Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-21
LOCAL. PARAGRAPHS.


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tables in market.
The streets we're completely deserted
yesterday evening.
Memphis is overrun with dogs and
eats that nave no owners.
But three arrests were made up TO
shutdown yesterday, in both districts.
The thermometer ranged lower yes
terday evening than it has don in years.
Attention is called to the report OF
family marketing. Il gives avery correct
idea of the oost of living in Memphis.
Measles and smallpox are prevalent
in the city. Almost al ofthe better class
Of druggists are vaccinsting all who apply
gratis.
The mystery of the baby left at Nc
Csffrey's wal cleared up yesterday morn
ing. 1t was an oversight merely, and the
matter was satisfactorily explained.
-Ofhee of twenty years standing, No
5 Court, neaT Front street. Hume +. Hill,
Notary Public and Commissioner OF
Deeds for all the States and Territories.
The greih German vocal and instru-
mental concert comes of on Wednesday,
I'D inst. IL is given by the Casino Ge-
sangyerein, and viii be splendid affair.
Our thanks are due to viii Mansford,
Esq, Of the Catholic Bookstore, corner OF
Monroe and Second streets, for the latest
Scientific american and ApPtet0H'S
Journal. He has all the very newest and
freshest serial reading.
A special dispatch from Nashville TO
the Louisville COUTieT-JOUTRGG says:
There is most positive proof that Con-
gresham jerusalem Smith furnished his
rank to at least six members of the Leg
isiature, hhi card of denial in the New
York ITibWae to the contrary nOtwith-
standing.
We can c~heerfUlly recommend to our
readers the Ash and game standO Of Messrs.
VIM. Spore x Bro, in the Besl street
market. It is on the north side OF the
market, and always has the very freshest
and best Of fish. If our friends wish a
line mess Of fish they can always find
them there.
The St. Louis Times of Saturday con-
tanned thS following: What has been
known as Woods National Labor Agency
at Memphis. seems to be a myth, and the
agents of the concern at Cincinnati are
now undergoing investigation , by par
ties whom they induced TO 20 South, with
assurances Of a free transportation ticket
from Memphis TO Little Rock. In the
meantime, men seeking employment
would do well TO go slow on Wood
Two "6amale burglars of the colored
persuasion were detected by officer Mat
Shelby, OF the First District, yesterday
evening, in the very act OF making d
white man named J.. r. Cash stand and
deliver at the corner OF Fourth and JET
ferson streets. The two promising
weuches are named Emma Reed and
Amanda LAWS, and are neither of them
over fifteen years Of age. When discov-
cred they had their pistols at Cash's head,
and he was about delivering up his valua-
bles. They viii have a hearing before
Recorder Scales this morning.
The Nashville Union ard Amei lean of
Saturday SAYS: 1--WE have received
through the mail the sUbjoined circular,
which shows that somebody in Washing
ton is determined to continue the venti-
lation OF the representatives of Memphis
loyalty: An Infamous record. W. J.
Smith, NJ. C.. % Eighth District of Ten
nessee, the man who bolted the Republic
can nomination, and by fraud and ras-
cality Defeated the election Of Hon. d. y.
Num-. His legislative and political ante
cedents, bribery, fraud and extOrtiOn.
Can a Republican Congress afford to sus-
tain such a MANI"
Madame Vincent has during the past
week received finer oysters than we have
ever seen in Memphis before. They were
from Mobile, bat larger, fatter, more lus-
cious bivalVes never came out OF salt
water. Tn Madame has made arrange
ments by which she viii continue to re-
ceive similar consignments until the close
of the season. We are sure that we have
the endorsement Of the entire Oyster-lov-
ing public in our estimate Of the Madame's
skill in pre- pairing oysters, and in saying
that she hAi no IN in these regions as
a caterer. Her establishments, on the
corner of Washington and Front, and at
No. Is UniCn street, are the resort of every
lover of the bivalve.
We would thank the editor of the An
-eigeT deS SsedenS to quote US correctly.
when he copies from u columns. In
the paragraph which appeared in our pa
per on Saturday morning in regard to the
keeper Of Court Square, the word "Irish"
does not occur, and the Interpolation of it
in the translation in the AHzeiger is an
unwarrantable outrage OF decency. We
would like TO know why il is that the ed
! itOrs of both the German papers in this
city have snch an antipathy to the Irish
! especially the ''rebel Irish, - as they are
I pleased to term them, Thew speak Of the
Irish mackereis' and Irish thieves"
etc. The Germans Of this city have no
warmer friead than we, and we dislike to
see them misrepresented as they are by
their organs. The Irish are a hardwork-
ing, honest class of our population, and
if they did side with the South and the
whites in the late struggle against negro
supremacy we think it an honor 10 them,
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a good German did the same.
The following order has been issued
from the Office of Internal Revenue Treas
ury Department: " Owing to the extern
sive fraud committed upon the revenues
by the washing, restoration and reuse of
such Internal reVsDue adhesive stamps as
have been used and cancelled by the ma
chine. known as the Ribbon Stamp, it is
ordered and prescribed by the Internal
Revenue Bureau that on and after MAY l,
1870, all adhesive stamps used upon the
Instruments, documents, writings and pa
pers mentioned and described in schedule
b Of the internal revenue laws, shall be
cancelled by the person afiixing the same,
either by writing upon each and every
stamp, in ink, the initials Of his name and
the date, year, month and day upon which
the same is attached or used, or by cutting
and cancelling the same with the machine
called Wheeler's patent canceilor, or UGH
other machine or instrument as may here
after be designated and precribed by saiu
Commissioner, and that no other method
Of cancellIng such stamps employed on or
after that date snail be recognised as legal
and suficie1t until otherwise prescribed
and ordered
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