Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-22
CITY PARAGRAPHS.

Ssrdis, a~ccidentlyf perhaps 1asAllys sAOt
himself Saturday.
-Judre Emmons has gone TO his home
in Detroit. he will be here again to open
the United States Circuit Court in March
The Cuba prisoners continue to eat
their meals and smoke In their cells as
usual. There is no visible change IN their
appearance or habits.
Mr. Hunt, the United States Inspector
OF Freedmen's Banks, is in the city, look
ing after the financial interests Of the col
ored race in these parts.
The railroad report Of Messrs. Wal
lace, Crews and Bleckley-full, speciuc.
fearless snd fairs anLiOusly looked fol
by the great body Of Taxpayers.
The Congressional scheme of compul
sorv education will multiply government
barnacles and industrious, honest peda'
goeues Of the city, with one voice, con
denn it.
-For fruit. ornamental and shade trees.
shrubberv, vines, etc, etc., L. +. BabcOck
contends there is no place in the city 70
compare with the corner OF washington
and Third streets.
j. NJ. Tomeny, President OF the Ice
Manufacturing Company OF New YORK
saws the machine in his city will be Sc
Derfectsd that il viii supply US next sum-
mer with thirty tons daily.
The separating cotton gin Of DOwdsllr
poga Al Co. st. Louis, will be tested to-
5av at IL O'Clock am, ct Payne's Cotton
Gin. Us Poplsr street. Planters and mer-
chants are invited to be present.
1t is possible, even probable, that
Nilsson will electrify the m~uslc-loving
paopls Of Memphis by songs sung more
chsrminRly than any that were ever
waited BY winds that sweep over THIS
city,
"A gardener of the suburbs is selling
lettuce raised under glass by the light
and heat of the suns rays alone. When
the weather was very cold, the beds were
covered with straw.
1t is proposed by q sensible correspon-
dent that benevolent societies and assO-
cistions OF the city donate 20 the widows
and families of deceased members the
sums now wasted in funeral shows.
"A correspondent, who was an opium
eater. writes that he has found athOrOugh
cure. We do not give his name, but II
there be any victims Of the vice in this
citv, let them address "Newcome,
Rock Haven, KY.
One Of the witnesses for the prOsecu-
ion in the Grsvss-PostOn murderOusly
pacific verdict case says that If furnished
a UuaF0. ne EaA EaDGuLn 1LICH4N4A anu
others who aided and abetted in the hang
ing of young SchOheld.
The Southern Pacific railroad bill was
burdened with an amendment yesterday
in the House. and must therefore 60 back
to the Senate. Was IL thus DESIGNED q
postpone the enactment OF the bill TIL
the new Congress c~onve1ssl
Most all the drug stones in the city are
ornamented with an abundance Of ever
green plants and flowers, which nusery-
men have brought in for sale. Ladies 81
horticultural taste we're inspecting them
Yesterday in delighted crowds,
We learn from 3 private letter that
Mr.. Alexander Whitaker, of Gre
NADIA, Mississippi, being at Hsrdy's Depot
on the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad
fell under the cars while in motion, and
had his legs both so badly crushed that t
died in q few hours.
The front ofthe Adams street station
house is about to be painted for the sum
mer season, It is proper that the station
house should be a model Of all cleanliness
and virtue.
j. J. Heinrich & Bro. will open theil
new place Of business on Madison street
No. Is. next TO the First National Bank
with a fine lunch this day, at TO am. A
sample room something new in style.
Call and see them,
Tomorrow, at 203 Madison street.
there will be sold at auction, One-thlrd
cash, the balance three and six months.
four cotton presses, One engine Of seventy
horse power, with betting shsfting, etc
Read the advertisement.
"A number of our italian fellow-citi.
zens celebrated Mardi Gras last night by
a ball at the old ~postOfhoe building, on
Jefferson street. It was given by the
genial and excellent SignOr Buchinsgnii
liant and enjoyable.
"A half drunken loon reading last
night the plscsrd 4" Oysters for Lent, p
on borrowing a box. He gobbled it and
started down street. A policeman in,
sisted that the box Wss-nOJ to be 'lent, u
and the point being disputed, the limo
cent On borrower viii indulge lenten fare
for q time within prison walls.
-Boutwel's retention of one hundred
millions Of idle dollars in the Treasury
made a good Radical, who wanted a dis
count yesterday on Madison street, swesl
furiOusly. He said it was Boutwell,, anc
not the street broker, that eXacted ave
per cent. per month when a pair OF GOLD
watches were proposed to be spOuted a
collstersls,
The planting Of trees for railroad tie.
becomes q necessity. In making marrow
gauge roads Il Is said that iron ties will
rubber plates under the rails will be en-
ployed. The construction Of the Raleigh
and Memphis narrow gauge road Is no.
abandoned, The shareholders contem'
plate the resumption Of the task at al
early day.
Barbour Lewis has been confirmed al
Appraiser OF Customs at this port. Thii
Is an Office that was started into eXistenct
when Memphis became q port of entry
It is believed at Washington that among
the hitherto undiscovered abilities o.
Lewis is q profound knowledge Of the
value Of all manner Of china and hard.
ware, dry goods, toys and liquors.
"A countryman, which means a person
who lives ten miles from any n else
was in the town Of Hot Springs, ArkRn.
sss, last week, with q load Of eggs which
be had hauled fifty miles. His team con-
sisted Of four stunted calves, and they at
tracted so much attention and provoked
such universal comment that he sWOrC
he never would come 10 town sgsin-he
never was in town before and he'd be
dsrned If he w would again.
The Hole-in-ths-Wsu found a vac,
uam in the person Of an editor yesterday,
and the attempt was made to empty the
contents of the one institution into the
other. The Hole in-ths-Wall remained
erect when almost empty; bat the edi-
tor went under burdsned with mint
which may constitute immortelles and
bloom perennially over his grave. II wa
the first julep Of the season.
Captain Athey's kind, generous
heart has involved him in trouble. While
watching thieves, and protecting the
property and lives Of those who sleep, be
often encounters the homeless, Wretched
and pOverty-stricken. These are they
that 20 for his purse and make him shell
out. His last prOteRe, is a helpless Wo'
man, abandoned by a villain Of Husband.
Penniless and broken-hesrted, the hus-
band having dived into the mines Of Col
orado, she Is lsft At the station-house.
There is no citizen for whose domicil.
iatlon in Memphis We are indebted to the
war who has won more friends o. wal
more universally esteemed than Chan.
ming Richards. He has been q consistent
Republican and never a RadiCal-nsvel
investing his partisan creed with those
odious features of selhshnsss which as,
sert that a Radical Is entitled to rigbts
and privileges which should be denied q
others. He is a generous, honest, liberia.
gentleman, and we regret that his bust.
ness relations and necessities require his
removal to Cincinnati.
The house OfFisher-Gallagher Brocky
Ann, on Poplar street, was the scene o.
another row Monday night. There was &
regular fight. An individual Of the name
ofEd. Smith, found &c necessary to make
a deadly assault on q hOOsier sort Of char
who was there, with a knife. In the Ian.
quaRe Of the Clancy" he was ''cUt In
1ieesg." Smiths case was continued by
he Recorder. The Fisher and another
herring were placed under bonds, while
bslf a dozen OF depravsd males, who were
found in the house st the time, paid five
dollars each to the city treasury
Thu self-generatlng gas 6re-extin'