Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-12
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Dust was flying in clouds yesterday.
Each day grows dpIler In police cir
cles.
The warm, balmy spring weather con-
tinued yesterday.
There were six arrests up to five
o'clock in the Second District.
The pigeons on the levee have multi
piled vastly il numbers of late.
At three o'clock yesterday evening
the thermometer stood at IL Fair.
Emma Hall md Mary Wells, two no.
torious Genizens Of Rotten Row, were ar
rested last evening for vagrancy and
street walking.
Hector MoseIy, a "colored cuss from
Africa" shot his gun of in the corporate
limits. For this misdemeanOr he viii an
swer to Recorder Scales this morning.
-Rumor hath it that the town is to be
treated to more opera. 1t is said shat the
Rltchings Troupe have made an engage
ment with the Memphis Theater.
There is no nuisance among the
many that int1ict Memphis more annoy
ing 90 US than the harps and fddles of
the gdn3ias that habituate the saloons
aroundthe city,
The filth in the streets continues to
accumulate. Meanwhile the station
houses are full of able-bodled men who
cannot pay their fines, and ought to be
put at work in a chain gang.
We are sorry to learn that the resi-
dence Of John Park, Esq, near Shelby
Depot, was burned a night or two ago.
Mr.. Park is well known in Memphis, and
viii receive the sincere sympathy of his
many friends.
We understand from those whose
business causes them to be well posted,
that the monthly increase of u pOpula-
ton has been not less than twelve hun
dred for the past three months.
No policeman or reIna can lose any
thing by being civil to or giving infOrma-
ton 10 u repOrteri One or two instances
AVE occurred recently where an Item
has been lost by as by the noncommuni-
cativeness Of individuals IN these forces.
We hope it will not occur again.
ID. H. Townsend, Esq, swOre out a
warrant yesterday before Squire Kier-
nan, against u. $. Roberts for burning the
house of his lRUberts) wife. After a pre-
lminary examination, Roberts was re-
leased under d bono of $1,000 TO answer at
the mex term of the Criminal Court.
-Chas. Borner, Market Master of the
Beale Street Market. y4uerday swore out
a warrant against John Hoyle and ODE
diah Davis Tor stealing a COW Of his val
ued at 800. Captain Athey found the
skin Of the Gov in their possession yes
terday morning. Hence the warrant.
"A very dangerous habit prevailing in
this town of ours, where sudden and high
winds are so frequent, is placing lower
pots on window-sills. 4 gentleman mar
rOwly escaped death from Jhisc cause yes
terday morning in passing the Peabody
Hotel. A hOwer-pOt WAS biOWu from The
window by a sudden gust and fell to the
pavement, missing his head but a short
distance.
The paragraph in the APPEAL day be-
fore yesterday in regard to the GayosO
Gas Company taking a non-suit in the
cause against Reed, was strictly true.
The card Of the attorneys yesterday was
simply explanatory Of how il happened.
The Ledger made the same statement az
the APPEAL, why didn't these attorneys
correct 1T II Colonel CAN'T had
-" been in Court !" it wouldn't have hap
pened, maybe.
We nave pleasure in making room
for the following note and ~callingthe at
tention of the Odd Fellows Of Memphis
thereto:
UNION CITY, TENN. Feb. 9, 1870.
Editors Appeal; viii you please in
form the public, through the columns of
your paper, that the invitations to the
Odd Fellows Anniversary Celebration,
on February 22d, are public; and oblige
yours, etc, Wandell, Edwards and White,
Committee.
Promising that the new Constitution
viii be adopted, we will nave three gene
raj elections in Tennessee during 1871.
First, will be The election for county Off
GERS and for or against the adoption of the
new Constitution, which will be held on
Saturday, March Goth. On the 2Sth of
July the Judges Of the Supreme and infe-
rioT Courts Will be chosen by the people.
On Tuesday, November Sth, Congressman
to represent Tennessee in the National
Legislature, will be voted for.
Our friend, the local of the Sun. makes
reply at length to our sQuib about the use
of the word tIpiS. We have no time or
inclination to go into an argument with
him, but we will say that if he can find
a single thoroughly educated man, or a
single reputable author who will agree
with him in his use of hey word we will
''cave." We have never made boast of
any erudition, or of an acquaintance with
foreign languages, or of foreign eduea-
ton las his quotation remarks would
seem to imply; but this much we do
know, that To say that a thing was the
tdDis of conversation is absuFdly incor-
rect. Upon or on the tapis is correct
enough, for 1t is simply the French idiom
for "a subject of cOnversation"-StT Ee |
taptS, something on the carpet-which, as
our friend viii admit, is a very different
thing from the carpet itself.
We find the following paragraph in
the Baltimore san of a late date: 'The
performance OF the popular character of
Rip Van Winkle,' by Mr.. Robert Nc
Wade, attracted a large audience to the
Concordia Hall last night. The effective
style in which the play was rendered by
the young actor elected for him tokens of
decided appreciation, and assures his sue
cess IN a part which requires both delica-
cy and pathos. Mr.. McWade confines
himself much more strictly than Mr.. JEFF
ferson 20 the original plot, his version of
the story being in fact that Of Washing
ton Irving" This is simply re-echoing
what we have already said about Mac,
and it affords us great pleasure to note his
successes in suoh a city as Baltimore. He
is bound to make his mark wherever he
may 90, with his fresh, truthful, moral
and pleasing rendition OF this wonderful
creation of Washington Irving's. His
~personation Is, as we remarked some time
since, very different from Mr.. Jefferson,
and nearer to the original story. We
hope soon to see McWade on the boards
of the New Memphis.
-"Shoo, Fly" bothera Mr.. Greeley. of
the New York Tribune and he saws Of ftt
It has attained the dignity Of 3 public
nuisance. II worries as at every street
corner. All the ragged urchins in the
city are Whaling, singing and shouting.
"Shoo, Flyl" its awful earicature stares
us IN the faos everywhere Like a night
mare in the daytime. In card size it is
vended at every picture stand, in life size
is posted on every available advertising
space, and, like other sensations Of
the day, IL won't stay in its own
which in all conscience Is ex-
enough. II hasn't any conscience.
and ruthlessly invades all parts of th9
social fabric. It has entered the furnish
Ing stores, and furnishes its dstestable