Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-12-13
Local PARAGRAPHS.

Can q lover be called a suitor WheH be
don't suit herr
Another lady registered in the fifth
wsrd yesterday.
Pumps are the fashionable wear for
the interviewing reporters.
Mr.. Mill, of Chelsea, recently fell
from his horse In a hi-HikI f.
Honest people and others have good
suggestion in ths letter from "Reformer."
Figures won't lie" Won't they ?
| Does a fashionable woman's figure tell the
TRUTH
DIR. Tessdale, a Baptist minister Of
Memphis, is preaching in Mobile with
great success.
Utah has its plural wives. An hour
at the recorders court convinced US thst
We have some singular ones.
The hoard of alderman appointed the
following committee to look into the
~raooFders's books: Messrs Cicalla, Pen
dergast and Mscksl.
The breaking down Of our press this
morning must be al excus to those of
the patrons Of the APPEAL who fail to
receive their pepper ct the regular hour.
A man was arrested yesterday for
cruelty 70 animals. He was trying to
carry two barrels Of apples, when it was
evident TO the humane police be was only
able TO carry 4
DR.. Z. A. Earle, the great ~revivslist,
will presch at the First Baptist church, at
2 O'Clock this afternoon, and as the Cum
berlsnd Presbyterian church, st Z o'clock
this evening.
The gssmen say that the public have
/ no right to object to scientific stink. LII
oDe Of the evils incident to a high state of
civilization. Enormous charges are also
an incident of civilization.
We have q communication criticizing
uttersnces Of a preacher in this city. It
would be published, but the controversy
| excited would be endless, and we would
30 expected to pay the pipers while others
danced. 1t would cost too much space
and money.
The grand annual ball of the Societs di
Itslisns occurs at COchrsne hall, on the
evening Of December 2Sth. Prepsrations
for the brilliant entertainment are max
ing everywhere in the city, and the occR-
Of all the cOnvocations Of youth and
beauty ever held in this city. This Ii the
third Ennual fair of the SOcietR.
Mr.. ". A. Goodman, secretary of the
Pisnters insurance company, offers, in an
advert ssment in the first column Of this
page, q handsome reward for the return Of
the papers lately stolen from the office of
that company, land no questions asked"
The officers Of the company state thst no
loss can accrue to the corporation from
the Iheft Of the pspers, but that time and
trouble in getting up duplicates can be
saved by the return Of the originals.
According TO the cheerful prediction
off learned Hindoo astronomer, a blazing
meteor will pass by the earth during the
coming year, destroying every form of
vegetation and killing millions Of people,
all in twenty-:our minutes. Therefore
the anxiety Of many people for the COM
pletiou by Tom Scott of a railroad around
the globe. When the comet starts We will
rip around with Tom Scott and get on
'tother side.
Andy Apperton got into trouble Mon
day, having fallen into the hands Of 8 DO
lies officer who arrested him and toted
him OF 10 the ststionhouse. where he was
kept. The principal criminal feature
about him was a small pistol, OF the derin-
ger psttern, which combines with its
shooting utility q very effective slung-
shot, The recorder fined Andy and also
bound him over. He was taken U on a
writ Of bobeaS corpus yesterday after
loon.
"A strong commotion wa created in
the fro department. Of the city last eve
ming, by an Immense volume Of smoke
issuing from the top of the Greenlaw op-
sra house. In a few minutes after It was
discovered The engines we're flying and
gyrating around there like one OF Mother
Carey's chickens in q gale of wind, The
smoke was caused by the heating up of
the c2lorio apparatus in the opera house
for Dr.. Cranes lecture. Instead OF dam |
age, much good was done by burning out
the SCOT in the hues.
in view Of the melancholy fact, re-
Gently developed in our columns, that
there is no means Of providing for the az
hicted by insanity or utter destitution in
this country save by public charity. Mrs. !
Malstests felt 1t her duty to do something