Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-27
CITY PARAGRAPHS.

by their little tricks.
The city schools OF Louisville, the tel
egrRph tells us, will have through the
summer only one session per day. How
many do ours have?
Two horses attached to q hack rar
away yesterday and injured a man seri.
ously. The runaway occurred up tow
about four in the afternoon.
Yrs. Morrison, the lady who was in.
Jared by the runaway Saturday afternoon
is rapidly improving. Her injuries were
not IS great a. was Thought at first.
There will be a concert and tableauz
at st. Mary's Catholic school-hOuss 20,
night, at the corner Of Third and Market
streets. The tickets are fifty cents.
Coroner Moffltt was called on yester.
day to inquest a deceased female on South
street. The jury found that it was con-
gestiOn of the brain which caused death,
Mary Coleman, the wstch-lifter, was
sent 20 jail by the Recorder yesterday for
hooking q gold repeater and chain from
the house Of her employer, William E.
Din.
We are requested, anonymously, to
say "that Miss Clara Robinson's health is
such that she can see no more visitors "
stupid people, who annoy her and her
family by their calls and vulgar curiosity,
should stay at home O. nights.
The canvass Of this city for the Ten
nessse State Directory published at Nash
Vile, is being actively prosecuted. Mr..
Hays, the agent, is meeting with very
good success. Communications for him
msy be left with Young & Bro, 248 Main
street.
There was a nice little fight in Happy
Hollow two nights ago, in which it is said
that a lady named Kittie KOX gave par
ticular fits to q big fellow who trOd on the
talbot her dress at q dance. Shit was fined
ten dollars and he was fined fifteen, by
the Recorder, Tor ungsllant conduct.
An honest negro hackman, No. rs
| don't forget the nUmber-fOund Judge @.
K. UnderWOOd's cane, advertised for in
the APPEAL, and returning it refused to
accept the reward offered. He said be
had done nothing to earn the ten dollars,
and would not have it,
1t viii be seen by a notice published
in our advertising columns that trains
continue to arrive regularly at New Or
leans, there being only two hours differ
/ enCe in the time going, and no difference
at all in coming back. Tit reliable route
is the Mississippi and Tennessee road.
Mast has . little book out about the
dghk in Europe. II is furnished with
abOH twenty Illustrations of a comic
character. IL Is a very good burlesque
upon the sQuabble, and would be a most
readable affair were IL not Uinged with
that puritanical biROtry, which never sees
any good except IN its own side. Mans
ford has il for sale for twenty-five cents.
The insurance companies are getting
anxious about the crime of arson. A per-
son who was suspected OF incsndisrism
was sried before Squire GoOdIett, yester-
day, and severely prosecuted by several
insurance men, who wish TO make an eX-
ample Of or two offenders. The pros
sCuEiOn did not turn out as successful as
was expected, for the fellow got of
John Gibson, the favOrite clerk Of the
police force, has his bsnk in full operation.
The deposits amount at present TO sixty
seven dollars. He started on dve-csnt
pieces, bat he won't take anything less
than a quarter now. He proposes 70 give
4 champagne picnic TO the force, including
the press, as soon as his deposits warrant
the expense.
"A painful mishsp occurred to a funeral
which was going TO St. Pstrick's burying
ground yesterday. When about a mile I
put from the city, the axle Of the hsarse |
suddenly broke, the wheel going through
the glass side of the vehicle, which was
bus totally disabled. The funeral cor
tege was necessarily compelled to halt in /
the midst of the mud until another hearse
was brought from town.
The railroad Misunderstanding men
toned in yesterdays APPEAL is not yet
adjusted. The examination of witnesses
and the plsadings Of the learned advocates
occupied all yesterday. Several heavy
documents, such as contracts and all that
sort Of thing, were submitted in evidence.
Judge Brown made one OF his character
IstiC speeches toward the close Of the dav.
This morning Governor Harris speaks. to
be followed, perhaps, by Judge Brown in
s. closing speech,
The directors of the Memphis and
Charleston railroad held b meeting YES
tsrday TO discuss the question whether
the company should declare q h~alf-yearlv
dividend. Many widows along the line
of the road thai hold stock in 10 are main
ly dependent for a living upon the income
derived nom that stock, and they will be
much disappointed If other business con
siderstiOns should interfere with the div
idend.
"A hackman, being a trihe elevated,
ran his vehicle against a heap Of dirt,
near the corner Of Union and Main streets
yesterday evening, toward dark, and was
dumped down on the pavement. dis
head struck first, and was cut cOusi5sra-
bly,, but those who knew him, when they
heard that his Uranium fortunately came
contact with the pavement first, thus
breaking the force Of the fsll, said he was
all right,
The Governor Of Idaho, who has been
recently administering rsd-h8nded Justice
10 the Supreme bench Of Arkansas and
State bonds with C~laytOuian vo-
left b city yesterday for unhappy L,
All that Arkansas gains, Idaho
.Os5si and wherever this announcement
Is read In every palace and howell, In the
State across the river, there viii
be hddlinE aud dancing and bOundless /
months. i
Mister Brooks, Of Virginia, of whom :
mention was made a few days & in the !
APPEAL, as offending the legal % Of Z
Dur police, was again arrested yesterday @
BY Captain Athey, for being ObsrrspsrOus. 3D.
is the person who h1Urished a Wig =
pistol over the heads of halt dozen =
shBritts In Dufy's saloon a few 3
lays ago, and snapped a cap in the face y
Il some q n who was drinking at the =
Is not the carrying Of concealed y
Weapons q State ofense2 3
At q regular meeting Of Nstoma Tenn IA
lie of Honor and Temperance No /. held /,
% Tuesday evening April 70, an cleo q
Of officers was had when the fol II
owing brethren were chosen for the en-
uing term: g A. Snyder, W. G.. IT,; B
/. Price, W. V. T.; John W. Graham, W.
j. II. Shepherd, W, A. R.; j. G. Ey-
.ch, W Il. r.; O.. II. Montgomery, W.
ressursr; G.. W. Alexander, W. u; C.
Price, w. ID. U; Jesse A. Graham W. n
r, A. Jones, VS.; h. ii. Briggs, p. o
CT; l.. O., Ransom, Chaplain. S
The virtuOus Jimmy SchoOIes thinks ei
Q has q moral show. His principal rea- cl
,n for holding his opinion Is that the 81
IthOriles don't "COm6 down" on him as T
pom other small shsntles where queer Z
iings are done. He explains that the II
nerih did not get alter him for having an q
or indecent exhibition. This was pa
-eat indulgence Oh the part Of the Shsr- -
! for which Jimmy ought to feel thank cd
u. Neither did the Sheriff come down "
D him for being without a license to sell ID
luors this forbesrance on the part Of the A
lsrih was due to the fact that Jimmy pl
I'D provided a license. The only thing, ID
len, for which the Sheriff did come down IA
Jimmy was selling liquor in a place of AT
nusemsnt contrary ~ The peace and IA
gnity Of the State" a proposition which lin
mmy proposes 70 dispute on high con al
.itutiOnal principle. nj
NovELTE-Wiggans q Thorn's card, 81
hrst page. gr
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