Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-03

inc Wis Police Commissioner. This is to
relieve the Mayor of the great burden OF
police work which falls on him. Col. T.
b. Norment is to be the Commissioner,
and a Committee of three from each
Board appointed to fix the salary of the
Office.
Captain G. WIS. Browne, for many
years General Southern Agent of the Lit
tie Miami, but recently Southern Agent
of the Louisville n Cincinnati Short
Line, died in Louisville, AZ noon,
Wednesday, the LIST instant. We have no
particulars. He was in our city on Sun
day last, apparently in the best Of health.
1t is to be feared that the proposition
to build a railroad bridge across the Ala
bama river, at Selma, is defeated. Selma
gives alarge majority in favor Of the prop
Osition to LOAF the cOunty's credit for the
purpose but the county will vote differ
emily. BY this bridge it was proposed to
give Memphis u~nbroken, uninterrupted
access TO Pensacola.
The following officers have been
| elected by The Irish Literary Association
to serve tor the ensuing six months: Pres
ident, p. L. Mitchell; Vice President,
John Lilly; Recording Secretary, A. c.
Ferguson; Financial Secretary, Andre
Davis; Treasurer, W. ]. Mansford; Libra
rian, 4. Sweeney; Censor, James Fla
herty.
The Huntsville Independent of the
alst ult. saws: Zone of our citizens, who
came from Florence on to-day's train,
tells us that he learned at Tus-
cumbia tha q Mr.. Long, of that
place. was assaulted OF Saturday
night last in the Franklin House by a
Memphis man named Meachem, with g
razor, and so severely cut in the face and
on the neck that he is in avery critical
---as%s-- TRn- hnA nnarrn1aa q ahnrf
time before"
Z Electricity is to supercede steam,
This is the latest scientific sensation.
How it is to be done is as yet a mysteryi
but in his age incredibility is considered
a mark Of stupidity, and when we con-
slider what electricity has done, we may
well believe that its possibilities border
on the inimitable. Taylor will yet grease
himself, as did Ariel, who glided from
Heaven on a sunbeam, and, trsversing the
universe over electric wires, return TO the
APPEAL with his pockets stuffed with
facts from all quarters of the globe. Don't
stop him.
A gentleman of this city having re-
Gently purchased a tract of land "sight
unseen" in the State of Arkansas, wrote
to the County Surveyor of b county in
which il is situated for q description of il.
In due course he received the following.
Phancy his ~pheelings: The land is all
on Crowley's Ridge, There is about Z or s
acres in the S. Z. corner, you will see
painted which is on the E.. margin of the
ridge, fine poplar timber in the hills-the
rsvines are 50 deep and the hills so near a
perpendicular it is impossible TO make the
timber available, fine timber that canno
be come at. Reply given under my hand
this the 10Th day of May, A. d. 1870. =
-, County Surveyor"
There was a very good attendance at
st. Pstrick's picnic yesterday, and the
pleasures of he day were enjoyed in a
right royal manner by the old and young
marched through our principal streets
to the picnic grounds, headed by the So
dality Band, presenting a very fine APP
pearance, the various queens, with their
abundant maids of honor and gal
liant knights, evoking many exclsma-
tiOns of admiration. At the grounds
there was the usual pretty speeches, fol-
until shutdown. The picnic was a decided
success.
-" Refined homes are the end of civil
All the work of the world-tbe
-~ailroading, navigating, digging, delving,
manufacturing, inventing teaching, writ
ng, fighting, are done, first Of all, to Sc
ure each family in the quiet possession
ll us own Qedflli anu secondly, 10 sur
'ound as many hearths as possible with
race and culture and beauty. The work
# all races for five thousand years is rep
esented in the difference between a wig
and a lady's parlOr. 1t has no better
esult to show" Fill a parlor with music,
,oetry, and with pictures like those made
Miss Brown, at the corner of Main
nd Union streets, and there will be a re-
household, and virtue and taste and
God morals will prevail where the spirit
that is begOtten by such agencies.
The Festival at Rocco Hall is certain
Y the affair Of the season. The Hall was
last night, with "the beauty and
he chivalry" OF Memphis. The luncheon
which is spread every day at noon by the
aides, Is a feast of fat things; and the
.Oral decorations about the tables are
of beauty. Among these, we no.
ice an elegant bOquet, the gift of Mr..
ohnson, the florist of Elmwood Gene
cry, who is an artist in his profession.
the hall be crowded to-day for lunch
on, and tonight for a feast, if woman's
harms and mans knighthoOd, added to
ewitching music, luscious fruits and ex-
uisite flowers can make enjoyment. In
notice of this festival yesterday, we
Internationally omitted to mention the
of Mrs. j. +. Doyle and w. G.
'Ostal, one of the most successful in the
pom. At this table are the Misses Julia
Hunt, Lou. Joiner, Nellie Trout, Elise I
and Mary Allen. Our space to-
light forbids further notice. :