Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-19
CITY PARAGRAPHS.

CITY PARAGRAPHS.
-Dutchy is not in the s-tation-house
and be expects to live two hundred years
longer.
There was one drunk entered upon
the Recorders docket up to u O'Clock
last night.
An African named Davis was fined
twenty dollars by the Recorder yesterday,
for disturbing religious worship.
Our coroner Mr.. Mofistt, hiss arrived
safe in Baltimore, and Is improving In
health at the last Geographic account.
-Wynne Cannon was remanded to Jail
by Judge Ray, yesterday, to await his
trial before the Criminal Court, for the
murder Of Hod Morse.
The case of Simon J. Knott, charged
With being the father of the Legitimate
child Of Fannie WATSON, was decided by
Judge Ray in favor OF the defendant.
The chain gang has increased In num-
bers lately. This Is not to be regretted.
Many vags. about the city would be bene-
hted by 8 little experience in that sort Of
service.
"A section of the "Internationales" is
about be established in Memphis. Three
men were going round the city yesterday
arranging the prellminRries of the organ
izstiOn.
AT q meeting Of the principal cotton
shed propristors Of the city, held on Sat
urdsy last, it was agreed TO fix the rate of
storage at 50 cents per bale the same as
charged last SESSION.
An the courts met yesterday EXCEPT
the two ChGncery Courts. The Criminal
Court holds forth in the Second Chancery
until the new concern at the corner OF
Second n Jefferson streets can be got
into proper order.
Tim Hope, one of the oldest Police
men in Memphis, broke his big toe
against q curb-stOne yesterday, running
after g negro who had stolen 8 goat. The
countless friends of Tim in the city viii
grieve to hear this.
One Of our literary associations in this
city is at present engaged in discussing
the knotty question, whether mankind is
more indebted to Darwin or to the mon
key. The monkey side Of the question
has powerful advocates.
"A man, who has been among 'em, says
that Kate Field Is a good pistol shot, Miss
Hazlett swims like q duck, Elizabeth
Csdy Stanton is q scientific angler, and 1t
is intimRted that Susan B Anthony plays
q rafting game Of drsW-pOker.
Merchants and planters will find the
weekly commercial review OF the APPEAL
e~specially valuable this morning. It Is a
complete and perfect reflex of the present
condition Of all our markets, accompanied
by suggestive editorial comment.
The Board OF Leves Commissioners of
Mississippi meets tomorrow at the Pea
body Hotel. Memphis is certainly becom-
ing more a city of Mississippi and Arkan-
sss, in its trade and population, and thus
its sYmpsthies, than OF Tennessee.
1t is stated that the Supreme Court of
Mississippi, reversing the decree OF the
Chancellor, has decided the suit between
the Radical papers at Jackson, agsinst
Alcorn's organ and in favor of
the Plot, the Moses Of the ark of Rsdi-
DIR. Hoerner extracted 8 tspe-Worm
twenty-seven feet long from 3 person
Sunday evening. 1t is nearly as wide as q
bolt Of domestic and twice as thick. A
ar seven feet high and three feet in diane
Ter is baking now at Tghe's pottery fac
tory to contain the worm.
A press dispatch from Little Rock,
last night, announced the suicide of one
Mr.. G.. ". Cannon, formerly of this city,
at Hot Springs, on Tuesday last. He left
a note to his brother, saying: Dear
Brother Forgive me; I cannot stand the
pain any longer" Mr.. G. was at the
Springs for medical treatment.
-hApCLlLNClAH uhNE D6duL 6C6IblE mhQ6 /
to ascertain the quantity Of different food
which needs TO be eaten to make one
pound of flesh. The conclusion arrived at
Is that il requires Is pounds Of milk, 100
turnips, 90 Of potatoes, so of carrots,
; Of ost merl, ~ Of barley meal, and 81 |
Of beans,
The number Of Courts in the city at
present are as follows: Probate, Quorum,
First Chsncery, Second Chance
y, Recorders, First Circuit, Second Cir
,uit, Criminal, United States District and
United States Circuit, and about eight
Nsgistrstes-in al, nearly twenty. No
the lawyers flourish.
Mrs. Ksvsnsugh, Of Chelsea, ig rapid
y recovering from her misfortune in hsv-
ne taken strychnine instead Of Quinine.
The mistake originated with the drag
who supplied the medicine. The
put up the two sorts of medicine in
little envelopes, and when he came to
write upon them he wrote quinine upon
he paper containing the s~trychnine, and
he lsdy came near dying from the mis-
axe.
1t is quite cheering to see how much
,ur city is improving. On Sunday we
through the beautiful neighbor- ,
lOOd of st. Agnes, and within four blocks
re counted fourteen buildings finished
nd in the course of erection-sOme of
hem of the most chsste AND beautiful de-
The new home Of VIM. NJ. Earring
Esq, from designs by Baldwin &
ones, is an elegant residence; and many :
theirs in that neighborhood deserve no.
We will visit there again. !
1t has long been believed that the i
srth is composed Of a molten mass en- S
eloped in 8 solid crust but the thick I
Of the crust has remained q subject i
( conjecture. Professor Thompson, how
now shows to the British AssOcis- I
iOn that no thickness less than 1000 or ,
500 miles would enable the crust to re-
list the tide generating force OF the sun Z
moon. A thinner crust, he says,
rOuld be bulged up by q tide within the
lOlten mass like the tide OF the ocean.
-Hele is q Winnie IS cool and fresh as :
q early morning in October. She is q full :
looded Indian, very dark, but not ILL :
She wears q single garment Of I
nsn cloth, which clings to her figure, and .
merely confined around the waist by . a
5arf Of blue gsuze. Her hSir is cut close !
mont and around the ears, then is left a
TOW upon her shoulders. A hsndkar- 4
nief of bright yello " silk is bound srOund .
or head and Is tied in q loose knot be- :
ind; her arms are bare to the shoulder, :
nd her ankles likewise, her naked feet \
sing confined in richly embroidered \
iOccassins. =
1t appears the Arkansas River Packet =
ompsny, of Louisville, has gone up the :
)Out. A Louisville paper of Saturday !,
rs the following; "At 3 meeting Of the I;
rksnsss River Packet Company, at the :
Of the Board of :
rsde rooms last night, the res Z
nation of Mr.. VerhOef, as President, n
as accepted, and Mr.. John b. Thomas :,
ected in his stead. Nh. J. J. Porter was
TO settle up the business of the "
1t is understood that Mr.. y
bomas, as President, will, his morning, -
axe IN assignment, the company being =
debt and unable TO extricsts itself" =,
The Jackson WhtF and Tribune thus n
Of Memphis: "Yesr after year no
emphis, the great city of the Southwest,
I'd the commercial emporium Of West
.snnessee, Arkansas, North Mississippi
ID North Alabama, reaches ont further
ID further into the intariOr. drawing tk- N