Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-25

-hempnlS Sports seem 10 nave cut Lno
Mobile races.
The oyster season is about sped. Next
week closes it.
The Nicolson on Jefferson and Adams
streets looks as clean as a new pin.
The thermometer stood at 6S0Fahren-
heat in the shade at u m. yesterday.
California pears at one dollar and
fifty cents apiece are still in the market.
The Reagan gang will AVE a hearing
on hG6eIs corpus before the Criminal
Court to-day.
The frame stable belonging to Mike
Prendergast, situated on South street,
burned down yesterday morning.
The candidates yesterday put one in
mind ofa lot of bumble-bees in a very
large tar barrel. Things is mixed"
But little was done in the magistrates
offices yesterday, owing to the fact that
the magistrates were ~electioneering.
Many familiar faces, which for a time
have been absent from among US, APP
peared on the streets yesterday and day
before.
-Cucumbers, tomatoes and green peas,
from the markets Of Mobile and New
Orleans, ave made their appearance in
town..
The prospect for Creole oranges next
fall is not very 1attering-most of the
trees on the Gulf coast having been
nipped by the recent unprecedented cold.
Recorder Scales had seventeen cases
before him yesterday, and collected fines
to the amount of twenty dollars. Fines
to the amount of eighty dollars were as
sessed.
We are informed that Mr.. Brooks, of
the late firm of Brooks il Dennis, is lying
in a dangerous state. Some days since be
was thrown from a horse, the fall causing
conclusion of the brain.
The Street Railroad Company have |
put on a number of their new cars. They
are neat and clean, run very smoothly, |
and we learn will be started with great
regularity.
Bill Jones alias cred Shirt Bill" ar
rested on Tuesday last by the police, was
taken from the statiOn-house yesterday
by the Sheriff on a capias from the Grim
inal Court. The prisoner is under indict-
ment for larceny.
The picnic season will soon be on us. |
Let the Confederate Relief Association
be among the first to avail themselves of
it, and thus recuperate q treasury deple-
ted by the charities attendant upon a
long and severe winter.
We are under many obligations to
Major Scruggs, of the Scruggs House,
CoTintb, for repeated favors. Travellers
who are compelled to stop over at Corinth
will find the Scruggs House all that can
be wanted by the wayworn, hungry and
thirsty.
Why is it that, with clothing and
provisions at aute-bellum prices, the
hotels and boarding houses keep up their
frighttul tariff of charges2 with flour and
bacon, beef and vegetables, at old prices,
we would like to know what keeps hotel
board up TO our dollars per diem.
To-day is the feast of the annunciation
of the b. V. Mary. II is a high and SOL
emn festival in the Anglican and Roman
churches, and will be observed as such to-
day. The gospel is from the lst Luke
and the word was made flesh and dwelt
among u.s."
The Confederate Relief Association
viii meet next Thursday evening to con-
slider grave and important matters. We
hope there will be a full attendance, and
that OnLV members will be allowed to be
present, as anything like freedom of de-
bate before strangers is impossible, and in
the matters to be discussed, this will be
absolutely necessary.
Manager Younge will take his benefit
next Monday evening. He has been I'M
firing in his efforts to please our public,
and we hope that the public Will reeipro-
cate by giving him a bumper. Miss Anna
Maria Quinn, a young lady who has made
Memphis her permanent home, is a debu-
tante on the occasion, and We have no
doubt will make a hit. Due particulars
will be given in our amusement column.
speaking about the Little Rock Rail-
road, a few DAYS ago, Gen. Forrest re-
marked to a friend that he would take
the road as it stands of the hands of its
present management and shove it through
to an immediate completion, without ask
ing a cent aid from anybody. He has
hands, he says, which ne can spare from
his other great undertaking (the Mem
phis and Selma Rsilrosd6 and shove the
two roads at the same time. For the sake
of Memphis, let the road be turned over
to him, say we.
The work of tearing down the Citi-
zens' Union Bank building, on the south
west corner of Main and Jefferson streets,
commenced yesterday. We understand
that this and the adjoining building (now
used as a barber shop are both to be de-
molished to make room for a magnificent
block of stores, which are to be erected
during the coming summer. The bank
building belongs to G. w. Goyer, and the
other to Jos. L. Andrews, Esq, both en-
terprising gentlemen, from whom we
may expect something handsome. We
venture to predict that the new building
will be a credit to Memphis.
Charles Davis, the negro who applied
for writ of hd6euS corpus on tuesday last,
and whom the judge remanded TO. the
station-house, to await news from Grena-
da, Miss, with reference to his alleged
completely in the murder and robbery of
a Kentucky drover, was discharged from
custody yesterday, Chief O'Donnell hav-
ing received information that he was not
the party, although his likeness to the
murderer was striking and remarkable.
He had one hundred and sixty dollars In
twenty dollar gold pieces on his person
when arrested, and had been acting in
quite a suspicious manne for several
DAYS. Chief O'Donnell's system of taking
photographs of suspicious characters
tends to settle many questions of mis-
taken identity.
Might before last, a young gentleman
in the drug store of Mr.. +. A.
j. Smith, on Main street, between Jeffer-
and Adams, paid a visit to a friend on
Madison street, and deposited his hat and
o~vercat, In the pocket of which was the
kew of the store, in the hall. When he
rose to leave he found that his hat and
coat were gone, and he was compelled to
wend his way homeward ~bareheaded and
~overcoat. Yesterday morning a lad
connected with the telegraph office (whose
name we suppress on account of bis rela-