Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-28
CITY PARAGRAPHS.
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Memphis.
The Mechanics Institute meets to-
morrow evening at odd Fellows Hall.
The Supreme Court at Little Rock,
Judge Bennett, OF Helena on the bench,
met yesterday.
The Dsrdanslle Chronicle was bought
the day before the last number went to
press ana the outside was Radical and
inside Democratic.
The average cost Of travel on our city
railroad cars is a cent for q hundred
yards, but a passenger may go two hum
dred yards for q cent II he wishes,
Mr.. John Shaw, who lef this city
yesterday for SOmerville, is authorized
to represent the APPEAL, and we recon-
mend him to our friends In that ancient
town.
On the 25th Of March h election
will be held in the county 70 ascertain the
sense of the popular mind on the ques-
ton Of subscribing 100000 to the Selma
road.
Good cause for ju-bilation-says the
Banner: Nashville is getting immense
as a cotton market. The receipts up TO
date this year are $1,000 bales" Did you
ever observe the hystericsl glsdness of an
svRricious baby after getting a handful Of
nickels2
The Fenians Of Nashville have re-
vived again. under stimulating influences
from New York. The same fiery patriots
that fought, bled and died for the "ould
sod" so often during the last ten years,
are at the head and front of the I've
ment again.
Col. VIM. Dixon, of Dixon, Alabama,
on the Memphis and Charleston railroad,
yesterday shipped 500 bushels Of cotton
seed over the kansa Pacific road to Cali
fOrnis. Col. Dixon end q friend will Gull
tivate this year in California large cotton
farm.
A person employed by the Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad went out on
the engine Sunday morning, and while
jumping OF to regulate q brake had his
foot crushed. He was brought 10 town,
and had the injured limb amputated yes
terday. Hsi is getting along very we'll.
A man with a very strong tendency to
religious fervOr was discovered kneeling
outside the door of st. Peters Church
yesterday afternoon, BE had one eye Al
the keyhole and the other directed
heavenWsrd, and was praying in a loud
and devout tone. A tender-hssrted pO-
Hcemsn told him to "mOve on"
A negro named Smith, who got ten
years In the penitentisry for hOrss-stssl-
ing, about eighteen months ago, having
made his escape, was roaming at large
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by officers DOughsrty snd Sheehan, who
took care Of him. He will be returned to
his quarters at once.
in the First Chsncery Court on SatUr-
dav last. W. A. McClOy, James H. Sulli-
van, James ". Bingham, ". G. SchwBl,
meyer, John r. Grehan, and Joseph Bar
biere filed a petition to incorporate the
"Sun Publishing Company" for the pur-
pose Of publishing and printing papers, /
books, pamphlets, etc. The capital stock
of the company to be $50, 600, divided into |
shares Of S25 each, which stock is to be
raised by subscription.
A disconnected cOlored Benedick of
Water Valley, Miss, wanted to cut his
wifs's throat. It seems, 10 and his wife
had a falling out, and had separated, and
OF Friday morning, before daylight, he
went to where she was stopping, and with
a rszOr gsshed her throat terribly, eX-
tending from one ear to the other. he
also cut other gsshes on her person, He
then got on one Of the freight trains
leaving about that hour and disap-
peared.
Mr.. D. Fl. Elliott, General Southern
Agent Kansas Pacific Railway, is at the
Ovsrton, from whom we learn a grand
Southern excursion to Denver, Colorado, /
and the Rocky Mountains, is on the tapis
for this summer. The p-reliminaries viii
be arranged at the General Ticket Agents
Convention, to be held at Savannah, Geor-
ria. March %. Colonel Mclean may call
and answer in person the invitation eX-
tended to our Revolutionary Fathers to
visit the Rocky Mountains on the 18th Of
July.
Minnie Sbsughuessy, the beloved
daughter Of old Shaughnessy, of Cairo,
who is COevsl with the tadpole Of thst
swamp, was prosecuting q man named
before Squire Miller yesterday,
because he refused 10 wed her. The
told the young man that he had
better do it. He also made a few felici-
remarks about the humble desires of
the lady, that sought no higher happiness
than what could be got from a Lifelong
union with J. A. O.. Windren, Esq, re-
Gently of Cairo, Illinois.
A rather rich case occurred yesterday
in the presentation Of a letter from a con-
Wet to the Judge Of the Criminal Court,
claiming that Justice should be hurried
1t seems that not being satisfied with
first verdict for nvs years in the peni
Tertiary, he moved fer a new trial, OBJ
.ained it, and was a second time convicted,
a verdict for ten years, he Is there
fore particularly anxious to get OF for
Nashville as soon rs possible, under the
apprehension thaJ III he stays here Buy
0nEsr something new may turn up by
he may get nE5 years more. lie
prefers bearing the ills he has to flying to
hose he knows not of, ana accordingly :
.ent up his petition to Judge FIppin ss
OllOw5: Dear Sri wish you would q
1--WE me my sentence 90 the psuit8ntiary :
u Nashville, because / have no hope 10 ?
yet clear; and when I am sent, that / may !
Je allowed TO go with the man that RS
,eived the FIRST sentence last Saturday, for /
hen every day will be a day from my
lime Of salvation. ] have nothing to say
a.e--H mn #-raT VIII rlnm nInaHn Tell tina ]
sheriff that 1 wish 90 go with the next Z
CHAS. LINK, County Jail"
Not many DAYS ago-tbe steamer Eu-
'opean, OF the Allan line OF twenty ocean
iteamers, plying bstween Norfolk n
Baltimore, was sc the latter city. While J
Messrs. DonOhO, Joy q Co. tele-
the captain of the vessel that G
hey wOnld load it with cotton, trans
erred from Memphis TO Norfolk. Very
i~trangely, no answer came either tOia let
sent to Norfolk, 6mb0dylng the same Z
proposition, or TO the kilograms sent 10 Z
Yesterday we received a let Q
er from the Internatural Land and Labor
Agency OF Birmingham, England, in
which we are informed by J, NJ. Holmes,
secretary, that this ~trial trip was not u
10 successful as the Messrs. Allan hoped; c
till, so short was the notice that the y
teamer was as wen freightea and filled %
With passengers on the return v0ysge as a
.Juld have been expected" Ii is surely C
singular that the dispatch referred q
O from this city was unnOtced, q
nd it may be true that persons interested d
q defeating the success of this line of d
tsamers interviewed TO prevent the re- g
Of the dispatch, prOneuug q fuu O.
Mr.. Holmes assures us, however, u
the allan steamers viii be retained n
b their present service. II becomes ship a
from Memphis to Europe and NOR a
hants here blying goods in Europe, to Il
ave shipments made i'm boil directions 81
" this direct southern ocean line. The
Dads bet We6n Memphis and Norfolk can &,
esdIy supply cargOes for twenty ocean o
teamsrs, and there is no sufficient reason
the voyage should be extended even a
D Baltimore, d
NEW DRESS GOODS o
IN EXHIBITION THIS MORNING. D.,
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