Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-25
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Merry Christmas to all our readers
Attention is directed to the notice
Of change Of time on the Mississippi and
( Tennessee road.
The Fair in Assembly Hall was very
well attended last night notwithstand-
ing the intense cold.
The ice floating in the river is about
fuurinches thick. Itisa frosty formation
fIom this side Of Cairo.
Bursting pipes, hydrants, fractions
I pumps and exploding lamps were the
orier Of the day Christmas eve.
There are a dozen merchants in
I Memphis who made over fifty thousand
dollars each during the year just end
ing.
Two dogs were frozen stiff on GAY
/ 90 street yesterday while in the act OF
munching a bone they had pilfered from
a Beale street market meat merchant.
| The congregation of the Christian
I Church, corner Of Mulberry and Linden
! streets, celebrated Christmas eve last
evening by suitable singing and other
devotional acts.
Captain Edward Hawks, theclerk of
| the Bismarck, came up last night on the
I Glasgow to secure a tOwbOat to 90 down
and assist his boat, with her two barges,
TO this city.
1t was reported last evening that
| pigs and turkeys went sailing down the
river on floats of ice; and in one in
stance there was a family Of hens, cats.
dogs and ducks all huddled together A
boat has busted somewhere up the river.
Colonel Sell Howell, the great rail
road passenger agent of the South, ar
rived in the city from down the country
yesterday. He informs us that the
bridge over the Yallobusha is repaired.
aud trains viii run regularly from this
day forth.
Intense cold weather is not favora-
bic to any sort Of lOcomOtion. The fierce
frosts Of yesterday deferred the street,
cars from making their usual trips. BO-
rezn blaste from icy regions came with
primitive fury and bitterness; even the
mules could not endure them.
In reply to the fifteen letters sent to
Us yesterday by young ladies, we have
to state that eggnOg on Christmas day
is decidedly vulgar and common; be-
sides, it tends to intemperance. The
proper beverage is champagne cocktails.
When properly made no visitor can OBJ
jet to them.
"A curious popularity OF cold wealth
er is the strange effect which il causes a
small amount Of liquor to produce ia a
person. An aggregate of q pint OF
strong liquor, taken in three or four
doses, is enough to set q usually well
balanced head reeliDg when it gets out
under the influence of the frost. We
saw several parties yesterday labOring
under this difficulty.
Now is the time 10 bestow discreet
and bOuntiful charity. The season sug-
gests generosity. The cold weather
pleads for IL. The consciousness of suf-
feriDg in thousands Of lonely places APP
Deals TO the hearts Of the benevolent to [
give abundantly. Look around, and /
find where a good and charitable action /
may be done and DO Il, being mindful of /
what the Lord shall say to the just at |
the general judgment: because ye /
have done it to the least Of these, We 1
have done it to me. -
The rates Of taxation in Memphis for 1
1872 are composed Of special taxes as fol- 4
lows: For sinking fund twenty cents in 4
tie old and ten cents In the new limits;
iOr bond interest, one hundred cents I'D
Ihe old and fifty cents in the new limits;
or schools, thirty cents in both, and for
general purposes necessary current ex-
Denditures) one hundred cents in both.
Dn the one hundred dollars Of valuation,
making in al two dollars and fifty cents
IN The one hundred dollars, and vet we
IRE not happy.
"A detachment Of the Nineteenth
United States Infantry, Major Stansber-
y, commanding, arrived in the city last
evening from Little Rock, and embark
d on the steamer r. p Walt for Baton
Rouge, Louisiana. A company Of the
Fourth Infantry also arrived at late
hour from Louisville, en- route to Little
aock, and are CHARTERED temporarily Ia
ne United States Courtroom, Waldran
'iOck, until the ice admits of their trans
er across the river.
The disappointment was great yes
erday among ali classes OF Front row {
callers. Many of them had ordered .
argely, from up the river, such things c