Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-02
CITY PARAGRAPHS.


-Bsrney's Ministries at the thestsr to-
night.
Two weeks from today the shelby
county fair opens.
Rev. S%ylvanus Lsndrum will preach
tonight at The Chslses Baptist church.
The chamber Of commerce will have a
meeting this evening at Eve O'Clock on
the cotton law question.
The Peabody and other hotels of the
city are filled with guests, and Main
street win be crowded to-day with trades
people.
DIR. Slater preached q very eloquent
sermon yesterday IN the First Methodist
church on the great principles Of Christian
equity.
The public school on Poplar street
viii be moved into the new building on
Market street the ome 1t shall have
bsen finished.
Grants rstions cost $1,000 per day. and
there is not a successful brakeman Of the
city who is not better fitted than Grant
for the place he fills.
Cotton crops in ~Tsllshstchie and Le-
fore counties, Mississippi, have been les
sened from o~ne-fourth to one-thlrd by re.
cent p7otrscted drouth.
The day and night police i~nterchsnged
yesterday. Those who have been doina
night duty for the past three months will
now do day duty until the LIST of the year
1872
AT dark last evening there was not
one entry on the Adams street station.
house docket. Who shall sey that Mem.
phis is not s model town when she
wishesf
The free preacher who holds forth on
the Square every Sunday visited the sta.
tion-house of his own accord, and held
forth with mingled eloquence and piety
for the benefit of the chain gar e.
Some friend of the APPEAL sends ms
the outlines of a story Of social scandal
which we cannot use. We, however, re-
cognize the friendly feeling which prompt.
ed the sending Of the little sketch.
On Tuesday, that is to morrow, the
races over the Chickassw course begins
We have a fine prospect, as far as the
horses are concerned. A number are ex-
peoted firm Nashville to-day.
A fellow at Jackson, Mississippi. ia.
milarly known as "suek egg' Jones, il
the magnificent representative of Federal
power that caused the arrest of fifteen
c~itizsns of Neshoba county, and caused
them TO be hurried down to Jackson,
while yellow fever prevailed, to answer
1aAA S1 - W AudAAG
between two old women. 'Suck egg
is United States commissioner, and enfor.
ces the Ku-Klux act.
The following enigmaticsl plscsrd
was posted shout the streets of the Eter.
nal city. 1t was copied by one of our cit
zsns who spent the summer In Italy, and
will be appreciated no doubt by our Itsl-
ian readers: "Rome IS Perche crudele e
Is che so bugisrda g." The solution is
Rome Sc santa sci purcbe crudele sci
tsntR SO disco che sci santa buziarda sci. ,
Our traveller thinks 1t 8 good joke, and
we suppose he knows, and that it is very
funny. We can't see it.
Ben Gsrrett, who shot the escaping
negro at the county jail Saturday sven
ing, went before Justice Winters and gave
bond for his appearance before the Grim
inal court when called on. He wants "a
hsve the circumstance thoroughly invss.
uigated, so that no shadow of blame NAV
rest upon him hereafter. It was COM
monty remarked that this decisive act o
| Captain Garrett will have a beneficial
effect on the nerves Of prisoners who con
template an escape.
The luxury Of drinking q cup of nice
| coffee Gus of q civilizsd cup Is seldom ex
perienced. A civilized cup is made Of
china, has a little greater capacity than
the white flower pots In which coffee is
usually served at restaurants or boarding
houses. It is sparkling white, and bsars
no traces of former use wen after il has
done service for years, The common
crockery cup becomes sOdden ard heavy
by the Absorption of oil from coffee after
s short time. They usually contain clay
enough to make a brick.
"A grocery man writes us e letter ash
ing why it is that the license given him
by the State enables him to sell hardware,
such as fiat irons, stoves, plows and
scythes. crOckeTy ware, drugs. dry goods,
and yet will not permit him to sell g
pound of mest7 He says the butchers
S wear that n meat not in salt twenty
days is fresh meat. He may sell rusty
bacon, bus If be attempts to sell pork nine-
tsen days in salt ne will be fined for sell
ing fresh meat. The grocery man will
have to consult 3 two-hesded lawyer about
this.