Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-15
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

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is flying in clouds, is causing much com
plant of sore eyes.
Lieut.. Wendell, Of the e. s.. Army,
died at the Arsenal in Little Rock on FIN
day night last, very suddenly.
"A railroad meeting is to be held at
Devall's Bluff, on the 22d, to consider
upon the ways n means OF building the
White River Railroad.
Smallpox, of the most virulent type,
is prevalent among the negroes in parts
of the city. II is also prevalent among
whites to a limited extent.
The creek is falling more rapidly than
it rose. If we do not have a spring over
flow, what glorious crops may we not
look for from the river bottoms next sea-
sonI
The influx Of strangers into the city
continues. They pour in In a steady
stream. Some come to stay, many are
mere transient visitors. and others are
emigrants in traRsitu to Arkansas and
Texas.
There is said to be over ten thousand
bales of cotton on the levee waiting ship
ment. \ t%inancier, disposed to be witty,
remarked that his was crowding the
banks quite as much as it was the levees.
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The lowering weather which pre-
vailed all day, last night eliminated in
a tremendous storm of thunder, light
ming, hail and rain. While we write,
hail-stoues are rafting on the roofs
around, making a roaring sound that al
most browns the thunder.
The new hall in which the School
Board meet, in the Odd-Fellows' building
(being a portion of the old Chamber of
ComTnerce) while it is beautiful. commo-
dious and airy, is like a sounding-board.
The movement of a chair across the floor,
or a football reverberates so as to make
an almost d%eafening noise.
A lady slipped and came very near
falling to the pavement by stepping
on a banana peel dropped hy a careless
young man, on the corner OF Madison and
M8in.streets, yesterday. The police should
promptly arrest any one caught throwing
fruit peelings, or anything else Of thar
sort, on the banquette. Nothing is more
dangerous to pedestrians.
The magistrates dockets were slim
enough yesterday. The trial of Roberts
for arson still drags its weary length along
before Squire Norton. Squire Foley is
sued warrants yesterday for 4. S. Jen-
kings, who was accused by AS. Bowen
of stealing three pair of psnts; also of
receiving s. so under false pretenses from
him; and for Ned Lake. accused of steal
ing a pair of boots valued at 81. These
cases will have a hearing to-day.
Two well-knovn newspaper men who
were vending their way hOmewari from
the TheateT during tbs storm last night,
were arrested and taken 10 the station
house on Adams street We do not know
WAn a-aa .naHa.ra auaNuua# o. 49,
pose they acted in q suspicious manner
They put up f%orteitS, and I'll appear be-
fore the Recorder this moT~pg.
-Sergeant H., A. Louis, OF the Memphis
City Police Force, yesterday had an eie-
giant gold badge presented 10 him. L was
q sergeant's badge, appropriately en-
graveG with a handsome design. name.
rank, etc. This is a very behutlng testi-
mOnial 10 an efficient officer. We hope
snd are sure that Captain Louis, who is so
early the recipient of hopors such rs
these, will cOutinue TO grow IN favor with
ais men and the public.
Some o~itizans who witnessed the fact, I
were bitter in their -denuuoiatton Ofthe
driver OF Poplar street car No. 2, who
stopped his car yesterday on Main street
and invited two negro women TO get IN
and ride. They told the driver they had
no money, hut he assured thsm It msde
az tsAA1A-AaNNH a. AAANNh0A h11 LAFA Z
glariug from the fact that the car already
contained a white lady. General Alex
ander would do well to rednce ''No. % to
the ranks,
The last number Of tho Jackson /
(Tenn.) Tribune Is full of Mobile adver-
tiSements-ColOnel Wisdom having lately /
paid a visit TO that city. Why shouldn't
Memphis ave the trade that is being sent 1
from Jackson thither2 By the way.
fInlnnaN ANFEAnwa g1wa Wka~ -. e. g. (
Mobile dwindling into insignihcance, as
we would be led to believe by reading
New Orleans papers, it was never so busy
and its business is daily increasing.
The Rusk CTexas) Observer of the ed
ult. says; I'VE return thanks to the pro-
p~rietoTs of the Memphis APPEAL, for a
neatly executed New Year Greeting for
1870. The APPEAL is now in its thirtieth
volume, and although old in years, is
more vigorous than eveT-still battling
with the energy of youth for the rights of
the people and the Constitution of our
fathers. Long may it flourish, for so
able a champion of liberty cannot be
spared in these degenerate times.n
Last night was one Of the darkest of
the season and at midnight not a gas light
in the city had been lit. It is time that
our city authorities would investigate
this matter. If they would lend some as
1~ANN ~ NAI ~" company . INV IOIE L
would our citizens have to complain of
the neglect now so fiagrant7 If the
m of the Board would in
struct the Chief of Police to note all cases
of neglect, they would be astonished at
the way our city is kept ia darkness,
a cutting ARRAY occurred on Sunday
evening on the corner of fernando and
South streets, between two mon named
James keefe and James Leney, in which
the latter was stabbed three tfmes-twice
ia the head and once in the abdomen.
The wounds are considered dangerous,
and an examination of the affair is post
pOned until the condition Of the wounded
man is definitely known. Keefe was ar
and is held without bail. on a war !
from Squire Burke. We under
that the two men were good friends.
that, as usual, whisky was the imme-
tiste cause, n women at the bottom of
he affair. n little drunken pleasantly /.
bout each others wives ended in "a fight
With the result mentioned above. :
The Water Valley (Miss.l ValIoafan.
If Saturday last, says: ''The down freight l
rain on the Mississippi Central Railroad. :
net with a serious accident on Wednes- :
lay morning last, three miles north Of =
anton. The locomotive ran over two :
hat were lying on the track near q !
lFlQge, The locomotive, with its tender, =
sHssed over the cows without being :
o@N0f RhA P1ebtu VFHE I d
he bridge safely, but the first box car !
umped the track and was. pitched into :
ne bridge followed by seven Others. The u
was literally demolished, which. 2
With the eight freight boxes, made a huge .
Tile OF debris. No one hurt. The accident :
las caused some delay in the passenger :
rains, as each one has to make a transfer .
t the break. The road is all right again. II
have had to chronicle several &C. n
of late, resulting from the explo- P
Of coal oil lamps, and only q day or 2
ago begged our readers TO be most /,
lreful In using them. From the Little
lock Gazette. of Saturday, we learn that s
n Friday night u cos oil lamp exploited v
a house Of a Mr.. Erwin. The burn
h1td was scattered In every direction: ei
OF he children of Mr.. Erwin being in Z
5ach We're 80 seriously injured that his al
forming one Of them died. while the ia
her IS scarcely expected 10 recover.
here Is no cause assigned for the exnlo- n,
On" The same paper says: "a eoIorad i
IAN ~ Mathews, employed a. The
i'll of Cook, Glib 4 Co., was Crushed 70 Ia
sath yesterday evening in 8 horrihle =
.anupr. 1t WAS mis- dufv RI 500 tL.s - -