Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-12

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-EIectioneering is growing excited
around Whisky Chute. The great query
now is, "who will get the nomination for
the Legislature2n No one nswsr the
! c~onundrum satisfactorily.
The County Court have postponed
action on the bonds of Mr.. Chiel
woodward, County Trustee, until Satur-
day. No business of Importance was done
in the court yesterday.
-Chas. P. Woodbridge, Esq, of the firm
of Taylor & Rutland, has just returned
from North Mississippi. He reports cot
ton in goOo sOnditiOn, but corn is looking
Every Sorry
Our friend Charlie Nourse, of the
Phoenix Mutual, is in tow from the
country, where he now spends most OF
his time. His many friends will be
pleased to hesr that he is looking as hearty
and jovisl as of yore.
A white girl, fifteen years old, in
duced away iron n. J. Virgins residence
by a negro man named Robert Cooper,
and secreted by him at a Negroes house on
the corner of PontotOc and Main streets,
is now at the lower st~ation-hOuse, where
her friends will find her.
The baneht Of the popular fremont
Sisters comes of at BroOm's Opera House
this evening. A splendid programme has
NefAh NEtkdItna ANU as Nnt NNuAE lhdiN'
are faverites there will no doubt be a
crowded house to greet them.
Emma Stanley, a eourtezan, was ar
rested yesterday for s~tesling SlS7 from
one Of her victims, night before last. She
was carried before Squire Miller ON a
warrant, and sent 10 Jail in default of
5000 bail, to answer at the present term
of the Criminal Court.
-Retaie Ferguson and Andy Tolliver,
both of Fort Pickering, do not seem to
get along the best i'm the world, though
they do live together as mar and wife.
BETTE had Andy arrested yesterday on
the charge OF assault with attempt to
kill. and also for threatening to burn her
house down. Squire Norton will settle
their dispute this morning.
Squire Herman has been com PEELED
again to leave his business and seek
health at the Springs. This time be has
gone to Bailey's Springs, and we hope
that those celebrated health-giving
waters will reiuvenate him. Squire MIL
Ter attends to his business meanwhile.
Two youths. Fred. Fowler, aged ff-
teen, aud Oscar Taylor, aged ten, the lat
ter a son of our fellow-citizen, Captain j.
r. TAYLOR. killed ahawk aday or two ago,
near Water Valley, which measured hfty-
five inches from tip to tip of its wings. 1t
Vas as large Ae al bGSAos AIN hRA AtAb
been a terror to poultry in that section.
Colonel Dew Wisdom, whilom editor
Of the Jackson Tribune, now of h Vest
Tennessee Wing aud Tribune, is in the
CITY. His CHEEKY face and hearty laugh
eniivened our Office for an hour or so
Yesterday morning. May his shadow
never grow less!
The Sodality Band desire us to state
that they Will not play in the Park any
more this season, or until the city shall
have erected a stand for them. This is
right. The Boards passed a resolution to
erect a stand for them some time go, but
as yet no move in that direction has been
made.
The Henry County Agricultural AS
ISOLATION. owing to a conflict of time with
several other associations, has changed
the time of holding the Fall Fair to Oc-
tober 18th. The third annual exhibition
of the Tennessee Fair Association will be
held on their grounds near Murfreesboro,
commencing on Monday, September 26,
and continue for six days.
The new building on the corner of
jefferson and Main streets is sufficiently
advanced toward completion to enable
the workmen to dispense with the scat
folding, cranes, ETC., and yesterday the
b~anquette in front of it was cleared off so
LnAL DelGstElau5 6Ib uOl cOllpolltu 70
walk out into the middle of the street in
order to get by it. In a few weeks this
superb building will be ready for its fu-
Jure occupants.
BY reference to our advertising
columns it will be seen that the we'll
known commission and grocery firm of
GAY q Martin has been dissolved, Mr..
Gay selling out to Mr.. j. II. Martin n
J.. T. Hilsman, who continue the BUSH
ness at the old stand, No. 30S Front street,
under the name of Hilsman & Martin.
The friends Of the old firm are invited to
continue their patronage with the new.
Read their advertisement.
The supper party at the rooms of Mr..
Campbell Ferguson, night before last, ID
said, by those who were present, 10 have
been one OF the most enjoyable affairs Of
the sort ever given in Memphis, There
were present some thirty GUESTS, includ-
ing military men, jurists, lawyers, doc
tors, members eff the press, Bohemians
and politicians. Speeches were made,
tOasts drank, stories told and songs sung,
and the champagne did not cease to pop
till along in the "wee sma' hours" The
occasion Of the gathering was the celebra-
tiOn OF Mr.. FergusOn's twenty-Grst birth
day, and, like the feast of O'Rourke, sit
will ne'er be forgot, by those who were
there and those who were not"
As a sample of the extras that are
nowadays finding circulation, we pub
fish the following, yesterday circulated
in the French interest: "Extra-Lstsst
from the war; by lcable via London carl
baldi 10 assist Frapeq with $4,000 men;
Csar5besg GA Swiss territory; General
sherman IA the way for Paris; a new in
vented cannon for Napoleon; Austria arm
ing; heavy sea fight begun; 10000 Fenian
volunteers for Napoleon; Saxon and Ba-
den troops d~isafeCtea, IJ4001 Spaniards
to fight under the French eagle; Russia
declares strict neutrality; riot in Berlin
and famine in Schlehsien."
We regret to announce, this morn
ing, the death Of Mr.. James McRae, book
keeper of the Planters and Union Bank.
Mr.. McRae had been a citizen of Mem
phis for more than fourteen years, and in
that time had made a great many friends,
who admired him for the blending of high
social qualities with the very best attain
ments of the mercantile profession. He
died as he lived, a pure, good Christian, a
consistent member of the Presbyterian
Church. He was about thirty-five years
of age, and, we believe, was a native of
Ireland. His remains will be inferred to-
day, and viii be attended to the grave by
his late associates. May he rest in peace.
The attention of our readers is called
to the advertisement of the Academy of
Immaculate Conception, at Jackson, Ten
nessee. This academy is under the charge
Of the Sisters Of the Dominican order, and
the system OF education is that which has
been pursued so successfully at La Sa-
lette and st. Agnes, in this city, one in
every way calculated to secure the high
est moral and intellectual culture, refine
ment Of manners and physical improve
waanF Tho Tngfffusn hnfldfnru GO 3av-.
and commodious, and are most beautifully
situated in a picturesque and healthy part
Of Madison county, convenient of access,
and possessed of every advantage that
could be desired. The fall terra COM
mences on the first Monday Of Septem-
Der. For further particulars address the
Mother Superior Of the academy,
The 1orJy-hrst annual session of the
81. Louis University, whose card will be
found elsewhere, commences on the first
Monday in September next. This insti-
tuition, located in the city of st. Louis,
Mo-, was founded in the year 1929, AMI
besides being the oldest institution ef
learning in the Southwest, has attained a
reputation second to none IN the country.
Its course Of studies IS most thorough
and complete, and SO adapted as to meet
all the requirements Of business and pro-
fessional life, whilst attaining to me high
est standard of academic learning and
excellence. II comprises in It's large
corps OF professors, men distinguished for
Shelr schoIssllc attachments and profound
earning. and who as educators of youth
AZ a1RGowlsage d to have no superiors.
80 ssao ates of this old institution are
aoa red throughout the United StsteR,
and many of them, in exalted positions,
have reflected honor upon their Alma
Mater, Both before and since the war,
this institution has been largely patron
lied throughout the South, and ii need
not be added, is in every way worthy Of
that patronage.
The railroad meeting in Chelsea last
night was much better attended than any
Of the former ones, and a determination
manifested on the part Of those present to