Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-05
LOCAL P~ARAaRAPHs.

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LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Joe Locke, the prince of newsmen,
23eL Main street, is in receipt Of the liu'
minated weeklies and other interesting
literary matter.
The gentlemen Of the Medical Society
of Tennessee enjoyed 3 magnificent bsn'
Quet at the Maxwell house, Nashville, on
Wednesday night.
Seven Jurors were obtained in the
Poston case on yesterday, A large psnel
was ordered for to day when 1t Is suppoE'
ed the Jury will be completed.
Mayor johnson made the most elo-
Queut snd successful oratorical effort that
Is recorded Of him In favor of heavy
tsxes before the Common Council last
night.
The police drilled very ~creditsbly last
evening on Adams street. Under the
artistic guidance of officer Haggerty, they
are progressing very rapidly. Already
they march like veterans.
A large wagon, loaded with cotton
seed, broke down st the corner Of Third
and Adams streets last evening. A frsc-
tured axle was the misfortune. The wa
gon remained there all night.
On the second psgs Of this issue will
be found the text Of a bill passed at the
extra session of the Legislature, for the
| perfection Of tsx-titles, and which will be
found of interest to delinquent taxpayers,
That unfortunate case of the Besle
street tObsccOnist was before Justice
| Spellmsn yesterday. A hu~ndred-dollRr
/ bill was the bone of contention. The
court wss crowded with people, and Gen,
/ ersl Sale defended the case with bis usual
skill. A decision will be had this morning.
Two of the Union City robbers, Will
liam Barton and William Taylor, have
been convicted on the charge Of express
robbery in the circuit court Of Obion
county, and sentenced to fve years inn
prisonment in the ~penitentiRry. They
have arrived in Nashville.
The public debt of Shelby county, &C.
cording to the census returns, IL bonded,
$500, coo; all other S191 1856; and Of Mem
phis, bonded g, 567, 900; all other S1,704,-
S92; making a total of $5,271, s92-seversl
hundred Thousand dollars too much, tax
ing the last Comptroller's report for cor
rect,
According to the statistics of wealth,
/ population and taxstiOn just issued by
the census burszu at Washington, Shelby
county has real and personal property
valued ct 81, 412 S73 assessed at 1904
924; she pays f7O,I2 2 State tax, S875, sis
county, S486, SSi city, making 8 total Of
$3.50, s23.
The st. Andrews Society hsd a pleas
ant meeting in their rooms Over Willett's,
on Adams street, last night. The annual
/ picnic is 10 take place on the oath of May.
The following gentlemen have been sp-
pointed q committee to act on the occa-
sion: Colonel G.. W. Alexander, h. 7.
Tomlinson, John Wiley, DR.. Sterling and
II. G. DimbOn.
The Irish Literary Association has
appointed the following gentlemen as q
committee to correspond with the Hon.
Mr.. Vaughan, Member Of Congress from
this district, with the view of procuring
as many past public documents as POSI-
bic for their library: John Lilly, presi-
dent Of the associations John League,
Andrew Davis, Captain d. Smith, James
Kelly, Judge Hslsey, P. D. Boyle, snd
John Mulroy.
Old man williams and his wife are
much exercised about the conduct o ftheir
girl who has q shade whittier tint than
either OF her parents and Is 30 Wild and
addicted to the ways Of the new civiliza-
/ ton that she allows herself TO be led away
to houses of i'll repute. The parents and
the girl were before Justice Miller yester-
day, who did his best TO unravel the tang
/ 40u hhbAu ny huAAAnk kAG BNADANH ~ whip
the infant, and IL she squesled, he would
send her to jail.
We had q fashion erstwhile, which
was then considered all the style, of say
ing, "Let's go and SMILE" But now all
hat Is changed entire; we affect q style
much nicer, higher. The Chamber having
moved up town, we smile no more but
look brown. Since the quarters have been
to Whisky chute, the cotton men say
"Lst us see how they quote" the staple
in Orleans and New York, and in they 90
to have 4 Italk.D That is how the old
things work now. We have abandoned
leisure and taken 70 business, snd where
formerly we smiled we now look for the
quotations.
The Medical Society Of Tennessee was
in session ct Nashville on Wednesday
last. The proceedings were unusually in
teresting. The following named gentle
men were elected as delegates to the
American Medical Society which meets In
Philadelphia, shortly: Doctors d. P. Sims
and &. n. Wright, of Chattanooga, and
DR.. Bailey, Of Knoxville, from East Ten
nessee; Doctors Paul +. Eve, Nashville;
Richardson, Murfreesboro; B. P. Clark,
BEDFORD; j. A. Sumpter, Sumner VIM. N.
Finley, GAINESVILLE, End j. d. Plunkett,
Nashviie-for Middle Tennessee; DIR.
Pesroe, Union City, West Tennessee. The
next mcotluk VI Inc hb1OlLhllOu Will Do N
Nashville in April next.
FIVE colored msckerels were arrested
yesterday by the police, but three of them
were subsequently, set free, there being
nothing found against them. The re-
manning two were held TO answer the
charge o~frObbery, in having slowed them
selves away in the bowels Of Edmondson
& P~sttigreW's store on Front street the
previous night. They committed fearful
d~epredations among the tobacco piles and
cigar heaps during the stu, dark hours,
and made their way out before morning.
The owners of the store could not exactly
tel what wa the smount Of their losses.
They found, however, that the lock Of
the safe had been tempered with during
the night 30 that they could no open It / n
the morning. The police made diligent
inquiry and found 3 Dssketful of cigars at
Joe Lusher's, which they seized. Wheth'
er those cigars were tskenf from the above
named premises will appear more clearly
on the trial, which, may come on this week.
1t is a cheering indication that there IL
moro money now on deposit In the banks
of Memphis than at any former time in
the history Of the city. It is q particularly
hopeful sign at this season Of the year.
Memphis Is now agrest city. No traveller
who has been South bat Is at once struck
with the new life which catches his eye on
entering this city. Even the mules seem
to be better fed and more risky, aud they
trot along under their loads az If they
we're conscious Of the fsct that they were
helping to work out q great destiny for
Memphis. Everybody seems 70 have
business on hand, and to rush along the
pavemsnts with a commercial frenzy in
his BYE. Mr.. Warren, who is well Sc
quainted with the city, having run the
grist-mill on Bsal street for a long time,
arrived in the city yesterday, and said he
was struck with the vast differences be-
tween The appearance Of Memphis and
s~avannsh, Mobile and other Southern
cities where he was stopping during the
busy season. Memphis is an alive. he
saye, while the appearance of those towns
Is n Of the same old quietude that wss
common on their streets half 3 century
aao.
The Memphis-C Chicago Jsruaslem
Overtaker will make It's appearance in
about ten days. The outside will be
printed In ChicsgO, Is indicated by the
name,~ suggested, Of course, by that hap
pv scheme of nomenclature that gave or
lain TO the compound words, Courier
Journal. The editors name IL also indi-
CITED BY that of the paper, and it's pur-