Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-31

feet broad, and viii accommodate thirty
five persons.
Don't forget the great sale Of the Gov.
Jones residence and farm to-day, in lots,
on four years time.
The annual Convention of the SIGMA
ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY will meet
in Memphis, Tenn, on the 9th day of
July, 1870. Atthe same time and place
there will be q grand reunion ofthe men,
bers of the Fraternity throughout the
country.
-McCOole and Allen are going to fight
within fifty miles of st. Louis, instead of
near Memphis, as was proposed. We
were in hopes 20 have the chance OF re-
porting a irst-class mill shortly, but UNI
fortunately the w buffers couldn't agree
IN our neighborhood.
st. Patrick's picnic viii take place at
James, Park to-day. The Sunday School
children, headed by the SOdality Silver
Band, viii parade this morning and
msrch to the Park, where the usual fes-
Invites will be inaugurated. A large at
tendance and a grand time is anticipated.
The Gavoso Gas Company com-
menced laying their mains yesterday on
Front row, between Monroe and Madl-
son. We understand that the work VIII
be showed forward with great energy, and
that before fall the whole network Of
pipes, mains, conductors, etc, VIII be ex-
tended oyer the whole city.
The vacant corner lot on Alabama
and Manassas streets was sold yesterday
by Passmore & Rufin at auction for
SIS 90 per 'front.' foot, cash. rive other
adjoining lots, sill $50 feet deep, sold at
from SIG so to $40 per front foOt-aIl cash.
The sale Is certainly indicative of a de-
cided advance in the real estate market,
The notorious Kit Harris, a negro
sneak thief, was arrested yesterday for
stealing a couple of pair Of pants from
Messrs. Sproule e. McGOwn. He was
taken before Squire Miller, who "sent
aim up" in default of $1,000 bail. On his
way to Jail, in charge OF Constable Ag-
new, he managed TO make his escape.
The police are after him and will no
doubt have him in limbo very soon again.
Colonel J. W. G. Jones, Of Lexington,
himself for Chancellor in the
Fifth Judicial District. The Jackson
Tribune says: "Mr. Jones has been for
TWENTY-FIVE years a member of the bar,
and has met with as much success as
most LAWYERS. He was also G. and M. of
the ChancerV Court for twenty years,
and gave universal satisfaction, being re-
garded as one of the most efficient clerks
in the State"
-mF. DuDFeZs WHO keeps a RToBbFN
store on the corner Of Horn Lake o
and Jackson street, yesterday afternoon
about 5 o'clock, shot and killed a panther
in his back garden. The brute was over
six feet long from the tip Of his nose to
the end of his tail, and weighed over a
hundred pounds. He had Just come out
of the bayou on a fOraging expedition
when he was killed. This is, indeed, be-
coming bold.
The decoration ceremonies came off at
the National Cemetery yesterday. The
address was made by DR.. A T. Shaw.
Judge Pierce also delivered an address.
Both efforts are said to have been fine,
The crowd in attendance was very large.
though mostly composed of negroes. The
beautiful grounds of the cemetery were
appropriately bedecked in cOmmemOra-
ton of those who "slept~ benesththe sod"
The Local Editor of the Ledger criti-
cises in yesterday evenings issue of his
paper, the language of a correspondent
Of the APPEAL, writing about the Ma
sonic Temple. The learned, astute, brill
liant, newsy Local ought not to be so
hard on his fellow mOrtals. He ought to
remember that all men cannot be Crich-
tons or equal the "TGtIerr in fiuidity
and vapidity (beg pardon!-we meant TO
say duency and rapidityl Of diction.
Squire Miller, Jail inspector, ysster-
day ordered the Jailer and his employees
not to respect, in any manner, he man
date of any of the parties claiming to be
in the fifth, fourteenth, and
fifteenth civil districts, except 7. B. Ny
matt and Ed. Herman, of the fifth; John
John Burke and James Swan, of
the fourteenth, and R. 2. Miller snd W.
B. GlissOn, of the fifteenth districts.
This is a step in the right direction.
There are faces of wonderful beauty
in this city. We encounter them on the
and find them on b walls in gal
leries Of photographers. Formerly such
collections of pictures were only visited
when one wished to have his physiog-
nomy defined for the use of a sweetheart
or left as a memorial of friendship. Such
been the progress of art that many
original defects inherent in pictures of
this character have been obviated, and
now photography not only adheres to ma
with perfect fidelity, but operative
skill and tact have given pictures K
at the corner ofUnion and Main, in Days
old gallery, the very perfection OF natu-al-
ness. Stiff, harsh outlines are sOftened
and photographs made in this well
known establishment, a all the soft
ness and beauty that characterize the
finest works of the artists pencil.