Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-15
Local PARAGRAPHS.

T police were paid yesterday, sure.
they were MI smoking cigars last night.
Mrs Carter is at last In q fair way Of going
into the asylum. She is now q confirmed
Iunauc.
"A railroad trip TO New Orleans can now be
made IN twenty-one hours via the Mississippi
and tennessee road.
John Turner was sent to jail by the re-
corder yesterday for stealing conee ana other
raluables on a steamboat John Turner Is
colored.
The Mary F. Forsyth is lying st our wharf,
owing TO a strike among the hands, who want
digger wages. She IS from Orleans, bound TO
P~ittsburg.
Fanny Smith, 8 lady Of dubious habits, is
In the -stationhouse Cd a charge OF 70 hing q
man Of some money at = moment when he
had left himself u~nguRrded.
1t Is said that sthe newspaper files Of Chi
cago and the army records OF secret service
were all burned in the great IRE" Well, there
IS a great lot Of criminal history destroyed.
A coiored drayman, who was hauling cot
ton 70 the Ohio depot yesterday, got booty
and cut his mule so viciously, that he was
arrested and placed in the by
order Of his employer.
Mr.. Mullins, the printer b was stabbed
ten days ago at the corner of Main and Union
took a violent At Of coughing yesterday, which
opened his wound afresh, so that the memoir
rhage was copious.
Another squad Of negroes were up before
the United States commissioner In the clerk
once, Waldran block, yesterday, wanting pay.
They ran away from a boat as she was aDoul
TO land al the wharf, though they had con
tracted in 81. Louis TO make the trip 10 New
Orleans. They wanted money.
The dissolution Of the partnership hereto
fore existing between Messrs. Meyer & Ded'
lick, attorneys a d United states claim agents
in this city, is published IN anolheT column
ures. and that olOnel Meyers continues tht
business as before. Since We have always
found him TO be q man worthy OF puonc con
ddence, We shall Be glad TO see him prosper.
Last night, at a very late hour, a mar
came in from the country to inform the polic'
mai a murder had taken place in the wood
tx miles north Of the city. Two men had az
lacked the wood-chopper, who defended him
elf with his axe as well as he could, but wa
ansIly overpowered, his assailants using cord
wood. They beat him abous the head and
shouIders until they had him reduced TO {
pulp. Two police went out on horseback, bu'
had not returned up TO two O'Clock. q
Col Ed. W. Munford Will deliver his lee
ture or Albert Sidney al the Memphis
civ Hail tonight. He is well fitted to speal
In n worthy style Of the great General, having
been on HIS staff from the beginni g Of TIT
war TIL his death. Col. Munford is a graceful
speaker, as well as q ripe scholar and VII
handle the subject creditably. The lecture
VIII deserve, and we hope it Will receive, {
large and apprecistive audience.
Joe Danfort was arrested yesterday by ON
Ger Butler on suspicion Of having sho'
Holmes Sunday night. He was locked in th'
sfafionhouse principally because he has a Gu
over his eve which he got in a fuss he hac
sunday evening with a boiler-maker, whS
works on the ievee. Riley, h keeps thu
saloon at which the shooting took place, wen
10 the stationhouse yesterday TO see Danfort
and, having inspected MIN Closely sald al
was not the man.
Bob Davis colored, Is in trcuole at tbs
loss or his smily, who I'D to Arkansas with
,no'he- man after Twelve years Of married
,ont. Mt with Robert. Mister Davis would beal
he loss Of Emily with stole p ,ilosopby hsc
4he not thouRht a. 70 raise up the brick T n
he hearth and take away tour bu dred and
tgenty-dYs peices OF silver which heTsel
nj Bob hRI been RcCunulatipg througt
many weary years. B b said most OF them
we're quarters D halt dollars, but there wa
vas. BE consulted several Justices sb put 1t
out they al refused 10 send q constable into
he swRmps 70 Hmm M the runaway
There is a MANN Memphis advertises thai
he never adverttses.
-Waggener, at SIG Main street, as a result o.
his extensive advertising In the APPEAL, ha'
taken the lead in the merchant tailoring bust
ness in Memphis. He is doing what is called
q smashing business" He has increased int
number Of his employees, and occupies ever
square inch Of room in his elegant s~torehous'
with workmen who cannot be surpassed fol
taste and skill by any Others In the Unitec
states. But Waggener is not satisfied witt
his success. Like an energetic, go-aheec
merchant, he wants all the business he car
get. He can do q million dollars worth If h'
gets II. He believes in growing, ana has mao'
provision for his growth as the city grows
He has all styles Of cloths, over
coatings, velvets and ~vestings, which he make
up in the latest style and at prices that arr
less than those Of New York for the same clas
OF work. Call and see him about 1t, at 81
Main street.
"A plump young man, who had got hi
months pay on Monday, went ION a tare
and enjoyed the animal part Of his compost
ton hugely. He hanled up at the corner o
Fourth and Jefferson, the most odoriferous 10
cality In the city, and tumbling into q con
genial shanty, made acquaintance with
number Of oolored girls, whom he treated 4
wine. He imagined himself TO be Mark An
tony, and the largest Of the wenches though
she was Cleopatra. She quoted from Tenny
son
I'VE rode sublime on fortunes neck
We sat as god by god,
The NLus would have risen al our beck,
And flooded at our o
When his dream Of duSky maidens was owe
he found himself on Jefferson street In tn,
dark, with the bleak winds whistling abou
his cans, and several black devils around hin
stealing his clothing. When he was stripped
he went 10 the and Issued an q
der for the arrest Of all parties concerned. 1t
lost thirty dollars in money, his coat hal
vest and boots. The recorder will go into tn
merits OF the case this morning.