Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-23
CITY PARAGRAPHS.

New Memphis In q series Of finished read
ings to be given there in aday or two.
Cigars are becoming cheap. There are
three houses In the city that sell them for
q cent, each but they are only worth a mill.
Accounts from the growing cotton
crop strengthen the conviction that there
will not be more than q s,250,00O bale
crop.
Attention is directed to the annouuc-
ment Of Messrs. Meyer & Deadrick In au-
other column. It Is very important to
some people.
The WEEKLY APPEAL contains forty
columns Of reading matter, snd lie studied
In ten thousand country homes in the adj
joining States.
The jail expose was generally dis
Cusssd Yesterday, and the management Of
that, our only public institution, univer-
sally condemned.
The question is not, to be or not to be,
but grammar BY b book OF by the teach
or. Let Us have q good square row upon
the grammar question!
The receipts Of cotton yesterday
amounted to AL bales; for the same day
last year there were received IVA bales.
Gain this year, 267 bales.
-Middline cotton called for IsH9I9
| cents in this market yesterday. On the
same day last year it was sold at 16H-
q difference of nom 2&S cents in favor of
this year.
The Nashville Bdnner Of Wednesday
says: Information was received here
from Pulaski yesterday morning to the
effect that the condition Of General John
@. Brown had greatly improved, and hat
he Is now entirely u Of danger"
1t is now a matter Of certainty that
the Christian Brothers, 50 thoroughly de
voted TO the education Of boys, and 30
very successful In the work wherever they
have their institutions Of learning, are to
open q select school in Memphis in q few
weeks.
A quartstte of colorsd diamonds were
marshaled before the Recorder yesterday
morning, who were said to be guilty OF
the grave offsnse Of swearing, dancing
and SIGH, at that odoriferous locality
known as Rotten row. Five dollars and
eostsi
The members Of the chsin-gang, who
had been snoozing on the soft side of pine
plsnks during the summer nights, were
supplied with blankets yesterday evening
when they retired to take q snooze It is
not comfortable to sleep under q Their
mometsr at 500 without blankets.
The criminal court will be in session
this morning. The case of Mitchell, the
confidence man, viii be tried. Those gen.
tlemen, whose names were published on
Sunday morning, as being on the list of
jurors, will please note this and be
in prompt attendance ct 10 O'Clock.
-'Psy as you 20" has been the basis of
many q fortune. Our carriers are anxious
that 9 few Of their patrons should thus
commence Al independence for them
selves, Twenty-Five cents q week for
seven such papers as are issued from the
APPEAL Office is 30 low q figure that sub
scribers should be glad TO meet the carrier
on his collecting tour.
Women have Just as much right out
st all hours Of the day or night as men,
whether alone or otherwise, If civillzs-
ton were as high SIS 1t Is thought to be by
the profoundly ignorant officials, the re
striction On the privileges of ladies would
be removed. A lady csnnot walk our
streets late st night without being sub
ject to suspicion, to annoyance, and to ar
rest sven.
"A large slice of the river bank dropped
in LAST night. A practical man, who was
standing on the earth at the time, and
only escaped by reason Of the gradual de-
cline of the earth, q that the piece
which was thus ruthlsssly torn from our
mother earth would, if properly Guilt
waited, have raised potatoes enough to
feed q fsmily-one day.
"A reminder to our country friends
will not come smiss. When you have a
q postOfice established in you neighbor-
hood, the more mail matter you can draw
20 it, the sooner you give it importance, |
and less frequent are the times yOU are
overlooked. So every man should sub
scribe for some good weekly paper. Try
it and you will find we ars correct.
At the last term OF the United States
Circuit Court q number of indictments
were found sgainst parties resident of
Obion county. Warrants were issued for
their arrest on the charge of being Ku-
Klux, and disturbing the negro populs-
ton of Obion, near Rselfoot Lake. This
morning q United States deputy marshal
arrived in the city, having in charge
Messrs. William Booth, John Lea, A. J.
Farmer, James Patterson snd Ben Wade,
who were arrested on such warrants.
The prisoners were committed TO Jail to
await bail, etc.
w are glad to know that very many
inquiries are being made as to when the
sale Of seats for Kings Rotations at the
Theater will commence. The coming of
King to Memphis is due to the enter
prise Of Mr. Tracey, to whom we are in
for what we know Of the illustri-
Gus George Francis Train. If he is only
half as successful with Mr.. King as he
with Train. the Thester will be filed
every night. We hope so, not only on
Mr.. Trscey's account, but on that Of Mr..
King, as well as in the interest Of smuse-
ments generally.
"A debating society Of young students
undertook, several evenings ago, to han
die this trite but pOnderous subject:
should the ladies' be allowed TO voter"
The debate waved hot, and youthful elo-
guence ran high for st least an hour, when
5 young debater rose, brushing back from
his forehead, like In orator, his dropping
-. - II - /
shouldn't our lovely females be allowed
vote; 1 ssk, didn't they contribute as
much as the men to populate the world9"
Yes, they did. This ought to be another
strong argument for Olive Logan.
"A salesman In a grocery store, whose
look like a couple Of inflated bal I
ooDs, asked 8 doctor, yesterday, what he
do to diminish The size Of his face. I
The doctor replied that be ought to quit {
he grocery business, as the odor which I
Bsues from the -four and hams and bacon
nd WhiSky is very injurious to a person I
Il his particular constitution. The 9
hrswd grocer took the hint immediately I
nd concluded to give up the vile practice !
4 imbibing the fiery liquid. Isn't it a Q
Wonder we have no Spontaneous combus- |
ions in some Of u round-bellied topers. l
The Nashville Banner has the fol- T
owing: "We understand nom a promi- !
L61k abbOIu6y knab b06 county OF DhYlQ~ Z
on having petitioned Judge A. o. p. 1
Jicholson Of the Supreme Court, he
yesterday that q writ of ~certiordTI
nd sbpeTsedeGs be issued to stay the V
Of Chancellor Esst's decree relating &
D the hnal disposal of the Nashville and z
northwestern railroad on. the 10Th inst. 5
action will bring the case before the &
upreme Court, where the constitutional S
" Of the act authorizing the sale Of the b
eliDouent railroads viii be taken into p
onaiderstion."
The Nashville Banner, of Thursday,
"One hundred and eleven thousand -
Ollsrs in State bonds were turned over =
Q. n. McGhee, treasurer Of the East n
University, by the Secretary Of II
tate, yesterday, that being the balance =
Z funds due the institution from the sale "
Agricultural College scrip issued by e.
be government to the State. Each war !.
ant represented one hundred and sixty n
cres, and the 1875 warrants originally is 2,
reached 800, 600 acres. The scrip was =
Did several years z by the Radical y
tate officials for t27l $50, considerably :,
Glow its value. This amount was in u
ssted In bonds amounting to $685., 466 as" :
That's the way the money went, pop "
pes the weasel"
Psdden was out the other
light. he had q gay time. He met q friend