Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-10

cised in taking bills OF national banks OF
remote cities or towns.
Joe Locke, at his well stocked news
stand on Main street, has everything in
relation TO the present war that has yet
been published In the n~ewspapers. Go
and see him. He helped us, he VIII help
you.
"A lively fight occurred between two
negroes on the levee yesterday evening.
No weapons but those given them by
nature were used, and the consequence
was that the combat terminated without
serious results.
There will be a Lodge of Sorrow held
bv Jeremiah Lodge of Masons at Horn
Lake, Miss, tomorrow, for the purpose
Of erecting a monument over the grave
OF Past Grand Master q. W. Perkins.
Address by Rev. E. b. Crisman, Of this
eity, An Masops are invited to attend
-Skif and Gaylord's minstrel troupe
performed atthe Greenlaw Opera House
last night, and will do so again tonight,
when they propose to present an entirely
new programme. Their songs and jokes
are said to be new and the whole compa-
ny beyond common.
1t was reported yesterday that a
young man named Norris had shot n
dangerously wounded a negro on Cane
creek night before last. An officer was
sent u TO investigate the affair, but up
to q late hour had not returned. Our In
formant states that the negro struck Mr..
Norris first, and began the quarrel. Mr..
Norris bears an excellent reputation.
John Brown, Esq, the newly elected
Register, took formal possession Of his
office yesterday, and Mr.. George Greeley
formally retired-as he intended to do
from the moment he found be was de-
feated. His absence on Monday, we are
assured, was purely accidental, and had
he been at his office would have turned it
over Immediately on demand.
As will be seen by the notice in an
other column, and the time table in the
railroad column, passengers are now
transported to Little Rock from this city
in fourteen hours-through in daylight.
The schedule takes effect from to-day.
The trains leave here at $50 am, and
reach Little Rock at 1880 pm. the same
dav. See the advertisement of Il. d.
williams, General Superintendent, on the
first page.
The following freight agents are now
in the city stopping at the Overton: +. S.
Van Aston, +. P. Wilson, Louisville; s.
Frink, S. T. Hemenway, st. Louis; j. II.
Ladd, Chicago; q, W. A. Custus, c. Ia.
Fitch, Mobile; Chas. W. Anderson, W. q.
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nooga. They will meet in convention
this morning, and arrange a schedule of
freights. They enjoyed a big dinner at
Gaston's yesterday evening, and had a
splendid time generally.
-Ansinquest de lNRatieO inqWeTeRdO was
held on saturday last by Squire Miller
a negro man named Frank Lee, then
under arrest for a murderous assault on
SnOwden las detailed in the APP
PEA.a few days ago.l The jury returned
a verdict that the said Lee was non com
pos meRtiS, and application was made for
his admission into the lunatic asylum, but
it was refused on the ground that Mem
phis already had its quota in the asylum.
Lee is in the county Jail and is well cared
for.
Captain Louis and officers Dennis Gal
lagher and Martin Thomas, were brought
before the United States Commissioner
yesterday, on complaint of a negro barber
named c. c. Dickerson, who accuses them
of preventing him from voting by vio-
lence, at the Seventh ward polls, on
Thursday last. II. Z. Hudson, Esq, was
present representing the State, and Col
onel Stephens represented the ccused.
Several negro witnesses were examined,
but nothing was elected to make a case
Of. One more witness for the defense is
to be examined, and the case will close.
The case will be taken up at ten o'clock
this morning.
We heard a gentleman remark yester-
day that he could always foretell the adj
vent of a spell of rainy, windy weather.
bv the noise made by his peafOwls and
fowls. There is, no doubt, much
truth in the remark. The prescience of
animals in weather matters has long
been known, and many are the weather
--,,hafB -la haua fhafr INFLAMMATION
upon signs given by the brute creation.
We once knew an old skipper who ran a
packet sloOp between Mobile and Pensa-
cola. Whenever he Was in the latter har-
Dor and heard a loon cry, or "holler," as
The natives call it, the old salts heart
would warm within him, and he would
sing out, "God bless that pretty bird
steward, throw him a biscuit I'-fOr well
be knew that this was assign that it would
not be long before the breeze would
spring up from the eastward, and he
have a favorable wind for his re-
trip to Mobile. But let him hear the
saIne cry in Mobile bay, and damn that
ugly buzzard Of a loon," he'd growl-
Jack, fetch me my shotgun, I'll give
him one Just for luck!" Old "SourdO" is
lead and gone, and the gallant sloOp
Harkaway rots in some of the passes
around DaUphine Island, where she was
during n war, DuJ there Is many a
On the gulf coast hat reiterstes
lne or the other of Sounds calculations
when he hears the whistle of the loon.
The following, by a sensible girl of
in reply to an invitation to a pic
mic, expresses our views exactly:
II 20 broil and to bake and to butter,
To bottle, TO slice, and 10 pack
To get of before you are ready,
And before yOu are ready come back;
II taking a seat at a pie-dish,
And losing your meat in the grass,
And having bugs drop in our pudding,
And snails take 4 bath in your glass;
II toads holding hop on your sandwich,
And beetles inspecting you bread,
When brambles and thOrns catch your feet,
And worms pelt down on your head:
II scattering in every direction,
To seek for foliage and cover
And find you have Just been outstripped
BY some Sarah Jane and her lover
II in gathering up all the fragments
OF such an Arcadian feast,
You N tell whether twas most like
Entertainment for man or for beast;
II that kind Of thing is enjoyment,
In longer or shorter measure,
And you're simple enOug to believe so,
Why, then, help yourself TO the pleasure.
But for me II speak from experiences;
The subject I've closely pursued,
The reply y i'll be found in scriptures
Il pray to hold me excused"