Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-19
CITY PARAGRAPHS.

tipsv table talk, and az If most Of It we're
done under rather than at the table.
Very many citizens OF Memphis, as
we do, regret sincerity the heavy loss sus-
tanned by General d @. Atkins in the loss
by FIRE Of his magnificent residence near
Paris, in this State.
Captain Gray won the horse that was
raf1ed at Duncan McLesn's the other
evening. When he was made aware of
the good luck he had ordered the drinks
for the crowd.
The county seat of Pamela county,
Mississippi, having been removed to Sar-
dis, the Pamela StGT announces that its
next issue win be from that place. Pa
nola, as atown, no longer exists.
The Chief Of the Fire Department WIS
6guring round yesterday on his great
new horse that was voted 10 BIN a. the
st. Bridget's Fair. The animal is almost
unreasonable in extent, is known smOnR
the policemen As Br0bdinag, aud a
numbering nag be is.
A mother by the name Of Ruth
Thompson was fDed Eve dollars by the
Recorder yesterday for "inhuman treat
ment of her child" TOney Grissom at
| tho same time was fined ten dollars for
using abusive language.
The letter of "Plsbeian," in another
| column, is very important to the working
/ people. Ifthis idea was taken up by the
sound, reliable men, i5 could easily be
| carried 70 a successful issue, Why does
3 not Aldermen Mohet, MallOn, Mr. Gum or
Mr.. Heath interest themselves ia this
thing7
The Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
/ Company are running their lines TO New
| Orleans by way Of the Mississippi and
Tennessee r0sd. A great number Of men
are at present employed in erecting poles
10 the southern part of the city. The
poles are the finest telegraph sticks evor
put up-they are hke nag-statts.
The weather report shows that it was
five degrees hotter last night than the
night before, when 10 was ten degrees
h06er than the preceding night. This rate
Of prOgressivensss in csl0rihc intensity is
so rapid that Memphis may become, in a
short time, q periect-paradise for sala
manders.
A seedy looking fellow staggering
along yesterday afternoon among heaps
of brick and stone, in front of the untn-
ished and massive Planters Insurance
building, fsncied that be was lettering and
dreaming amid the ruins of Bslbec and
Palmyra. He only had q very large brick
in his hat. IJ was used last night in
paving the basement Of the calabOOse.
William Helm, being over a cOlored
saloon, on DeSOtO street, that of Joe
Lusher, sent a ten dollar note down to
the bar TO pay for drinks, which was after
wards discovered To be counterfeit. Helm
would not take il back. The case wss re-
ferred to United States Commits si0nsr
Pierce, who has continued it twice, to
give Bill a chance TO get witnesses to
prove his innocence.
On Monday next the disciples of st.
George, the most muscular of all ths
saints, VII celebrate in Memphis. st.
George is reputed to have slain a dragon
once in the course Of an eveuttul bus
piOus life. On Monday evening, Dec Vol
eats, his enthusiastic followers, viii slsy
inuumersble dragons and other foes when
the festivities of the evening are drawing
to sClOse.
Persons is the place Of which Dick
ens wrote the famous Curiosity Shop. In
il any human want may be supp led or
any fancy gratihed, The establishment
Of uCn a house was a stroke of genius,
and genius, taste and skill conduct it.
There is nothing that Memphis contains
from a manakin 20 an eLagere, which
may not be found under the Courthouse
Rt the northeast corner Of Union and
Second. Go and see.
Annie Gallagher has been s~inguIarIy
unfortunate lst6ly. Yesterday she packed
up q few things, got into q hack and drove
TO the Mississippi and Tennessee depot
on the route to Nicksburg, after her friend
Fisher, who retired thither with four
horses, a buggy and a hack, about SIX
weeks ago, the joint property Of himself
and Annie. Poplar street viii have a
spell of quietness now.
The evening newspaper "round the
corner" had the following faCetiOus item
yesterday: as Is complimentary 20 the
Ledger inst last evenings dispatches are
repubnshed in the Sun of to-day, just ski
teen hours after the public had the pleas
ure of reading them in the Ledger. The
Ledger will continue to furnish the public
% the Sun with the latest telegrsphic
news from all points,
Lawyer check never was more
strongly illustrated, ~ says Squire Miller
"thsn ia my presence Yesterday. The
case of Miss Young that was tried a week
and judgment suspended for good
and sufficient reasons, was the occasion
for the exhibition. She was brought be-
fore me for sentence, when her lawyer
presented q dozen witnesses to prove
that she had not been tried at all, and
proposed 10 argue the question with ma.
had a mind TO convict him for con-
1t IS surely unwls6 on the part Of
the County Court 90 repUdisJe a few Gifts
outstanding warrants. Purchasers are
made nervous and they never know what
TO buy OF what to reject. The masses of
people, who arc not accustomed TO deal in
these securities, never know how TO dis
-iugUish between the ~repudiated and the
approved scrip. The mount repudiated
Is JrihinE and the courts may ultimately
the county 70 pay, and when we
upon the injury done public credit
upon the costs of litigation with the
innocent holders of this repudiated scrip,
may well question the wisdom Of this
very proper reputation.
Colonel Fitch and Thompson Dean
are largely interested in the patent for
new mode of gas manufacture Their
sale OF the Eas-wOrks of this city was
only effected that they might enter upon
4 wider field Of operations, They propose
at once 70 establish works in st. Louis
ike those just sold in this city. They can
no competition, and we advise the
gas men Of st. % uI 60 cume down at
)nCe. The facts ave been practically de-
nOnstrated. The best and cheapest gas
made is this from crude nsptha.
NCtOnly must St. Louis aud Chicago .
Dean, but every city and village i'm the
and viii soon be Illuminated by the
p simple process so successfully
n-aUgursted in this city. ,
The mad complaint seems to be tax
possession Of the equine race yigor-
'usIys Yesterday there we're two de-
erminod runaways in the third ward:
of the wild animals started from the
of Adams street, and made out to- {
yard the DOyOu a. q tremendous pace. I
he stopped for want OF wind near {
avenue. The other runaway
COX place from the foot Of Jefferson Z
trsst. The horse in this case was haul I
ng aspiring wagon in which a man was I
iding. The driver was violently spilled q
ut As the horse.msdly tore down lsvee- y
7aTd. His head and facs came in .
Ontact with the rough ground FIRST, and I
10 was much cut end stunned, bat recov- q
after a hall hour or SO. The iriur- o
b are painful and may cause him TO be p
aid up Tor q while, but they are not CON 5
lder6d dangerous. The runaway horse, II
hen he found himself free from all re- y
sraint, kept twisting and turning around =
"a the broken and bumpy territory be- ?
Ween Jefferson and Poplar streets, bat !
got on 10 Exchange street, and Z
ontinued cut toward the suburbs on Z
bat line until he CAV out. Neither the \
nor the horse were injured. p
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