Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-17

p or tomorrow, and there are only 1890 feel
. Of piling unfinished. Two p~ile-drivers are
at work on this space, and the whole will
be completed at once, with the bridge
across White river.
. Mr.. Jack is still deIightiug large
crowds by his rendition Of the famous
"Fst jack Of Shakespeare. The New
Memphis is filed every night, and BY en-
= thusisstic audiences. This being fashion
: able as well as benefit night, Of course
there viii be q perfect jam of beaux and
{ bellies.
p Rev. Albert Shotwef assunnes the
editorial management Of the R~rsSbVterI1u
of this city. His sslutatOry is well writ
: ten, q full Of Christian grace and char
ity. The Presbyterian is a SUNNI sheet.
and VIII illumine many q hresids with
bright rays Ofught andhOpe that descend
from above.
"A bright and energetic young msn by
the name Of S5einkuu was arrested BY
officer Brown on the bridge go
ing over the Bayou, Chelsea, on Third
street. Stsinkuu had been walIopinE
a pair of high-mettled steeds yOked TO Il
furniture wagon, and they made such
running through the delightful suburb Of
Chelsea as would have filed John
Gilpin,s horse with envy. SteinkulIhad
liquor in him.
The wife Of a jswslry peddler, who
occupies q room on Jefferson, between
Second and Third streets, was drugged
Wednesday night, and robbed of SO.
The little man, her husband. had gone
out to the theatre and she went to bed.
but expecting him back when ~sheshould
be asleep, she left the door unbolted.
Thieves went in, applied ChIOrof0rm,
turned her pockets inside out, and.
finding q wallet, they went through
it 70 the tune Of $40. When
the husband came home he found
her lying on the door ia an insensibls
stste. She could tell nothing about it.
his box Of JeWelry, der1ngers and other
v~aluabl6s were untouched.
A correspondent, otherwise a man oil
sense, lays down In a long letter an elab-
crate system to sUpplsnt iuries. In all
cases OF murder, % he says, let q commit
tee try the culprit within three DAYS after
the deed, if arrested. The committee TO 4
be elected in the county and consist of
hvo. Let them take down all the evidence
aud put 10 In the papers. and within one I.
week after the trial let the people decide
by popular vote whether the person &C
cused Is guilty or not, This would be
pubic justice, and not Justice according to l
lClJ. A little thinking will show 10 TO be
the cheapest mode. The common law of
Our fathers was made for them. not for MS. 4
Why not stick to the solid wheels Of their
days and continue 20 drag the fork Of a
tree over the ground by a horses tail and
cali 10 plOWing2 Is not trial by Jury about
played 0ut2 We have suppIanted the
d courier and post horse by railroad and
telegraph; could We not make an improve
men on the jury system" These be
mighty thoughts.
u. NJ. H0lmes, secretary Of the Intsrns-
UOn8l Labor agency at Birmingham. Eng
land, writes 20 the London Morning Mems.
that a line Of twenty steamers viii ply
between Liverpool and Norfolk and Bal
tlmOre, and that railroad companies as
far west from Norfolk as Tennessee have
agreed 70 take emigrauts free Of charge;
that through rates Of freight charges nave
been liked, and the artisans and farmers
Of England ar5 advised to secure homes in
the delightful country along the railroads
designated It occurs to us that it would
be WELT draw these immigrants further
west, and that through trains and tariffs
% the Mississippi from Norfolk should be
put ia operation. In other words. there
should be q consolidation 0fraily-ays from
Memphis to Norfolk, sud then the pro-
ducts OF European industry might be sold
here as Cheaply as elsewhere in the
United States. and the whole trade Of the
southern Valley of the Mississippi would
be drawn hitler bg an Irresistible force.
Then, a Memphis and Shreveport line of
packets would be ss profitable as the
Arkansas Packet Company, which has
proved 80 advantageous 70 Memphis.
We have evils at the theater quite as
intolerabls as the uumberlsss legs that
wearied patience and Disguised taste.
are other women not Hamelsss- /
the ~g8rrulOus feminine dramatic critics Of
summers, more or less, vOluble s
creatures, who keep up an audible criti- (
cism on the performance. Is there Rnv- {
thing more disgusting 10 one who feels {
in the play than 20 hear. every q
minute, ordinations Of 90, amt she hOr-
"HOW absurd" at is nothing like
we saw in New York. is iJ2' com
1ined with suppressed snicksring2 Some
young folks think they are astonishing
he natives with this sort OF thing, and are q
quite lost 10 the trOWus OF those near !
hem, and TO the fact that they are a nui- r
to the people who know how to be-
themselves. Then Jhsre are other
l~uisances az the thsater. The loving pair p
who are billing Hnd cooling. the young 4
nan pinching the girls cheek and she !
inlckerlng. b Wheezy old gentleman =
"ao blows ms nose very loud, and many 4
)Lhsrsl worst among them are the peO- a
PIE who i've IN cheap boarding houses. !,
always rush out before the close of A
ne performance for fear they may be I
.ocked out. 9
"A correspondent writes TO say that q
II. Cross" in q letter written from tbis
.ty 70 the Banner OfUs Church, publisbed
h Atlanta Ca, misrepresents the origin
1i 81. Lazarus Church as a colony" from +
Calvary, he says, snd the people OF
Memphis so understand 30. that it had ifs
origin ia the desire Of q great many Epis- OF
,0palians who wished to erect a perpetns1 y
monument TO the memory Of the dead al 81
he Confederate armies, and they were not
It the tlms connected with Calvary, and
Of them bad never been. a fsw
from the latter church did. after
ts organization associate themselves with
5t. Lazarus, and still remain in that Dsr- q
sh. Our correspondent also Objects Ia u
Cross statement that zeal, enterprise 81
md Hberanty are sadly wanting among I
he Episcopal people Of Memphis, and be U
Instances recentslarge collections Of one
lind and another to disprOve it. We have 2
to say In the matter beyond this, Z
no class OF U people have as yet 3
Efficiently recovered from the effects Of I
be war to embark in church building or q
e-xtraneOus enterprises calculated TO y
their private capital or interfere u
With their exertions in business, g
That Memphis shows as great, If not 81
rsatsr prosperity than any city in the
outbefn States is well known to every q
erson who has closely observed the cur q
snt Of events inths Confederate States" q
.Dee the memorable day when the i'm g
Lee sat under that apple tree in %
.ppomattOE county, Virginia, in April, q
500, ami negotiated with aeneral Grant ="
srms OF surrender, which forever furled "a
be banner Of the "LOst Cause" and sent ID
ack hone 30 many good and true men 81
'ho q with eoLnmendable zeal assist "
q in rebuilding abe United States and 10
lacinE the government on that perna- u
balis from which we trust It vii la
ever be again shaken. Since the war on
Lemph5s bias received more cotton. sold 81
Iore merchandise, h~Quidated more old 81
sbts. paid more taxes and shown q eX
degree Of prosperity than any
~ in The South, according TO p0puls-
and but few Ia the North have on
lualsd her. Our banks are 10
/ q most prosperous and sound ELI
Dndition, the cha6 and weak e hav-
lg long ago gone the way all such I'M
Institutions should 20; we can DoW
lDEratt4ate ourselves On being clear Of e
q zuch Our IRE and marine insurance W
es have been most admirably
lanageA, paid losses promptly and good
.vidends 10 stockholders. fOl
We hsve been led into these reflections Or
2 having placed on our table the state les