Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-26

csse was argued before Judge Heiskel
yesterday.
The marriage licenses issued during
the past week in Shelby county werI
unusually few.
This will be s great day in the Mem
phis churches. The pastors are all In
town as well as the congregations.
George Francis Train viii elucidste
the principles Of his new religious sect
The 4Olth," this evening, at Assembly
hall.
We are in receipt Of q complimentary
ticket 70 the fair of the Adams county,
Agricultural and Mechanical association
of Mississippi, which commences on st.
Stephens Day.
Two negroes stole two bales Of cotton
from Bartlett Friday night, and hauled II
20 q csuebrAke in the Wolf river bottom,
where it Yves discovered yesterday. The
negroes were arrested.
The Nimrods are prohtsblY engaged
in slsughtering fowls and fishes In our
rivers, lakes and woods. The evidences
Of their success are accommodating on the
tables OF well-kept bosrdinghouses.
The bill now In the legislature pro-
viding for the uniform rates of pay OF
elected officials throughout the Stale, is
making a sir. 1t provides for leveling
them all down to four thousand dollars
per n hi
The new locomotive for the Memphis
and Charleston railroad, named q P.
Ryan, in honor Of that prince of good fell
lows, the assistant superintendent, is q
success. The engine wss built in Pster-
son, New Jersey, and reflects great credit
on the mechanics OF that hourishing burg.
1t was night at i've O'Clock yesterday
afternoon owing to q dense fog that envel-
oped the city. It came down like q thick
smoke and filled all the streets and alleys,
while the slOp underneath made it pArtie-
ulsrly disagrseable TO pedestrians.
On Wednesday night last the Egypt
| Baptist church, three miles from Bartlett.
was burned by an incsndiary. The same
night q fiat car that was standing on the
side-trsck ct Bartlett wss pushed on to
the main line, and was struck by the msD
train coming south. Luckily, there was
not much damage done.l
During the past week the prices of
game and kindred luxuries In Memphis
were as follows: Venison, 10 to so cents
per pound; quails, Is cents each, or 81 per
dozen; rabbits, SO conts each; squirrels, IS
cents each; ducks, so to rs cents per pair;
prairie chickens, 81 q pair; geese b each;
oysters, so to rs cents per car dressed
turkeys, 20 cents per pound.
Nobody, it appears, is guilty of shoot-
ing Holmes two weeks ago. Bernard has
been discharged, and an innocent man
who was imprisoned in the police cells
for several days, Ia not the party. This
victim wss held in view OF the positive
statements Of the bsrkeeper where the
shooting was done, that he was not the
man. Is It the law that when two obstrep-
| erous people quarrel and cot, shoot and
hack each other that nothing is TO be
done about 1t?
The following parties were sentenced
by Judge Flippin yesterday: Charles
Smith, foundg guilty Of malicious stab
bling, was sentenced to thirty days i'm
prisonment In the county jail. Frank
Spain, alias Smith, found guilty of forg-
cry, was sentenced to three years in the
p~enitentisry. Peter johnson, found
guilty of stealing q ham, was sent to the
county Jail for thirty days. A new trial
was granted Jack Philips, who wa found
guilty Of an aggravated assault and bat
terry on q colOred woman, near White
haven, on the Mississippi and Tennessee
railroad.
The dishonesty and deprsvity of our
young population was illustrated last
night in the case Of two boys thai had
contracted with some of the variety show
men to carry round transparencies for
hslf adollar. Having pocketed the money,
they moved of cheerfully enough with
the lights, hut the first dark alley they
came to they darted down, blew out the
lights, and abandoned the transpsrencies,
which had cost their employer I've dol
lars esch Society is getting rotten at the
root.
There was 6 called meeting of Ban
ner lodge, No. III, ct the Odd Fellows
ball, last evening, for the purpose of pre-
ssnting TO Past Grand ". II. Moyston the
past grand regalia and jewel. Mr..
MoystOn was the representative OF this
lodge st the recent meeting OF the Odd
Fellows Grand Lodge at Chattanooga.
The presentation was made most happily
by P. @. Q. P. George Mellersh, and
though MIR. Moyston was surprised, be
soon recovered himself and acknowledged
the honor done him most gracefully aad
gratefully. |
ID. L Stanton, ESQ. win hereafter sup
ply the peopls of Memphis with morning
cocktails. Strangely enough the delight
full beverage will always be found ct
Mansfield & Higbee's. It never gives, bat
always cures hesdaches; promotes rather
than desdens vivscity; gives rather than
destroys Epetite, and sets the digestion
mills in motion with q force that removes
necessity for sand in ones gizEsrd
The only liquor used is that which is
drawn from the generous, heslth-giving
bosom of mother Garth. II bubbles up in
sparkling currents st the Upper Blue
Lick springs Of Kentucky; spRrkles In
thsEunbesms and is gilded by the stars
Go drink, and life will be invested with
fresh delights and heslthfulness will bless
thote who imbibe most freely. II more
Blue Lick and less liquor we're drank, the
corporate health and that of the little
would be greatly promoted.
We had the pleasure Of inspecting the
gold and silver medals awarded to Chick
eriDg q Son, piano manufacturers, of
Bosbon, by the Agricultural and Mechsni-
cal society Of shelby county, ct the recent
fair. They are in possession OF Mr.. 81. G.
agent for the sale Of CHECKER
pianos In Memphis, and are Justly
prizsd by that gentleman, not only as ex-
pressing the award Of the society that the
was the best piano exhibited,
beesuse of their beauty. On the OBJ
verscside side there Is the motto OF the
with its name etc, and on the
reverse the eoat-of-arns, which blends
that of the State, 50 expressive Of
he leading industries OF Tennessee. Tbs
whole Of this is brought out in hDe relief,
revealing a touch of art that reflects
upon the artist and the committee,
whose taste seconded his. Mr.. Hollen-
berg has the medals on view At his store,
where they may be seen by all who have
IN interest in our agricultural society.
some time ago we the
Heath Of Mr.. William Myrtle. Many
newspapers copied the statement. and
Mr., Myrtle comes 10 time and says
le il not dead; that he is alive and well,
md is one Of the heirs of the Drake estate
n England. Since the newspapers have
that Myrtle Is dead, the matter Is
no matter what may be Mr.. Myr-
les views on the subject. A newspaper
3 conducted for the enlightenment Of
he public, and when IL makes q dsolsrR !
1t must be received with implicit
onhdence. or the whole business might }
. well be abandoned. We do !
doubt that the gentle Myrtle
links he is alive; but be is mistaken. !
lis vital spsIk has fed; he has gone to
bourne whence no traveller returns ;
10 Ia now nothing more than dissgreesble
emsins, and II be- has any sense OF prof.
he viii have himself buried
romptly. II q free press is 70 be contra 4
icted and dehed In this reckless manner
y every commonplace blossom Of hu-
our cherished institutions, for
Fhich William Penn and the colored
fought 50 nobly, viii soon be 60 J
etter than q crumbnng ruin Myrtle
aust dry Ep. s