Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-12
c PARAGRAPHS.

Board!
The County Court adjourned yester-
day until the April term.
The Quorum Court passed all just bills
before it before a%djourning.
"A charity that needs support is the
Church of the Good Shepherd.
st. Peters Orphan Asylum needs a
small amount of attention from all philan-
~thropists.
The Second District docket was COM
pletely dry yesterday. There were no
cases worthy Of recording.
What becomes of all the oyster shells?
Why don't the authorities make some use
of them in filling up thesuburban streets.
The advertisements of our friend DIR.
: ". 3. Wigs, who wants cotton notes, is
one that claims the attention of every
planter and others who have cotton notes
to sell.
Miss Annie Crowly complained before
Squire Norton yesterday that Andrew
Brown, a negro, had grossly insulted her.
Squire Norton, after hearing the case,
committed Brown to the County Jail to
await trial.
"A shooting scrape occurred on Sunday
evening between A. Afranchi and a negro
named Billy Watts. the latter being the
shooter and the former the shootee. The
case comes up before he commissioners
to-day.
The Postof1ce building, in spite of the
I promise Of the contractors to have it ready
by the LIST Of January, is not yet finished.
IL will, however. soon be ready, and a
hsndsomer PostOfice will not De found
south Of "Mason and Dixon's" line,
Those who intend making a garden or
crop this season should remember the fact
that r. D. Ward 81 Co. have all kinds of
seeds-hower, garden n field = at
their establishment, near the cOrne Of
Jefferson, on Main street, and that Messrs.
Ward IL Co. are the most reasonable deal
ers in the trade. Go and see them.
The moderation of the weather yester-
day was quite remarkable. The stone
banquettes were " wringing'' wet, and
ave every indication of coming wet
weather. The Nicolson, however. was
as dry as q bone, and dust was flying in
clouds during the evening.
Registrar Boughner is announced by
his friends as a candidate for City Treas
urer before the Boards. Mr.. Boughner is
a man who has done as much, ifnot more,
for the white people Of Memphis, as any
other one person that we recall at this mo
ment. He has been one Of the chief in
struments in deliver US from the hands of
the Philistines, and we should support
him.
Every Aaf"AllDtI VI LLC OtALlDCl dilt
party knows 'Chiei Woodward, and every
man who has lived here for any number
of years knows him, not only as a Demo-
craG, but as an upright. honorable, honest
citizen. Having worked like a wheel
horse for years, Mr.. now an
nouuuzs hiuI-UIr as q candidate county
Trustee, and we can say no better selec-
ton could be made.
We understand that the joint commit
tee Of the Board of Aldermen and Council
appointed to tx the salaries of city Off
GERS, in an informal meeting Yesterday,
agreed on the following salaries: For
Mayor, $1,000 per annum; for Register,
$500; for Chief of Police, $500; FOR Re-
corder, 5000; for Captain of Police, $1,000;
tor Sergeants, 800 per month, and for
PatrOlmen, $50 per months We think that
this allowance might be increased at least
thirty per cent. with benefit to our city.
II we give good salaries we can get good
men to work for us-if not we get robbed.
Rev. DR.. Anderdon, of England, will
deliver a lecture at the Memphis Club
Hall, corner Of Second and Union streets.
this evening. The reverend gentleman
has chosen for his subject, motives of My
Conversion" and from the fact that he
was formerly an Episcopal minister OF
some note n is 10 a Catholic priest, it
mo fail to be interesting to ali who are
Interested in the movements Of the religi-
Gus world at the present time. Tickets of
admission can be procured at the Catholic
Bookstore, corner of Second and Monroe
streets.
The various revolutions now going on
throughout the world, are attracting
much attention. The outbreak il Cuba is
progressing, but whether to the advantage
Of the rebels or the Imperialists, is hard
to determine, as the news from the Island
is contradictory. The i~nternecine war
thai has fnr pIUhf Ualrz raWqnnR Sn11fh 3
America, has been brought to a virtual
close by the overwhelming defeat of the
tiger, Lopez. Mexico, with its chronic
revolutions, is possibly a little more quiet
than usual. There is a Revolution here
among ourselves, however, that the enc
mics Of progress will find it no easy
matter to put down. Recruits Join its
ranks at such a marvellous rate that soon
one of the $4,000 citizens of
Memphis will be brazen enough to
raise his voice against it. Go to
2l3 Main street, and see the bill of rights
which the reformers have adopted.
Nothing can be duller han the msgis-
trates courts just at the present time.
Several of the formerly most I" popuiar''
have for weeks past bad nothing
to do. The reason for this is obvious.
Their customers, the negroes, finding
themselves politically in the minority,
nave determined to quit litigation, their
only amusement, and go to work. Conse-
quently the Squires' Offices have been
completely deserted. Black, Elliott,
Griffith, Burke, Willard, and others, who
have made aliving by pandering to negro
prejudices and negro perjury, are almost
without a calling. The moral revolution
has swept over our city, and
cleansed, her ofmurderers n assasins, was
complete without a total CELEBRATION
Of these scallawags and carpetbaggers.
We must drive them from our midst as
unelean. We must put men in their
places that are above all suspicion, and
above the tricks of the magistrates
trade" for the past two years.