Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-09
CITY PARAGRAPHS.

The Masonic Fair yielded net profit
OF about $500.
in Nashville, Saturday, the brokers
were buying notes Of the Bank Of Ienues-
see 30 73c,
They have a. Insane murdsress in
San Francisco, sod tlg Hypothetical case
gell along swimmingly.
The Fire Department viii ba paid Of
to-day rEe police tomorrow and the
street clsaners and repairers Wednesday.
Mayor Johnson is one OftIe paying sort.
james Ii. Morley, whose name has
been given 90 the northern terminus OF
the Memphis and Sc. LCuis road, has
been appointed Chief Engineer Of the
Cairo q Fulton road.
III the great cities Of the country the
nre-slarm bells are no longer used, ans
b telegraph Is re5orL8l 90 instead. The
bells summon The swell mob 20 plumber
and id.ers 20 q scene Of danger.
Merchants should keep a file Of city
newspapers, The supreme C0ur- Of New
YORK has decided than the prizes current
published 10 daily newspapers are zlmIs-
slb-e in evidences 10 prove the market
value % commodities 90 a given time.
The through train for Nashville and
Chattanooga over the Memphis and Ohio
road hereafter leaves ~ 7:45 p.m. II.
~. aaa.4E4 10 NaA-aaAAAEa ID. .Wa
hour less time than passengers By any
other route. There is no change OF cars
on the route.
When whisky was only hot and not
directly poisonous, the Indians called &c
SIRE water Do now, since 90 msddsns.
they call il "f5ol wafer" We have seen
people WnJ must have INDUCED il a deal
oL inc latter beverage when a. the breast.
They are OF b m~Ilk-sud-cidsr sort.
L-HHnH.
of cid clothes would be more valuable
than any be snt6r-siBs a. 10 the wisdom
Or Justice OF a newspaper conduct.
oGt9T re at.ra crept1Im. A correspondent
VIII -uudeuIlaud the ABOVE If be ever read
tls story Of the Greek artist and the cob
bier.
An accomplished young Lady az Rs-
leigh Ia bis county who conducts a de
pzrlnsut ia the Industrial School Of Gen
eral Wallacs, makes q pair Of the longest
ElocEiREa IL twenty minutes, and socks
DO nte6u minutes AT an early daV there /
viii be g dozen or more OF these machines
a. Raleigh driven by q email steam engine. I
-Four hundred and seventeen miles Of
railroad we're built last year in Missouri
There are 1l55 miles Of finished roads iu
the state, ana lI52 miles in course Of CON
htrucrlou. As Missouri OuEstnps Tonnes
see lu ins Construction OF railways, even
20 Isunessee lags behind ia The attain
msut Of wealth and multiplication Of in
habitEnts.
Saturday two young men in Charles
ton. Mississippi, seventy or eighty miles I
from Memphis, named Scott Plstuer and
William I0ls0n. had an alteration ia
the midst of which PIatuer drew a knife
ana Gus the jugulsT vein OF Nols0u, who
died instantly. Five hundred dollars re-
ward has bssa offered f0E The arrest Of
Palmer.
The census returns show that the ne
gro population Of the south has increased
between tbTsB and our per cent. during
tne last decade. Even this increase was
not anticipated as a fact TO be developed
bF these census returns. Everywhere in
thls Vicinity the number Of negroes have
been lesssned, ana yet they are drawn
this valley, in great numbers, from
every portion u the south.
Grant says tbst women are "citizsus."
and, a. such, are embraced In the pr0Vi-
SONS Of the Fifteenth Amendment. and
the right 10 vote. if we Csn't induce
the business men Of Memphis 20 take
part IN elections. it may be well 70 call {
forth the women OF the city, and they s
nl All onces. Grant, be- 30 remembered. :
s a profound lawyer, and kn0Ws what be q
ano MIS-. woodruff are talking about. Z
-Nessrs. Bigiey q Co., have shipped 20 g
oufLag the past year 1885
bushels Of coal In All their coal move
ments on the yer, they employ four ting
boafzi eiFnty-nvs ba.ges and fortv col &
boats, thirty Of which srs now Ieada5 =
awaiting 3 rise iu the Ohio. These boste y
contain $50 O0 bushels. The Havs coal 5
have shipped to MsmDbis d1r- .
ing he past yHHr 49, 81 bushels ggCb :
are the slatisgics furnished by coal com {
3zuies 60 Pitlsblrg. \
The good dis young, etc. Dr.. Sam a
1ard's bl ateuosl weekly, the TTae Geo. p
yiGn is nc more. Bard lived here once q
aud YES the 81 eetest singer ia eD de q
OK mmon-Eure Democracy. Es bel
for war Though four yesrs Of strife.
lut only BELOVED. He became q Rsdi c
-llt u pesce. becszss ne had nos ~ afUu r
1f WRr, Recently he was suitteD WITH q
-eleHea anooticR for his 6rst love sDd Z