has Nancy !
arrested for hitting, biting. |
scratching, choking and ehunking
bricks at her. Nancy Phillips in
urn, gets ont a States warrant for
Ellen Stowe, whom she charges with the
offenses, "only moro so" and Ellen
gets a peace warrant for Nancy |
Phillips. The cases will have q hearing |
MASONIC ELEcTIoN.-At the annual
,onyocation of Penn Royal Arch Chapter
10. q, +. and A. NJ, held at their hall
asst evening, the following officers were
.lected for the ensuing twelve months:
}. 9. Trader, NJ. i. Ii. p; c. NJ. Carroll,
E. X; J. NJ. Pettigrew. NJ. Z. s.; II.