Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-13
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"A beautiful day was yesterday.
The Dire Farmer has suspended pub
LEGATION.
An of the churches were well filled
last night.
The Hebrew Fair will close tonight.
Go, everybody.
-Elmwood was thronged with visitors
last evening, for the first time in several
weeks.
John CASTOR has the finest stock of
wines and cigars in Memphis-and Is the
best fellow.
Mr.. Dow has not recovered any part
of the SSI5 recently stolen from him-re-
ports to the contrary, Notwithstanding.
The Very Rev. Father Jarboe, Vicar
General of Tennessee, is expected in the
city tomorrow. He will probably be a
guest of Father Kelly at the Residence ON
Adams street.
The locality designated for the meet
ing of the citizens OF the First Ward has
been changed from the depot to the En-
gine House.. This is one by order of the
Central Committee.
There were four arrests in h First
and six in the Second district up to SIX
o'clock last evening. Drunk and disor-
derby" was the offense for which eight OF
the ten were docketed.
The Helena Clarion says that the
prospects of the Helena and Iron Noun
tain Railroad are daily Frightening.
Lands are being subscribed rapidly, and
the work is to be vigorously pressed.
Secretaries of primary ward meetings
are requested to furnish us withthe names
of their delegates, etc, as early as posi-
IL - AIa- nil ann far a "a NnR
on the editors, and insure the insertion OF
their proceedings.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of Z. Fegan, furniture dealer, No.
26O Second street. Mr.. Fegan has on hand
a large and varied assortment Of house
fitting goods, including carpets, window
shades. curtains, etc. Everybody Is in
vited to call and examine his stock.
The alarm of fire sounded last night
about eight o'clock, was caused by the
burning of the tWo-story building on the
corner of Vance and Causey streets, and
occupied as a grocery and feed store. 1t
writing we nave no means OF learning the
amount of losses, though we understand
that very nearly the entire stock of groce-
ries were destroyed.
There were a large lot of negro emf
grants on the bluff last night, en- route
for Northern Louisiana. While waiting
J Tor the steamer HDlllEbB4f SL4lLE4 NAA0 "a
NOR that themedicaI students were on the
war-path hunting up subjects for dissec-
ton. The poor ignorant creatures were
terribly frightened for a little while. The
man who thus could play ON their credul-
ity ought to be shot.
The Forty-second Grand Annual Com
munication OF the Most Worshipful Grand
Lodge of Mississippi will be held in the
Masonic Hall at Jackson, commencing on
- ,.rV1- ~ 1874 rho Ivnf Fu..Hn
of Jackson la appointed committees to
secure places of entertainment for repre-
sentatiVes. who are requested to report at
Masonic Hall Immediately upon their
arrival.
We hear 1t asserted on the streets that
there are two members of the Democratic
Central Executive CoInmittee-one of
them a proposed candidate for aldermanic
honors-who are opposed to the name
" Democratic" and who want to ave il
changed to 4" Conservative" They were
appointed 10y a Democratic Convention,
and If they don't like the name they had
better resign-and that as quickly as pos
sible.
As the time approaches for our munic-
ipal elections, the contest grows hotter
and hotter among the rival candidates for
the several offices. The question VINO viii
be the appOintee of the s~traight-Out Dem
J. bLA aNlg Eh&AAN ~ ny VI 49, ~@t -4-N-
topic Of conversation on the corners and
in the clubrooms last evening. The con-
test for the nomination promises to be a
lively one, but from the result Of personal
observation, we hin it viii be narrowed
dawn to three of the now countless can
didates at the primary ward meetings to-
night ana tomorrow night.
AT a meeting of the stockholders Of
the Brownsville and Dyer County Rail-
road. held in Brownsville on the Sth inst,
the following gentlemen were chosen di-
recturs for the ensuing year; DR.. ). d.
Smith. J. +. Sinclair, Wm. II. Craig and
p. E. II. Binford, Of Dyer county; Col. A.
Il. Bradford, Col. j. r. Wood, w. ID. Eos
ter, J. NJ. RuC1edge and DIR. }. Watkins,
of HAYWOOD county. On ballot, j. ID.
Smith was chosen Chairman Of the Board
of Directors, which was Immediately call
ed together. and, on ballot, elected Col. d..
2. Wood President of the road. j. Nj.
Rutledge was then chosen Secretary ana
Treasurer, and the Board adjourned.
Belle Boyd wag recently confined in a
lunatic asylum at Stockton, California,
the result being a bouncing boy We
learn by the San Francisco papers that
her reason was Immediately restored to
her. The Sacramento Record comment
ing upon this remarkable fact says: . A
few Of the papers, learning for the first
time of her Improvement in connection
with the announcement that Sue had be-
come a mother, have manufactured very
pathetic and touching paragraphs, at
tributing the return of her mental health
to the last named occurrence, II this
were really the case (it is oftener tho re-
verse; we might expect to soon learn Of
some wiseacre suggesting a new mode OF
treatment for female patients at insane
asylums."
The Fair and Festival to be inaugu-
rated at the Greenlaw Hall on Tuesday
evening. for the benefit Of st. Batrick'e
Church, promises to be the leading fea-
ture in the amusement line his week.
Mrs. Hanson, Miss Mary McKeOn, Mrs.
Fisher and their associates, have made
such arrangements as Will be certain to
please all visitors who may desire to aid
them in their efforts 70 liquidate the in
d]ebtedness incurred in the erection of
their new church building. An excellent
quadrille band will be ia attendance, the
tables will be supplied with all that is de-
siFable, and many uoyelaes IN The voting
line are promised, OF which We viii here
after inform our readers. Remember st.
Patrick's Fair, when you are planning
your evenings amusement this week, for
there you will enjoy yourself and aid in a
good cause.
Two or three nights in succession, re-
Gently, we had occasion 10 pass down
Main street, about half past nine o'clock,
and were compelled to follow, for several
squares, a gang Of ten or twelve lads,
from eight to fifteen years OF age, VINO
were the most disgustngly and noisiiy
blasphemous crowd that We ever listened
10. The second time that it occurred,
anxious TO see to what class the boys be-
longed, we took occasion 10 examine their
dress and appearance on PASSING under a
gas light, and, TO our surprise, instead Of
a gang Of wharf rats and mackereis, we
found them, judging by their looks, TO be
the Sous Of gentle parents-fathers and
mothers who would have been horrided
to have listened for u moment TO the one
hundredth part of what We were COM
PEELED TO hear for ten minutes. We do
not know who the lads We're, but hope
that this may meet the eyes OF some of
them. and they may see themselves as
others see them. Parents cannot be too
careful of the assOciatiOnsinto which their
sons are thrown in, attending night
schools, places Of amusement or other
places which require them to be "opt OF
nights" II is the first step to ruin.
The Upton Record has the following
account of a murder committed near Cow
ington recently: "On Tuesday last, two
men. one bv the name of Parrish, and the
other named VIM. Crier, were in Coving-
ton, and were drinking together to some
extent; in the evening they started home
together on a wagon. On their arrival at
the house where Parrish lived, some I'VE
miles from this place on the Ripley road,
in Hatchie bottom, they commenced a
quarrel about the hire of a negro. II
seems that both hadhired the same negro
to move them; words ran pretty high for