Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-14
c PARAGRAPHS,

st. Charles Saloon-an drinks 10 cents
The thermometer ranged from 769 tC
so Fair. yesterday.
The front of the Odd Fellows Hall is
receiving a thorough r~epainting. 1t is
much improved in consequence.
The house Of Mr.. Lawhorn, in Chel.
sea, was robbed night before last Of a gold
watch, rings, ETC., and other y~aluables.
"A negro, name unknown, fell over
board from the steamer MOllie McPike, a
few,miles below the city night before last,
and was drowned.
Always on fle, at Caledonia Saloon,
corner Madison and Main streets, New
York, Chicago, Cincinnati and st. Louis
dailies and all sporting papers.
The entertainment at the State Fe-
male College last night is said to have
been one of the most enjoyable affairs OF
the sort ever gotten up around Memphis.
-Sixty-seven cases were disposed Of by
the Recorder yesterday morning. Six
hundred dollars we're assessed, and three
hundred and sixty dollars collected. A
pretty good mornings work.
1t is suggested that a moonlight eX-
cursion on the river be rendered the mem
bers Of the General Conference. No more
delightful manner of spending six or
eight hours could be devised.
The finest spring lambs that nave been
in the markets this season can now be had
at Openheimer & Hochstadser's, IS Jefer-
son street. Parties wanting choice quar-
te would do well to leave their orders a
day ahead.
Next Monday the annual picnic Of II.
w. Griebel's German Lutheran schOOl
takes place at James Park, on Vance
street. The beauty and intelligence of
the city will LEM boundless attractive
ness TO the occasion.
The "landladies =" have concluded
that it is better and cheaper to step up to
the captains Office ana settle in time.
One hundred dollars, a week ago, would
have paid what the Recorder charged
three hundred and sixty dollars for yes
terday.
The handsome sewing machine pre-
scented to st. Patrick's Fair, by Mr.. Val
lentine, agent of the Grover & Baker ma
chine. is 10 be ratified in a few days, as
soon as the remaining tickets are taken.
It is now on exhibition at the Grover g.
Baker machine rooms, where tickets can
be procured.
The base ball match yesterday, so far
as the public is concerned, was a luci-
fer match" d" the waluableness of the
same" as Sam Weller would say, being
on one side. Of course we'uns were
wiped out, as we deserve to be, for prac-
ticing or encouraging such a national
game; It don't take in these parts, and
we will always get clicked"
About two o'clock yesterday Mr.. Mil
Ter, a deputy Of Gen. NJ. J.. Wright, sher-
if Of Shelby county, went up to the Office
OF Mr.. Curry, the contestant Of the Office,
and, in accordance with the law in the
case, demanded a surrender Of the various
books, papers and appurtenances. Not
being able to 70 behind" the authority,
Curry surrendered gracefully, and a
transfer was made. A benedictiOn vas
pronounced IN cGHoHicalibUs by Brother
Wheeler, and b u ended the contest.
The Raleigh Welsh railroad matter is
not, as we were incorrectly informed, final
" adjusted. There are two or three plans
Of operation proposed, and two meetings
will be held to settle all veXed questions;
the oue.a at Raleigh to-day; the other, at
the Brick Church in Chelsea next Mon
day. All persons interested in the sue
cess Of any plan of operations by which
the distance between Memphis and Raj
eiEh may be annihilated, viii attend on
both occasions, as above stated.
A lot on Court street is advertised to
be sold for nearly one-half less than il
cost in 1856. The times are very hard or
property is in very little demand, or the
vendor very hard up. The impression
generally obtains, however, that property
values are steadily advancing. The best
evidence of this fact is the multiplicity Of
improvements in the country around
Memphis. The suburbs grow faster than
the city, and the area Of land cultivated
in the county will be one-third greater in
1901 than in the preceding year. If our
railroad system were perfected there
would soon be not one arabic acre in the
county unoccupied, and then we would
have a sslid, indestTuCtib BILE basis for sub
stantial and bOundless prosperity. It is
coming, and not far distant.
The river is very high, and it seems
will never fall again. Must u rise higher
and higher each year as the shores are cul-
tivsted. the trees cut away and rains
rush rapidly into the channel? When a
dense population crowds the bank of
countless western tributaries Of the Mis-
sissippi, must their overiows become
more and more destructive, like those Of
the Tennessee and smaller rivers? Their
channels are filled by sands from Guilt
waited hillsides and unobstructed torrents
rush so suddenly into the river bed that
unprecedented overfiows, each successive
year, mark the history of seasons in the
older States. II we levee the Tennessee
shore we only submerge more deeply the
lowlancs Of Arkansas. Are canals the
only remedy for these perversities of ma
tureT They may become the chiefest
commercial blessings. The Erie canal
transports more freight than both its rival
railroad lines.