Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-27
CITY PARAGRAPHS.
a frost this morning.

There is every prospect that bust
ness VIII begin In earnest ct the criminal
court this morning.
The readings tonight will be from
Othello and Macbeth with piano Rccom-
paniment by Miss. Fielding. The New
Theater is the place, and Mr.. King will
be the artist.
The Fair Record, published under the
official sanction of the board OF directors
of the Shelby County Fair, viii be issued
every morning during the continuance Of
the fair
The Ledger man insists that "yaller'i
mortality ought to come here. He says
I" why not2" Perhaps he Is under the i'm
preston it would supplant the shootists
n stabbiste, and morphinists, and would
be more acceptable than those latter
affections.
The young man stationed-housed
Monday night for stealing q bundle OF
clothing from g house up town, proved
before b recorder yesterday morning
that he was an innocent country darky,
and said he bought the things from 8 per
son whom he named. That party was
sequently arrested and put in quod, while
the country oolored was allowed to 60
frse.
Mary Barton was keel-hsuled or
mauled to theikeel by Eva Keel, on Over
ton street yesterday. We Eva or al
even keelf Passion blinded their eyes,
but on reaching Adams street and seeing
the scales Of Justice, the scales dropped
from their eyes and they saw the Hero
glyphics, $40 for the city. Eva said 1t was
from first to last undergoing q hard
ship"
Go away from town to get the news.
We find this in the Nashville Banner of
Sunday; memphis r~ejoices in a new
gas company, which has just gone iuto
IS per 100 cubic feet, will probably be re-
duced st least half that amount. such
are the blessings of competition" This
viii be new news to all readers of Mem
phis newspapers.
We have received q very nicely spell
ed letter from Tppah county, Miss,
which states that 8 young man of that To-
cslity has received an ACCORDION from
Cincinnati, with which he proposes TO
serenade ali the young women of the
county who admire him. Well, who OBJ
ieets? He msy fret the midnight air &C
cordin' to his taste from now till he has g
three foot moustsche, and the APPEAL
shall ley complain.
An evening paper published hers says
that There were only 8 few cases Of chills
admitted to the city hospital during the
past week, which speaks volumes for our
bluffs" Whether 1t WIS the ceases" or
the "chills" or the 'hospitsl" that speaks
volumes for the bluffs Is not said. Neither
is il stated what was contained in those
volumes gratuitously issued for the ex-
elusive benefit Of our ungrsteful bluffs.
The new Berlin wool and fancy house,
established under the Worsham House, is
owned by Messrs. Joe Elliott & Robert
Ridgely, who are hrst-clsss business men.
Mr.. Elliott was formerly q jeweller at
Norman & Byrd's, and Mr.. Ridgely was
attached to the oil works. They are gen.
tlemen who wish to FIX that peculiar
trade here. Their store is of a new order,
snd one that was very much needed.
Everything in the ladies'lin viii be found
in that very fancy store.
There can hardly be a doubt but the
men OF Msine are the mesnest men in the
country. One Of them prevailed on our
genial reporter to go into q saloon to drink
q glass Of beer during the warm days,
with the view Of getting the reporter 70
put a nice notice ofhim in the paper as he
was going on q tour. When the beer was
drank the genial reporter had pay for his
own glass, because the mean man of
Maine did not wish to change q twenty
five cent piece. Thst was bad enough, but
now word reaches here hat g thrifty citi-
zen of LIE vision recently unscreWed the
handles from his wife's coffin before
it Wss lowered into the grave, brought
them back to the coffin maker and saved
fifty cents thereby.