Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-16
LOCAL NEWS.

Prof. Vigus' school, Wellington street.
w. Z. MitchslPs school, BOB Third st.
-Pittsburg coal in any quantity can be
had Of J.. J. McCardy at PAT Second street.
The intelligence Offices are crowded
with people looking for labor, and for Ia
borers.
A shed has been erected over the cot
ton platform at the Memphis and Ohio
railroad depot.
Attention is called 10 the advertise
ment " for sale" signed by W. J.Gowan,
l3j Main street.
The School Board had a protracted
meeting yesterday afternoon. Considers
business was done.
The old Directors of the Memphis and
Charleston railroad have been reelected
for another year.
Most families are laying in their win
ter stock of coal. A number of solvent
Offices are following suit.
Yesterday again passed without an
srrest being made in The lower district.
The slate was clear up TO o'clock.
The Odd Fellows are to hsve a grand
meeting here on the 18th. Afestiyal and
steamboat excursion takes place on The
2Ogh following.
Best quality of Mount Carbon Coal
at so cents per barrel dsliveredin any part
of the city by Phillips & st. john, 20
Madison street.
The clerks of the varions courts are
over head and ears in work, preparing
the judicial mills for grinding. They be-
gin on Monday.
r. S. Taylor, Esq, of the firm OF r. S.
Taylor & Co, returned home yesterday,
having made a brief visit TO st. Louis,
Cincinnati NaU York anE Raltrmora
Alternate strips of pine and walnut
is becoming the fashion for floors, cOun-
Uers. stairs cases, and sven tables in most
of our business establishments and bar
rooms.
The plate and pounded glass for the
Cover building came from AK la Chapelle,
in Belgium. II is fve-eight inch
thick and weighs about forty hundred
pounds.
-Edmonds, Todd & Co. yesterday re-
ceiyed two bales of new cotton from
Tenton, Gibson county, Tenn. They
were shipped by Caldwell & Hayes, who
are the largest cotton operators in Gibson.
H. G. HoIlenberg has the most elegant
styles of pianos ever brought to tn is city.
A complete assortment of Chickering, the
best and chespest first class piano in the
world. Sold on easy terms.
-Causey street, that was wont TO re-
sound with the sound of revelry, is now
quiet. The male dsrkies have nearly all
quit, and there is nothing left but women, 1
children and little pigs. !
Colonel Pfouts, of the firm of Jas. A.
Jackson * Co., a well-known n promi-
nent grocery and liquor house ofSt. Louis, !
is in our city. The popular Home Bit
tersr emanate from this house.
The st. Louis Democrat says from
the returns to the United States Marshal, /
Tennessee seems the healthiest country
on the face of the globe, and the most re-
markable of any for longevity.
Stewart Bros. & Fizer, $50 and 35s
Front street, south Of Union, have at
market rates, $50 tons iron ties tall
kiuds); 1850 pieces Kentucky and fax
hsgging; 200 bbls. whisky; 1000 bbls.
flour; 1900 bbls. salt; 1000 kegs nails, etc.
The FIRST new bale Of cotton from
Dyer county, Tennessee, was received
Yesterday by Messrs. Dickinson, Will
liams & Co. IL was raised by W. I.
Wheeler, ESQ. The same firm received
the first two bales from Madison county,
on Tuesday.
A very beautiful and valuable gold
watch is to be ratified for the benefit of the
st. Peters psrochial schools. There win
a little pleasure in the new building
completed, on the evening of the
EnAAc- 4ub poi AlClAdlo VIII 10 uuAN AA-
nOunced in the papers.
There is a great demand for places in
the City Hospital at present. The season
proved very insalubrious in Arkansas,
aud also in the swampy parts of u own
Stale; hence the common appearance in
our streets of the ~cadaverOus coun-
Densnces Of ague victims who come to the
city for suecor.
While walking across the bayou near
yesterday, a gentleman named
and a lady named O'Neill, met
an accident that was quite painful.
They were walking on the gunwa1e Of an
Did boat which was stretched over as a
pathway. When in the middle il fell, and
both were precipitated a distance of six
zen feet. The gentleman's ankle was
broken, but the lady escaped with COM
safety. ]
George W. Alexander. who was some
ime since arrested on a charge of having =,
/, stolen watch in his possession, was, on .
Tuesday, taken before Judge Ray for ex- !
animation. The facts elected exonorated !
.hgrged. We make this paragraph in JUS
ice 20 a respectable mechanic, who stands I,
with those who know him.
We thank MI. J. A. Wilder, treasurer :
II the Agricultural, Mechanical and
Horticultural Society of Haywood,
or an invitation TO attend the second
.nnual fair, which will commencs on the
sth October and continue during the
9th, 10Th, 2lst and I'D. The APPEAL will
% represented IN the occasion. !,
we are indebted to the publisher t,
A. M'Clur, Of Nsshville) for a copy
( "Farmers Waltz sub-titled merry /
,augh," and dedicated to Miss Katie 1
Ware Harris, of this city. 1t is what its
tile imputes &c 10 be. and must find e,
eady sale among our music loving peO- {
lie. To be had al all the music stores. i
1t is encouraging to know that there
s a vast quantity Of charity half hidden
the veil OF worloliness that covers :
NJ city. A notice In the APPEAL of
morning. calling attention to {
he sad condition Of a Swiss family living I
~ in the Gayoso House. had the effect Of I
,rocuring all sorts Of relief for hat fam S
ly. In the morning early two Sisters of q
e up there; they were followed q
~ We or three doctors, one of whom i'm /
a little subscription. Dozens Of I
,ood ladies went to see the family during y
he day-each one comforting a mark OF '
ubstantial charity, so that when the \
hsdes of evening fell, that hitherto al Y
post abandoned family We're provided
his is beautiful. We are all right yet.
"A writer quoted by the san of yester-
while deprecating the use of Slang"
and their Introduction n CONVEX
himself contradicts himself by C
laking use Of half q dozen or so ''slangy'
EXPRESSIONS. The very word slang is a
ulgsrism traceable 10 the gypsy thief c
ialect. ''Swells," "manish," brought q
etc, are vulgsrisms, and should not @
Q used by one who sets himself up as q a
sacher OF our language, pure and unde-
But the fact is that veal Eng
sh speaking people-are fond Of a forci-
le and terse mode OF expression. slang
the very quintessence of these qualities
I'd consequently IL is used, and will be is
sed as long as English speaking men and a.
omen are of the same nature as they o.
are. 81
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