Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-17
CITY P~ARAoRAPAs.

CITY PARAGRAPHS.
The Hon. Tom Avery is at Niagara
Falls. enjoying g slight touch OF nstuT in
her sublimest mood.
Any one in want Of a rOekawsy can
make q trade at half cost by consulting
~ by letter at this Office.
The police of the lower district had
something like q lively time during the
past two days In the way Of fights and
things.
If you win call st Joe Locke's, 2S6H
Main street, you win see something that
will interest you, no matter what you are
in religion or politics.
The beautiful bridge on Gayoso
street will be passable for vehicles next
week and Il Is expected that fernando
street viii be opened out to Union In q few
months.
The name of the gentleman who left
some fine specimens OF I'm cotton on our
desk, Tuesday, Wss spelled wrongly In
our notice yesterday. Il ought to have
been Psdgstt.
"A colorsd fireman of q tugbost was
! drowned yesterday at the foot of Poplar
street. He and smother were A" larking"
on the deck, when he fell overheard and
sank TO rise no more.
For a whole week the people in front
Of the Humboldt Park have had their nos
trils offended and their animals frightened
by the earcass OF q mule or horse that lies
there, rotting in the sun
AT the Hotel Nealis there are now fed
daily about fifty persons, OF one sort or
smother. The dodgers in the ~ststion-house
at night, as well as the regular prisoners,
get their breakfasts of morning.
"A mule wss I" struck by the sun on
Monroe street, opposite the Peabody
Hotel, yesterday afternoon, The usual
remedies were spilled, barring he whis-
ky, so he soon recovered and walked
away with his vehicle.
The misdemeanor docket VIII be taken
up In the Bartlett Court on Monday, and
the felony docket on Monday week. Civil
business is before the Judge st present.
Those who attend the court say that It ia
the hottest place this side Of Rio Janierc.
The river threstsns to claim Its usual
ousntum OF dirt from the bank in front of |
the city this fall. b City Fathers are
considering the Justice Of those arrogant
yearly demands, and II Is expected that
they viii report against the propriety Of
allowing this yearly claim any longer.
There is q warrant out for the arrest
of q big negro, called Howell Cobb, who
attempted to get into a colOred brothers
house On Washington street with the
view Of robbing it. The wife of the man
who owns the house resisted his entrance,
for which he beat her vigorously.
The races to-day promise to be q great
The track will be in splendid
spongy condition after the rain. The air
will be relreshiDgly cool and brscing
The best possible running may be ex-
pected out Of the animals. Owing to these
favorable conditions trains will run from
the Charleston depot at 1880, 12:45 and
1850, city time. They will arrive put to
catch the races.
During the summer there have been
average of ten men Of the police force
the sick list. Some nights during the
Oppressively hot weather, there were no
more than half the proper number able to
go on duty in the lower district. Police
duty is peculiarly hard In this city. The
men have 70 be out about thirteen hours,
and when one makes q case" he has to
be out from sixteen to eighteen hours.
On DsSoto street yesterday some
girls had a squabble among them
selves about a pair OF shoes, which one
had lust purchased. In the course of the
fight Big Lou furnished Annie Freeman
a razor with which TO slather round.
She did 1t with considerable vim, for
which the cuttest was sent to jail, and Big
Lou was sent to keep company with her.
1AE L1G "N III NAAS wa Nv IVA ECAAAS
time. She will o have & chance TO re-
feet on the evil other ways.
Our friend Flatley, OF the Seventh
Ward House, has brayed the weather sue
;essfully by organizing a wedding party, /
n which two young people named resp5c-
lively, Flstley and Miss McDermett, were
he principal figures It took place at his !
'esidence on Madison street, Tuesday :
and WAS in every way q success.
ufrfnU nf aounn1funnnfa that nafuranu
rise on such al occasion is too long to be /
zone over here. One thing is certain, he {
possesses more happiness than our man of c
aste, with his exubersnt Imagination, L
ould sven wish him. May he enjoy Il for t
{ lesst one hundred years. P
His old friends viii regret TO hear, as q
70 regret to chronicle, the death OF Mr.. '
lizard, Of the firm OF Rosser & a
of this city, st Forrest City, IL
.rkansas, on Tuesday the 10th, after an :,
lness of ten days. He made 8 good, .
allant soldier. and was a most eXem- "
larry citizen. TOhim, more than any other
are the people OF Forrest City in
ebted for the existence Of a town that a,
Tas but q little while ago tout in the will n
srnsss." Mr.. lizard was industrious, y
leerful and hopeful, and bid fair to be- n
1me a leader In his State. His death has a
sst a gloom over the community with ~
hich his name viii always be Identified. =.
10 was the friend of every one of his n
As such he is universally M
The APPEAL remembers him ~
rstefully, as a friend, and pays this mite 4
7 tribute 70 his worth. al
We had occasion to mention the fact n
the organization Of a Young Mems n
Association, last week, at the al
rst Methodist church. It Is composed of nd
10 young men who ars members of the 81
Protestant churches, irrespective al
denomination. Those who have already Id
have gone to work in earnest, with "
10 determination 10 make It q successful fo
stitution for the promotion of religion "a
nong the young msn OF b community m
7 bringing them more prominently into al
tive labor in the vineyard OF Christ. a
ley meet to morrow (Eriday) evening, al
the Cumberland Presbyterian church, IA
s O'Clock, when those who have not yet Ia
lned can have an opportunity of doing M
D.. Appropriate addresses viii be deliv- be
ed by some of the pastors of the diff ze
rent churches snd members of the ne
ISOLATION. The public generally are m,
yited to attend. Is