Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-14
LOCAL NEWS.

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and the hotels are jammed-
-Pittsburg coal in any quantity can bt
had Of J. J. McCsrdy at 247 Second street.
Squire Winters has opened an Office
at Miliard's old stamping ground, on JET
fersOn street.
The First ward is the only in the
citv in which population and property
has deprecated during the last decade.
Big preparations are being made fOl
the approaching agricultural and me
chanical fair, and u mechanics are get
ting up something extra for the eXhlbl-
ton.
M. Robinson, colored, was tried by the
Recorder for stealing twelve seeks from
Joe Seligman's stable. The charge was
proven and Mister Robinson sent to jail
in default Of $500 bail.
Duncan MacLean's saloon-the Bay
Horse, corner Of Monroe and Second
streets-is the place to go for 'alf-and-'alf
ale, porter, beer, and good drinks gen
orally.
The camp of the Sixteenth United
States Infantry, General P~ennebacker
commanding, at Genads, Miss, broke uI
yesterday morning. The troops left fOl
Louisville.
ZIG HoIIenberg has the most elegant
STYLES of pianos ever brought to this city.
A GCLlNlAElE d.5lEkuAtuL u OAEGhSLAIEF Tic
hest and cheapest hrst-elass piano in the
world. sold on easy terms.
The business Of the police is on the
increase for some days. On Monday
morning over sixty cases were disposed
of by the Recorder, and yesterday the
docket was ful-full of DRINKS and dis
orderlies.
A Young man who wss riding mule,
had a ut on Main street yesterday, oppO-
site the drug store Of Mansfield & Higbee,
the people Of which establishment took
care Of him in the way Of salts and smell
ing bottles, revived him and sent him on
his way recovering.
A. c. Ferguson was before the Re-
cOrder yesterday morning on the charge
of shooting with intent to kill. He was
let u on bail OF 5000. John CASTOR and
James o. Duff are the names on the
bond. For violating the city ordinances
he was charged $50.
The age Of Glessmeyer, who was killed
Sunday night, Is said to have been fifty
nine, though fOrty-6ve were the figures
on the coffin. He didn't look more than
thirty-hve. There was a "vidder' at the
bottom Of the affair, as viii be more fully
shown hereafter.
james Corwin, the Oldest news
dealer IN the city, died yesterday. He
kept his establishment near the corner
OF Madison and Main. He was a remark
ably intelligent and well read man, a
great ConversatiOualist, and full Of en-
ergv. His numerous customers will miss
MS lively face and genial talk for a long
time TO come.
Among the very best, most energetic
and skilIful of our cotton factors, who
have been engaged in this business from
their youth upward, are Messrs. Black,
Estes & Co, OF No. IL Monroe street.
Their anne as they should, MI Infinitely
greater space in the public mind than
they do in the advertising columns Of the
APPEAL.
Its in contemplation to build a wooden
structure in the rear of the Market street
schOOlhOuse large enough to contain w
additional schools. The four schools al
ready in operation in that building are
iEconveniently crowded. Mrs. Reilly is
burdened with the care Of one hundred
and two pupils. This is at least double
allowance.
Sporting Dick has been in Jail for a
week for threatening to flatten the fair
rotundity Of a ladyS skull with two ham
mers. He was before Judge Ray in the
Probate COUr o yesterday, on q writ
Of h4beas corpus. The arguments and
examinations were more witty than
ehaste; but Dick got out.
The second colored company that has
been enlisted Ia this city during the sum-
mer was completed yesterday at the depot
on Shelby street. They are designed for
the FOrtisth regiment, nov in Texas.
This regiment has enlisting depots at all
the towns along the river from New Or
leans to Cairo. The probability is that we
will have an army OF Turcos here shortly.
The condition Of DR.. Frame was IN
changed yesterday evening. He looks as
il nothing were the matter with him. 1t
has been sscertsined that the ball has
lodged under the right shoulder-blade,
and cannot be very well got at. The Doc
Tor, however, will net submit TO an opera
uiOu al present. He is getting along very
well, and there is not the slightest doubt
but he will recover.
The complaints Of dullness which for
the last two months issued from the
whisky shops is heard no more; they are
all busy. Every male biped seems TO be
certifying against the damp weather, fill
ing the fOsse with whisky. It is said TO
he an excellent antioOte for chills and all
manner of biliousness. To the credit of
our male population IL must be said that
they are working vigorously against the
enemy. When be approaches he won't
md them ~Dnprepared.
Attention Is invited to the card Of
Messrs. Pepper & Otey, who have entered
into partnership to 20 a commission bust
ness, on Court street. These gentlemen
are young, energetic, full of business tai
emit, and are well known to AL our mer-
chants. They are well calculated to do
full justice to any commission intrusted
70 them. They belong TO the advanced
class of business men-those who have
reduced mercantile pursuits TO a science.
We confidently commend them to the no.
tice Of country merchants and those ia
distant cities.
Two policemen were srraigned before
Justice Winters, yesterday, on a charge Of
stealing SJ3 from q man named Lanegan,
while srresting him Sunday night. They
picked him up at the end OF Exchange
street, where he had been lying appar-
emily tight with his legs hanging over
the bayou bank. On his way to the sta
tion house he missed his money and ae-
cused one of them Of stealing il. The
evidence showed that be had been lying
there for some time, and the boys were
brickbatting him for sport. The police
were discharged.
The programme Of the FAN Meeting
of the ~Ehickasaw Jockey Club is to hand.
IL is the neatest thing of the sort that has
appeared out here for years. neat Is mo.
pamphlet Of twelve pages in the most
beautiful style Of the Typographical art.
printed by Boyle q Chapman, containing
NIt IL1kl LII "a bd-A udNH race. DGNln-
ing Tuesday, October 25th-six weeks
nom yesterdsy-Snd ending with three
races on the following SATURDAY.. There
will be twelve races-three each the hrst
and last DAYS, and two each on the other
three days. The aggregate purses sum
up $3.50. The great race on Friday, the
fourth day, between three year ODDS Will
be for a purse OF $1,000. The races this
year promise to be splendid.
1t is very hard TO overcome the bar
barities Of the English language. It is
only by comparison they can be thor
oUghly appreciated. There is neither
reason nor euphoBy in such words as
these: cough" sslough," s1augh,D
s'rough," plough" delphi Nc won
der the incapscity to spell words has now
50 common for students in college
as to be most noticeable. At Cornell. this
year and last, boys had to learn TO spell.
though they were advanced in mathe-
philosophy, and sometimes in
Greek and Latin. This Is common to all
the colleges. Boys are fitted and sent to
who cannot spell correctly a dozen
consecutive lines. 1t is said that ali the
Amherst freshmen were conditioned"
this year in spelling, and forty-eight out
Of eighty-three applicants at West Point
we're rejected for the same reason.
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