Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-12
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The Southern Express delivers New
York papers here two days old. Mr..
Loop Out-travels the mails.
ID. A. Nunn's house, in Brownsville.
was destroyed by fire On Thursday.
Loss, eight thousand dollars.
There was a very fine hop the Pea
body hotel Friday night in honor of the
Supreme Judges of the State. Ii was
well attended and was peculiarly bril-
liant
All Of OGS citizens are respectfully
asked to read the advertisement i'm rela-
tiOn to the Ladies Strawberry Festival
70 be held at Rocco Hall next week for
the benefit Of the Central Methodist
church.
There will be meeting at the hall OF
the Emmet Guards, Tuesday evening,
May IA, 1872, at eight O'Clock, for the
purpose Of organizing a military COM
pany. All interested i'm the movement
are invited to attend.
Attention is called 10 am advertise
ment of the Fair Grounds Turnpike
Company, 10 be found in another col
umn. We are authorized 10 say that
the Board Of Directors mean business.
and win require the full payment Of ali
the stock in order to carry forward and
complete the designs Of the company.
The most complete news depot I'm the
city is 10 be found at the corner ofSecond
and Monroe streets. There you can pro-
cure the North american, Contemporary,
British Quarterly, Saturday, or any
other review, magazine, monthly,
weekly or daily you desire. Go there
and you will he satisfied that Mansford
knows how to keep news depot.
If any Grant ofiice-holder's name
did not appear IN the APPEALS recital
yesterday Of the incidents Of the Grant
meeting we can insert il and the proper
statement Of twenty cents per line on
proof being furnished that the indiVid-
ual was there. There was q great de-
mand for the APPEAL's list Of place
holders that 1t might be transmitted to
Grant.
The agents Of the Inventors Aid
Association will call upon the several
stockholders In this admirable institu-
ton during the week. Five dollars will
be required on each share of stock. and
il is to be hoped that the organization
and active operations of the beneficent
and wisely-cOnceiyed sOciety-profita-
ble as beneficent-will not be DELAYED
by the failure Of stockholders TO pay
promptly.
"A jackson Miss paper is IaudatOry
Of the exquisite taste and skill of Mrs
James A Wigs, Of this city, 10 whom
was awarded silver tea-set, which only
reached her yesterday, through the AP-
PEAL Office. The prize was won over
eleven hundred contestants, and our
friend Colonel J. L. Power addresses to
Mrs. Wigs a fiattering note, asserting
her supreme skill in working silken EN-
broidery.
The Grand Jury reports that last
year three thousand one hundred and
ninety-five dollars were paid for inquests.
At six dollars and five cents, the sum al
lowed by the County Court for each in
quest, this would make in the neighbOr-
hood Of five hundred and twenty in
quests for the year. And yet il wasn't
a good year for indiscriminate killing,
such as Memphis was famous for before
the reign Of law.
The meeting Of the subscribers to the
stock of the Memphis Industrial Exposi-
ton, viii be held at the Chamber of
Commerce, Monday evening" at eight
O'Clock. Any person desirous of sub
scribing stock and taking part In the
organization, can be accommodated by
applying TO any member Of the Sub
scription Committee, given in adver-
llsement in another column.
We yesterday looked in at the far
famed hardware store of Allison
Brothers, a firm that has grown upon
the public Of Memphis and the MIssis-
sippl Valley by cautious attention 10
customers, fair dealing, prompt dis