Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-26
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

C. H. Dow has been appointed a
member of the police force.
Hack No. . carried a smallpox pa
tient to the Hospital yesterday.
"A box of clothing arrived at the
| station-house on Adams street yester-
| day, ahead of a batch Of cOnvicts who
are coming this way TO work on rail-
| roads or levees.
A consignment Ofnew potatoes from
| New Orleans was sold here yesterday at
| nine dollars a barrel, ON Front street.
| The potatoes will come down about fifty
cents a barrel each day until they reach
a reasonable figure.
The first-class restaurants in the
city are now fully supplied with spring
chickens, shrimps, tomatoes, new po-
| tatoes, strawberries and other spring
luxuries. 1t is a great advantage to be
able to live at a first-class restaurant,
The most singular sort of runaway
took place yesterday ON Jefferson street.
Two mules broke loose from a wagon
that contained two bales of cotton One
mule went east, while the other went
west, and stopped not until he reached
/ the waters edge.
j. G.. Reed, Deputy-SheFif of
! Hamiltpn county, located at Chatta-
/ nooga, having abseOnded from his chief
with fifteen hundred dollars, was stop
ped short in his headlOng career at Mem
/ phis, and was returned safe and sound
by rail last evening to the place of his
repOse.
1t must be interesting to some who
/ attend the matinee and watch the mo-
| ton of the female lower maXiliary. A
| gentleman reports forty-seven last Sat
urday all hard at work on gum, We
viii wager he will not see five next Sat
urday. The practice in public is certain
ly anything but pretty.
William Farris's planning mill, on
Adams street. viii make bids to furnish
the materials for the great building at
Philadelphia-tO be the largest ever con-
structed on the glObe-designed for the
accommodation of those who attend the
| centennial celebration of American In
dependence at Philadelphia.
Justice Miller had the painful duty
imposed on him yesterday Of sending
William Wilson to jail, prepare
tory to being conveyed 10 the private
| and county lunatic asylum of Dr.. Allen.
Wilson Is a stranger who came here to
work at his trade as a carpenter. He
was very violent and even dangerous.
"A number of Memphis lawyers have
returned from jackson, having got
through with their business. They are
all well pleased, having been tolerably
successful in getting a final settlement
| Of their cases. A settlement one way or
/ another will suit a genuine lawyer, pro-
vided that it is in the court of last resort,
and there is nothing more to be said.
"A very successful revival is going on
at the Chelsea Baptist church Under
the spiritual direction Of Professor
Mitchell, quite a number of converts
have been added during the week TO the
membership of this growing congrega-
ton. The religious fervor Is now at its
hight, and the church is crowded
nightly.
"A car freighted with Northern Ala
bama game-cOcks came Oyer the Mem
phis and Charleston railroad yesterday.
These cocks will be slaughtered for the
qualification of the public at the race
course, next week. All the famous
chicken fighters Of the continent will
be here, John MOrrissey, We are told,
among the rest.
The gentlemen of the Typographical
Union Of Memphis viii have a picnic
this spring, which Of course will eclipse
all Others in every sense of the word.
The gentlemen professors OF the art pre-
sentative of all arts viii evinee more
artistic skill and artless good nature in
their amusement than any other people
could be expected to show. Committees
are now arranging for the festivity,
which is expected 70 come off about the
twelfth or fifteenth of May.
-"POor Miss Finch" is a book that
| found a great number of readers in Mem
phis, it being considered one Of Wilkie
Collins best efforts, but very few Of the
readers knew that the whole plot of the
story is taken from q tale which occurs
in the "Piigrims Of the Rhine,'' and
called the "Maid Of Malines.n The plot
of both stories is the same. Wlkie
could not have been ignorant of the Gu,
rious story Of the Maid Of Malines." IL