Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-19
c PARAGRAPHS.

Yesterday was clear and bright.
The concert at st. Agnes comes of
on Wednesday night.
Cleaning and Dyeing to perfection, at
Hollenberg's, 262 Second street.
Three card pictures for fifty cents at
Armstrong; Gem Gallery, I'll Main st.
Gen. Robert E. Lee has declared the
object of he Hollywood Memorial Assoc
citation to be a holy one.
July I'd is the day set for the picnic
for the Hollywood Memorial Fund. See
advertisement elsewhere.
The Raleigh barbecue has been post
poned until the glorious fourth" We
hope that we will then be able to chr j.
Gle a" galOrious' success.
The thermometer at two o. clock ves-
terday stood at S9o Fair. The barometer
was at 30 Understanding risen quite
rapidly since the same hour on Friday.
Two fsticufs occurred Yesterday
forenoon, and all four of the eOmbatants
managed to get into the clutches of the
police. 1t isn't necessary to mention
names.
We return thanks to the Committee
of Invitation for a card to the grand Ma
sonic Ball, to be given at the Courthouse
at Holly Springs, on st. Johns Day
Oath inst).
Two more amaIgsmationistS came TO
grief yesterday. The authorities have de-
termined to break up -miscegenation in all
its hldeous forms-and bully for the au-
thOrities, say wei
&c. GOAan and John Miller got ON the
rampage Friday night, and fired off their
pistols at the III of Monroe and De-
Soto streets. They were fined s. eaeh bv
the Recorder yesterday morning.
If the city of Memphis cannot afford
to pay for a clock which will furnish our
citizens with some uniform standes~f
time, we respectfully suggest that the
matter be lone by private subscription.
The COlrier-JOurnd5, of Louisville,
never lets slip a chance to say a mean,
spiteful thing about Memphis. 1t is fair
ly gangrening with envy at our thriving
condition, as compared to its state of ID
solute played-outativeness.
There was a big day at the Recorders
Court yesterday. Alderman Duncan pre-
sided. and disposed of forty-fve cases.
Three II and sixty-tiYe dollars were
assessed in fines, and one hundred and
twenty dollars we're collected.
Ten hale, hearty negroes from eigh-
teen to twenty-eight years old, were
pulled "on the vag." night before last.
They would rather lie around the station
uOuSd anu 10 leu bnhu earn an honest AlN-
ing by a little hard work..
"A gentleman, in getting out of Car
No. 10, at or near the corner of Beala and
Main streets, night before last, lost a
case watch. he thinks that his
pocket was picked of 1t, and the police are
on the lookout for its recovery.
The unfortunate man, John DAILY,
who fell into a vault and was killed, on
Friday evening, was a member of the
154th Tennessee, as was Tim Murphy, who
to rescue him Both are said to
have made most excellent soldiers.
-Drsy No. 500 received a load of lard to
deliver to a Front Row house on Friday.
Up to yesterday at 10 am nothing~hsd
firm. b police we're accordingly hunt
ing for 500 hike five hundred"
The following named gentlemen were
elected directors in the Shelby County
Agricultural, Mechanical and Hortieultu-
raj Society, yesterday morning: K. Ems
by, j.. II. EdmODdson, N. G. Perkins, O..
Anderson, Jos. Bruce, John G. Ffzer,
A. J. Hays, C. p. Hunt, q. V. Rambaut.
Dan Driscol, the notorious Danny
who broke out of the lookup on Adams
street about the first of May, was recap
tured night before last. Yesterday morn
he was fined double the amount that
10 OMD0 W1Oh AO AA6u0 his 6aCdD6. anu /
not being able to pay the sum, will work
il out.
To-day, the nineteenth of June, six
hundred and ffty-fve years ago, the
most glorious document that ever ema-
mated from VRerely human heads and
was Andited and signed-the
Charta forced from King John at
Runnymede, on the 18th of June, A. D.
I2l5.
An old and infirm negro man came to
Squire Grifith's yesterday evening and
out a warrant against Geo. Hogan,
at the county p~Oor-house, for I
maltreating and beating hin. If
he facts are as stated by the old man, We
rope that the Squire will mete out to
the full measure of the law.
"A thousand hands are to be put on
Pine Bluff and New Orleans Railroad
Immediately, and work has already be-
,un. Pine Bluff will be in communica-
4zith the Mississippi river by this
Dad bepre the gap on the Little Rock
Railroad between Languille and it will be
ompleteN This is a burning shame.
st. Peters orphans will nave their
Isual annual picnic at James Park on !
he Fourth of July. The orphans pi mic
always one of the pleasantest fetes of
he year, and we are sure tha this will
. no exception to the rule. Extensive I
arrangements are being made for it, and !
be children are looking forward to il Z
most eagerly.
Col. s. H. Staekhouse, editor of the
Springs HerdLd, paid our sanctum
visit yesterday. He found, we are sorry 1
say, nobody at home.p but he left his !
card (" In the shape of a luscious rosy 4
each, six and a half inches in diameter, 5
llly ripe, and Of exquisite favor. he {
lso left a red fragrant apple. of this \
ears growth. Such editorial visits are I
sre in these regions. =
The Wood and Willow Manufacturing
have bought a lease for twenty
We years. on a lot on Georgia street, near
he Mississippi and Tennessee railroad
epot. In promotion of the beneticent
1terprise, John OEerton, jr., gave the
ass to the company at fifty cents per b
ont foot per annum. while lots adjoining Il
re readily leased at from to four dol
Irs per front feet. The company now goes
, work at once erecting buildings aud
taking arrangements for the purchase Of q