Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-29
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Picnic 80 james Park today.
-Pisnlgs at Humboldt and James
Parks JD-UOrroW,
The high school on Adams street VIII
Ia under examination to-day.
Oar special from Little Rock gives 2
thrilling account OF the great storm that
devastated Hot Springs Saturday night.
Thu sale Of seats for Horace Greeley's
lecture wiLl commence at the Memphis
thsatCr next Thursday morning, une ],
90 g o'clock. See advertisement.
Met Eorsland was taken TO the lower
ststisn- house yesterday afternoon for hit
ting a fellow mortal in the mouth with a
ClsaTer.
We SIRE indebted 90 S. A. Wells, news
man on the Little Rock road, for a copy OF
the Little Rock Gazette of yesterday,
brought here in ten hours after pubica
sion.
There win be q grand time st James
Park tomorrow, the occasion OF st.
Brdgsfs p.eniC. The popular Rmus6-
msqtz OF Ifs.sud and America VIII be in
ION blast. Go there.
Mrs.. Margaret D0nels0n, the widow Of
the late General ID. S. DouelsOn, died at
the residence Of her s~on-in-law, D.J. Dis
mukss, IN Sumner county, May 10Th, OF
disease Of the heart.
The heavy shower, together with the
threatening appearance Of the weather
about church time last evening, bad the
effect OF leaving the churches with q great
number Of empty benches.
As we 20 TO press word comes that
there was 8 police repor5oral scutte at
the Adams street station house at y
O'Clock D 81 night. There was not much
daInEEe done, as far as We could learn.
DIR. EIiish Thompson, one oftho oldest
HanaH#H#nE nhnarHnamr nn Williamson
county died al his residence near ThOmp-
sons Station. on the Nashville and De-
gatUr railroad, on thB l25h, aged about
siLrv-iL years.
Colonel Henry Bradford, aged ninety
i've wears. died at his residence in Polk
county on the 10Th @ May. He repre-
scented Jefferson county ia the Legislature
from 1911 t1 1921, and was an elector for
james Madison.
Paul Bsgley Cor seven years a mis-
Hl0uary ia China, japan, etc, viii deliver
a lecture in Linden street Christian
Church, this Monday evening, al eight
O'Clock. Babject- Manners, customs,
religion, habits and peculiarities Of the
Chinese" Admission free.
Editors Appca-Tbe public are Gu
nous 70 know hat wretch il was that
accepted the hospitality Of the Dick Ma
son. and then came away with the spoons
in bis pocket. We did not know that
there was q Ben Butler in Shelby county.
NC"
"A Washington telegram Of the 25th
inst. states that the POstOfhcs Department,
on Senator Ksll0Rg's application, decided
20 increase the salaries OF the postal car
Hers az New Orleans after July lst, so
Der month. A similar increase in the sala-
riee Of the carriers here would be accepta-
bic and isjEstly deserved.
Mics Matte Crews school, on Court
street, wiz have an exhibition IN the
school room this evening. Owing 70 the
hurry Of getting through on the day OF
examination, the pupils d their admir-
ers were not baif satisfied. The exhibit
oiti0n this evening viii be given in con-
sequence,
The West Tennessee Wing says, " We
receive promptly, al I O'Clock pm. each
dsyi the Nashville papers Ofthe same day
Nashville is over one hundred and MY
miles py rail from Jackson. We receive
pyLne same mail our Memphis exchanges /
OF me uay baf1rs. Memphis is not over
one hundred mi o. from Jackson. Why
Pc ms lhuslyt" Can't the excellent Mem
PMS postmaster remedy this wrong3
several persona called upon US yes
Lerday TO complain OF a paragraph that 1
appeared 10 a morning paper Saturday.
which they claim dOes Injustice III sCDiet
neigbbOrhood-MCCsn sf-egf eCTtL ~ ~
9ayOsO House. The paraErsph rsfsrrsd -
sayz that the street named Ia Ne scero
Of nightly brOilz, rows and a.
turhanc6s, which is not tme -
ADDS, $50 all these d-iatuT6src"
the police appear TO be s~tranEera.0 Tbs
police think that this assertion is nm
csIied-for, sud sllHgs that, oging 10 their
ed5rts. crime has been made scarce In Tie
CITY. and there are fewer causes for COM
plant now than ever before.
Some OF our ecolesisstics win reoog-
Mae the delicate sarcasm contained In the |
following. which was translated by q
friend Cfours from an old manuscript in
the British Museums 'Ihs FIRST duty OF
apriest De- 20 live on nothing, Ee paTtio-
ulsrly careful, theref0rai % give bin
nothing II 4. be necessary for the sake
Of display 90 put somcthing IN the hat,
see that yOu nave 3 copper about you.
When you give silver, be sure 70 let ali
see ft-the eject win be edifying 1t IL
biahIv dangerous for he clergy 20 become
foo nehs ID is had for lay people; IL must,
therefore. be the ruin Of thec clergy. uyou
Eoge vour priest, keep him poor. Blessed
ara the POOR ia spirit If he shows you
f5sf bs j. Obliged TO spend 8 hundred
nonDds and only gets thirty shut your
Ferr How can he spend g hundred
ort of thirty9 If he says he Is
sebt. tell him he had no
100 - dof a. II is sinful % 20 into debt