Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-07

The heavy rain Of yesterday morn
ing was anything but welcome to livery
stable owners, 1t filed q great many els
terms, however, and edeetually laid the
dust.
Rev. E. G. Mclean viii preach
at the Chelsea Methodist Church this
evening, at a quarter past seven o'clock.
Services win be held each evening dur
ing the week.
Although yesterday morning was
wet and stormy, the various churches Of
the city were largely attended, and the
services of an interesting and instructive
description. In the evening many Of
the churches were filled to their utmost
capacity by devout worshippers.
Business was quite duh in police
circles yesterday, and only about half a
dozen arrests were made at both sta
lions. The charges were chiefly for
drunken and disOrderly conduct ON the
streets, varied with a couple Of colored
damsels indulgiug in q free fight. All
the offenders will appear before the Re
corder this morning.
1t is suggested that the managers Of
the county fair open their books for the
entry Of private horses, those that have
never been in training upon tile race
track, and to be driven by owners, for a
purse of M hundred dollars that will be
subscribed. This would add another in
leresting feature L the fair. as there are
a score Of horses in the city that are
called fast, and that would be entered.
The body Of a still-born child was
found on the porch leading TO a bagnio
~, NHm-H--4 -. - .~~.r.sn. NE.w.
ner Spellman was notified and an in
quest was held, but no marks being dis
I cerned on the body, it was given over to.
the County Undertaken for interment.
I The infant was wrapped in a newspaper,
and the police are making inquiries in
| relation to the unnatural mother who
placed the child where it was found.
Yesterday morning there was a fu-
ri0us storm of thunder lightning and
rain, which lasted over 4 couple Of
hours. The lightning flashed most WV
idly, the thunder rolled, and the rain
descended in perfect torrents. During
the hight Of the storm, a thunderbolt
seemed literally to explode over the
city, and all who witnessed it held their
breaths for a time. The peal Of thunder
which followed was terrific, and the
general impression was that some tow
ering structure or high building had
been struck, but diligent inquiry failed
to elicit that any damage had been done
by the storm. About one O'Clock the
dark, heavy clouds cleared away, aud
the afternoon and evening were quite
pleasant.
The acting Commissioner Of Inter-
nal Revenue, in view of the ambiguity
of a portion Of section thirteen Of the
act of June 6, 1872, imposing special
taxes on dealers in malt liquor, and in
view Of the supposed intention of Con-
gress, has decided that wholesale and
retail liquor dealers may continue to sell
malt liquors under their special tax re-
ceipts as such without being assessed as
malt liquor dealers, and that the cOllec-
ton Of taxes assessed contrary to that
construction shall be suspended until
the question can be brought before Con-
gress. Persons who sell only malt
liquors are liable only to the special
taxes Of twenty dollars OF thirty dollars,
according as they are wholesale OF retail
dealers in malt liquors.
The Chicago Tribune Of recent date
says: 1.-THE State of New York has
offered a prize of one hundred thousand
dollars for an invention by which a
canal boat can be propelled not less than
three miles an hour, without injury to-
the canal. All attempts to use steam
have hitherto failed, because the result
ing agitation Of the water washed away
the banks. Nh. William Baxter has,
however, devised a new form Of engine,
and a new form Of boat that seem to do
away with this objection. He has re-
Gently navigated a h~eavily-laden boat
from Buffalo 10 New York in one hun
bred and thirty-seven hours, which is
i've days less than the usual time. The
machinery occupies a space only seven
ieet long and five wide. The cost of en-
gineer, fireman, coal, oil, etc, is stated
Al a shilling a mile. Mr.. Baxter intends
% claim the hundred thousand dol
straightway. Mr.. Mahan. Of this
city, will save Mr.. William Baxter the
trouble. He will carry that 4 hun
bred thousand dollars premium away.
His patent canal-bOat is the one that is
destined TO be adopted throughout the
States.
If there be any one in Memphis
that is liable 10 the structures laid down
here, let them study and profit thereby.
They are from the Methodist Protestant
Of Baltimore: 1--WE believe that most
ladies vino enter a crowded street-ear ex-
pect the gentlemen to give up their seats
TO them, and il is quite a shock upon b.,
gallantry to Keep his seat under =;
The inquiring and suggesting looks of :
lie fair sex, and most gentlemen who :
are not old, or inirm, or very weary, =
preserve their manners and lose their :
But what of the children? All! =
While the ladies expect such courtesy :
rom the gentlemen, and pretend to :
each their children good manners at
nome, they fail utterly in this regard I
n the street-cars. When did any one :
.ver see a lady offer the seat occupied by 7
Ter child 70 a strange lady or gentleman :
% relieve her or him from standing2 =
have seen ladies enter a car with a i,
brightly, healthy child of eight or /
welYe years Of age, and when some +
considerably yielded his seat -
o her, the child would at once apprO- +,
it, and thus neeessitate the Yield
ng OF another seat by some other gen J
leman for her accommodation. If gen :
are expected 10 carry the polite
Of the drawing-rOom into street.
ars, so far as TO give place and prefer
nee 10 them, should not the mothers of I
hiidren require them to observe a like {
'o~liteness in giving place to their sen
lrs2 We have witnessed many scenes d
{ surprising forgetfulness, not to say
ross rudeness, upon the part Of mann /
las and their promising offspring, in $
he street-cars? Ladies, q little whole Z
ONE instruction, in this department, if y
gu please. And aftera gentlemen yields p
is seat TO you, when some one leaves b
he car, call his attention to the fact, {
instead Of readiusting your garments 50 0
S to obliterate the vacant space to his I
xclusiOn. Alittle more p~oliteness, la o
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