Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-11

IlOIt lHdu d ulduCu iOf IiGdSduA.
We understand that Mr.. Hof-
meister, so well known to the lovers
of good cheer, has taken the old
" Empire" Restaurant and Bar Room,
near the APPEALS editorial rooms,
and will open it on Saturday evening
next. We are glad to hear this and
hope that she will make it a frst-class
saloon. ~ M
We have to thank Messrs. w. P.
Feorney, J. A. Hill, D. E. Warren
and Others for al invitation to attend
a barbecue to be given on Thursday,
the 18th inst, at SOmeryille. We will
endeavor that the APPEAL shall be
represented on the occasion. If not,
we hope some of our friends present
on the occasion will tell our readers
all about it in a brief communication.
Vincent BacigalupO (Madame
Nincent's husband) desires us to state
that he is not an Alderman, and hopes
that the public will cease to cOnfOund
him with Alderman Vincent. We
make the correction cheerfully, as we
have known him a good while as an
honest man, and would consequently
never think of accusing him of being
an Alderman. r.He
The Southern Base Ball Club, of
New Orleans, will arrive at 2:45 to-
day, and will be met at the depot by
a delegation Of the BluffCity Club and
escorted to the Peabody Hotel. The
grand match between the above
named Clubs for the Championship of
the South viii come off on the Race
Track on Friday afternoon next at ,
o'clock. Admission 25c. Ladies free.
-Ex-pOliceman Jesse Ward, was
carried before Squire Norton, yester-
day, on charge of attempting to break
into the house of one Charlie Blanc,
yesterday morning, at two O'Clock.
The cast attracted a good deal of at
tention. Hutchinson appearing for
the prosecution, and Coleman and
Van Anderson for the defence. He
was discharged-the evidence not
going to show that q burglary was
Intended.
We are indebted to the printers,
Hite & Corwine, for a copy Of the ca
talogue of the Memphis Ladies Insti-
tute, a school that is now in its ninth
year, under the management of Mrs.
=. SOuthwOrth and Mrs. Fannie p.
McGhee. We are glad to chronicle the
success of the Z" Institute " and to no
tice that it enjoys a fair measure of
patronage from the people of Mem
phis and those of the surrounding
country.
There is a petition in circulation
by Spaulding, Bidwell & McDOnOugh,
for presentation to the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen praying an abatement
of the city tax on theaterS. The rea-
sons why such a course should be
adopted are ably set forth in the paper,
to which we hope the City Fathers
will give their earnest attention. We
want a wellcOnducted theater, and
hope the City Council will contribute
an abatement Of the tax to secure it.
"A house on the corner of Madison
and DeSoto streets caught fire yester-
day morning, and was, at one time,
i~mminently in danger Of being totally
consumed. A colored man named Il.
II. Young, however, heard the screams
Of the Inmates (wOmeu and children,
one of the former being very i'll at the
time,) aud rushed up with several
buckets of water and put out the
flames. Too much credit cannot be
accorded Young for his ~coOlnesss and
energy in the matter.
The cases of the State VS.. the in
dicted Aldermen were called in the
Criminal Court yesterday. NOtwith-
standing they have been for weeks
clamoring a trial, and accusing the
City Attorney, Col. Morgan, of at
tempting to delay their trial, the City
Fathers who are under Indictment
prayed for continuance, making afi-
daYit that they were not ready for
trial. This puts a very different face
upon the affair from what these
gents" have represented. We hope
they will get a speedy trial, and if
they are guilty we will be glad to
chronicle their trip to Nashville, I'M
DEF charge Of Sheriff Curry.
The death Of air. II, P. Wood
ard. the Notary Bubble, 9 notice Of
which viii be found elsewhere, was
a sudden and awful blow tQfis friends
and relatives. We are informed that
he had risen in his usual robust health,
and had seemed more than usually
lively and good humored at the
breakfast table Cat the residence Ofhis
mother-in-law, on the old Raleigh
road. He had eaten quite q hearty
breakfast, and was sitting at the table
when rs li63. Re was a prominent
member OF the Masonic h~atSrpjty.
and belonged to Leila Scott LodgeS
which. with other Lodges, with the
aSanthr ana Ccprmandery. will be
called out to attend h4 9sseqFifs,
The difficulty which occurred il
the editorial roohis If APPEAL on
Monday night, was wrongly feq0rtad
in the Post of last evening,
end wholly and entirely misrep-
resehte3 and mis-stated. That
paper was not correct in any particu-
Jar, as can be VoQched for w the wri-
teF Of this paragraph, who was not in
any way CONNECTED With ii. The local
editor of this paper aeteal thrOughOut
the affair like a true and a brave man,
and deported himself before and after
wards as any man of like spirit would
have Zone. The affair was the growth
of a momenf, md had no relation
whatever to a dead puAtSr G. any
other than a casual issue! This para-
graph is net Lqesgt in a Pickyfckian
seaEe.
Mich. Wood, a negro nom Grit
tenden county, Ark, while standing ut
a snack house on the leVee, was au-
preached by Charles Washington. a
negro who had promised to 90 to Ar
ksnsas 9Th him, and who asked him
to loan HID tea dGllsrS. This Mich.
did, but a moment after, another dar-
Ky came along with a patent snuff
box, ana Washington bet the ten dol |
lars on the gassa OfeOurse he lost it,
and Immediately ne an6 hss confeder-
ate of the snuff box incOntinently ned.
leaving Eieb, minus. He applied to
the Second District police, and WASH
was arrested. He gave I'D his
watch to satisfy the demands of Mich,
but the police would not compound
the felony. He viii be tried to-day.
All the way from California, from
the city near the Golden Gate there
TO US, enclosed in an envelope
marked to u address, and bearing
the word Overland, a card with the
names of Mr.. and Mrs. Lorraine ROg-
and in the left hand bottom cor
.er " Charlotte Thompson" confirm
ing to us a statement published some
days since that the fayorite actress
who, during so many years, had de-
Memphis audiences with cor
and life-like delineations, had
merged her future life with another.
and that hereafter, if at all, she would
be known TO the stage as Mrs. Rogers.
= IN II |