Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-24
reported by our special Reporter


Reported by Our Special Reporter.
WEDNESDAY, August Is, 1871.
-Famsrsthroughout the State are still
iubilsnt over the prospect OF
crops.
j. NJ. Pomeroy, Esq, left the city yes
terday for q trip TO Searcy on business
connected with his profession.
Justice Henneberry, who last Satur-
day fell in a ut on the sidewalk in front OF
his ofice, is again able to attend to his
magisterisl duties.
Tonight Mr.. Davidson, the great
athlete, gives the Little Rock T~urnverein
the benefit Of hisskin. The house Is GER
tain to be filled TO ~OVer1owing.
Prof. Roberts and Messrs. Hussy, Oil
yer and Roberts, jr., have returned from
a geological tour in the counties north
west of this. They start upon another
trip in a short time.
We are becoming metropolitan. Mr..
WELLER has opened on Main street, be-
tween Second and Third, a beer saloon
that cannot be equslled for taste and
neatness this side of st. Louis.
1t Is now necessary that the state
ment made a few days ago, to the effect
that the nights were growing cooler,
should be retrscted; the days and nights
sre both hotter than before the rash ssser-
ton had been made.
Mr.. B, +. Price, of the firm of Price
& Jones, job printers, Memphis, Is In the
CITY, The pleasure of his company Is
saddened by the melancholy nature of his
business hereto attend the bedside OF
his sick mother.
The Trans Mississippi Mutual Benefit
Observation-Disclosures to become one OF
the most popular life insurance schemes
in the country--hRs gone into operation.
Major W. d. BlOcher is President, ID. +.
Jones, ESQ, Vice-P President; John Stod-
lard. ESQ Treasurer, and G. NJ. Barnes,
ESQ, Secretary. The office Is No. Z East
Markham street, over Cohen's jewelry
store.
Major Luke e. Barber, Eminent Com
mander knights Templsr, gives notice
through the Gazette that members Of
the order desiring to attend he
meetings OF the Grand Lodges knights
Templsr and Royal Arch Masons,
to be held In Baltimore on the
18th proximo, can obtain tickets
for the round trip for forty dollars for
each person, including ladies. He desires
that those of the brethren who wish to
avail themselves of the privilege will
leave their names with him by Friday,
25th instant.
The Democracy Of Arkansas are
beginning already to bestir them
selves. At Austin, in this county,
next Saturday, there Will be q
regular old-fashioned barbecue, after
which the delegates TO the County Mass
meeting, named for the 4th Of September,
will be appointed, Prairie county and
Little Rock will be represented by able
speakers. Jefferson county Democrats
hold their convention in October. John
son county assemblies at GAINESVILLE on
September ID. The Gazette has sdvices
that Sebastian, Crawford, Washington,
Clark, Ouchita, Independent and Van
Buren, are moving in a like direction.
Arkansas is not altogether in the
woods in regard to stOck-milch cows
any way. DR.. Chrismsn, b urbane host
of the Central House, corner of Louisiana
and Fourth streets, owns q COW that GER
tsinly presents a fairer record b any
bovine we can remember just now. She
Is eighteen years old, and has given an
average Of three gallons of milk a day
twelve years Of that time, which, at hny
cents q gallon, would have brought
1880. She has brough forth and raised
ten calves, worth SIS each, $3.50, CIV
ing her a credit on her owners books
to the amount Of $500, less her
keeping, which has been and is a very
small item. The animal is the ordinary
scrub" stock of the country, but a hun
dred-dollsr note would not purchase
her.
1T seems, from facts lately developed,
that the country would not have been
much loser had the negro Albert, who
was wounded by q pistOl-shot from Mr..
Mills, received las was reported) his final
| quietus then and there. II Is stated that
he Is the same darkey-Albert Pike, he
! calls himself-sent here from Pope
county for safe keeping pend
ing the hearing of a charge against him
| of attempting the life of a~fbrOther black
by shooting at him twice with a revolver,
both shots Ventil0ting the hat worn by
the target. After three mOnthsimprlson-
msnt here, he was taken back to Pope
/ county, tried, and through some hoouE-
pocus was acquitted. He, because ''peO-
pie Is prejudus, - (he says had to leave his
| old stamping-grOund, and was on his way
hither when shot at the ferry-lsnd.
ing by Mr.. NJ. as before stated.
Your readers probably remember the
story OF the German and the buzZ-ssw
how he struck the right fore-hngeT
against what he supposed wss a statioDa'
~ disc of shining metal, and how the end
Of that finger "schust fell on" and
how he tried the other fOre-finger, and
how il went "schust de same way" and
how the forefngers of the poor fellows
gloves were always too long for him az
ter he poked at the thing. Well, If they
have, all right. Mr.. Hirsch, Of this place,
may claim kin with the saW-poker mot
draw-poker6 only Hirsch's momentary
spasm was not mechanical; an humble
follower Of Button and Ouvier, he wss at
/ tempting to pry into the hidden secrets
| OF natural history. Or why did he insane
" demand of a colored gentleman pass
ing his store: "How much you ak vor
dat hurdle? Viii he bite, nor" and then
/ poke his dexter f~ore-tslon into such close
/ proximity Il the "durdle's" mouth SIS to
/ provoke the smisbls beast into taking q
ull inch of the obtrusive finger as alunch,
prior to being served up as soup ct some
/ one or the other of the beer saloons2 The
msn-sater gsped his Jaws for another
and jumped with agony ''schust
look at dat finger; damn de
durdle; you're a purity fellow, you
dam black tiof, bringin' dem hurdles
/ round town like dat, bitin peoples fingers
In two pieces - winding up in aeombined,
though almost incoherent yell-"dsm der
/ durdles-police-murdsri did you schust
see dat hnger fall OFF," The turtle
stretched his neck in vain for some more
finger, the darkey-keeper of dangerous
animals went his way, and Hirsch
wouldn't hursh his ysws until q police
man steered him into 3 doctors shop
where the stump wasdressed. The serious
part of it Is that the poor fellow is likely
\ to suffer severely before he il through
with it, for though g week has ELAPSED
since the loss of the finger, the stump not
| onlv shows no signs of healing, but his
hand and arm are trightfally intiamed
and terribly swollen.