Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-16
CITY PARAGRAPHS,

: crowd on board to share the delights o
i coming gala days In New Orleans.
We call the attention Of lawyers {,
the card Of Msssrs, Paul & Tsvel, o
Nashville, which appears on b frs
D page.
1t was stated last evening that anothe.
e murder was committed yesterday &C thu
famous Pleasure Garden" It must b.
/ a delightful place to die in.
Jay Cooke has endowed q professor
ship in Gambler College. This institution.
we suppose, will have an aviary full o.
3 little Jays, Jay is said 10 be q bird.
The earthquake at Cairo, a few days
ago, was supposed by some to have been
caused by the presence Of a larger catfish
than usual in the lagOons Of the city.
The crop of an acre OF ice is 1000 tons.
It takes ten acres, we think, to run our
saloons. Duncan McLean's Bay Horse
. hiss skates. lives on the ice In summer
and smokes with hot punches like Nesu-
vius in winter. Go and see the animal.
The crop Of popcorn, Ward & Co. tell
Us, will be heavy this year. We saw a
man pop another's cOrus, at the Peabody,
last night, and he was blown up" about
il. We don't know why Wards custom
ers cultivate the explosive crop.
The iron steamer, John 7. Moore,
Captain Boardmsn, is at the wharf. Cap
tain Adams talks Of adding n or two
iron steamers 70 his packet lines. The
Moore is lighted by gas and heated by
steam, is lOW-pressure, and her hull is
divided int water-tight compartments,
Our special from Jackson, Miss,
shows that President Wicks wouldn't
have any ~piesnninies in his'n. The col
Ored laWgiyers at Jackson insist that ne
grOes with their wives and children must
have access to ladies' cars, hotels, and
steamboat cabins. The fnali issue is max
ing up.
III q would know the relative ex-
tent of the circulation Of the city papers,
let him walk along any street before
breakfast and count the papers left at
dOOrways. A greater number Of copies Of
the APPEAL, DR.. /. states, are to be seen
| along Main street than Of all other papers
published in Memphis.
james II. Shepherd committed suicide
Saturday morning, in st. Joseph HOspi-
tai, Fit. Wayne, Ind, by cutting his throat
from ear to ear with a razor, while in de-
lirium tremsns. He had been a book
keeper for Hugh Mckee & Co., railroad
contractors, for the past three years, and
leaves a wife and child living az Mound
City, Arkansas,
"A shyster says that he don't know
why be should contribute to the fancy
fund. Neither do we. Certainly, it is not
because fancy adorned the literature of q |
profession which q shyster degrades and
dishOnOrs. Why do the our curse the
country and the bar by suffering the &C
cessiOn Of fools and dolts 70 the numbers
Of the professiOn7
is Colorado a Paradise? An advertise
ment for q clerk inserted one time in the
APPEAL has drawn fOrty-three answers,
which await the anxious merchant.
When youths in cities seek employment
with such avidity, IL is high time that
there were more farmers and fewer
clerks. Then, If they don't like q farmers
life in this genial climate, let the forty
two not wanted 20 to Colorado. There
they must work; here, among friends,
they may live in idleness. Colorado Is a
good country.
Might before last about nine o'clock
Jim Taylor was assailed, beaten and cut
in several places about the head and
neck by Mike Taylor and Jim Fssly, on
Clay street, below South. When the two
last named were hurrying away from the
house, they encountered two young men
who had bsen distributing valentines in
the n~eigbbOrhOOd. The two youths were
going tO.the relief Of Taylor, but pistols
and knives brandished in their faces pre-
vented their interference. There were
no arrests.
The necessity for the establishment ,
Of a line Of packets to Shreveport has been .
shown during the long suspension Of
river intercourse with st. Louis. The !
Dro6tRbleness Of such a line is shown by ;
success Of the Arkansas Packet Com :
Dsuy, whose books show q profit Of more :
han 100000 in three years; and the adj =
7antages TO Memphis are illustrated by :
he extension OF the City's trade in gro :
'eriss and dry goods along he rivers of +
Arkansas, and in the vast augmentation =
# cotton receipts from the ssme sources
NJ due to the Arkansas Packet Company. \
-IfG rant gets San Domingo they'll have ii
'reedmen's Bureaus, and Ku-KluXes, y
nd Cuba, and our Cuba, and the hypO- b
case, and shysters. to organize o
uries and bogus bail bonds, and india y
ubber habeas corpus with twenty strings &
o IL, and all the blessings of mixed negro I
nd white civilizations. If the Tsnnessee a
,e lost, &c is because Providence would y
impose intOlerable woes upon San d
Domingo. Il has borne enough from ne II
mastery, without the superimpOsitiOn I
+ the curse Of white RadicHlism in gov Il
rnmsnt. o
The marriage ceremonies Of Isaac SAT o
srsns and Miss Jenny Pickett we're wit z
essed yesterday morning at Calvary y
by g large COnCOurse Of the wealth 9
nd fashion Of the city, The fair bride q
nd her attendants were g~OrgeOBsly ap- a
areled, n Mr.. Satiarans WAS surely II
lest, as he deserves, in winning the hand q
I'D heart Of n Of the fRirest daughters =
{ Tennessee. Alter the ceremonies 80 n
be church, the friends Of the family en- o.
Dyed q rich collation. at the residence of ls
Pickett. Wine was preached tina b
-Rs deposited In the cellsr on the day Of d
he brides birth. The bridal tour follows, o.
nd il is only unfortunate that Paris has III
,st q share Of its attractiveness. 81
lively washwomsn, who frequents -
he GayOsO House, was accused last =
light OF rObbing q customer of his entire =.
ardrObe. It seems that he undressed y.
.ms6lf and designated the pile Of W
which the woman was y.
take away. She took everything, n'
stuck his sad face out OF his ~
)or, and beloved for help. The police uz
me with an army Of bOsrders, big and ~
tie, and the sad story was reciBed 20 the y
IXiOus mob In broken accents. The ~
was still being explored through tL
! its endless cellars, garrets and stair y
last night at ten O'Clock, but the ~
was non est -
1t Is alleged that the two men who en- on
red, in order to rob, the house OF S.. P. IN
at Green Bottom, not far from ~
irtlett station, are part of the gang Of al.
s~coundrels who have made Cuba IN
"A the DEVILS Elbow infamous for some ID.
ne past. There viii be IN end Of these FOR
and il may come very suddenly. 81
It the time Is not yet. Farmers who ae
sh to sell their property in ueighb0r- foy
infested by these murderers should wi
patient. There is no need for those MS
which some of them c0ntem- SUI
ate. The two men who asssiled Mr.. IN
eROry had heard him say that he had q
IN Of money at his house. They are
pursued, and viii probably be If
thi
The Ripley Advertiser contains q par act
raph stating that "the narrow guage thu
fever has reached Tennessee. The the
has been discussing IL for q year rh'
st, and, we believe, was the first paper
the United States 10 take Il up" The
first proposed 20 construct a mar ~
y guage road to Holly Springs and sub -
Iuently 70 Raleigh. The former scheme wo
Iulu interfere with General Forests
M, and was only suggested as the result Shs
any possible failure on his part to finish "
road 70 Selma. Local roads or those 80
llch do not constitute parts Of great ~
.Ough lines should thus be built. How ~
81 great the length Of the Kansss City ING
% ,it IS not part of the Union Pacific and hh,
trough" trains from California VIII not 10
IS over It. Unless the Mississippi be On'
dyed at Memphis, the Kansas City road -
ID have here its Southern terminus. The orc
lntry through which the road passes Is T9u
.rsely populated and can hardly endure ~,
cost Of q road requiring $4,000 per ~
.s. and yet would easily build it at a ~
{ Of $4,000 per mile. In the n case ~
IOau al O - and
or several yoaf1 may A -P9 at
the
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Win pro
Jack in his inimitabie performance wa
Fslstan, and the young phenomenon, ing
ian Reed, in the farce Of Little is a
kle," at the thester tonight. eve
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