Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-13

i IhHre were HduH DdcSAENn VI AoAC hooaNg
and eloquence, and the whole was admir-
ably suited to the occasion and the au-
dience.
AT 275 Main street, W. C. BYRD, sue
cessor to Merriman, Byrd & Co, is sell
ing watches, iewelry, diamonds and sill
verware at reduced prices. This Did
established, fair-dealing house receives
all the latest styles Of goods and sells at
the lowest prices.
The oyster season is definitely over,
in despite of the late cold snap, and fine
lunches are becoming the order of the
day in frSt-class bar-rooms. Mr.. Vincent
BotUo, recognizing this fact, sets a SPLEEN
did lunch every morning, at the corner of
Washington and Front MADAM Vincent's
old place., from ten till twelve. The same
good liquors, fine cigars, etc, as Of old,
always TO be found At the bar.
We are informed that there are now
in the city of Memphis. and in use, three
hundred aud eighty soda fountains. These
are supplied with sOda from nine genera
tors, which are the property of four per-
sons. By the word fountain we mean
what is technically so called-not the
stand. One stand frequently uses six or
eight, or even ten, fOunts a day. we
have tried the soda of a great many of
the various stands around town, and find
those charged by Heinrich to be the best
by far.
Our friend George W. Miller, whilom
ofthe Capitol Saloon, Whisky Chute, has,
after an idle spell of a few weeks, again
gone into harness, and again stands behind
the bar-the dispenser of everything good
in the liquor line-this time, however, at
No. Il Monroe street, opposite the Pea
body Hotel. Mr.. Miller has bought into
not only one of the very best, but he
most elegant stand in the city. IL IS
needless to say to those who know him,
that he will always have behind his bar
the best of everything that money. can
buy in wines, liquors and cigars, all OF
which will be served out by the most &C
complished and polite of b~arkeepers.
-TheSt, Louis Times takes occasion to
c~riticise in the interest Of Spaulding, Nc
Donough & Bidwell, the lessees of the
Memphis Theater, a theatrical notice
which appeared in the APPEAL at the
close of the season. They might as well
c~riticise any other local advertisement,
which appears in our columns, for the
said so called critiqUe was written by the
acting manager and printed at his urgent
solicitation las we suppose was the crlt1-
cism in the St. Louis Tines. As to the
fling at the APPEAL laudstiOn of the can
can, the present managing editor OF the
Tunes. whilOm of the AUdJdRche, knows
that while he gave it daily glowing no.
tees, the APPEAL was the only paper
that dared d~enOunce it as too filthy for
any stage or any place.
The brilliant sketch writer of the
AUngdHche don't seem to be as well posted
about all tina he writes of, as about the
Variety girls-as we opine our German
friends, whose gardens he denominates
mOnstrocities, will show him. We had
occasion, during several years residence
in Germany and France, frequently to
visit the public gardens, and we confess
that we not only never saw anything
monstrous or criminal las the said sketch
writer alleges) in one of them; but we de-
clare that the pleasantest, most innocent
and delightful recOllections of a residence
of many years, are those OF hours spent
there. The beer gardens those 'mOnstrosi-
ties according to the Avalanche mani of
Germany are the open-air resorts of the
entire population during the summer
months, and there the true German char
acter develops itself to a stranger. We
hope our German population will properly
resent this insult.
We are informed that a Steamboat
Passenger Agents Convention will con-
vene in this city in a few days. This con-
vention has been called together for the
purpose of forming some general plan for
the better protection of the travelling publ
lie, and for their comfort and convenience
While travelling on the steamboats, run
ming on the western and southern wa
tiers. The delegates to this convention
will be composed of steamboat and steam
ship passenger agents from the north,
south, east and west. The gentlemen
who compose the fraternity of passenger
agents for steamboats, and steamships
throughout the United States and Cana
das, are thorough-gOing business men,
whose aim and ambition are, to secure the
quickest transit for their passengers, and
at the same time give them all the COM
forts they can under the circumstances;
and we fully believe that this proposed
convention will frame some plan by
which the desired ends may be answered.
They are all practical business men, n
in this instance we have no hesitation in
they mean business.
We make the following extracts from
a private letter dated Pine Bluff, Ark.
June 5th. From it, it will be seen that
manager r. W. NOunge, with his Mem
phis troupe, are doing well in Arkansas:
1--WE were, as you a no doubt heard
by this time, a long time on the passage.
We arrived here Friday nOOn, and found
that manager Nelson, with his usual
energy, had nothing ready for the open
ing; we, however, Overcame all difficult
les, and opened last night to S344 80.
The performances and performers were a
genuine success, Notwithstanding many
,ounteracting influences. We are prom
sed a fine house tomorrow night, and /
every hope the visit will urn out
.olerably successful, in a commercial
point Of view. Now with regard to Miss
Maria Quinn. She quite astonished
ne. She stepped out of herself, and gave
a performance of MdritGHG as only
needs repetition to be equal to the require
nents of any theater. 1t possessed soft
less, energy. feeling, force and capital
conception. In short it was a thoroughly
natural representation of the enthusiast
ic, ambitious, warm-heart6d dancing
yirl, and every indication warrants me
n saying that a few days practice will
wipe off the rust, and once in condition, 1
will enter her for the public popularity
takes, without any fear but that she
will carry of all the honOrs.