Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-15
CITY PARAGRAPHS.

General Forrest arrived In this city
from the East yesterday. he is at the
Pesbody.
Owing to the incIemency Of the
weather Miss Patterson did not read last
night at the Club Hall, as advertised.
Mr.. n. J. O'Brien. the Superintend.
ent OF the Southern Express Company,
has arrived from New York. We are in
debtsd TO him for copies ofNeW York pa
psrs OF the 18th.
The lower police station is remarks-
bly, quiet these days. The arrests are
ndiculously few there this week. We
have 8 right to be thankful that our city
IS so moral and quiet.
We tasted yesterday some excellent
peaches grown In the garden of Mr.. Il.
Dow, OF Aiabams street. They are as
large and Juicy Es any we have eYer seen
produced in this section and bespesk
careful cultivation.
On yesterday, 8 man named Wallace,
= ~bricklaysr, fell on the sidewalk, on
Main street, near Union, from the effects
Of the heat. He was tEken up and kindly
cared for by officers Davis and Brown Of
the police. AT LAST accounts he was re-
covering.
From Forster, Keslhofer & Co. we are
In receipt of 8 cotton stalk raised by Mel
son HigEs, Of this county, containing 80
TOLLS, squares and blooms, some Of the
DOLLS nearly mstured. This indicates =
good crop, as 3 result OF attention and
culture.
A man walking along BeaIe street
yesterday evening was FRUSTRATED by sun-
stroke. He was carried 70 the second
police station in an insenEtble condition,
but under the active exsrtions Of Dr.. a
FORD, assisted by the pelicemeh 81 the
station, he soon revived M was able TO
pursue his way.
There are six healthy persons In
Raleigh whose aggregate age amounts
to four hundred and fifty years. They
ars old nan Etheridge, John Only, old
man Allen, who shoes horses now with
~ much vigOr as he did forty years ago;
Squire Messick, DR.. Coleman snd MrH.
Kane. They AVE averaged q residence
u forty years in Raleigh.
In the absence Of a pastor, the Central
sptist Church has arranged to have its
pulpit hlled by able ministers. On sun
dsy next, Dr.. J. r Brsnhsm viii occupy
the pulpit morning and evening. BE is
known 10 our people. On the Sunday
following, DR.. s. Lundrum, D ofthe best
preachers IN the South. Or. L. viii per-
haps remHin IN the city some time. The
church Is snXiGus 70 call him. BE would
he q most valusble acquisition 70 cur city.
We give place 20 the following para
graph from the Jackson Democrat, and /
sgree with our Contemporary that the
golden deed" deserves 70 live in story
and Ia ong Il immOrtalizss the youth: I
"As the passenger train coming north OE
the Mississippi Central railrosd APP
preached Davis creek, in Mississippi, on
this side Of Holly Springs, IN last Friday, /
the attention OF The engineer WIS., arrested
by a boy waving q bush In q very excited
~ The bUsin WIS stopped, and the
discovery made that q rail had been bro
ken, which would hsve caused It TO be
pFecipitsted into the creek, but for the
timely warning Of The boy. FOR this act
Of humanity the youth was literally re-
wErded. We regret that we cannot learn
his name. IL deserves 10 live in history,
and song. A railroad horror Yves
avsrted. aud we are reminded of
MiltOn's touching lines, where he speaks
Of
Deeds high above heroic, though IN secret
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