Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-05
CITY PARAGRAPHS.

The motion for a new trial in the
Graves and POston casei is again postponed
& to next Saturday.
There were ten butchers fined by the
Recorder yesterday for doing business
without license.
The D~OHovsn-Dean trial, involving
100000, has been change d to the United
States Circuit Court,
The blind staggsrs is common among
5 horses out In Madison county. The same
disorder affects some very virtuous people
in this gOOdly city.
The Chamber Of Commerce meets
Monday st 3 pm, to devise a plan for
sustaining the Liverpool and Norfolk
B Allan Line Of steamers. The Committee
on Arkansas and Red River Packet Lines
are deeply interested in this matter, with
all Our people.
The SOdality Silver Band of Memphis
gave, last week, sixty dollars toward re-
leving the suffering French. The Sodsl-
ity boys have always been held in high
esteem by our citizens, but in this they
have rendered themselves the pride Of
Memphis. May they live dong, to accom-
phsh many such acts in honor Of the So
daily.
Sam. Jones, the member Ofths House
from this county, has gathered $500 pounds
of seed cotton from each Of seven acres.
The ground had once been used as a mar
ket garden. He viii Ego for" three bales
per acre this year, the land stimulated by
guanO and the owner by filthy lucre-the
$1,000 premium offered by the bhelDy
County Agricultural Association. He is
a sensible, practical man.
As announced in the proper place, DR..
S. H. Ford viii deliver a discourse this
morning on the destiny of children who
die in infancy and yOUth-On their cOndi-
tiOn and employment in the spirit world.
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many a matrOn viii be delighted by his
expOsitiOns Of vague ~fancies, which, as
embodied in his thoughts, become a prac-
tical system of profound philosophy,
Rev. DR.. Walk viii deliver a sermon
this evening. in which a means of praeti-
cal, social and industrial regeneration of
the unemployed and unfortunate women
sud youths of the city viii be considered.
He would not inveigh against asYlums.
p~oOr-hOuses and homes of idlensss so
much as insist upon the creation by the
virtuOus, generous and good Of an indus
trial home for the pOverty-stricken. Let
Madison street attend.
John Duggan, a youth Of sixteen or
seventeen, who lived at the corner of
Market and Front streets, was drowned
Wednesday evening at the foot of Elk
change street. The youth was engaged
in catching drift wood, aud by its sale
supported a widowed mother, He wore
a checked linsey shirt and gray pants,
His hair is black and complexion dark.
This notice is given partly because of the
mothers anxiety 10 recover the body Of
her much-lOved son.
The Courthouse Building OF Buying
Committee of the County Court held a
] prOtraCued session Yesterday. After much
learned discussion, involving the COusid-
Grafton of all known systems of architec-
ture, as illustrated in the venerable pile
on Shelby street, in the more tasteful
Waldran Block, and then taking q birds
eye view of the Orera house, of the rock
cry with suicidal windows. on Jefferson
street.-The Commission rested from its
labOrsr and adjourned Ove for two weeks.
There had been so much heavy blowing
by outsiders that a breathing spell was
needfuL
Five un-WOrthies were placed in dur
auce vile by the Recorder yesterday, for
alleged cotton stealing. They engaged in
hooking a bale Of cotton from the steamer
Undine Officer Mcbride arrested them,
%8eTiGtiDl, at five O'Clock yesterday morn
ing, and landed them safe in the Adams
street statiOn-hOuse. The Recorder re-
quired a o of $4,000, which they could
not give, They are now in Jail. They
are a mixed crowd of African, American
and Irish,
The committees representing the
DoAuIf QUITS VI 4lhADA dlA DlelDh lELl ]
q long session yesterday, devoted to the
consideration Of the affairs OF the Missis-
sippi River railway. Committees
were appointed to investigate the
books and counts Of the Com
pany, and instructed to send for per-
SONS and papers. The members of the
courts Brs satisfied that the present Board
Of Directors will manage honestly and
wisely the affairs of the road, and believe
that IL will be speedily built. They find
ITS present condition better than one
would infer from vague rumOrs ahOat.
The young ladies will be delighted to
ind that there is an increased animation
In matrimonial circles. The premature APP
prOach OF summer, with its attendant do
nestle broils, fails to terrify. The fol-
lowing yoked themselves to each other
last week: J. J. GOvsn and Miss Bette
Ford; Morris Bloomfield and Miss Caro-
line Meyer; j. A. g. Windrem and Miss
Minnie ~Slaughuessys + Fl Skipwith and
Miss Kate H. Bunch; Jesse l.. Bland and
Miss Sal lie A. Tate; J.. ". Moore and
Mrs. Dora Searcy; Max, Graf and Miss
Mary Hurst; Fred Kellermsn and Miss
Mary Larger.
We make room for the following
Correction and viii say that less than
a captains pay will not respectfully sup
port a signal officer here:
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 4, 1871.
Editors Daily appeal: To preserve my
self from sailing under false cOlOrs, ]
would respectfully urge you to change
oDe word in yesterdays notice of the sig
nal station and observer at this
place. Ny SsrgeInfS papers viii
not warrant the magnificent So
briQuet of " Captain" I might sug-
gesJ that a wise economy of the public
money has induced the Chief Signal OIL
Ger to uniformly employ, as observers,
young men who flourish on considerably
less than a captains salary,
Whatever respect would have accrued
to Captain" Brown, I shall hope to retain
as Sergeant by a prompt, accurate and,
with added experience, intelligent per
formance Of my duties as observer. I am.
respectfully,
THOMAS J. BROWN,
Observer, Signal Service, u. S. A.
A meeting was held In this city, on
yesterday, for the purpose Of taking steps
to Organize a farmers Club. H.. ID.
GOOdwyn, Esq, was called to the chair, ]
Geo. W. Gift sCted as Secretary. The S
meeting elected the following officers: {
A. B. Haynes, President, Cham i
berlsyne Jones, W, B. Williamson, +. c.
Stephenson, n. +. Lsmaster, Robert EOk- j
lin and DR.. NJ. ". Phillips, Vice Presi- :
Rams, Treasurer, Executive COMMITTEES: a
RaynOr, II. ID. Greer, R.. d Goodwin, o
@. Perkins, y. Csnada and Or. James e
Cory. The meeting adjourned to next 2
Saturday, at IL O'Clock, when the officers
COMMITTEES are requested to attend -
promptly, at the Office of the Practical r
Farmer, $40 Main street. The HOrticul-
.uraI and Pathological societies will then
be organized.
Mr.. G.. G. NOrvsll, financial editor Of
he New York Times, has been appointed
BY the Secretary of the Treasury as agent q
.Or the advertising connected with the =
negotiation Of the new United States y
The New York Bulletin, the great -
financial authority, says of this : It is but "
usti alike 70 the Secretary and to Mr..
Norvell, 20 say that a better selection
Gould not have been made Apart from "
NOrvells familiarity with the BUSH
and the conductors of the press.
which peculiarly qualify him for the
iuties, he has distinguished himself per
laps, beyond every other editor I'M the
country by his faithful . of the of
Government credit and his iudiciOus M
.Ounsels on the conduct Of the finances. an
The compliment paid to Mr.. NorveI1 az
OuId not hsve been better deserved. Mr. IA
JOrvsu is d Tenuessesan. we believe. AZ
Of q numerous and highly respectable al
amily Of middle Tennessee. II we mis- eli
axe not, he has relatives in Memphis.
Our devil viii lever 90 down 70 OBJ
.Ui0n. "Cause for Why" to use his own CI
snguage, she has already got there" He
,rgets to wash his face, to comb his .
addv hair and which end he walks on. -
Le down Main street from the tel m
graph Office, about two O'Clock each
forming. like a Whirligig, with such We
Jcitv that bis bright heed describes a
.role OF flame. He was arrested last az