Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-24

The great Masonic picnic to-day.
-Thirty-six cases were disposed of by
the Recorder yesterday morning.
Cleaning and Dyeing to perfection. at
Hcllenberg's, 1852 Second street.
Who will not celebrate st. Johns
Day under the trees OF James Park to-
day2
The millinery establishment Of Mrs.
Sallie Sullivan will be re-opened on Mon
day next.
Fines to the amount Of s237 were as
sessed by the Recorder yesterday and sos
were collected.
Six card pictures for fifty cents. Pho
tographs 81 per dozen, at Armstrong;
Gem Gallery, Oil Main street.
Ben Lewis, who made his escape from
the police yesterday morning, was rear
rested and fined $50 for running of.
About half past three o'clock yester-
day evening a heavy thunder stor.n came
up, and rain fell in torrents for some
time.
The thermometer stood at 90 Fair.
yesterday afternoon az 8 O'Clock. By 4
O'Clock it had fallen to 87o-or four de-
grees in an hour.
We see by the letter list Of the Mobile
HCSN OANNS eAAIN sAAD - q AGELEE IhE16 AEAl
for postage, and addressed to the Nv. ].
K. Graves, Memphis, Tenn.
The Confederate Relief and Histori-
cal Association held its regular semi
monthly meeting last night. The usual
routine business was transacted.
DIR. Schreyer, accused OF perjury, was
arraigned before Squire Norton yester-
day, and sent to jail, in default Of $1,000
ball., to answer at the next term of the
Criminal Court.
Trains will be u regularly every half
hour on the Memphis and Charleston
railroad on Friday, June a, to carry per-
Sous to and from the grand picnic which
will be held at James Park.
II. j. Latham, Esq, Register in Bank
ruptcy, returned to the city yesterday, to
remain until the LIST of August next. Mr..
Latham will be found 81 his Office, during
the office hours, until lat time.
We learn from a friend that Mr.. John
Ainslie telegraphed to the city yesterday
that he had concluded a contract with
Mr.. Stanton, the great railroad builder.
to supply 80 Coolies by September.
The following gentlemen were elected
Vice Presidents of the Agricultural and
Mechanical Association day before yes
terday: A. B. Haynes, Eli Rayner, b.
Bayliss, John johnson and John Brown.
Henry Moode, Esq, agent of the
Hollywood Memorial Association left the
city yesterday for Jackson, Miss, to be
gone a few days. We wish him much
success in the collection Of funds for this
most worthy object.
The following named gentlemen were
elected directors of the Memphis street
railway company yesterday: W. NJ. Far
rington, C.. b. Church, +. S. Davis, Z. NJ.
Apperson and W. B. Hamlin. These
gentlemen will select officers, etc, to-
day.
The examination of the public schools
is progressing. The Alabama street school
was examined yesterday. The progress
displayed by the pupils is truly wonder
full and very highly ~creditable to Miss
Clara Conway, the principal. Tia exami-
nation will be continued to-day.
Prank Cuneo, who keeps the Cell
known stand on Second street, near the
eorner of Monroe, has the ice cream and
refreshment stands at the Masonic picnic
to-day. Cuneo's ice cream has long peer
acknowledged the best in the city, and he
pledges himself to Guido even his Old rep
utstion to-day.
Read the list of prizes to be voted for
at the great Masonic picnic at James
Park to-day. We hope that the spurs
may be wOrthily bestowed. In this Con
nection we disclaim beforehand any in
tention of accepting them ifthey are voted
to US. We suggest Bros. FARMLAND, or
Wheeler, or Pullen as proper candidates
for the honors.
The old gas company, in face Ofthe
fact that it had expended over fifty thou
dollars in lighting the new company
within the past six months, yesterday de-
clared a semi-annual dividend of ten per
cent. OH that the GayOso Gas Company /
were in working Orderl Thank heaven,
we have but a few months to wait.
We have received Frank Leslie's for
the 18th inst. from Joe Locke, at 256L
Main street. II contains two worry large I
and admirably executed engravings, pic
the most interesting of the cere-
monies which tOOk place on occasion of
the cornerstone of the new Ma
sonic Temple for New York city.
We are panied to learn that Miss
Mary McKeOn, so we'll and favOrabIy
in Memphis, died yesterday, after
q lingering illness, in Cleveland, Ohio.
She leaves a large circle of sorrowing
friends and acquaintance, among whom
her death will create a void never again
to be filled. Further particulars of her
death will be found in our obituary col
INN.
The July number of the Little CorpO-
comes to us greatly enlarged n i'm
NACfNas a. . - AAAOAN AAAunlA dNCAs lAt |
wonderful growth of this young Napoleon
Of the juveniles has been as surprising as
is interesting. Its circulation has shot
Tar ahead of that of any of its COMPETE
,Ors. Its matter is entirely original, and
Of a very high order. In its new, i'm
proved form, 1t is one of the handsOmest,
Is it is the cheapest, magazine we nave
aver seen. Published by SeWell & Miller.
Chicago, Ill.
NovasJ C-osoo,4 r;tu r;.z
over three hundred men and horses,
will be in the city and open to the public
IN June 3Oth. The company is, perhaps,
he best and most favOrabIy known of ali
he ~peripatetic circuSes that ever visit
his portion of the country, and is the
)est worthy of the patronage of our peO-
lie. 1t is almost superfiuOus for US to
all attention TO the advertisement of the
irCus which appears in another column,
$ it is OF that gorgeous nature, and those
dimensions which Colonel
Soyes so especially delights in. Weshau
ave more to say of this circus hereafter.
Miss Josefena Filomena, the re-
lowned violInist and pianist, will appear
his evening at the New Memphis Thea
or, her first appearance in this city, on
which occasion she will be assisted by :
the unrivaled coTlet-s-pisiOn
and other equal prominent art
We hope the house Will be crowded,
nd that Miss Filomena will be received
a manner according with her reputa- !
ion as an artist. The New Orleans and .
Few York papers speak of her in terms of !
Ugh praise, and wherever she has per-
she has been regarded with favor :
5 the equal of Camilla UrsO, and one Of :
he wonders of the musical world. Sol .
is accounted among the leading solo !
It's on the cornet-a-piston in the world. !
10 is scarcely second to Levy, who not J
ing since created a profound sensation :
New York and Boston. :
To show Irishmen who are true to the [
outh, and who sided with her during O
ne late war, we copy the following ex- I
acts from the life of O'Neill, in the book
{ FeniaR Heroes and Martyrs, by John q
avage (printed in Boston, 1861 The ex- '
acts quoted are to be found on pages 1856 q
seq. "With his regiment, Lieutenant D
Neil served in Kentucky during the a
BRING and part of the summer of 1868, a
1d was conspicuous in the pursuit Of f
Ohn Morgan through Kentucky, Indiana ii
adj ohio. His services became so well r.
'knowledged by h regiment that when t.
yer a detail vas made Cor a scouting il
arty, the question, is O'Neill going to q
ad it?' became OF common occurrence. "
soldier writing from Bardstown, KY, Il
August, 1868, says: We know of seven a
bells he has killed with his own hands. Is
70 know THAT he has charged 200 rebels Ct
it'll thirty-three men. We know he is
larged two regiments of MOrgan's COM II
and with fifty tnen and took. three of I,
guns. Let every officer in the SER o
ce do AS we'll, and the privates will soon
lish the balance His achievement OF
it'll Morgan's regiments we give almost q
the words of Archbishop Purcell, of tt
ncinnsti," etc. This braggart then goes gi
to detail how O'Neill did the great V
and winds up with Morgan broke
d ran This a the last Of Morgan on at
2 field" The sketch continues, and
lis how he became captain in a niger Ss
giving mp a command of white r.
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