Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-07

united With himself ii. Il. Splllman, Esq,
under the above firm anne.
John O'Hara, yardmaster at the Mem
phis and Louisville depot, lost his leg
yesterday while making up trains. He
endeavored TO leap upon the engine while
hold fell beneath the engine, which passed
over and severed his leg in twain. His
injuries were promptly attended to, and
at the last accounts was doing well.
A man named Butler, living about
five miles south of COvingtOn, was arrest
ed for numbering a man on the Tennessee
river a short time since. Butler and the
murdered man were out fishing, when
Butler learning his partner had $50 in
money on his person, killed him, and left
for his home in this place. He is now
carried back to answer for the charge.
Jack Dyer and Andrew Jackson, two
black mackerels, were taken in out of the
wet by the police, for using loud and in
decent language. A good many more ar
rests for this otTense could be made with
out IMPROPERLY. There are some of the
hardest and hlthiest sweareTs among the
lads of Memphis-sOme of them sons of
respectable parents.
We are informed by reliable parties
that a negro wOman named Dicey Long,
aged about % years, died of smallpox, at
her house on St. Martin street, near South,
on Friday night last. She died alone and
unattended, and up to midday yesterday,
the body had not been laid out. A party
who went there yesterday afternoon re
ports that the rats had commenced TO eat
the body. This IS horrible!
There are five hundred worthless ours
OF all degrees that frequent Shelby street.
They charge on every passer-by who wan
ders about the GayOsO, and rush forth
from every den of Ethiopian darkness.
There are more venOm0us little dogs, of
mixed terrier features, than rats in many
localities. Is there no relief Every ne
gro in the city owns az least one dog.
Can't they be taxed?
Ross Williams assaulted his wife yes
day morning and drubbed her fearfully.
When the police interfered he was very
obstreperoGs and wanted to fight them.
He was locked up in the Adams street
station-house, and to make sure tina he
will stay there for awhile, his loving wife
carried a fur mutf to the police, during
the afternoon, and swore that Ross had
stolen it from a lady and given it to her.
Col. Sam Meek, a s~chOol-fellow of the
writer, in a SUMMER land than this, in
years long gone, eXpends his memories of
tUptO in striking" for Gen. Forrest, the
Vulcan whose Uranium is a stithy filled
VIII CtCHttto-tErcfs 4AESC SCAtNAEAAANA
have been resting two days in this city
from their tolls in Mississippi, where
they have won all desirable success in
providing for the extension of the Selma
road as far north as Holly Springs.
The following rule was recently made
by the District Court of the United
States, Judge c. +. Trigg presiding /:
d" Upon the report of Alex. 5. Bradley.
Esq, Register, it is ordered by the Court
that all petitioners in bankruptcy whose
petitions were filed prior to January l,
1869, and in whose cases there is no Oppo-
sitiou, do proceed Immediately to lake
such steps as are required by law in order
to obtain a final discharge, and in default
thereof for thirty days, their petitions
shall be subject to dismissal.
The railway plotting between two
Radical Governors of two adjacent States,
which has been conducted at the Overton
Hotel in this city, at two or more recent
meetings between these chief magistrates,
is fully developed in a leading editorial.
Gov. AlcOrn, one OF the parties TO the
plot, left Friday afternoon for Jackson.
Clayton is still in the city we believe.
Property holders of Memphis have deep
and broad interests involved in combina-
tions sought to be made among railway
builders of Arkansas and Mississippi.
The HumbOlt Headlight contains the
particulars of the most inhuman murder
of an aged and infirm white woman,
named Carter, near that town, OF Monday
night last. When first found her body
was warm and the blood around her had
not cOngesled. She had evidently been
dragged from her chair to the floor;
choked and struck in the face with the
fist but the blows that killed her were
inflicted with a small smoothing iron,
found bloody at her side. Two blows had
penetrated TO the brain. a man named
Jackson has been arrested on suspicion,
and is held for trial.
The oyster season is fast drawing to a
close, n lovers of these delicious deni-
zens of the "vasty deep" have but a few
more weeks in which they can indulge
their appetite. The first of April closes
the season, and the fat, juicy, luscious
mOllusks viii remain in their oOZy beds
until the frosts of autumn again make it
healthy to cat them. Madame Vincent,
fully appreciating this fact, spares no
trouble or eX pense to place before all who
come to her celebrated saloons, No. Is
Union street, and on the corner Of Wash
ingtOn and Front, THE very latest and
finest oysters that Norfolk and Mobile can
produce, served up in the style for which
she has earned 50 wide a reputation
throughout West Tennessee and the ad-
joining States. Every lover of good
things should visit her establishments,
and we warrant they Will not be disap-
pointed.
Models for the new ffty-eent notes
have been completed. The size is the
same as the old one. A vignette of the
late +. NJ. Stanton, will ornament the left
end Of the note. The other end, for the
space of an inch, will remain blank, for
the purpose of showing the localized silk
large quantity as to make it a distinctive
feature of the note. 1t will be rendered
this paper is only manufactured by the
government, and that orders nave been
recently issued by Secretary Boutwell, for
bidding any paper of this description
from being brought from abroad. Having
failed to prevent counterfeiting by en-
craving, it is believed the plan adopted
will be the safe guard-at least it increases
the difficulties of producing limitations,
The border will be narrow, the seal a fire.
fail of anew style of lathe work, the de-
nomination il numerals with cents"
underit; the main body of the design of
scoll work eneOmpassing the usual notice
printed on all fractional currency and le-
gal tenders. With the addition of the de-
signs of the best engrayeTs, and the plain
n Of the note with its conspicuous silk
hbre, 1t will be exceedingly difficult for
counterfeiters TO I'LL the country with bo-
gus currency.
New Dress Goods, at B. Loweustein &
Bros.