Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-30

UaK. on tHdIK6 u nOISd-Hltalluke VI Will
have an examination to-day.
Sleeping on the benches in the park is
forbidden by the city statutes, and parties
are fined for it every morning.
Remember the Saturday night bill at
Broom's. There is more fun there to-
night than at any other time during the
week.
H. g. Hollenberg has a fine assert
ment of Chickering Pianos, the best and
cheapest frst-class piano. in the world.
Sold on easy terms.
The sympathy of Germans in Amer
lea for fatherland may be Teu-tonie; but
not on that account a whit too strongly
bracing them up.
The latest thing in necklaces is a chain
with pendants of Brazilian bugs in gold.
Another style has pendants of cODwebs,
in which a fly is caught.
General Weitzel, United States Army,
writes TO the Governor of Tennessee that
he has been ordered to survey and ex-
anime the Cumberland and French Broad
rivers.
Joe Locke receives the New York
dailies in forty-eight hours after publica-
ton, or on the second day after their issu-
ance. This is annihilating space, or an
approximation thereto.
Numbers of negroes have gone into
the fishery business this season, and they
are meeting with such success that the
price of very fine qualities of fresh fish
is reduced to a triie-in fact, fish
are almost a drug on the market.
"A horse attached to a cart took fright
at something on Adams street yesterday
and ran away. A man who attempted TO
stop him was knocked down and run
over. Strange to say he was almost un-
injured, and, except a "barked shin,
has nothing to show for his adventure.
The alarm of fire which sounded be-
tween four and five o'clock yesterday
morning, was caused by the discovery of
smoke and flames issuing from a house
on the corner of Madison and Third
streets. The fire was subdued before the
engines arrived by the timely use of a
few buckets of water.
"A meeting Of the Irish Executive
Committee was held at Al Monroe street
last evening. After the appointment of
ton of some other business, the Com
mittee adjourned to meet at the same
place next Wednesday at SO pm.
The st. Arnold" of some dispatches
and "St. AFRAID" of others, turns out to
be Saint-AVold, a town eighteen miles west
of S~erreguemines. The telegraph opera
tors, by the way, are becoming more
scrupulons in regard to foreign names,
and blunders are daily diminishing in
number.
The parties implicated in the robbery
of Mr.. Jack Walters, viz: Susan Mosby,
CYRUS Brinkley and Mary Cox, were ar
raigued before Squire Herman yesterday,
and waving an examination, were sent TO
Jail in default of bail in the sum of $1,000,
to answer at the present term of the
Criminal Court.
We learn that Rev. f. p. Garesehe, Of
the st. Louis University, will remain in
our city until Tuesday next, during which
time he may be found at the residence Of
Michael Msgevney, Esq, I79 Carroll ave-
nue.. Father Garesche will preach at st.
Peters church on Sunday, and will lee
ture on Monday evening in one Of our
public halls. Subiect-"Th Christian
Bay and the Boy OF the Period"
The meeting at the Chamber of Com
merce advertised for yesterday evening at
4 O'Clock, did not come OF on account of
the bad weather. some eight or ten
prominent citizens were on hand, and
with them Mr.. Hixson held a sort of COLO
quial discourse for an hour or so. We
hope he will not leave our city without
addressing the people publicly.
E1he Commissioner of Internal Rev
has prescribed, as a method for can
amp AAA1e wv AA 10 ~ S9I
and mutilated as to render the reuse of
them impossible. He therefore authorizes
the use of any canceling machine which
will do this, and directs collectors
throughout the country to forward sam
piles of the cancellation made. He will
discontinue the use of any machine which
does not eifectually conform To the
prescribed.
"A couple of boys, who fish across the
a. MI n.-a. /
Yesterday about eleven O'Clock, and in
the chief clerk that they had found
the body Of a negro floating in the river,
the sandbar, and had brought il over
TO the city. 1t was made secure st the
foot Of Monroe street, where the Coroner
held an inquest on It. A hole was found
in the LETT hip, as If made by a bullet, and
other marks upon the body. indicate foul
play.
Tho law which passed the Radical
allowing anybody to "prac-
Lice'' before a magistrates court on pay
.snt of a license of ten dollars, was fruit
full source of 8 horde of shysters, who
hung round the statioD-house and magis-
offices like q swarm of locusts and
every poor devil upon whom they
could get their hands. The repeal Of the
by the last Legislature drove 3 good
many of them back 10 their jackplanes
WDlLtN dhn DIlHuts. UuL n IbW SIlll 1
hold n We understand that the subject
will be brought before the grand jury at
IN early day.
The New York Evening Post of a late
late has an article headed "Caloric and
which attempts to prove, from
.he coincidence of the late unexampled
neat ant an unprecedented number of
in New York, London and Paris,
hat calOric produces crime. Oar expe-
renee in Memphis is directly the reverse.
Ever since the hot weather set in there
mas been a gradual decrease of crime,
and the number of arrests have dwindled
from forty, fifty and even sixty a day, to
twenty. Yesterday morning the Re
eorder disposed of only seventeen cases,
and most OF them were either fined 4
trihing amount or discharged. Only S65
we're assessed, and $50 collected. Thirty
dollars of the S65 were assessed TO one
man, leaving only $S5 TO be divided
among sixteen culprits-S2 IL eachi If
is not a healthy state of affairs in a
city like Memphis, we should like TO see
u improved on by our reGilers.
There having been considerable talk
Of late Of mad dogs, h~ydrophobia, etc.
we reproduce b following receipt, given
some years z to the Indianapolis Jour
nal by an old Quaker, and which we know
10 be goOd-having seen it used: Take
1f the root OF elecdinpan0 II o.; new
milk / pint; boil together, halt way,
Take this at one dose in the morning.
for six or eight hours, and diet ali
day. Miss one morning and repeat the
lose /, except two ounces of the root as
before. Miss one morning and repeat as
before. Ihave tried this on myself, and
also my son, some nine or ten years ago.
soon as bitten, wash the wound with
salt and water warm as long as it bleeds
freely, then touch it with csustic OF pot
ash. The root of elecampane can be had
Df most druggists. The green root will
10 as we'll a the dry. II is a compoon
plant in u old gardens in this section of
,ountry.D r--
Mr.. Jerry Riordan, who was shot soma
ago, in an ARRAY at the French
Harden, died yesterday morning at quar-
to six O'Clock. MI. Riordan was des-
wounded, as ouF readers will
-ecollect, and for some days his life hung
n the balance, but the skill of his sur
yeon, the unremitting care and attention
II his, friends and relatives, and a combi-
of favorable circumstances, caused
IFS wounds TO heal, and made him recu-
DeraIe in such a as to Justify the
lelief that he would ultimately complete
y recover. He was so far apparently
,onValescent, a few weeks ago, as TO be