Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-28
CITY PARAGRAPHS.

CITY PARAGRAPHS
Memphis wants 10000 bales Of cotton. for
which she win pay as high prices as any city
on the continent.
Somebody Will shoot a burglar to-nieht
Keep your powder dry. The city is said 10 be
funo Of burgfans and thieves
Henry jameson, who shot Whelan on the
Raleigh road Thursday, was arrested yester-
day and placed in the station house.
several hundred weight OF slaughtered
pigeons arrived In the city yesterday, Game
Is beginning to arrive in large quantities.
The gas lights last night were simply in
tolerable and intolerably simple. The things
needed cleansing out like the legislature.
1T is q curious but incontrovertible fact
that whena hirsute young gentleman pays his
addresses to a lady, he invariably becomes hir-
suter.
The gas last night was very weak until the
lamps at the theater were put out. Then the
pressure rose, and our lights burned very bril-
liantly.
-Colored Mary Taylor was arrested yesterday
for stealing a pair of shoes from a sister color
ed, thu providing for the winter. She is in
the station house.
1t is reported by the police that the gaInb-
ling business is in a consumPtiye condition In
Memphis al present. 1t would be a consola-
ton to see Il die OF atrophy.
81 was not aware that you knew him"
said smith 10 an Irish friend the other day.
know himl' replied the latter, Il knew him
= AAa AAA41A N&o n ny
The upper part of the levee viii be much
improved when the unslghtly heaps Of dirt
and rubbish shall have been moved. The
work is going calamity on now.
-Colored Lewis got seven years for robbing
Dufey's saloon on Adams street last winter.
Omcer Shelby has the merit Of f~erettlng out
Lewis a month after the robbery.
The criminal court is pushing through the
business with commendable energy. We shall
be in q condition 10 send 0 heavy delegation
to the State pe~nitentiary in a short time.
Robert Weaver, q '.yaller" boy Of sixteen
OF seventeen yeRrs, was convicted Of horse
stealing in the criminal court yesterday, and
sentenced 10 ten years in the State peniten-
iary.
The new bridge over the bayou Gayoso at
streets Is not Of much value owing to the alb
sence Of sidewalks In that vicinity, and the
sloppy condition of the streets. b.
The jury in the Malowney case spent all
yesterday In considering "the bearing on IT,
but could not argue. Att O'Clock they report
ed progress TO Judge Flippin, b was disatis-
ned and sent them back TO {. better.
"A young man with a badly broken nose,
complained 70 Justice Miller yesterday, thai
his " boss" in the pict~ure-peddling business
had made an assault onlhis face Monday last.
He claimed that punishment was due for that
sanguinary assault.
-"Ther are two ways Of doing it." said Pat
10 himself, as he stood musing and waiting for
sjOb on the street corner. "n save 5000, J
must lay up 500 q year for twenty years, or
can put away $40 a year for two hundred years.
Now, which way viii 1 do 1T"
The station house last night was in better
demand than for four weeks previously A
dozen or 50 were accommodated with foncible
lodgings. There were two naughty girls locked
M about nine O'Clock, for stealing. The docket
called il robbery" They went through a man
to the extent of forty dollars, on Poplar street.
The "crowd" NJ at the theater last night has
never been exceeded in number but once be-
fore, that we remember Of. II was an ovstion
TO a meritOrious snd favoIite actress, who has
everything to lose by q failure TO study for the
best effects, as they are understood by Gull
tured people.
We have been missing many of our coun-
try exchanges since the Chicago fire. The
reason is, those exchanges got their insides OF
outsides made up in Chicago. In other words,
they dealt with paper merchants in that city,
and those merchants sent their paper in week
ly installments with one side already printed.
The big fire deranged things, Of course, and
missing,
The olored White who was arrested for
attempting TO steal a hat from the store of
Francisco a W'ggin, on Thursday, confessed
Yesterday to seventeen similar thefts, perpe-
trated recently upon the same parties, and
gave the names Of those TO whom he sold the
hats for small sums. He said he sold two TO q
policeman. Mr.. Wigg n took Shelby around
10 see what became OF hats.
"A smart negro was put in the lower station
house yesterday for swindling country Afri-
cans His Way OF doing II was by charging
them 50 cents for the privilege OF going through
the city. He located himself at certain poiUts
upon the roads leading citywards, and when
he saw those approach from the country whom
his physiolOgieu knowledge led him TO think
were 'gullable,' he went for them IN the way
above stated. He was caught at the business,
and will be punished by the recorder for
swtndltng.
Mr.. c. D. Hess, director Of the Oates comic
opera troupe, writes us, in answer TO the re-
quest of correspondent for 9 benefit for the
suffering artists and GrtfSks in Chicago, that
when in St Louis, and while the IRE was
raging, this troupe gave a full benefit for all
fha EhAronn nannla aud aanf HwwO nawrn hz-au
Of clothes TO their brethren in the then burn
ing city. Surely this Is of the charity that
covers a multitude OF sins. The Oates troupe
have certainly done their duty. More than
that cannot be expected.
Yesterday evening a man was turned out
OF q Poplar street car for using gross language
was riding Ia the car at the time cIled the at
tention Of the driver TO the misconduct and
had it stopped. Owing TO the peculiar way in
which tbs street cars are operated, II is almost
impossible for the driver 20 know when any
one may be offending against propriety and
decency unless some gentleman, as in this
case, interests himself in behalf OF morality.
Thousands OF planters in the South are IN
the habit OF throwing away large quantities OF
cotton seed, Of which they cannot dispose, and
have themselves, apparently, no use and then
buy corn from st. Louis to feed their mules on.
To these It viii be welcome news 10 learn that
a machine has been invented, and is now on
exhibition at the great fair Of the American
Institute, IN New York, for utilizing cotton
seed. 1t cracks the kernel and separates the
meat, which can be used for oil or feeding pur-
pos S. Cot On-seed meal is now fed out a good
deal in the north. and is quoted in New York
at 81 50 per bushel. The inventor and patentee
Oft this machine is Mr.. David Kahnweiler, of
New York.
Tell Us not, in idle Jingle, marriage Is an
empty dream - for the girl is dead that's sin
gle, and things are not what they seem. Life
Is real, life is earnest, single blessedness a nh
man thou art, 10 man returneth,D has been
spoken Of the rib Not enjoyment and not
sOrrow is our destined end or way, but 10 act
that each tomorrow finds us nearer marriage
day. Life is long, and youth is fleeing, and
our hearts, though light and gay, still like
pleasant drums are beating wedding marches
all the day. In the worlds broad fields of
battle, in the bivouac oflife, be not like dumb,
driven cattle-be a heroine-a wife! Trust no
future, howe'er pleasant; let the dead past
bury It's dead act-act in the living present,
hoping for a spouse ahead. Lives OF married
folks remind US eean live our lives as well,
and, departing, leave behind us such exam
piles as will tell such examples that an
other, wasting time in idle sport, a forlorn, I'M
married brother seeing, shan take heart and
court Let us, then, be up and doing, with q
heart on triumph set; shll contriying, stin
pursuing, and each one a husband get.
"A coin, or piece of circular copper, was
brought TO our office yesterday by a gentleman
Fort Pickering, and was thought to have been
lost there by one of the primitive Indisns. II
was submitted 10 the scrutiny Of several sa- |
little, that one side OF Il had an impress Of
W~ashingion's face, surrounded by the inscrip-
III 0CANAuA ha1ullSulns Ou Nut 0AAtT /
side there was a s~pread-eagle, grasping, In thai
unnatural way with which we are all &C
q~uainted, two punches OF arrows. This was
surrounded by a Latin inscription, which runs
thus: an initiate JortnudO." Under the eagle
there was a word in very small letters. upOn /
which thesavans could not agree: so the Curl /
osity had TO be sent 10 q jeweler. who submit
ted II TO the Investigation Of q sharp, practiced
eye, aided BY a microscope. The jeweier de-
that the word was German, and this Is Il
u: "Sp eiuunEe which, being Interpreted, /
means " playing mark" In other words, Ii
was nothing but q check" and iuay have /
done duty In the BowerY or on Jefferson street.
GAS Frrrrra. slb Saoond straa4