Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-01

LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
-Waferrnelons are waning.

tonight.
The Jefferson street bayou bridge
needs repairs.
-Four Second District policemen
are reported sick.
The Presidents Island row has
been temporarily quieted.
Autumn fishing in the Arkansas
lakes promises to be good.
Residents on Bull Run street
complain of a defective bridge.
The complaint book at Police
headquarters showed an unsuIlied
page esterday.
iafne Col0red BOot-Blacks play the
Negro -Pickers a match game of
baseball next Sunday.
The negro dance. house, on Fourth
street, near Jefferson, il under close
police surveillance.
Only s. could be shaken out Of
the three hard cases tried at the Sec
Ond District Police Court yesterday.
Mechanics are busy throughout
the city putting in repair and furbish-
ing up business houses for the fall and
winter trade.
"A policeman followed a gentleman
| three hours yesterday TO effect an ar
rest for an accidental violation of the
ordinance against riding on the side
walk.
"A large and select assemblage at
| tended Superintendent Pearne's mat
inee at the First District Station yes
4 terday. A collection of $40 was
taken up.
The first Arkansas cotton of the
season arrived Monday night, per
steamer Ozark, from Arkansas river.
Trader Bros, S24 Front Row, were the
cousignees.
The Bank Building" now being
completed, at the corner of Madison
street and Front Row, is one of the
most substantial and imposing struc-
lures in the city. Charley Jones is the
architect.
-lrhe pressure upon our columns
this morning, occasioned by the pub
lication of the Annual Statement Of
the Trade OF Memphis, crowds out
variety OF local matter which would
have otherwise appeared.
Nothing of importance was done
at the meeting of the County Commits
siOners yesterday. Appropriations for
the pay of the jail guard and the mem
bers of the Board were made. The
Adams street property matter was net
taken up.
The irst bale Of Marshall county
county, Miss, cotton, received in
Memphis by WolcOtt, Smith Il Co.,
was raised by Col. J. ], Milan, who
IS well known as one of the principal
and most thrifty planters OF his neigh
bOrhoOd.
We have received BJnckicOOd for
August. 1t is good number. Cor
nelius O'Dowd is continued, This,
t0gether with another serial and sew
elaI articles of great merit make up q
table of contents that is seldom
equalled by any of the younger
magazinesOf the day.
Oil no! Bill Dobscn, Iou can't
keen ycg- thievlng Black paws of
other peoples property, can't you2
BY the time You spend tYe years
breaking stgne fog the state at Nash
vile, you maybe will regret that you
gobbled that five dollar note from the
old darkey that come with you from
Arkansas on the steamer Ozark.
-" Redshirt Joe" can no more Ieta
country dsrECT pa55 without rODbing
him than his chuln, Henry Jones, can
leave a chicken-roost undisturbed. Joe
is arrested about twice week on an
average, and the police never fail of
finding some kind of swindling" layI
out " about his clothes. He and Hen |
ry joined forces the other day, and, |
vita tae ala of patent tobacco box, |
gougedi the eye-teeth out of an old ne |
gro who had come to town to sell some /
" garden truck" In an interview |
with Supt. Pearne, yesterday, Joe |
tried TO gst q bet cut OF the Judge, but |
lost ten dollars, clear as a WhistIe-ttLl,s /
superintendent held re isage.n Joe |
goes down until some one of his pals |
steals ten dollars wherewith to pay his |
fine. Jones goes into exile with his |
compatrlGt.
The fiatbOat war is to be renewed |
this morning in the Police Court. The |
captains of the numerous trOtlines |
that supply Memphis with catfish |
have resolved to defend their riprari- |
an rights at the extremity of the law.
Ehe Wharfmaster Ousted the~whOle |
fieet-fatboats, jOeboats, floating gin |
mills, hermaphrOdite steamboats, and |
all-frOm along the city front and east |
bank of Wolf river. But he had
hardly turned his back before the fish |
fags and ancient mariners commenced |
Warping their crafts into the berths |
from which they had but an hour be
fore been driven, relieving the toll !
with curses loud and deep against the /
whole CITY government. The metro
politans were next brought into SER
vice. and a dozen or so of the obdurate |
anglers for hornleSs buffalOes found |
their Way to the station house, under |
escort. Only one ofthem will be tried |
this morning, as it has been agreed to |
allow a test case to settle the matter |
as to the remainder. That the fisher |
men have not sued out an injunction |
is the most puzzling part OF the affair.
On Sunday morning last Charles |
William Henry Eugene Dawson, a |
darky with heels as long as his name, |
left his " mudder and farder wiring |!
ing their hands with grief. on the /
platform at Como, Miss. c. w. III. +. !
ID, was about shaking the dust of the
cotton patch from his No. IL brOgans |
forever; he would seek his fortune, he |
said: he was "done clean out tired |
wild such a life as dis "-pointing
scornfully to a hoe lying near. Mem
phis was good place for fortunes,
he surrnised, and to Memphis he came,
arriving here about 3 O'Clock yester-
day morning. Not finding any for
tune living around loose on his way up
from the lower depot, he concluded TO
extend his search, and O'Clock found
him In Ames IL Beattie's furniture
store. on Main street, near Beal, gath
eripg up what of value ne could con-
yeDiently carry off. lie also strQlled
into q sleeping room and took posses
sion of a watch, some articles OF cloth
ing, etc, which, added to bundle of
looking-glasses, he shOuldered and
was marching off, congratulating him
self on having made such nice start
on the high road to competence, when
osficer Elliott took him and his load
of plunder In tow, and lodged the
hold marauder in the stationhouse. |
After being locked up Rip " went to
work on him and coaXed him into
turning States evidence against him |
self, which he did, and told the officer
that he had carried off four or five loads :
from the furniture store before being |
arrested, and had slowed the stuff
in a street car that stood near the I
stables below Beal street. his state I
ment was found to be correct, and II /
there's anything to be drawn rom !
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