Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-20
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The circus opens on the bluff at one
o'clock to-day.
Mild, ethereal spring seemed to have
visited the valley OF the Mississippi yes
terday.
The anniversary n at the
Christian Brothers College to-day al
ten o'clock.
-Barnum's procession moves through
the streets this morning, Barnum him
self leading it.
The Criminal Court is drapeG in
mourning in commemoration of the
death Of General sale.
-Barnum's lecture last night drew a
vast throng. The multitude couldn't
get access to the doorway.
If the epizoot siaughuers all the
iackasses, ought not, in that case, the
Helena GdriOH's most dOleful notes
sound as if it were braying in a mortar?
The last issue Of the Pine Bluff Press
comes 10 Us greatly enlarged and embel-
ished. The margin is designed to illus
trate the hight of the bluff at that point,
we suppose.
The Criminal Court was in very ac-
tive business operation yesterday after
noon. Several cases We're tried and Yer
diets rendered, which are mentioned in
another place.
An enthusiastic working man jump
ed into the river yesterday to save a bale
Of cotton that Hoped over from the
deck Of the Little Rock. He saved the
bale, but came out of the water shiver.
ing as if be had Old Ep.
If the mules escape old Epi's pro
eesses Of strangulation, funeral process
siOns viii hereafter consisted street-cars.
The railway to Elmwood will become
the fdc2is dCscenSus for all the bad peO-
pie who peg out. Many, in view Of this
TACT, will refuse to die.
We saw a couple Of fine hogs yes
terday, which We're a sample Of what
people in this section can DO when they
turn their attention to stock. They
weighed five hundred pounds each, and
were raised by Orange Coleman, on the
Cow Island road, four miles below the
city.
The following dispatch was received
last night: LITTLE Rock, November
l9.-W. b. Greenlaw obtained judgment
in the Federal Court to-day against the
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad
for about one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, being for work
done on the road.
Mrs. DOwney, sister Of Thomas
Burke, the young man who was killed
by the negro sam Levy, GU the night of
Saturday, September DIST, out in Scot
land, desires US 10 state that she and the
family relatives Of the deceased feel
deeply grateful to Captain Athy, and
the members of the police force Of the
for the energy displayed in ferret
ing out and capturing the said Levy and
bringing him back to the city, where
Justice may be done 10 him. The family
feel that if all the officers Of the law do
their duty as well as the police, that jus
tee will be done and right and law vim
Dictated in this case.
When Mrs. Fairs " revolver" with
which she killed Crittenden, was re-
turned 70 her, she kissed il and wept
with joy, and the people are astonished.
There's nothing new in this. Dryden
tells that the
"-Joyless victor SAT
ReVolvers in his altered soul,
And now and then . sigh lac stole
And tears began % flow ~
We think II was reVOlVers.h In any
event that's what's the matter here
generally, when people get fuddled Like
Alexander. It's a constant repetition Of
repeaters, and that mikes society V
~lutionary, and hence the revOlver-hav-
ing reference TO a fellow that 'wabbles, y
as Dundreary hath il, 'when he walks"
"A most singular case Of poisoning
occurred in Haywood county about three
weeks ago, Of which passing mention
was made in the APPEAL at the time.
Miss Lou F. H~ightOwer, daughter of the
late X. r. Hightower, of Williamson
county, died at the residence Of her
grandfather, Robert G. Foster, Esq, in
county, October 9th, from
the effects Of milk she had drank, sup
posed to have been poisoned by some
thing the cOw had eaten. What adds to
the painful nature Of this death is that
she was 10 have been married on the
day she was buried; and what was in
tended for her bridal dress became her
burial dress. Several other members Of
the family were seriously affected at the
same time by the same cause.