Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-03

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The excitement over the great race
between the Lee and Natchez is some
thing wonderful. Nobody ever saw the
like of it. Dense crowds INSTRUCTED the
banquettes around the Western Union
Telegraph Company's Office from three
O'Clock ill dark yesterday evening, and
a reporter was regarded as legitimate
prey by any and everybody. A full ac-
count of the race will be found else
where.
We learn that an examination into the
charges against PoliceruSh Sullivan has
been ordered by the Led of Police. The
report of the outrage peTpetrated by him,
as given in the APPEAL yesterday morn
ing, came to us from one of the parties
whom he searched-a gentleman who has
been connected with the APPEAL and oths
er newspapers in the city for years past.
We sincerely hop9 that the Board will
promptly order his discharge.
The Tribune, of Jackson, Tennessee,
says of the Sodality Band: 'sThis crack
band of Memphians arrived in our city
last Sunday. They had been announced
and came to give a concert, with the as
sistance of the young aides OF the institu-
ton, for the benefit of the Academy Of
the Immaculate Conception, on Monday
night. They are fine looking specimens
OF the genus homo, and we are not sur
prised that Memphis should be proud of
them. They viii, individually and col
lectively please accept our thanks for the
horror Of a serenade Monday evening.
The thievish propensities of negroes
are not, as asserted by Radical philan-
thropists, "the natural resulto of slavery"
bat are inherited, innate, bred in the
bone. MOI long ago % The Society for the
Evsngelizstion of Africa " invited an old
salt who bad traded for many years on
the slave coast TO meet a committee and
give them some Information touching the
habits n religion of the African races.
Among numerous other equally stupid
questions, he was asked il the subjects
of the King of DahOmey kept Sunday.
Keep iti' he replied, 81 reckon they
do, and everything else they can get their
ID thieving hands on"
AS the hot season is fully upon us, the
following directions for the treatment of
sunstroke cases will be found of value
First-Apply ice or ice-cOld water to the
top of the head, and if the burning is felt
at the base of the. skull apply cold water
there, taking care not to wet the back.
Second-Give to drink (hot if possible)
cayenne pepper or ginger stirred into
water, and as strong as the patient can
take it. FLUID "essence of Jamaica gin
ger" is excellent for this purpose, and as
a preventiveL Third-Quickiy wrap the
body in a blanket or other warm cover
ing, for life depends upon restoring the
natural circulation and stimulating free
perspiration. Fourth-Do not allow the
suns rays to touch the patients head for
at least twenty-four hours.
The Jackson Tribune of Yesterday
says that i've prisoners, all colored, We
believe, were taken from their cells by
Sheriff May and an assistant ca Monday
morning last, for purposes of necessity,
and as soon as they reached tho yard they
broke from the guard and fled in the d.
rection of the river bottom. Pursuit
was made, and only two were overtaken
and captured, one being slightly wounded
by a shot from one of the pursuers, and
safely returned to their quarters. The
three not taken ere still at large. No
blame can attach to the jailer as wa are
informed. The names of those escaping
wehave not learned. They were tried st
the present term of the Supreme Court,
and two Of them sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary.
A Memphis glider and engraver has
partially perfected a discovery which will
reyolutionize the whole business Of pic
ture making by Photographic processes.
He transfers to a steel plate, or as in the
test We saw made, to the polished surface
Of a section of a hand-saw, a perfect pic
ture of the object placed before the cam
ara, and when the acids used are washed
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left on the steel, from which impressions
may be multiplied in ink as from an en-
graved plate. The acid doe the engrav-
er's work, and light itself draws the lines.
Curiously enough, though the graver and
glider, a most ingenious mechanic of this
city, has been steadily toiling 70 perfect
his discovery for many months, it hap
pens that even row it is announced that
one @. j. Weinberg, OF Stockholm, has
made at the same time precisely the same
e~Xtraordinsr ~ discovery.
"A city correspondent writes: "Pri-
mary meetings of the wards of the city
will be held on the 10Th inst, preparatory
to a convention TO be held on the 18th
inst. to nominate candidates for county
officers. 1t is rumored that there are al
ready tickets prepared for the different
wards in the interest CT certain candi
dates, and indications have been given
to parties in the different wards, that they
will be voted for as delegates to the CON
v%ention, provided they will support GER
be so, why hold a convention at all?
Why not let the candidates, who get a
majority of the delegates On their side,
be declared the candidates at once, in |
stead of making 1t a further farce by
holding a convention to legaliEe the
trickery? 1t is TO be hoped that the dele
gates to the convention will spurn the
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manipulate, and secure strength by any |
such legerdemain. X"
Charles Nelson. a big burly negro. |.
who weighs thirteen stone, if ne weighs !
an ounce, was up before the Recorder
yesterday morning for numerically
whipping his wife and resisting the officer
who interfered and arrested him. Officer
j. NJ. Mutual, a small but determined
man, swore that on Friday evening, when
A- GAnFh $1,000 I
he heard a tremendous fuss going on in
Nelson's yard, and on going TO see what
was going on, found the big brute beating
his wife f~erociOusly. On ordering him to |
desist, Nelson refused to do so, and abused
him (the officer, who then determined to
arrest him. This Nelson positively swore
couldn't be lone by him or any other
did poleemsn,drawing an AK as he said so.
This got Nattall's spunk up, and he went
for Nelson, ak and all, with his club.
He had to knock the black rufian down
three times before he surrendered. Nut
tall then took him to the station in spite
of a mob of three or four hundred negroes
who had assembled during the fight, and
showed signs of sympathy for the pris-
The Recorder stuck a heavy fire to
Nelson, and sent him back to his cell to
cool OIL.
"A very singular incident occurred at
Marion, Ark, on Friday, at the conclu-
sion of the great contested will case of
Lakeland against Jones, which has been
hanging in tae courts for over thirteen
years. 1t was argued by Judge f. N.
Yerger, Col. Landon Haynes and Colonel
Lyle; the Judge charged the iIIry, and it
retired After a short absence the jury
returned and rendered a verdict for the
defendant sustaining the Will. Upon the
announcement being made by the fore
man Judge Adams. for the prosecutor, de-
Insnded that the jury should be pOlled,
and il was accordingly so ordered. Three
names had been called, and the question,
q" Is this your verdict" addressed TO the
man named Mitchell-but be-
fore he could reply he uttered a keen,
sharp scream, as if in mortal agony, and
dropped apparently l~ifeless. He was
quickly picked up, brought to the fresh
air. and cold water used on him profusely,
but it was some time before he began X
signs of returning life n con-
At The last accounts he was /
still unable to speak, and the great will
case of Lakeland as. Jones is still in abey-
ance. The doctors p~rOnOuace his disease
apOplexy. If he dies before answering
the question the whole case will have to
be tried overa again.
The Grenada Sentinel, Gus Signsigo's
paper, comes to us this week enlarged to
twice its old size, and converted from a
folio to a quartO form. The whole APP
pearance of the SsTttineLindicstes deserved
prosperity, and we congratulate friend
Gus on his success. By the way Gus tells
a story On himself and his paper, which
is too good to be lost. Not long ago an
enterprising chap. way up North"
happened to pick up a copy of the SeRh-
which had strayed into that inhos-
region, and soon became inter-
ested in Gus glowing descriptions of
Grenada. The looks of the paper in
dictated thrift, and judging from what he
read, that Grenada must be a second edi-
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