Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-25

The trouble at Belmont, mentioned il
yesterdays APPEAL, prevented tn
things from arriving. One gentlemal
/ had two hundred barrels of oranges OIL
the way, which did not reach here. Tn
loss viii be serious as well as the disap
pointment.
The quarterly examination in th
schools, before adjourning for the holi
days, passed of very pleasantly. Tn
litsle ones all achieved high marks il
al departments. There seem to b
none but bright children going to schoC
nOw. Where are the dear, soft-headed
biue-eyed stupids all gone to?
The Polar waves with which th
weather reporters have made US &C
quainted, seem to be growing vigorou
every day. They come one after anOth
er, more and more intense and bitter
The wave Of weather that reached her
a few minutes before twelve o'elocl
Monday night was simply fearful. 1t es
tahlished a condition OF thermometer
misery all over this continent such a
never was suffered before. At tire
o'clock yesterday the weather at Cair
was fearfully cold; the thermOmete
went down thirty-three degrees below
the freezing point. At st. Louis it wen
down thirty-siX degrees below tina
point, and at st. Paul it sank fifty-fivr
degrees below freezing heat. In thi
city we had weather that froze whisky
IN mems stomachs, and they had to g
around looking for benZine to thaw j
out.
A wicked lunauc, Of the name o.
Alfred Henry Browning, nearly scared
3 little girl to death yesterday morning.
He caught up with hero Adams street,
when she was going to school in the
morning, and ingratiated himself into
the friendship of the child by his oleag-
nous smile and offering TO "tote' her
books. He led her along as far as the
Charleston depot, and inveigled her into
"a house, where he put her sitting near
the stove and commenced DEVILS talk to
her. A Mrs. Williams informed Paddy
Mslowney, the policeman, and he went
10 see what the fellow was about, but the
fanatic was gone. Paddy, however,
uyerh8uled him q few squares away and
lodged him ia the stationhOuse. The
girl told the whole story which will be
repeated 10 the Recorder, and then Al
fred Henry Browning viii get fifty days
GA the chain-gang. That viii cure him.
peculiar divorce suits pending be-
fore Judge Halsey. The parties are Mr..
Aloyisius SimOns, Of DenlOpOlis, Illinois,
aud a Mrs. Somebody, with whom ST.
mons got acquainted in this town
twenty-five years ago, when Simons was
chief Of the night squad of watchmen in
this city. SimOns succeeded in COM
passing the possession Of little property
here, which tue lady haG attached or ap-
to her own use somehow.
SiinOns is a married man outside Of this
Memphis female. Heis the
PARENT Of some d0Urishing boys, and his
true spouse is still living up at DemOp-
dis: but Of course it would never do to
1t her know of the embarrassing state
)f things down here. That would be
simply horrible. The loss of the shanties
would be tolerable compared to this.
The case is curious.
"A man Of the name of Webb was
.hot in the groin last night by man of
he name of Proctor, both of them be-
ing occupied previously in a discussion
n the bar of the Mississippi House, on
Front street, corner Of Market. Proctor
escaped-probably to Arkansas. The
)arkeeper was taken to the stationhOuse
IN charge of assault in having struck
Webb with a brick or a club before the
hooting commenced. He put up
twenty-five dollars as o forfeit, and was
et 20. The dispute out of which the
.viI resulted originated about wood or
.ows, or things of that sort, one accus-
~ the other of stealing things. When
words waXed loud and blows became
rot, Webb ran out 70 the yard, and
'rOctOr followed and shot him. The
wound is likely to prove fatal; and thus
he pistol goes crick-crack, and the club
-Des whick-whack, and the blessed sea-
an of Christmas is desecrated by men
making demons of themselves.
We have it in vivid recollection
bat for two Christmas days past fires
occurred in Memphis cotton presses.
'lptain Athy makes an effort to pre-
ent the recurrence Of the misfortune
J-day. He has detailed a special pO-
ceman to watch the cotton presses to- !
az. He has also issued his timely and 1
ausible order against firing of rockets |
r other dangerous cOmbustibles in the |
ity. And Just here an idea suggests it. |
Elf Why not make Captain Athy |
iayOr pro tenn and remove the figure |
cad from the City Hall? We venture
be assertion that he could negotiate
,ans to pay the police and iremen on
smarkable terms, and that the tax
ayers would have such confidence, |
IDLY wanting now, as would induce
Iem to pay in their taxes at once. Our
zeal reporter presents the idea as a
hristmas gift of no mean value to the
.x-ridden people Of the city.
A polar wave made q fat old man
cry drunk yesterday afternoon, and
lille the police were dragging him
ong to the statiOnhOUse, he told a sad
0ry. The germ anG substance of it
as this: That be should not have
cen arrested; that his vile did howl
.rribly, but that he was not beating
ar; that be never struck her in his life.
r. confessed that he had been drink
~, in fact, had swallowed, as he be-
-ved, a polar wave. Whatever he had
abibed frOze within and siekened him.
e lay in bed, his vile bathing his
cad, while his little stomach ached.
e finally began to vomit, and threw
, bricks-great chunks Of frozen whis-
Y. One Of them, tiercely elected,
ruck the old woman amidships, and
lie howled for the police. The bricks
Nv in every direction, and the " old
oman" drawled out the drunken
reich " was knocked up agin the
all, and wads of froze Ticker billed
item me. She bellered, and I wor-
licked till 1 was g0bbled by these per-
e, and that's all of it, He shed tears,
ID begged piteOusly, but the heartless
,licemen, dreading another shower of :
e polar wave of brickbats, dragged the !
an with the brick-kiln in his abdO-
en- and a polar wave of tanglefoot |
owing it up to Castle Athy.
An old. strong, greasy drayman,
lO has been "roughing it - on the
uR for twenty years or more with his /,
ule and bifurcated Roman chariot !
lied a dray for shOrt--this all lump of |
.hara dust was slightly inebriated last
ening, and the mule, sympathizing
th the master, and invigOrated BY I
en wintry blast and refreshed by free
10 from eLizootc disease-this mulish {
gro and negroish mule went capering
arrily down the smoothly paved I
'eet, along Howard Row, to the riv- !
s edge. The further they descended,
e " AAtgA LA4I 4A-O NllCl1L VI AAAE lNU Dill
Ials; the one erect on top, the other
tween the shafts Of the dray. With
lOcity constantly accelerated, slipping,
ding and leaping, down they went.
thin ten feet Of the waters edge the
shing mule made a sudden twist to I
e right, and the resistless inertia
the erect negro's body drove it some
irty feet through the ice down into the
isterOus rivers depths. Cufiee came
the surface clutching at the thick 6
,cks Of ice, and blowing and paving
-ay the chunks he blew q blast that
At up a water-spout as if q harpooned T
lale had set the ocean in a roar. Other n
lymen who witnessed the baptism \
] to the rescue, and the brsvest Ro- {
IN of them all, by means Of reins from [,
Tray mule, was dragged out. He suf- y
ed terribly, and was almost, or quite ?
iseless, when hurried into a bar-r0om n
{ far away. he was fUriOusly rubbed 4