Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-13
Awful hot yesterday.

Awful hot yesterday.
Storage cheap at 81 Union street.
The dullest Tuesday in three months
was yesterday.
Cleaning and Dyeing 10 perfection, at
HoIlenberg's, 262 Second street,
j. H. Martin, is accused by Thomas
Owens of stealing s. 20 from him. Squire
Herman hears it 10 day.
Six card pictures for fifty cents. Pho
tOgraphs, 81 per dozen, at Armstrong;
Gem Gallery, oil Main street.
We Yesterday saw a tomato seventeen
and one-eighth inches in circumference.
Ii was grown near New Orleans.
Good cigars are coming down in price.
A very smokeable" one can now be
bought for twelve and a half cents.
The Thermometer stood at 79Ho at 7
/ O'Clock yesterday morning, notwithstand-
ing the splendid shower between S and 8
o'clock.
Large numbers of negro women and
| children 20 TO the country every morning
now, for the purpose of picking black
berries.
Numbers of clearinghouse have been
established for the hot weather in the
country adjacent to the city, and are well
pstTionized.
The philosophy Of Barney Hughes, ex-
pounded in the river column, is surely the
e~lesrest system of thinking and explana-
ton of fOggy questions ever unfolded to
a startled world.
-LaFavre and johnnie Manning were
fined Nv each yesterday morning by the
Recorder for the u they kicked up on
Poplar street night before last. Jimmy
Schools was assessed XXX as his share of
the fun.
M - --z-As.- -. a.. INs--k fN-o,sE
Courtroom, Yesterday, was presided over
by w. NJ. Smith, Esq. Col. Geo. CAN'T
acted as secretary. The meeting unani-
mOusly adopted q memorial to the various
Judges to adjourn their courts after the
easy call" The memorial has been pre-
sented and we understand scceded to.
After listening to the testimony of
lei men as d. G.. Cross, Colonel Glenn,
Colonel Ed Yerger, and a dozen others, as
to the character of Mr.. Stanley, yester-
day, we seriously reflected whether il
was not worth a few weeks in the county
Jail TO hear oneself so well spoken of as
Mr.. Stanley was by these gentlemen.
About 8 o'clock yesterday evening the
iron verandah of a small twO-story build
ing, which is being removed from the
premises adjoining Specht's, on Madison
street, fell and caught in its fall a negro
workman, whose name we could not
lehLus ne NdS lcAGlhlN u uNotus IA ~
not fatally injured, and at writing WIS
doing vel.
The attorneys of Memphis are re-
specially invited to attend a "Bar"
meeting at the First Circuit Court room
this day at 1 O'Clock pm.
Charles Cassidy, a victim of the bot
tie, and perhaps II Of the most brilliant /
men ever known in Tennessee, whom
Andrew Jackson loved and admsred, was
asked one day, when inebriated, to write
an epitaph for Old Hickory. He instantly
penned the following:
How Oft we see the monumental stone,
A worthless name to future ages give,
the scene-a hero now IL gone
Whose dust below will make this marble
live"
Mr.. Robert Ashmore of Messy Creek,
in his State, exhibits two new patents,
one for ingredients for tanning leather,
and the other tor the method of applics-
tiOn-the latter being the principal pat
ent. The honor of these inven-
belong to Mr.. Elihu England,
Of Newmarket. The inventions are
said TO save half the bark, and at
least three-fourths Of the time necessary
in the best methods hitherto used. Two
calf skins and one kip, were AIMED in
about fifteen days. 1t is soft, tough, and has
every appearance of durability. One of
calf skins was on the living calf three
weeks ago. No hot water is used, and no
additional labor and skill are needed in
the new process. The proprietors OF the
are r. II. Ashmore and Z. Eng
We invite the attention of parents to
the card of Stewards Collegiate Institute,
10 Alabama street. The writer of this
paragraph speaks of his own knowledge
when he asserts that there is not a better
conducted educational institute in the
country, and not one of whose principal
it may be, as it can be said of Mr.. Stew
art, that without losing his dignity or in
the least losing control of his boys, he
lead them in their games and yet COM
pei them to subordinate everything to
their studies. He is a thorough teacher
one of q family of teachers-and is fitted
naturally and by scholastic attainments,
to make men who viii reflect credit upon
him, upon n city and State. We say
his without disparagement ofothers who
have high claims as educators,