Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-26
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The park was full of babies and their
nurses yesterday evening.
Nothing in the magistrates court, yes
terday-au bare of items of interest.
-Beal street is the l~iveliest street in the
city. At certain hours in the day it fairly
swarms with foot passengers.
The question of making Memphis a
port of entry is again being discussed
among a class of our merchants.
While the liquor saloon ordinance re-
mains in force tho "Senate Saloon " win
not be open after midnight. 1t respects
the law, snd will not open the back door
to knocks.
Chief O'Donnell is investigating the
charges made by "R,' in the Ledger,
against policeman $50, of which We spoke
yesterday. If 40 is guilty he will go up;
If not he will be vindicated.
To-day, February 26th, is the day hat
the gardeners in England generally look
upon as the beginning of spring, for on
this day tradition hath it that the rocks
begin building their nests.
Dat meal, pearl barley, sage, cracked
wheat, lenteIs, white beans, Car
DINA rice, green peas, homiuy and
grits, received and for sale by John Lilly,
S5l Main street.
For the past three or four DAYS the
streets in some parts of the town have
been a sort of battle ground for dogs.
There were a dozen fights around the
APPEAL office yesterday, and from the
frequent "ky-eyes" somebody's purp
must have been badly chawed up.
VIM. Carson plead guilty yesterday to
stealing nine dollars worth of clothes
from a man named Pat Burke, at the
house of Mr.. Flemming, before Squire
Norton. He was sent to Jail in default of
$1,000 bail, to answe to the charge before
the Circuit Court.
Hon. Jefferson Davis, Hon. Geo. W.
Jones, and a large number OF our citizens
will leaveto-morrow by rail for
New Orleans. It il expected that
city on Tuesday next than ever be-
fore, and the festivities of Mdrdi GrGs
will be on a scale never before witnessed.
We direct the special attention of the
travelling public to the Commercial HO-
tel, over the destinies of which mine host
Allen presides. The table is everything
that most epteure taste could desire, and
the rooms are clean and comfortable.
Farmers and planters who would consult
their comfort when in the city, would do
well to put up az the old Commercial OIL
Jefferson street.
The funeral of Major Phil IT. Aliiu
was very largely attended yesterday. AS
announced ia the APPEAL yesterday
morning, the obsequies took place At the
Rev. Mr.. WithersDoon's church, and thai
clergyman oficiated. The funeral SER
mon was impressive, and many an eye
was full of tears from the beginning To The
end of the discourse. The coffin WAS
Of fowers-it tribute to one WHOSE life
was as pure and noble as that of the Ia
mented deceased. The cortege was one
of the longest ever seen in Memphis. ev
cry carriage and conveyance being filled
with true mOurners. Earth never took to
her bosom a nobler and truer son, and no
purer soul ever winged its way TO the
realms of Eternal Rest.
The thermometer at Il o'clock yester-
day, on the damp cold wall on the north
side of the Worsham House, marked
sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit, and later
in the day the weather was almost oppres-
sively arm strange contrast TO Fri
day last. Could we only hope that it
would lasti But clustering, dusty March
is yet to be gone through before smiling
April, with her showers and flowers, ush-
ers in the spring; for though March is
t~raditonally the first month of spring,
some of the worst weather of the whole
year is generally experienced in it. Still
IL is in this month that the trees begin to
show signs of awakening life, and in this
latitude there are some delightful days .
in it.
while UP at the jail, yesterday, we
saw in their cell Bill Saunders and Jerry
Nevills, the two well-known mackerels 1
who a few days ago beat a c-ountryman
named Montgomery out of 800 by the
tobacco box game. Bill seemed very pen
itent, and told the Chief that he was Jaw |.
full sick of that, and if he could only get
out again he never intended to do any
thing wrong" The Chief told him that
it was very hard to quit bad ways after
one once got into them. "Oh, but says
Bill, Pm determined; / am, honestly,
and if l can get off from this scrape / will
90 to work and earn an honest living. l
made up my mind to this every
been on your knees, eh?"
asked the Chief. 'Indeed, 1 have,
every night, and have promised on
them to reform" The boy spoke in earnest
and it was easy to see that he meant what
he said. Jerry said nothing, but he looked
all that Bill said, and his eyes more than
once filled with tears. These two lads
are about fourteen years old, with pleas
ant, open c-ountenances, in which there
nothing naturally vicious. What
better could be expected of triendless,
houseless orphan lads brought up in
Memphis during the past five or six
han that they should urn upon
The social system that condemns them to
'0LS -HN -hHoS 0AA ply ppm ~ IL
lally becoming a sconrge and a curse to
It. Oh for a house of correction, with an
lumance christian system ofreformation!
Bill told the chief that his father was
lead and his mother was now on the point
IF death-referring him to a letter in the
alters hands for confederation of the
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