Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-25
CITY PARAGRAPHS.

Some new Dubcn6E Huupa are OPen-
ing under the influence OF me recent ue-
cision In their favor.
.--Broom's Opera House is to be fixed
up Immediately. Jefferson street viii
then become lively Rgsin.
There is q great falling away in the
number Of dodgers at the st~ation-house
since the flint weather commenced.
The bankrupt sale at Young's book
store, on Main street, attracted a great
crowd looking for bargains in that line.
"A youth named H. Williams was sent
to jail by the Recorder yesterday for lar
ceny. He failed 70 give $500 bonds.
The CHANDELIERS, who were reported as
being turned loose, were afLerward fined
$50 by the Recorder, and served 'em
right.
The negro population of West Viz
ginia is less in 1870 than in 1860 by 36,O5O.
Migration to Washington City n to the
lowlands of Mississippi accounts Wesnp-
pose, for the fact.
-"Brass-knucks" WIS the charge
against Alexander Williams on the police
docket yesterday. He was politely asked
20 lay down ten dollars Is a contribution
TO the city finances,
Jesse S. Downey, Of Tppsh county,
Miss, has shipped to Guy, Mcclellan x
Co., a bale of cotton weighing 1919 pounds.
There is no grindstOne in it, and the ties
are not the eastern half Of the lost cable
The man who was sent around to
threaten suit against a railroad company
didn't get the money he went for; but he
did get q flea in his ear, which craWled
into that Of his adviser, and no fees were
paid.
-Mansford, at the Catholic Bookstore,
Monroe and Second, has the Eclectic Nag
q-ine for March. The f~rontispiece is a
magnificent likeness Of he good man. "
william 1, Emperor of Germany. The
leading article is entitled The German
Empire, 4" by Professor Won Sybel'
"A prisoner % be brought up from the
Jail on q writ of habeas corpus before
Judge Ray yesterday, made his escape
from the deputy Sheriff before he reached
the court. He was a grand larceny man.
His legs, after their long rest at the
county mansion, did him good service.
The proposition to build a railway
bridge scross the Mississippi at this place
was the subject, yesterday, ofcOnYersatlon
among Eastern railroad owners and mana
gers now in the city. They ~concurred in
asserting the present necessity for the
bridge and easy practicabihty Of the
scheme.
Henry Rogers, cOlored, was h~ned,ffty
dollars yesterday by the Recorder, and
Joe Allen was mulcted in the same sum-.
The charge against each was vagrancy.
The amount Of sanitary work that these
two will perform for their hundred dol
lars will be worth double that sum to the
city.
Squire Blecklev, the chief Of the
! County Fathers, took a trip to New Or
leans 10 see the Msrdi GrRs. He return
ed yesterday, fat and hearty, and gay as
two lsrks on a summers morning. He
reports his trip as eminently successful
The procession of the Mystic KreWe was
as well done as anything that could be
got mp in Memphis, if not better.
Some members of the police suggest
that the equine ghost, mentioned in the
APPEAL yesterday, is not a ghost but a
regular snOrting, snufling, glanderOus
ROsinante-iu fact, an old horse turned
out to die. He has shifted his quarters to
S~ullivRn's, on Front street. where he eats
hay nightly in the flesh, to be seen and
commissersted Of all men, particularly OF
policemen.
The Des Arc Citizen says that there
were shipped from that place in 1S6g-70
S850,OCO, 600 worth Of cotton. 1t must have
been 6 good year for figures over there.
Lsst year more than 5000 cotton bales
we're shipped from Des Arc, and the Cit
zen says nat there are still large quanti-
ties in the hands of farmers.
Duncan Mclean, the Bay Horse, and
the rest, did deserved honor TO the MEM
DRY Of Burns, not long ago. Can't we
celebrate the anniversary of Shakes
peare's birth on the 23d of April? Our
theater-goers and managers have such 8
remarkable fOndnsss and admiration for
Shakespeare that we mus think that the
proposition viii be joyOusly welcomed.
The alarm Of fire last night was pro-
duced by some playful boys who we're
playing hremeu at the M of Third
and Jefferson streets. They raised the
cry of fire, fire - and it was at once
taken up by parties on the route to the
Adams street engine-hOuse. The fire bell
rang its hurried peal, and in five minutes
all the engines in town were on the
scene.
The genius and toll OF the indefsti-
gable N. W. Clusky is illustrated i'm the
pages OF the Louis lille LEDGER. The wis
dom of this journal and its adhesion to
those principles that constitute the only
sure basis Of true Republicanism in
government, is assured while NJ. ",
Clusky is at the helm. We have known
him well and thoroughly in years gone
by, and never was 8 wiser selection made
than when Clusky became directer-gsne-
raj Of the political conduct and fortunes of
the Ledger.
The description Of the Nessrs. NJ. Z.
Cochran & Bros saw mill, in yesterdays
APPEAL, and the discussion OF the lumber
trade, ofthe prOhtablsness OF furniture
making in this city, caused an advance
in the Wood and Willow Ware Msuufsc-
turing Compsny's stock. A sale at sixty
cents was made yesterday, and this in
the face of the fact that stock subscrip-
tiOns partially paid up viii be declared
forfeited at the stockholders meeting
Saturday morning.
A recently appointed Radical Judge
in Mississippi, referring to his judicial
ability, delivered himself thusly: Il
haven't been judging a great while, but
I think | can snatch Justice b~8ld-beaded
as well as any Of 'em.n We have no dis
position to dispute his ability in that line.
AlcOrn did his best to seCurs the services
Of decent men in appointing officers, but
the material was scarce aud finally ex-
hsusted when this Judge popped down on
the wOOlssck.
The inquiry is often made, and we
answer. that frOmsLittle Rock and points
below on the Arkansas river the freight
charge per bale ISL, from the same points !
New Orleans s.. From points above
Little Rock to Memphis the charge to
Memphis is s. 80, from the same places
TO New Orleans, g SO. These are rates ,
now defined by the Arkansas Packet ,
Company. Many merchants are inquir- !
ing into the condition, fortunes and fu-
sure of this packet line, which capitalists
Of another city propose to buy. it must
lot pass from the control Of Memphis !
men.
That was a gushing original article in }
)ur Contemporary yesterday, which ap- f,
Feared at the same ri as the same 'se- z
ectsd matter" ia the APPEAL. We must =
rave been furnished with a prOOfsheet ,
md unkindly took out the leads, and then :
7ery wrongfully credited the brain-wOrk D
4 our intelligent contemporary to an East
IN journal which also published the same 81
as original, several days ago, 1t 4
must be the most original production Of =
he age, and so touching are the facts, %
hat they almost force France to shed
Theirs.
The fluctuations in the price Of coal
Turing the past winter viii cause the or
ganlZatlOn OF q ~eoal-buyers' association,
which will simply undertake TO supply
he wants Of its own members through
he year at the lowest possible cash rates. q.
n other words, the members OF the asso- =
iation will contribute enough to buy g
hr6e or four bOat loads. II the Memphis %
nd Charleston road we're supplied with -"
which transported, without grinding
coal to powder, we could get hmm a
oal from Chattanooga az sixty-hve cents. =
Z even fifty cents. When the road from
.'uscumbiato Opelika is finished, or Pres
dent Whites Wis6ly-planned narrow
auge road from ChickasRw or Tuscumbia
o Tuscaloosa is opened, then Memphis 3
have cheaper fuel than any Southern
itv. Then we shall have every descrip-
of manufactures, and then we can
ave cheap and abundant fuel.
Thu hunger for costs in little courts is
ne Of the remarkable results of their
ndisss number. A poor fellows credit
rs have harassed him, and he was ordered 4
efore three magistrates at once. They 7
card that q mOneyed man owed the y
sbtor q small sum, and g~arnlshments q
ere served on MOneybags yesterday r
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