Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-12

of thsir eduostionswhsn they were babies,
and has been working away et 1t ever
since. They al promised TO do 5sttsr in
future. The lady and n Of the children
keeps q "boarding house" on st. Martin
street, while the elder Miss RGtledge
lives up town In state.
Yesterday morning, shout one
o'clock, three or four women hade friend
~ booss and q square eight afterward, in
Happy Hollow, In the course of the
fight one of the women seized 8 knife
and made q pass with It at another
woman, who snatched mp q child and held
II between her and the infuristed sntsg-
Onist. The child got g cut acr0ss the head
three or four inches long which covered
the woman with blood. It was thought
for a while that the child's skull was cut
Open, but in the course of fifteen minutes
q doctor came and said that the bone was
only nicked. This flow of blood was very
copious. The fight was again resumed
toward seven or eight O'Clock, and the
women were hauled to the station house.
-Messrs. TAYLOR, RRdford 81 Co., No. Is
Monroe street, have q card among III
new advertisements this morning, with 8
fine cut of the celebrated revolving screw
cotton press. This house has b agency
in Memphis for the sale of this favorite
press in the South; also for he sale OF
Winship & Co.'s improved cotton gins
which Is offered for sale at "a per saw.
The Messrs. Taylor, Radf0rd q Co. do q
great business 70 this line. as well SIS in
the general commission business. The
house has 8 wide reputation, and their
guarantee may always be relied on. Those
gins and presses are now more extensive
~ demanded by planters than any others
in the market, being much in advance of
competitors in the way OF efficiency and
chsapness. Any number OF them may
now be obtained at No. Is Monroe street,
where they are on exhibition.
There was a runaway on Adams street
in the forenoon of yesterday. Two horses,
a large spring wagon and a man were the
parties concCQned. The man was thrown
out over The horses heads, and fell on the
point of the wagon-tongue. He dropped
under it, however, without sustaining
any injury, and the wagon ran over him,
leaving him beWilderd on b street. His
clothing was much damaged. The runs-
ways continued furiously on, n coming
across q country team, loaded with ONE
negroes and plantation supplies, they
daTted over it as If it had been q wheel
barrow. The wagon was we'll broken,
the mules knocked against the fences bs-
youd the side walk, and the colords spilled
out, but very fortunately not st all In
jured. The wagon was ground Into little
pieces, so that 1t appeared miraculous
how the coloreds escaped.
The prospect of q great stir In business
has brought to this city from various quar-
tiers q number of celebrated contractors of
railroad work and the like. II is antici-
psted that the Mississippi River road will
esum operstions at an early day. The
Water Company msy also have ~exCavstiDg
to do, and the st. Louis road, over the riv-
or, it is said will be put into vigorous COZ
structiOn this fall. Among the gentlemen
who have made reputations as contractors
in this State, we notice that j. j. 6illiece,
of Nashville, Is in the city, with the view |
of transferring his base of operations per-
msnently to this city. The more of this
sort OF people we can get, the better. Mr..
Gilliece has been in the railroad cO%nstruc-
ton line since he was 9 small boy, and has
the knack OF being mostly successful in
his operations. As that dull place, Nash
ville, has the appearance Of relRpsing back
into the condition of a village, he conclud-
ed to transfer his fortunes to q city that
promises better returns to well expended
energy and properly applied intellectual
power.
1t is gratifying to note the extensive
faith our merchants have in 3 splendid
Fall and Winter trade for this city. The
stocks they are putting In furnishes proof
of this. No one in the city or out of 1t
understand 30 well the foundation there
Is for this expectation of an extensive
trade as the merchants. The stock of
boots, shoeS and hat which Messrs. Hill,
Terry & Mitchell, of Main street, near
. uiOn, are putting in for the Fall trade
lead one to imagine that there was
very few of those articles left east for
other buyers. A house like that of the
above named firm, that distributes goods
three or four States, does such a ire
mendous large business th6t those who
are not acquainted with the gigantic ope-
81 -I-1-..TA L--.a. ka1A-ma a..
at the vast piles of goods which
pass through their hands every day.
A million pairs of shoes is q great aum-
oer-can hardly be eomprehended-Snd
yet il is only shout one fifteenth of the
quantity consumed in the South in the
,ourse of q year. Considerations of this
sort show us how it Is that ever the
treat operations of the house of Hill,
Terry & Mitchell tail to supply half the
for those articles throughout the
south. Memphis is the headquarters for
,hsse things in the southwest, and MesSrs.
Hill, Terry 4 Mitchell are the chief deal
FRS in Memphis.
A young man, named Rhinehsrt,
walking along Charleston ave-
hue yesterday afternoon, speculat-
-ng on the rare beauty and neat
lccOsted by Coroner Moffstt, who wished
him to serve as s juror on the inquest of
I'D Snyder, who was lying dead in IN sd-
AGENT house. The North Csrolinisn oD-
eeted. He wouldn't event listen to Moffstt.
He commenced backing away from him
1t once, saying, ppm a North Csrolinisn,
Iir l don't know anything about this
place; Pm under age; l don't know any
hing about jurors; you can't get over me
hat way, Pm q North Oarolinian, sir"
rhe fellow was evidently afraid that ONE ;
hing was wrong in the wind. The pres
nee of Two policemen, who showed their
tars, was not SUFFICIENT to reassure him.
3e suspected the whole lot of them. He
lid not know, he said, what they would
10 with him up there; he wa not going !
0 risk himself among them. The CorO- !
Ter insisted that he should go In n be !
worn, and certify under oath the truth =,
f what he represented. The young man I
ontinued to back away from The officials !
insisted on doing nothing at all. He I
would not 60 in there, nor take an oath. :
he place looked suspicion SAND the crowd
.angsrous. He finally had to be forced l
1to the house, and after infinite persua-
ion he took the oath, and said he WIS 4
My twenty years of age, though his [
Ostes proclaimed him q vigorous man Of (
twenty-five.