Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-18
Our Little Rock Letter.


from this city, the result 0
the charge of contempt" 0
r Judge WhytOek's court, agains
L Messrs. Woodruff & BlOcher, 0
g the Gazette, was that Major Wood
ruff (editOr-in-chief) was fined tWen
e ty-five dollars and sentenced TO tivs
a days Imprisonment; Major Blochel
f. escaping with fine of like amount
4 WhytOek gave time for an appeal &
> the Supreme Court (Chief Justice VIII
shire), but that tribunal failed to gram
. a SuDerSededs, and on Monday last
/, Mr.. Woodruff was committed to the
: county jail. But that the lOcking-uI
l. has had, so far, any very great effect
a in lesSening his hearty lOathing o.
WhytOck viii be doubted after read.
. ing the following sentence from the
Gazette, OF the morning following Its
: chief editors Incarceration:
/. Contempt! II every man who
! holds the little ass and unprincipled specu-
l latOr In official positions, known as John
20 the same punishment. a thousand county
iails could not hold them.
T The Major takes the matter as coOlly
as IL is possible for a man of refined
SenSibilities to take such practical out
: p1urings of petty malice, but no doubt
looks anXiously forward to halfpast
two O'Clock Friday, at which hour his
term of imprisonment will expire.
Meantime, he has the sympathy of
every honest man in Arkansas.
If YOU of Memphis had any such
weather as "abOunded" in Little Rock
on Saturday night last, l would not
give much for the receipts of ice
cream saloons on the Sunday after. If
snow did not fall il came near enough
- the earth bereahOuts to make over
T coats and fires desirable. 1t was feared
that the cold and rainy weather that
prevailed for the ten days preceding
Monday would have bad effect on
the crops, especially in the bottoms.
| Politics are about dead here. The
coming canvass does not seem to have
much effect upon the people, which is
not to be wondered at, seeing the
whole machinery of government Is in
the hands Of Radical engineers. The
dominant party thinks and hopes
that it has the State ''in slingJ' but
its leaders are not so far from IelneS-
( see but that they can see what has
been done for the relief of that State
within eighteen months past, and are
said to lack somewhat of the impu-
| dent confidence in the approaching
/ contest that has been heretofore char
/ acteristie with them on the eve of an
! election. The conservative press of the
! State appears TO know exactly what the
moves of the RAIDS. are TO be, and will,
as far as in It's power, checkmate them.
The city is very dull, and, if 1 ex-
cept a hunger-sharpened lecturer,
whose elecutiOnaFy efforts were en-
| livened by ventrilOquiStiG corn doc
! tor, has been for weeks without any
thing in the shape of amusement. |
But the prospect ahead is good; Mr.. |
r. W. YOunge, late stage manager of
the Memphis Theater, opens here on |
Monday night with dramatic com !
hnatiOn, of which Miss Anna Maria l
Quinn is the ''star." The company /
drew immensely in Pine Bluff, and .
that full houses await them here there |
can be no doubt.
Philip, of the AUGldnche, is at Hot |
Springs for his health; and if he
knows how to retain salubriOsitY,
he'll not venture back with the stage
driver who had the honor of epgi-
neering the coach in which he was
passenger hence. COachy has seen
P. g epistle to the Aa0ldnche wherein
is detailed the incidents OF the ride,
and says, maybe he won't have
something to write about next timep'
If p. doesn't that stage-driYer's face
bellies his disposition.
l see by your advertising columns
that your business manager has not !
been made acquainted with the change |
Of name of the time-hOnOred "Antho-
ny House "-an hotel known over the
length and breadth of the land for the
excellence of its appointments and
style generally. Under its
new name, the PACIFIC HOTEL, Major
James Henry, the old proprietor
is winning additional fame, and nQ'F ]
offers fare and accommodation not
surpassed by either Of your tip-tOp {
houses in Memphis. Two advantages
the Pacific - has that any one will {
to be great: pure, ice I
cold SUTiIg water on the premises, and {
a poultry, vegetable and dairy farm I
both immense institutions when hO-
tel keeping is thought Of And last, 1
and best of all, Jim DeBaun is still g
with the house. Those of your read
ars who knew him at the st. Charles Fc
and old Arcade, in New Orleans, will /
readily acknowledge his superiority )
IS manager and caterer. 7
There is quite a little war going on t
between the Little Rock and Fort !
Smith Railroad Company and the e
Parallel Railroad Com g
Dany. How the fight will end the q
Councils of the ChickasaW and Choc- 5
.aW Nations will decide, The points '
1t issue are land grants, right of way, t
ETC, in the Indian territories imme- '
lately west of US, and l expect the '
lpshOt OF the whole business will be {
hat the Injun alone will come out L
OseF. I
Maj. Woodruff, sr., who came TO Q
little Rock and published the first !
number of the Gdzette FIFTY-ONE f
years ago, is still " hale and hearty" a
nan, and when 1 tell you that he is C
he closest prOOi-reader in the city, ,
md that his sight is no more vigOr- 5
,us than his other faculties, you can s
Orm some idea Of the wonder p
nj constitution that has thus far q
lept him ia being. was looking at s
CODY of the first edition of the &
TGzetGe yesterday, issued in 1919, and fl
am free to confess that the paper n
GEMS to be years older than the man v
Who did the editing, type-setting and 5
upon it. And is there cl
mother editor ia the United States
Who can look upon a complete file of
paper founded by himself and n
ating as far back as the Gazette?
We are having lots Of fun just now n
yith the census-takers. The sport
ccasiOned by the dOg-catchers has
allied upon the public taste, and the
esOrt for a laugh now is on some cor
er where tx9 census-man runs upon p'
crowd = darkeys. Some one sug- di
ests draft" or "taXesW and away Il
Oes the whole party Of nigs, like a tE
Ock of frightened crows, long before cs
be officers can open the blue-bOOk. II
There is some hope of a daily mail <.
D Memphis; the Memphis and Little 81 81
sOck Railroad Co. expect to complete Z; -
be Memphis end of the road to the 81
rossing of the Military Road, fifteen T,
niles from Clarendon, on White y
iver, by the first of July, when the ~
APPS will be filed with a steamer " y
-Om Devau's Bluff to Clarendon, and u n
nth stage coaches thence TO the Mill =. -
lry Road. Col. Williams, President -
t the Company, is in the city, and a. a.
his information comes from him. -
A lot of Springfield rifles was re- II
eived here yesterday by Gov. Clay II
)B. These tsshoOtiBg-irons" are, no
oRbt, portion of the election ma al
hiBeTy soon to be set in motion by m
ne RAIDS. 10
DR.. Haskeli-a Memphis man, if / i.
listake DOt-Was arrested here YES H.
srday charged with obtaining money h
nder false pretenses, but was dis In
lissed after an examination before a