Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-14
CITY PARAGRAPHS.

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Hsnts.
Yesterday Neslis complained of being
without a bosrder at the ststion-house.
-Mansford is Iselling about a hundred
tickets daily for the fair drawing.
The fire department ~replsnished the
empty city cisterns about town yesterday.
"A barge with two or three thousand
bushels ofcoal sunk at the foot Of Poplar
street yesterday.
The Southern Express company win
transport all contributions to the Chicago
sufferers free of charge.
There was a meeting Of the Emmett
guards held last night, to consider the
aspect of the Pembins question.
We certainly owe the editor of the
Camden (Ark.) Democrat n for his K
preston Of good will toward the APPEAL.
There were more marriage licenses
issued this week by our county clerk,
than during any previous week In several
years.
1t is said there is a stock of coal in the
city at present which amounts to about
100000 bushels. 1t is likely to be dear
during the winter.
-Esson's case was given TO the jury
at noon, yesterday. Up to shutdown no
verdict had been found. The court ad-
journed and the jury was locked up.
This is motion day in the criminal
court. A verdict in the Esson case is
looked for this morning, after which the
Judge will hear motions from counsel.
Would it not be a proper move for our
merchants to close business in the after
noon Of Tuesday, and thus allow their
employees a chance to participate in the
great drawing at the fair2
-Thomss Kelly, of Second street, who |
subscribed $40 to the sufferers fund, was
spelled Kelly by the collectors and so got
into the papers, which was not doing JUS
tice to the generosity of Mr.. Keely.
Mr.. John Celia, Of the Invincible Sa-
loon, the noted cocktail" msn, will re-
turn from Chicago in two days, Sunday, |
lust the morning young men want cock
tails. "You know how it is YOURSELF"
The best arguments that have been
advanced yet on the tariff question are
vented at the weekly meetings of the
Irish literary association. Free trade is
the question up for discussion at present.
Mr.. William Booth, a prisoner con-
finedin our county jail by order of the
United States authorities, on q charge of
ku-kluxing, died early yesterday morn
ing. HeWas from 0bion county.
"A telegram from Gus Signsigo, now at
Nashville in the interests of the liquor
dealers, says that the measures of relief
sought sre likely to be accorded by the
general assembly.
One gentleman bought fifty tickets
for the fair drawing yesterday. He re-
marked that whether he won anything or
not, he would have the satisfaction Of
helping along q great industrial enter
prise.
An anonymous correspondent writes
us, that the person elected from the cars
Of the Mobile aid Ohio railroad was not g
Louisville drummer, but g drunken vaga-
bond. If so, why did the writer withhold
his name from us?
The drawing of prizes amounting to
$4,000, at the fair, next week, constitutes
one of its most attractive features. The
great number of tickets sold assures a
large attendance, each ti~cket-holder being
admitted TO the fair grounds without fur
thsr charge.
The committee appointed by the
county court 10 investigate claims of
holders of the BsrbOur-Lewis warrants,
will go 10 work at once and conduct the
investigation with vigor. Those who
AVE claims had better be looking after Z
them.
The fund raised here for the relief of
the Chicago sufferers, which amounts TO
over $2l, GOO, will bs sent to the chairman
Of the relief committee to-day. That part
Of the fun which was fcollected lis in the
Of Mr.. Davis, of the First National
1aAA 9ANA C1Ga UP A0AAAl NAlfNNNa
The large suit whioh came up Cor in I
vestigstion before Judge Heiskell of the b
6rst circuit court, on Monday, involves &
damages to tbs amount of S400, 900. 1t is I
3 suit brought by the Gayose gas compa-
ny against the sureties OF the Memphis
gas company. There are half u dozen
wealthy gentlemen on the defensive side
of the suit.
We learn from Messrs. Forster, Keal-
loier & Co., on Front street, that the Tan
ner sisters, of LOnoke, Prairie county,
Arkansas, o a $500 premium for the
best bale Of Arkansas cotton at the State Fl
in So. Louis. Lonoke is a thriving. 81
prosperous, healthy, go-ahesd town on p
he Little Rock railroad. n
We earn that the story bruitod about
% the effect that a patient at the county
hospital, who stabbed q patient there with fC
pocket-knife, was not suffering from @
tremens. On the contrary, the
certificate on which he was admitted
Itates differently. It was q personal Ia
quarrel, a fight in which the dehilitated Y
,atient used the knife in q hRnd-te-hsnd st
In~counter. 4O
The sublimity of absurdity is at last to
The manager Of a variety show Ia
n this city ia running it on this "high
moral tone" style. The can-can is danced
With a decorum only equslled by the
in their terpsichoresn devotional
sltations, and the bruisers, Joe Coburn
nd Dryer, appear In a set-to between the
Genes Of the panorama "a JOURNEY TO the d
ioly Land"
The New York Democrat of Saturday =,
avs that Mr.. Edwin f.. Overall, lately Of ma
dempbis, Tennessee, claims to hold the w
copyright" of the newspaper title, 1.-THE Ia
Outh," having published a journal with
hat title in Memphis, in January, 1871, .
secured the copyright. Mr.. Overall os
lltma that the rQnnnL nnnrnnrfaNtNn Of
hat title by some publishers in that city,
a violation Of his legal rights, and as
erts his intention TO recommence the
ubiication of the South in New York on
first Of January next.
Early yesterday morning a drove Of
lules were running down Third street
blowing q "~WboopinR," Withholding
Dung man, who was mounted on ahorse. IT..
Vhile passing the corner Of Market, one
I the mules that happened 70 be hungry. N,
1shed at q man who was going out nj,
With q green sign upon his =,
houlders. The sign looked like grass, ~
nd as all grass is hay, there is no doubt IN
sized it in his jaw and ran along among
drove about i've squares before he
1t. The hoofs of score Of rant yO
lg animals soon reduced the elaborate
20 the condition Of "mashed fodder." !
If all accounts are true, there are be-
in E~piritualism hereabouts who are ~.
-illing TO back their faith with green -
acks. Rumor says that one of the mon "a
yed magnstes of the peculiar doctrine ~,
70 pat up q thousand dollars that ~
Van Week cannot explain, on III
Lher than s~piritualistic theories, the man
Of genuine mediumH. Van
Tleck, ia answer to q card publIshed the
day in this paper, has a letter In an a.
column, In which he makes a SEEM ~,
iglY fair proposition, to Which We call
ls attention of the faithful. o.
MI. David M. fhlipis admirable and at
I'll report OF every incident and Of All the an