Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-25
CITY PARAGRAPHS.

"A ssusage-msker at the market says
his goods are "dog-cheap."
Only six persons died in the Sixth
wsrd during the salubrious year 1870.
"A person Of color was sent 10 jail
yesterday by the Recorder for stealing.
Seven young men were arrested by
the police yesterday morning for gam
bling.
Stoves, as used in Brooklyn, would
be agreeable this horribly damp weather
in the street cars.
Five girls were before the Recorder
yesterday, charged with III flaming
They were fined IS each.
Friend Ceyce will offer st auction
this morning, the finest Berkshire Boar
In the county. Go and bid.
"A line of telegraph viii be completed
from here to Grenada, Miss, this week,
by the Southern Pacific Company.
There were over thirty cases before
the Recorder yesterday mOrning-tbe
heaviest one days work in ten or twelve
days.
A home for homeless and helpless
young women as established in other
cities, would do a vast deal Of good in
this city.
1t now costs $1,000 in gold to get one
hundred Cinnamon to an interior town,
and a smaller number will not migrate
from CalifOrnis-they move in colonies,
The proposed dog tax should be i'm
posed without the exemption Of one dog
for each family. If the exempted dog
have purps, the law would prove q re-
strictiOn upon Literature.
The Rink tonight is for the Masonic
order. The proceeds will 60 to the bsnent
Of the proposed temple. Remember that
by going yOu help TO polish a stone for
! the front of the magnificent structure.
The most respectable, best cultivated
and most gsntlemanly convicts in the
State p~eniteuJiary are those from Shelby
county. They lead of in every religious
revival and in every attempt to escape.
The Recorder required a 5000 bond to
be executed by Lizzie Smith because it
appeared to his entire satisfaction that
she had appropriated $500 worth Of dia-
mOnCs, the property of Mrs Bowen, who
resides OF Linden street.
1t will be seen from our diSpatches
that q purpose of the Chamber Of Com.
merce as regards the tobacco trade is
about to be effected, and the advantages
given dealers in seaport cities will be con
ferred upon those Of interior towns.
They talk of bringing the big Califor-
mia tree, now on exhibition in Cincinnati,
to perform in this city. 1t would be
proof against the insults of the macker-
els and snObs, q in drawing" beat the
Davenports sail hollow" Ii is the very
thing for the Memphis boards"
1t is decided by the courts that q pas
sengsr who prOtrudes his head or arm
from a car window in motion, and is in
iur6d, cannot recover damages. IN most
cases Of this sort the court might properly
assert that it WIS q case Of d1mHtDl G6sgVs
iHJuTia, Le., thatEan empty head couldn't
be hurt.
The hst-boRts from up the river are
very numerous at our wharf at present.
There Is no humbng about the wares they
have for sale, which consists principally
Of potatoes, apples, hams, cider, canned
fruits, etc. They are q great benefit in as
much as they moderate the price OF these
things about town,
The gin and grist mill Of J.. R. ,Jen-
Eins, who lives near Marion, Critteuden
county, Ark, was burned Saturday.
Thirty-hve bales Of cotton, the property
of persons in the vicinity, were burned.
The total loss was $1,000. There was no
insurance.
j. ". Cobb exhibited at the Board Of
Trade rooms yesterday, a potato from
Dyer county, weighing i've pounds. The
farmer who forwarded il lives three miles
from the railroad. He couldn't get a
wagon to move a large one, and this was
pOtstOted to the railroad.
Persons who have recently traverssd
the Gulf States say that there are count
less cotton bales at railway stations eve 4
rywhers. It is believed that the low
prices Save caused a large share of the crop
to be withheld from market, and many
think that the current crop win exceed
that Of last year by half e million bales.
1t has been decided by the Supreme
Court of the United States that a city
TTwrna1rH nun fnnnnan unH n.T1raf q faw Of ]
two per cent. on the receipts of agencies
of fire insurance companies. Were these
agencies ~ hus taxed in this City2
The Home Insurance Company, of New
York, carried up this Chicago case and
lost it,.
A cOlOred man named Harris, from
the Eighth district, M into town re-
failing his sOrrOws into the ears of sym
pathiziDg listeners. He says that the
from his place because Of his political
idiOsyucraCies, and he is now homeless,
not having wherein to lay his head.
A cultivated cOlored female, who
came here from Ohio, complains bitterly
the treatment she received on railroads
in not being allowed TO ride in hrst-clsss
coaches. She had very u letters from
the Governor Of Ohio and several promi-
nent Democrats OF hat State. She has
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idea.
"A number Of Swedes complained to
Justice Miller yesterday that they had
done $500 worth Of work for Julius Smith,
.chOpping wood en- Island 40, and that
smith was taking himself of in q private
way so that they could not serve a process
Of law upon him. They got out an At
tachmenC against 337 cords Of ash and oak
wood which was granted, and they went
Constable Cox last evening to leYee
on the wood,
The business Of knitting by machine
", as conducted on q small scale at Ra-
by General Wallace, is rapidly in
crsasiug and viii soon rival other branch
IS Of the wooden trade in extent and in
.hs numbers Of those employed in it.
Many factories are now engaged eXclu-
in this business and In using these
machines. This fact will be Of incalculs-
Die benefit to poor women, and viii re-
luce greatly the cost OF undertaking. .
Who viii try it here? I
A wine-bibber Of the city has discov-
5red that his sherry was greatly improved .
Supplying to each side Of a cask the
1Oles OF an electric battery, and charging /
be contents Of the cask with the subtle I
iuid. The wine dealer found the bever- {
infinitely more pungent or UiC, and its I
value increased. We wonder 7
whether this is a new discovery. Why is I
blue ruin" often called "chain Light I
and what is the difference between q
'eing struck by lightning and by "tangle 3
OOt2" And when old Ben. Franklin
q bottle, by means of q kite string, q
With the electric huid, wasn't it bust Z
that he cOrked uP, and wasn't he :
tgheT than 8 kiteY r
Pat Callahan, the chief Of the mack 7
brigade, now balled and chained on /
he streets, is recently from Nashville, G
where he had been doing excellent State Z
in the State quarry. During his
interesting and profitable sojOurn at this D
geological institution he took part ia g 4
.plendid experiment 10 ascertain the pos a
Of passing out Of the building via v
he ever. The leader Of the party was G
hot st the moment be had proved the q
possibility Of the thing. Another one 8
stuck in the until su1Ocatsd, o
Pat was dragged back by the heels in s
falnting condition, BE reports that on q
whole, the experiment may be called Il
failure, like that Of Sundayt to get out Of I
he statiOn-hOuse. f
The Nashville Banner. of Sunday. i
earns that Squire William Banks, an old y
nd very highly esteemed citizen of Cot y
60 county, was stabbed through the heart 4
nd Instantly killed last Wednesday even a
about dusk, by James Jenkins. The 8
Of this sad affair, as we 3
them, are, mat jenkins went 10
Ianks' house for the purpose Of settling =
ONE business. During the settlement q y
arose between them, wherein y
enkins claimed that Banks had over =,
hargsd him fUe cents, and called him a .
ar, WhsreupOn Banks made an attempt :.
D strike him with a chair, but was pre- y
by his wife. Jenkins then went
ut in tbs yard and called Banks out, and,
pom his appearance, stabbed him 70 the
- "a HI MI .-nmaAaA mmnm
ruck and kicked his antagonist several
dnring which he racaiVnd RaReral D.