Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-21
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

" AtttAS 8SNRa
Business is moving southwark. Stores
in tks lower part OF town rent muct
easier now Than a year ago.
The applicants for the various posi-.
lions on the new police force are request
cd to meet the Chief of Police this oven
Ing at -four o'clock. See the advertise
ment elsewhere.
Large Numbers Of horses aud mules
are being carried through the city a.
present. We do not know in which di-
rectiOn they are bound, but are probably
intended to be offered for sale among the
planters in the surrounding country.
The Gsdsden (Ala.) Times gives an
account Of the lynching OF a negro ua
who had brutally assaulted two yeHng
ladies', daughters Of Mr.. Wilson, on the
18th INST. The young ladies are now ~
ing at the point OF death.
The Democratic primary meetings arc
TO DO held 70 MORROW evening. We hope
our friends, the secretaries Of each ward
meeting, viii lose no time in bringing US
the list Of delegates as o after the ad-
journment Of the meeting as possible.
"A grand union concert is to be given
next Thursday night, under the auspices
Of the combined Protestant Churches, at
the Greenlaw Opera House, for the benefit
OF us LEAlA HAALA ny AGA4s ACA191pA
Sabatzky has the direction and manage
menJ of the whole affair, and this Is say
Jag that the concert is TO be frst-class in
every particular. The programme VIII be
duly given.
We are informed that a new mail
agent has been appointed at Humboldt,
in place of the individual recently IL that
position, OF whom We recently had cause
10 complain. The new appOintee is q
gentleman thoroughly posted in his BUSH
ness, and we shall hear OF no more such
misuauagement a. that 50 treqsntly
charged to his predecessor.
Among the negro policemen who
have been IN duty in this city for some
time past, and against whom we have liz
lie or no cause 10 complain, and whom
we wish TO except from our remarks OF
yesterday, Is George Hayden, late OF the
detective force. George has behaved
himself uniformly well, and has caught
as many thieves and marauders as any
other man on the force.
We are informed by respectable citi-
TENS Of CTittenden county that affairs in
that county are going on smoothly and
quietly. There was some little excite
nent on Sunday and Monday, but il grew
of local masters altogether, and had
reference to politics whatever. We
are happy 10 chronicle this state of quiet,
and hope that it may hong continue.
We are informed by Col. MARYLAND,
Agent of the POstOtice Department, that
the Postofice will hereafter be open until
Y O'Clock at night, for the receipt OF
letters, and that any letters dropped into
the letterboX at the Office, up to that time,
will be forwarded in The early mails OF The
morning. This does not apply to
letters dropped in the le~tterboxes around
town, OF course.
1t is estimated that there are some
II, 600, 900 persons OF African descent on
this continent. In the United States they
number 4,5JI, $50; Brazil, 10000 600; Cuba
and Porto Rico. l,500, 900; South and Cen
American Republics, 1900. 900; Hayti,
1850. COS: British Possess ons, so 1000;
Frouph, 25c. coo; pntch and MEXICAN, 40G,-
OJ0. Would IL nos bs glorious Il this four
teen million Of darkeys were assisting Or.
Livingstone in discovering the sources of
the Nile7 -
some weeks ego a man named Mara
bic, living on the NurfraesbOro Pike, ac-
companied By four men. disguised as XII
KluX, went TO the house OF a negro near
by and committed several O~utragCs. \
day or two aftsEEaGd Marab.e WAS found
hanging 10 "a tree, with q paper on him
all others To take waning by his
fate how they use the name and disguise
Of The ku-kluS Khan for evil purposes.
-Oae OF our exchanges states that the
Department has issued an order
on and after the first day of January,
1870, D." County newspapers must be pTi15-
ed and published in the county to permit
them to pass through tho mails fres, under
Isl, laws Of 1866. A paper, one
half OF which is published in another
docs mot oDna within rnA --naaufnor
Of the section.' The effect of this ruling
will be to oblige the pOstmasters 10 coll
lect postage on county papers which have
one side printed away from home,Or which
supplements printed away from
home, as Is the case with many weekly
papers throughout the country.
The Commissioner has just issued a
a circular 10 Assessors of Internal Reva-
nue., In which he says: IF a taxpayer is
unwilling 70 make d return, the Assessor
cannot make al assessment, nor enforce
any penalty for delinquency until after
March Ist. Assistant Assessors should
be instructed to leave a blank form p
with every person who Ia any probability
has a taxable income, and to make a list
OF the persons with whom the blanks are
LETT. They should also require all
these forms to be returned hlled up in de-
tall, subscribed and sworn to. The form
prescribed for declaring that a person is
possessed of ar income of $1,000 as pro-
vided in section lis of the compilation Is
making and rendering q detailed state
ment Of form o."
To-day Is the feast OF St. Agnes, than
whom no Saint IS more reVered IN the RO-
man Catholic Church. It was formerly
held in a special degree a holiday for wO-
men, this "eve" being, however, their
.r1,14n- ftnaa To- onGob-.f4y.- a. 4raak a. a..
most countries christmas Eve" is cele-
DRAFTED with more splendor than Christ
Day. A popular superstitionin Eng
and formerly was that on this svening
the Eve OF st. Agnes, young girls might
obtain By divinatlOn a sight and knOWl-
,dge of the form and features of their fu-
ure husbands. On this superstition Keats
ounded his exquisite poem, the Eve OF
Agnes"
The B'nGi Berth ("Sons of the Cove
recently In session at Nashville,
5 a secret organization, purely benevo-
in its principles, and advocates be-
levolence, brotherly love and harmony.
. had its origin some t~wenty-six years
in the city Of New York, and has at
PRESENT about one hundred and thirty
I've Lodges, situated all over this cOun-
There are six District Grand Lodges
District Grand Lodge No. 2, row in ses-
ion here, embracing thirty Lodges. It
meets yearly in annual convention, and
lss its fixed laws and regulations. It's
has been rapid, and the organiz3-
ion promises to be one of tbs most eX-
in the country. The following
re the officers and representatives of the
irand Lodge recently IN session.: A. Z.
'ranklsnd, Esq, of this city, G n. A.;
1. c. BuXbaum, OF Cincinnati, Ohio, G. |
l.. f; J. f. Bamberger, of Louisville, Ky,
:. T.; A.. Abraham, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
;. s.; J. Marks. of Cincinnati, Ohio, @. b. |
/. Ii. Kline, Of Dayton, Ohio, G. Sh.
The Huntsville Democrat Of Wednes-
ay says; Some days ago we published
be substance OF an account of the killing
{ q man named Patterson. From a re-
.esponsible quarter we are advised that
account WAS incorrect and that the
are substantially as follows: Patter-
on l. eighteen years old, a son of Capt.
!, NJ, Patterson. of Morgan, a boy ofgood
abits and fair promise. Simmons wa a
glorious bully, about iorty-hve years
ID. of great physical strength, and OF bad
ablts. Patterson was sent to SoIner
lie by his father, and Simmons. who
las drinking, assaulted him wHh a pis-
without the least pFovocation, and
shot and ktllei him. He gave
up to the civil authorities, and.
a patient investigation by Judge
ord, (the Radical Judge of Probate of
county,9 he was discharged and
ands, in the community, acquitted OF
blame. Our informant suggests that
Immons, being a professed bully of an
famous Radical clique, the Decatur Re
gave g perverted account Of the
fair. Patterson's discharge by q Radi-
Judge Is ample evidence Of his legal