Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-27

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prisoner. The Recorder served him
right.
Nelson Peyton and John Cole, me-
groes, were arrested yesterday by dstec-
tive Mat. Shelby, on charge Of being the
parties who some weeks ago murdered an
unknown Frenchmsn in Fort Pickering.
They will be examined this morning be-
fore Squire Miller.
Maine, Major Maine, he of the Arkan-
sas militia-nigger-wife notoriety, who,
after his exploits in Crittenden county,
was appointed sheriffo Lafayette county,
Mississippi, by the satrRp carpet bag
Senator, Ames, hiss recently sloped from
those regions, and we will probably next
hear Of him as sheriff, or something OF
that sort, in South Carolina or Florida.
The posts, or rather scantlings, sup
porting the heavy shed around the Mer-
/ chants National Bank are very flimsy
and insecure. The one at h corner of
Madison and Main is especially weak, and
if knocked away, which it is likely to be
at any time, the whole shed is liable to
fall down upon the passers by.
M. i. Meacham & Co, have transfer
red their stock Of groceries and planta-
ton supplies, as varied and extensive as
any ever gathered in this city, to the
house recently occupied by Messrs. Gal
breath, Stewart Il Co., No. II Union street.
The house is thirty feet front by two hun
dred feet deep, and filled with bagging,
rope, flour, bacon and every commodity
required on a plantation.
John WEIGH, a darby, was caught by
the police yesterday walking through the
upper part Of the Navy Yard, carrying
a coil Of clothes line in his hand, on one
end of which was a nice sucking pig,
just fit for roasting. John, Then asked
where he got the pig, said that shit was
jis' a folierin' him and he hadn't the faint
est idee whar it come from" The Re-
corder will attend to his case this morn
ing.
M. Combs, jr., was arrested night be-
fore last for lewd and indecent conduct
in a hack with a young m The
story Of this affair, if we heard it correctly
from the police, is the most infamous of all
the infamous deeds with which this
worthy has been charged first and Last.
The details of the affair are too outra-
geOus for publication at present, but to-
day will probably reveal certain particu-
lars which we can make public.
A correspondent writing from Tren-
ten, Arkansas, on the 23d inst, y 81
am sorry to inform you of a sad accident
which occurred here last Friday evening
at 8 o'clock, A German, aged twenty-four
years, by the sname of John Bonuh, the
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a young man, while bathing in Big creek,
was drowned. While the young man was
washing himself the German swan down
stream, and it is believed he cramped and
sunk. His body was found by the citi-
zen OF Preston, last Saturday, at 10
O'Clock, badly disigured by turtles. The
Coroner held an inquest on the body,
and the verdict returned, that he came to
death by accidental drowning"
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changes the significance Of a sentence as
happens with the word named" in the
sentence quoted below. 1t should have
been Mr." The appended good-natured
note,explsins itself: Editors AppedJ-In
your report of the mass meeting on yes
terdsy, your reporter says that Colonel
Michael Mageveny utterly and hope
lessly squelched a gentleman named
Barnes 1 happened to be the indi-
vidual who asked that the rights of our
German Democrats be respected, and pre-
that l am the individual referred to, |
| have TO reply that ! ave been cut and
by more powerful instruments, |
and am not yet 'squelched.' And further. 4
1 should see 1T to run for any Office,
will not be a candidate for Alderman in
the Eighth ward. B. B. BARNES"
"A few weeks since a white man named
VIM. c.. Baily hired himself out from
DCN ass > dkbhGl as a AhDO1bL W 1
10 Presidents Island to chop wood.
While there he was taken with chills and
which reduced him almost to deaths
door. Yesterday morning two of his fell
IoW-laborers seeing that he was sinking
put him in a boat and came up to
town with him, intending to put HIM in
The hospital or have him otherwise taken
ARE Of. On arriving at the levee the
men left Baily in the boat and came up
.ouvn To uat a pOnuauanRa IN trauanOrt him i
up to the city in, and on returning they
him stone deadi He had been
aiken with congestion while they were
and expired before help could reach
him. His effects-a large portemanteau
;srrying clothing, papers, etc, were car
led 10 b corOner's office, where they
ire subject to Identification.
We mentioned in a paragraph a day
" two ago the various improvements go
ng on around town, and cited several
elegant buildings, but neglected TO men
ion one of the most important proposed
improvements now on the tapis-the
great bathing resort of Memphis. This
of which the project originated
With DR.. A. L. Plough, and the design
furnished by Mr.. Cook, the well-known
,rchitect, is to be located on Second
treet, between Adams and Washington,
nd will be commenced as soon as a sufi-
HnA - buBSL4Ab6a " Ak capital I
took to guarantee its completion. The
OF is already purchased, and orange
made which guarantee the early
commencement of work on it. The ma
erials to be used in the structure, which
5 to be seventy-four feet front by one
and forty-eight deep, are stone,
ron and glass. In style it is Moresque,
he front being a beautiful combination of
urves and right lines. The building will
q four stories in hight, the first two
wenty feet each, n the W upper sto-
les sixteen feet each, the whole to be sur
mounted with a dome and observatory,
.uilt Of iron and glass. The purposes TO
Thich the various parts OF this besutiful
imposing structure are to be applied.
re, first, q bath house capable of
ccommodating one hundred bathers at
time; second, a merchants exchange;
bird, a concert hall; fourth, a social hall;
Ith, a gymnasium; sixth, a library hall;
sventh, gallery of arts; eighth, an Obser-
atory; and ninth, ICE cream saloons, bs-
aars, and stores. The total cost will be
1876, eco, of which S35, 900 is already guar
nteed, besides the grounds. The advan-
ages to be derived from such an estab-
shment, TO the whole people, are almost !
lcalculable, contributing as il does TO ]
re comfort, health and amusement of the
eople. There is no \ thing that Mem
his needs now more than a commOdious i
establishment, and next in the &
st of imperative wants is q reading {
,om and library. The other proposed
improvements are all needed, and we I
ish DIR. Plough God speed in his good 5
Iork. We shall refer to 1t again soon. q