Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-24
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS

The weather continues dark, cold and
rainy.
The new p~ostohiee, after many de-
lays and announcements, opens to the
public to-day.
triet between twelve and enc o'clock last
night.
"A large party Of our citizens will
leave for New Orleans to-day to paTticf-
pate in the festivities of Hardi GrGs.
His Honor, J. w. Scales, disposed of
twenty-six cases yesterday, and ffty-fve
dollars were added to the funds Of the
city.
A pistol was accidentally exploded in
the dressing-room of the Parlor Music
Hall about half-past twelve last night by
one of the young lady attaches. No harm
was done.
a petition is going the rounds among
the Republicans for the pardon of Judge
Dixon. To their credit be It said, nearly
every Republican and Radical in the city
has signed it.
A Mr.. Mareello, mailing from Green
vile, Miss, on leaving the steamer Mar
bic CITY a little after midnight, was as
saulted by some unknown parties, prob
ably witha view to robbery, but made
his escape and fell into the hands Of the
police, who took care Of him.
We learn with pleasure that Captain
Madden, Of Engine No. l, who was re-
Gently injured, is doing well, and it is
hoped will soon be out. We are glad to
hear this and hope that the days may
not be long distant when his trumpet
shall again be heard. The engine is al
ready in trim for use when she may be
wanted.
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PhOHOqraDhie Record, official organ Of the
American Photographic Society, is at
hand. 1t is a neatly printed octave sheet
and contains a good deal of matter of in
terest to every phonetic reporter. 1t is
destined to play an important role in
American Journalism. We wish it all
success.
There is a petition in circulation re-
questing the Mayor and General Council
to allow the bar-roOms to keep their back
entrances open after u O'Clock. As there
are a very large portion of our people
such as printers, steamboatmen, tiremen,
haek-drivers and others-whOse business
require them to be on the streets after
midnight, we eheerfuIly indorse the
PRAYER, and hope Mr.. Johnson will accede
to the anne
Why is it that the carriers, of all the
p~OstOfiee employees, are SO poorly paid?
They are more trusted than any others, for
they are allowed to carry out letters with
out the order Of the party to whom they
are directed. They are more poorly paid
because, having this responsibility upon
them, they are required TO walk fifteen
miles every day for the pitiful sum of $50
per month. Shame on so penny wise
and pound foolish a doctrine!
BY reference to our neurological col
umn it viii be seen that of the flowers
of Tennessee chivalry has been cut down
in the bloom OF manhood. Major Phil. T.
Allen, formerly Of the gallant aud re-
nOwned "I54th,' died last night about
midnight, at the residence of his relative,
@. II. Anderson. Esq. AT the late hour
at which we write, we cannot pay more
than a passing tribute to the departed,
the news of whose death will cause tears
to trickIe down many a bronzed cheek
long unused to weeping. He was a brave
soldier, a true friend and a gentleman.
"Solaier, rest! thy warfare's Ger; sleep
the sleep that knows no waking; dream
of battle fields nc mere, days Of toll and
nights OF wakingt'
Meningitis and IL spotted fever are
endemic aud epidemic in the large cities
throughout the South. A private letter
to one of the editors of this paper, from
Mobile, says: Mobile has of late been
remarkably sickly, having several,strsnge
and fearful diseases, among which are the
spotted fever and meningitis. Last week
Burgess Garner lost three children in two
DAYS of the former disease. About three
weeks ago, a family arrived here from
Texas, consisting of a father, mother and
six children. The father was taken sick
at the hotel on arrival, and died in a few
hours. The mother was seized while
nursing him, and died within an hour
after his death. The two Oldest children
were taken with the infection next, and
died. Two other children were seized
with It, and were started for the Provi-
dence In6rmary our noble Catholic iusti-
tuition J one died on the st. Francis street
cars before reaching there, and the other
died a few hours after being placed in the
Inhrmsry, although the n~obIe-hearted,
selEsacriicing sisters did everything for
them. The remaining two children we're
started by some kind friend to Georgia, to
be placed under the care of relatives, but
both died before reaching Montgomery of
the same terrible disease-spotted fever.
God knows what we shall do" Thus
writes our correspondent. Some of the
most finished chemists and some of our
Wisest physicians declare that CdrbOIic
Acjd, diluted to suit the case (by any
competent druggist1, is a specific for all
infectious diseases Of a %cutane0us descrip-
tiOn-for all diseases that can be caught
by contact, or indeed by approximation.
For those superinduced by inhalation, OF
course in its chrystaline form, or fluid
diluted state, Il would be no safeguard.
But we know enough OF its antiseptic
Qualities 70 recommend it in every case
where the disease is even remotely cuta-
neous.