Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-10
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS o..

A very neat Presbyterian church Is
in process OF erection on Vance street,
near DeSOtO. II viii be finished early in
the spring.
This supreme committee Of the haroi
| Gras celebration hsd g meeting in the
Casino rooms last night to make final az
rRngements.
Yesterday We received q page and q
half of Arkansas news from Little Rock,
which wEs made up in this city four days
ago and sent East.
Yesterday was the first indication OF
spring that we hsye had. The westher
was worth the arrival Of One hundre
thousand barrels of coal.
Railroad ~journsls everywhere call Al
teution 10 the convention of nsrroW-gsuge
railway builders and owners, to DO held
In st. Louis on the 18th OF June.
The water company will break ground
for their pipes and machinery about the
first of April, after which the work will be
vigorously prosecuted until completed.
The Market street school Is now near
" filed with pupils. Under the sble
management of Mr.. McMsnus, every
thing goss orderly and prosperously on
now.
"A happy family from Happy Hollow
were trying to settle their difficulties b.
fore Squire Elliott yesterday snd to heal
over old cuts and sores with legal plRs-
ters.
The railroad men snd employees Of the
several railroads will a an active part
In the procession, and demonstrations and
balls incident TO Msrdi Grss festivities.
They should confer with Mr.. Specht.
"A small co~tton-picking and packing
establishment took fire on POplsr street
yesterday morning, causing a great COM
motion in the fire department. The in
/ cipient flames were quenched before much
damage was done,
The case Of Fred Breitzmsn and his
wife against the st. Louis Packet oom,
psny and others, for damages for false
Imprisonment, which has been in the
courts now for three or four years, was
called up for trial yesterday.
The members Of the bsrkeepers' ssso
citation are discussing the propristy of
/ closing up their houses on Msrdi Grss be-
cause they know they viii be made the
victims of more queer Jokes on that day
than any other class Of people.
1t is generally agreed that the
mummsrs and mRskers will play
no tricks on ladies Msrdi Gras, save
upon those who mSy appear in festive
| costume, so that all the ladies who do not
wish to participate may be out and enjoy
the "scenss."
"A good Joke is told about the steamer
A. J, White. She put Oh a deckhsnd at
the mouth Of White river on her late trip
TO Memphis. He walked all the way TO
The city and had a writ from the United
States commissioner ready for her when
she landed here, and hus not only had
bis satisfaction but also his damages.
Landowners at Centrslia or those OF
Memphis are incompIehensible tools. The
former gave, last week, TO q party Of gem
| tlemen sixty thousand dollars worth of
real estate wherein to erect s manufsctO-
~ employing i've hundred hands. Have
we no such land owners in Hemphis2
Give the land, and the cOttOn-miu will
rise upon 1t. What say the owners Of
broad scres7
Justice Miller edited the lyceum Of
Chelsss last night by q profound dis !
course upon our father Adam. Most Of
his points were remarkably cOincident
with the commonly accepted theories IN
regErd 70 the origin, life, manners and
daily walk" Of hat most ancient chsrsc-
ter. Alan, the Squire said, was an I'M
common ran, who fell through excessive /
Affection fer his wife.
The police are puzzled to know what
course to pursue or Mardi Gras. There
are some green-eysd, csdsvarOus, ILL
Dstured, bilious wretches In the city
who are always on their centsr and
cultivate q festher-6dged temper who
sWeRr they will not allow any foolinE
around them with -four or cotton OF SUCH
trash II may as well be known before
hand that the celebrsnts of Msrdi Gras
will make q point OF going for" every
exquisite that is found on the streets.
There must be no i'll temper. Good hu-
NOR will be the order Of the time.
"a Reasonable Man" msy be too
sweeping in his denuncistions. There
are occasions when applications to the
public for charitable persons are OF indis-
pensible necessity, and those who under
take the office OF beggars are surely the
most self-sscrihcing OF our good men and
women. The constitutional, habitual
beggsr, who spends his life in the BUSH
ness OF gathering public charities, OF
which he is himself the chief beneficiary,
is properly c~astIgsted, and the picture
drawn is 30 true to the original that we
~recosnizs him by the admirable photo
graph.
BY no means the least prosperous
promising business in Memphis is ths of
IRE and marine Insurance.. The prudence
and conservatism which have usually
characterized Memphis insur nee compR-
mics have won for q underwriting sys-
tenn q reputation for safety snd reliabili-
~ unequsled perhaps anywhere else in
the country. But something more of
dash and eXpansiveness il wanted. They
CLuAA EahLp4 III " hDA0 u4hC1uCa anu
active measures Of advertising ard sgen-
representation, 8 great deal of outly-
ing business IRON other cities In the
south, snd throughout the Southern
States. By 8 discreet distribution OF
risks there would be no necessary in
crease of the margin Of annual losses,
while the aggregate of premiums and pro-
its might be indefinitely enlarged. VIII
not our local insurance companies profit
by 50 palPsble a hintf
The infelicities Of il-regulated passion
are not 70 be computed. People who APP
parently dwell in peace are sometimes the
Of the most ~tofturing internal
miseries, which no one suspects until a
fearful deed OF blood or other guilt is per-
petrsted by which the light Of the world
10 suddenly let IN upon the s6ething and
disbolical elements long pent up in the
guilty breast. A case OF this kind occurred
yesterday betWssn parties Of color who
In small houses along tbs line of the )
railroad, In the suburbs Of the !
city Jennie Whitney and her husband J
adjacent 70 GsoTgisnR Prince and :
Of each other. Yesterday Jennie tobbed ,
q knife into GeoTgisnE's abdominal cavity
80 Hereby that she must die OF The ini1- I
RES. All hands we're subsequently ar :
rested by order OF Squire Killer. who !
sent the stsbbist TO JAN 10 await the pleas 1
uro OF the cGAmlHol COuEbs
A specimen Of parliamentary tactics !
WAS exhibited By the board OF aldermen }
1t their last meeting which would nave 9
lone credit TO older bodies where the de- }
bates are signaliZsd at every onward MOVE /
ny the most skillfUl and sdroit fencing I
and the most sHtute debate. The COCA. I
sion was furnished by the resolution To q
declare an assistant. chief Of She FIRE d. .
psrtment q necessity. The resolution had b
been tabled on Wednesday, but after the .
vote was announced, Aldermen Fender {
grast got permission to change his vote to t
no. with the evident intention OF NOV ,
for q reconsideration at a convenient Q
time. When the board met again on I
Thursday the enemies of the measure re-
solVsd to f5restal PendergTast and Kill the 2
efteotuRily. Alderman Petit 4
grew therefore moved ~tO,reeonHider. The 3
OF The measure thought on the an v
lBuncemsnt Of this motion that there mad '
q favorable change, and they began z
o chuekls, except PeDdergrEst, who &
ippesrsd 20 aEmell 3 mice" The vote for Il
ayiDR on the table was ~reconAidered and y
Vhen the direct vote Wss taken upon the II