Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-27
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

-Four OF the Masonic Lodges IN TINS
city install their officers tonight.
Turkeys were sold yesterday at
from twenty to forty cents per pound.
At midnight a gorge of ice was re-
ported forming at the head of the island,
. mile or 80 below the city.
Out of all the people who were shot,
stabbed and thumped on Christmas day,
we have not heard Of one death.
All the potatoes in the city were,
probably, destroyed by the freeze-up,
and now prices will freeze up and up.
Won't the fiatbOatmen be happy.
Several stout old gentlemen made
fun for the gamins in various parts Of
the city yesterday, by allowing their
feet to slide from under them on the
slippery sidewalks.
The queer will case that figured so
long before Special Judge Kortrecht,
was settled yesterday by a compromise
with Mrs Moore, who got one thousand
dollars from Bailey and had all costs
paid, she giving up all claim to the
property.
Edmund Burke, of the Peabody
Hotel, was presented by the employees
Of that institution, on Christmas day,
With three beautiful paintings to adOrn
his private apartments. The pictures
are the work Of a Memphis artist
abroad.
The children Of the Sunday-schOol
OF the German Lutheran Church had
their usual jolly Christmas time at the
beautiful church on Third street. Ev-
eryOne of them was the recipient Of
memento, and all went away pleased,
and the teachers and pastor were de-
lighted.
A good brick residence on the Fort
Pickering bluff was burned down
Christmas night. The egg-nogged eyes
Ct the literary machine on Jefferson
street recognized In the lurid light Of
the burning house an extraordinary dis
play Of borealis.
The street cars are again on slow
time and in double teams. A single
mule could make no headway this
weather against such frost. How the
drivers manage TO endure the weather is
a mystery to the delicate.
The bank at the corner Of Main and
Madison, long known as Murphy's
Bank, wound up business yesterday.
A card from the President elsewhere in
this days paper may prove interesting
to the depOsitOrs.
w. c. Matthews, the manager of r.
c. Dun q Co.'S affairs here, received q
Christmas token Of a "We5steF's Una
bTidged" from the Office employees, on
Christmas eve. He made q beautiful
speech, and condensed, reads as follows:
''Thank-ee,' after which the usual cere-
monies Of egg-nogg, etc, Were gone
through with.
e. w. Caldwell-'Uncle Ned" as
everybody familiarity called him-for
more than thirty years citizen of Men,
phis, and one Of the founders Of the Lin
den street Christian Church, died at his
nephew's, near Bartlett, last Saturday.
Due notice Of his funeral, which viii
take place from the church of which he
was 50 long a member, viii be given
through the APPEAL.
About one hundred ragamuff1ns,
waits, gamins, mackerels, newsbOys,
bOOtblaeks, and miscellaneous, home
less chaps, gathered in Exchange Build
ing Christmas day to get a dinner
which had been prepared for them.
They ate heartily, and then got paper
bag of nuts and candles when leaving.
They sang a hymn or two before and
after dinner. Who fed them yesterday?
"A eOlOred man Was frozen to death
Christmas day. He attempted to run q
boat or a skif across the river, with two
passengers, but got stuck or damned in
among the ice so badly that the men re-
turned on the ice, jumping from block
70 block. He was kept among the sail
ing islands Of frost until life was extinct.
His ekfT with the dead bOdV was
found yesterday morning down about
the island.
The puPils Of the Sunday School q
st. Lazarus Church, OF which Rev. DT.
Wheat Is Rector, enjoyed their usUsl
annual festival at the residence Of Mr..
Mansfield, on Madison street, last night