Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-08
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
"A beautifully clear, but somewhat
cold and windy day, followed the storm
of night before last.

Smallpox still fingers in the city. It
is confined mostly to the negroes-a fact
mainly due to their filthy habits.
The stiff north wind made things I'M
comfortably cold, toward midnight, and
we should not be surprised at plenty of
ice this morning
The announcement of the death of
NJ yor Leftwich, which was received early
yesterday morning, caused q gloom over
the whole city during the day.
The county Jail report for last week
shows fifty prisoners confined for various
offenses. Only one for murder. Quite a
contrast to the reports of a year agoi
The Mobile and Ohio railroad trans
ports emigrants free OF cost. The charge
on the New Orleans and Jackson and the
Vicksburg and Meridian roads is one cent
per mile. On h Mississippi Central two
cents.
We are informed that up to midday
yesterday tho body of the negro woman
Dicey Long (who died of smallpox Il
day last week., remained still unburied.
We spoke of this shocking piece of neg
lect yesterday. If it is LEFT much longer
the rats will save the city sexton the trou-
bic of burying it!
The case of Ned Lake, accused of
burning the house and promises of J. II.
Able, Esq, the particulars Of which we
gave q few days ago, was called before
Herman yesterday evening. Lake
was committed in default of bail to IN
swer to the crime of arson at the present
term of the Criminal Court.
We are informed that the facts in the
case of Sarah Charlton, who had her hus-
arrested for abusing her, as brought
out before the examining magistrate, are
he is q worthless fellow, who has
brutality maitreated her. and
her hard earned wages in riotous
with abandoned females. If such
be the case, she has a right to protection
and redress.
The County Court convened yester-
day for the regular monthly transaction Of
business. Nothing was done of impOr-
lance beyond granting letters of admins
tratiOn TO Mary Tanning, on the estate of
Peter Tanning, deceased; appointing
Louis Amis guardian of the minor heirs
of Susan Maydwell deceased, and pro-
the viii Of Chivvie A. Smith, de-
ceased.
"A paragraph has been going the
of the press for the past month
about a Californian ''whO had been en-
by a widow to sell some mules"
and who had not settled up. A printer
1t up in a certain newspaper office
NtolbIdd1 AOb IL bhdb lnb NAuuM uhu Dll-
plOyed him to sell some males. The
widows in this region don't have to en-
ploy anybody to 'sell males" they sell
them themselves.
Can the Postofice authorities here or
in New Orleans tell us the reason why our
New Orleans exchanges, the Times, Com
Bulletin, PtcdyURe and others, so
rarely receive a copy of the APPEAL?
fault is not IN this office, for the paper
is mailed regularly, yet we are informed
that it is a great rarity for it to come to
hand in New Orleans. We hope that the
will be Strengthened.
Attention is called to the card of
Nendig Bros. 81 Co, No. 226 Main
street, which appears in another column.
the indications Of gold, they
have anticipated a further tumble, and
their innumerable and well as
sorted stock of dry goods at the old-time
1t really does seem as If the good
old days of a specie basis are again upon
US.
Some days ago a well known thief,
Jimmy Diamond, was arrested on a charge
Of vagrancy. He was under the influence
Of liquor at the time, and when the eX-
element caused thereby wore of he sur
fered severely from mental depression.
The officers thought it was simply the
BluES VI AAa hO hChA0 NoA So wv
It; but he constantly grew worse, and
Yesterday morning he was taken from the
.station-hOuse and sent to the hospital,
suffering all the horrors of IA tirst-class
case of the jim-jams, imagining
hat he had a Q monkey on each
shoulder, a million of snakes in his boots,
and a nest of Junybugs in his pants.
A hackman, named John Kane, was
severely injured yesterday morning about
ia .-,a# 81 aH.1Aalr ~ TnHa~un.n GFrnne
near the Opera House, by being thrown
rom his hack while his team were
running away. He had been down
10 the levee. with a load, and in
attempting to make a turn, broke
he tongue of his carriage. He took
)ut the broken pieces, and Harvesting his
horses to the vehicle, by the traces simply,
attempted in this manner to haul it to
he shop for repairs. Going up hill the
horses behaved well enough, but on at
.empting to go Town grade the carriage
run upon the horses heels m caused
hem to run way. Kane deserves a great
ieal of credit for the heroic manner in
he swung TO his team, and directed
hem clear of the other vehicles and foot
passengers in the streets.
Every few days the public is called
lpon to sympathize with some member
Of the Green family who has been victim
-zed by some glib-tRgued professor of
the confidence GAM The press rolls
ate at, of Mr. JoiligTeenE greenbacks, and
DDS up hill and down dale, " the
8 unprincipled scoundrel who could so
deceive the honest yeoman," ETC., and
winds up by calling on the police to clear
he town of these vampires" Which
S all very kirect. The -" confidential"
yentlman-the holder OF the bond, check
gold certificate, mining share, or what,
collateral he proposes to allow Mr..
Jolligreen to "hold until he sees Smith"
5, of course, a fraud. That he is a dang |
fraud is an assertion hard to be sus-
Did any one ever lear of this
same confidence man operating by these
worthless slips of paper with a man OF
world to the pecunisry detrimenU of
latter ? Never, ualess the " collate-
,als " were well executed cOunterfeits,
but seldom even then. But Mr..
IolligTeen meets this Operator" and
has his dUdfice stimulated to the grasp
ng point by the story that be can, for
i've hundred dollars, get possession of a
Dill of exchange, sight draft or something
Of the sort, worth, say, treble the amount
IF the investment, and he nips the hook
with a vigOr that sends a thrill through
)ut the veins of the practical angler, who
leads his victim on the beach.
Has not the ~clod-hopper brains CROUCH
% understand that there are in cities
for the barter of all commodities
money as well as meat? VIII Mr.. JOLT
green never comprehend the fact that the
noney-changers can do quite as well for
he impecunious gentleman with the
heavy check as he possibly could, and
Ices not common sense tell him that the
fellow would go to the brokers il he
No; MIR. Jollig. will go home
md show his friends what a nice thing he
made of it coming to Memphis; how he
was sharp enough to make his trip pay
lin handsomely that, instead OF whining
over greenbacks ~squandered for wine at
5 the small bottle, 80 be drunk on the
premises" in very questionable, or, rather
decidedly unquestiOnsble-company, he
show five hundred dollars, " clear
on the visit. And he does, or
would, maybe, if the hotel clerk or some
,ther busy-body didn't tell him that his
heck, bond. or whatnot, was not worth
row of pins. BY all means, let's hang,
lraw and quarter confidence men when
,ver the public desire a spectacle pecu-
iarly attractive, but. for the sake of COM
non sense, let up a little in the outporing
# tears for a fool of a rascal that is beaten
I his own game by a smarter one.
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