Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-06
c PARAGRAPHS.

c PARAGRAPHS.
-,Lenten services in all the churches
to-day.
Cotton is rapidly disappearing from
the levees and streets.
>, There are now a lot of chickens in the
public square, or park.
Yesterday was dark and lowering.
Rain fell in torrents up to eleven O'Clock.
The Merchants Insurance Company
Yesterday declared a dividend OF 5 per
!, cent. See advertisement.
The thermometer stood at 6Se at three
o'clock yesterday evening in front Of the
Worsham House, on Adams street.
The sidewalks on the west side OF
Second, between Union and Beale streets
are in a terrible condition. We beg the
Council to do something toward having
them clesned.
"A little white girl was run over by a
negro drayman on Madison street last
evening. She was severely but not
dangerously injured. The drayman was
not to blame.
A negro woman was u over by a
market-wagon about half past 5 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon, at the corner of
Third and Poplar streets, and sustained
slight injuries.
The unique advertisement of B.. Low
enstein &rBros., the famous dry goods
dealers, on the third page, Will attract
universal attention this morning.
st. Patrick's Day will be, as hereto
fore, duly honored by our friends of the
" Green Isle" The festivities will be
wound up with a festival, at the New As
sembly Hall, in the evening, and at which
a. lots of fan" may be expected, in the
way of dancing, etc.
The first installment of spring dress
goods for the retail market has arrived
and been made ready for presentation to
the ewes of the ladies'. Seessel Il % an
nounce that their new stock will be opened
tomorrow, and we predict a rush of fair
| ones to tina favOrite bazaar. See adver-
tisement on first page.
On the 30 inst, a lot Of tobacco,
! coffee, ETC., was stolen from a Front Row
merchant. The case was put in the hands
| of the detectives, and yesterday they sue
ceeded in finding the stolen property and
finding the thieves. The property was
found in the grocery store of a Mr.. Ca
gin, where it was brought by some ne
groes who had stolen it. Mr.. Gagin
promptly gave il up, and gave the names
of the parties who brought it to him.
-Menken Bros, with that push and en-
tsrprise that have characterized the house
since its organization, are still adding to
their heavy stock of dry goods. An I'M
mense invoice of all the novelties out in
the way of spring dress goods are includ-
ed in his importation, and ladies will do
well to hold themselves in readiness for a
real sensation when the goods arrive,
/ which will be as soon as they can be
cleared from the custom house at New
York and transferred hither. See their
new advertisement in another place.
aa= IL IL
was presented night before last with a
beautiful gold badge and pin, by his
friends. The badge is a shield about two
inches in width, connected to the pin by
a short chain, all Of solid gold. The pin
bears the inscription, "To Captain Phil.
Athey, from his friends-A. G. S. and W.
W. X" 1t is an appropriate testimonial
from those who know his worth as an off,
Ger. He has conducted his business well
and faithfully since he entered on the on
erous duties OF Captain Of Police.
The Union and american of Friday
SAYS: "The special committee appointed
by the Legislature to investigate the con-
ditiOn and operations of the various rail-
roads in the State, and the Receivers ac-
counts with the State, was organized yes
terday. and we understand will 90 yigOr-
ously to work. The committee is COM
posed of Messrs. Clementson, Nelson,
Hall and Hart, of the Senate, and Messrs.
Perkins, Fleming, Thomas, Townsend,
ROsson and Spear, Of the House. Mr..
C~lementsOn was elected chairman. The
committee has authority, under the pro-
visions of the resolutions, to employ a
competent railroad maH to aid them in
their Investigations, and we understand
have secured the services of Major J. d.
LOckhart, than whom no better selection
could have been made"
1.-The Rev. E. II. Thompson, one of
our missionaries to China, has been in
Mobile since Saturday, representing the
claims of his department of u Foreign
Missions. On Sunday morning be assisted
in the services at Trinity Church, where
at night he delivered a most entertaining
and instructive discourse. In the after
noon at our o'clock, a general missionary
meeting was held at st. Johns Church,
when our reverend brother made a very
interesting address on the religious and
other habits of the people among whom
he labOrs. We regret that his coming
was so imperfectly heralded that many Of
our people were not aware of his being in
town" The reverend gentleman will lee
ture to the children of this city this after
at four o'clock, in Grace Church,
fernando street, and viii address a mis-
siOnary meeting at Calvary Church to-
night at "a O'Clock. Mr.. Thompson was
born and raised in fredericksburg, Va,
and for the last ten years has been a mis-
siouary at Shanghai. The information
which he furnishes of the religion, Gus
toms and character OF the Chinese cannot
fail TO be instructive to this community,
which is so mueh interested in knowing
all about the CelestiaIs.
The Knoxville Press aud Herald has
the following about the poll tax: 1T has
been gravely asserted by journals who
ought to be better posted, that the poll
tax provision in the new Constitution re-
quires that every voter shall go to the
polls with his tax receipt in his hand, in
much the same manner as voters were re-
quired to produce their registration GER
ti6cates. The people need hardly be told
that this is not required by the new Con
stitution. The poll tax provision requires
each voter shall have paid his poll
tax before depOsiting his vote. A man is
required to be a resident in the county six
months before voting. If he is challenged
as having not resided in the county that
length Of time, bis oath is taken as evil
dence. Not one voter in ten thousand is
thus challenged. So a man may be chal-
lenged for not having paid his poll tax.
The judge swears him, and his vote is &C
cepted. If he swears falsely he can be in
dicted for illegal voting. But it is not
probable that there will be any annoy
ance on this account TO the honest voter.
The poll tax is limited to one dollar, and
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educational purposes"
The especial attention of our readers
is called to the advertisement of w. r.
4 Co., whose establishment is on
Main street, directly north of the Pea
body Hotel, where the very largest and
best assortment Of dry goods at Wholesale
in the city is to be found. Messrs. Moore
& Co. have taken a bold stand in their
business arrangements, and are trying q
experiment. They have marked
their goods to a gold basis-taking
Los as the probable price of gold during
the spring, and at these figures they offer
the whole of their enormous stock of cal
icoes, prints, domestics, etc, to the trade
only. They sell nothing at retail, and in
this respect are among b very few
houses in the city who cOnfine themselves
strictly to the wholesale trade. Now that
Moore Il Co. have taken the bull
by the boEns, we look to see others follow
teeir example,an to see goods come tum-
bling. Country merchants, who are chief
ly benefited by this reduction, should re-
member that Messrs. Moore & Co. sell
nothing to the consumer direct, and for
this reason they should ~patronize this
They are in advance of every
other establishment in the Union in this
rasDact and oulV anficinate what's bound