Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-02
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

"a PATIENCE ought to mind his own
/ business. He would find il much better
for him one hundred years hence.
-m the article referring to dykes and
canals, of yesterday morning the writer
Inadvertently inserted the name of the
Nile for that Of the Euphrates.
1t is announced that Father Burke
will attend the picnic on the fourth.
That splendid floor viii be found very
useful in accommodating the crowds.
The pupils of Mrs. Thompson's col
| ored school had an exhibition in the As
sembly Hall last night, which was very
| creditable to the pupils and their teacher.
All the cOlored public schools of the
city VIII participate in the exhibition
It Assembly Hall, Tuesday and We'd
lesday nights, the second and third
instant.
The genial Renfro was sent TO jail
Yesterday without bond. The penalty
or demonstrating is death in this State,
md being guilty of that, no bail could
De taken.
The following is the official state
ment of business done at the Memphis
9ostoffice during the month Of June:
Mail letters delivered, 93,0SS; newspa-
pers, etc, delivered, 24,226i letters col
.ected, 62,64S; newspapers, ETC. collected,
1926.
We learn that some kind people
nave made arrangements TO place the
little girl, Eliza Bowen, who was so
cruelty treated by the people with whom
she was living recently, in charge of the
Sisters at st. Agnes Academy.
A fire occurred on Alabama street
last night which ruined the cottage Of
Mr.. Tucker, formerly a policeman.
Owing to the frail character of the
building, it persisted totally before sue
cor could reach it.
An incipient sensation was frustrat-
I'd last evening by the prompt interfer-
ence of Captain Athy. 1t was in the
Jefferson block on Second street. Owing
TO the previous espectabiity of the lady,
the particulars are left out. Besides, the
story, in all its details, is rather revolt
ing.
-DameroI was acquitted yesterday.
The trial has been going on for four
lays. He was defended by three splen-
lid lawyers-General Sale, Colonel Nell
son, of Kentucky, and Colonel Turner.
Nelson is the most promising young man
At the bar in the Southwest.
If one would comprehend the true
philosophy Of American government
IS s%uccinctly defined by a statesman,
he perusal of the address delivered by
senator ThurmOn, will enable one to
gain the most possible information in
the least possible time and space. The
entire speech appears in to-day's Al
PEAL, and is Of infinitely greater value
md more prOmOtive of popular intellI-
gence than any number of CHASTITY reel
tails of crime or calamities.
The police yesterday captured a ne
Tro named Charley Boyde, from Beulah,
Bolivar county, Mississippi, who, in
company with twelve others, broke Jail
in that county several months ago. He
aad killed a young brother African, and
in for murder. The brother of the
inundated person discovered BOyde in
he city and set the police on his track.
sergeant Arata found him in a grocery
1t the corner of Linden and DeSotO
and lodged him securely in the
over statiOnhouse.
A young man of the name of John
smith, arrived in the city yesterday
oOking for his uncle, William johnson,
/ wheel-right, and finding the city
much larger than he expected, he de-
paired of finding the person he sought.
lie was inQuiring for him at the
tationhOuse last night. He comes from
he vicinity of Cumberland City, on the
louisville road. If William johnson
hould become avian of this notice, he
vii find the young man at Mansfield d
1ighbee's drug store, on Main street.
IN Ill ~ ,rIsav-sAlrrg ElTH.Nkv~ - II
the best and bOnestestn hack-driver in )
he country, is in jail, not being pecun- :
sriiy circumstance to furnish fifty :
thousand dollars which Recorder Win
ers asked of him yesterday morning, d,
merely because FFattyn shot the mis- !
hievous small finger off an insulting
.arkey who called him opprObriOus
.ames. "Fatty'' is distasteful to GER
ain people; in fact, some say he is a
cry vile person. The insulting col
reds are strongly of this opinion. $
We have received from New Or q
sans a weekly statement of deaths in a
hat city, made up by DR.. S. c. Russell. I
t is in a tabular printed form. 1t gives I
list of 24O diseases, and each deashthat :
ccurs is properly accredited to its pecu- I
ar cause. 1t also gives the ages and ;
he natiOnalities, males, females, white 2
nd colored. From the sixteenth of q
une to the twenty-third thereof, we z
nd that $50 persons died in said city, Of a
HON 80 were under one year, and but 7
,ur between the ages of 20 and 80; IS Fl
-ere white, SO black, l3 mulattOes, and Q
lree not stated; natives, l0S; Irish, \
/; French, 4; Germans, 4; Spaniards, 4
Twenty died of consumption, 5 of {
eething, s Of meningitis, and 8 of pneu- {
lonia. The population of the city ac- e
to the census of 1870 Is ISL ,4lo; .
er centage of mortality in 1871, % to b
very 1890 of the population, which gives o
Z average Of thirty-fOur and One-half g
ears to each person living. We men n
on these particulars to show our n
authorities in what a barbaTous condi- 81
we are here, not having the first
vet furnished in relation to mortality or
ealth. We are going it blind.