Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-02
c PARAGRAPHS.

The recorder held no court yesterday be-
cause it was the nrst day OF the new year.
The bell ofthe Chelsea Methodist church
was blown down and broken to pieces by the
storm Sunday morning.
Lecture by Father Burke In st. Peters
church tomorrow night. Subleet-"Music,
its History and Philosophy"
The grand opening ball of the Standa
Club, Of Memphis, viii g place tomorrow
evening, January 3, lS72, at the Memphis
a hall.
New Years calls we're not so numerous
yesterday in Memphis as they were on many
former occasions. We saw no one who saw a
drunken man yesterday.
The day and night policemen made an in
/ tercbange at twelve yesterday. Those vtgilant
gentlemen who have been on the night police
during the past month now take the day ser
! vice.
The Emmett Guards have our thanks for
tickets to- heir ball, which takes place to-
/ morrow evening at Cochran hail. The Guards
always have good balls, which are well at
tended,
City Tax-coIlector Robertson informs us
tia the time for collecting taxes without
additional cost" has been extended to January
10, 1872, on account of the rush Of business
last week.
Officers Shelby and Hicks arrested a mule
yesterday because the animal was claimed by
two different parties. The question of owner
ship Will be decided by the recorder this
morning.
We are requested to say that there viii be
a. HEEEAuG Vi bnHAuEEH u4th at ~ LhA4CG Vi
this afternoon at three O'Clock TO
COZ slider a matter that especially concerns
Front street.
All the negro population were out yester-
day parading. About three or four o'clock
they gathered at the Greenlaw opera-house
for the purpose Of installing their society OFF,
Gers Tor the ensuing year.
-TWO OF the convicts who were working on
the Selma railroad got away from servitud5
last week. One OF them had been a barber in
this city formerlyi got i've years for larceny,
one Of which was served out.
The city schools all open for business again
this morning. The original design Of having
a grand celebration at the opening of the new
schOOlhouse on Market street seems TO have
been abandoned. We could not learn from
any OF the members of the school board when
1t would be opened.
The county court met yesterday and sd
Journed after appointing a committee of three,
CONSISTING OF squares Wallace winters anu
Perr1ng, TO draft resolutions expressive OF the
feelings Of the court at the death Of Squire
Forgey. The court viii meet at ten this morn
ing 10 elect a chairman, etc.
We learn from parties who arrived in port
yesterday on the Pat Cleburne that a small
"scrimmage" took place on the r. z. Walt
shortly after leaving this place on her last trip
out Harris Carter, second steward on the
Walt, was stabbed with sn ice-pick by Alonzo
Gilbert, a white man. CATERS wound is con-
sidered mortal.
The great South Carolina Land and Immi-
grafton drawing takes place IN the eighth day
of January IN Charleston, at the Academy Of
Music The committee Of arrangements are
General Chadwick. General ". c. Butler and
General NJ. W. Gary. Some lucky person viii
make a fortune out of this lottery scheme.
-"SOciety" is stirred TO its p~rofoundest
depths by the announcement in yesterdays
APPEAL that Alexis was coming and would
"hop" at a grand hop" to be given in his
honor at the Peabody. The tailors and MILL
ners are already crowded with orders, and IL Is
expected that those Of st. Louis, LOuisyillea and
Cincinnati viii be called into requisitiOn TO
supply the dressing prescribed by court eti-
quette and the fancy of Dame Fashion. There
will be a lun on ribbons and furbelows.
When one of the numerous colored battal-
cns was paTading at the corner OF Main and
Beale streets, yesterday, a few of them took
hold of a street-car horse and held him, in or
der to allow the battalion to pass. The driver
whipped up his animal, excitement followed,
the negroes gathered round and the white OBJ
servers gathered round also, and a collision
seemed Imminent. 1t was prevented by the
prompt and energetic action of Officer Cleary,
who interfered in behalf Of peace.
The pcstof1ce Of Memphis did the follow
ing business during the year: Number Of mail
letters delivered, I,ISO,SS7: number Of local let
ters delivered, l00,2g7: number of newspapers,
etc, de ivered, 344-99G: number of letters col
lected, SIS SIS; total receipts nom local postage,
sH,S98. During the last month ofthe year 1871
the Office did the following business: Number
Of mail letters delivered, ll,47S; number OF 10
cal letters delivered, o504; number OF neWspa-
pers, etc, delivered, 1882; number of letters
collected, s4,IS7; number Of newspapers, etc,
collected, $3.50
The impression seems 10 prevail LnaJ Inc
city is full of thieves, burglars, mackerels and
disreputable characters OF all sorts. Sunday
a polished gentleman, deeently dressed, Went
TO rs Washington street and said he was a
traveller run short Of money, was a sufferer
from Chicago, and would feel thankful for a
meals victuals. He was invited in and treated
Hospitality. That night another person ar
rived at the door, struck a match TO find the
number, and then slipped round TO the back
entrance. A cOlored servant of one of the
inmates saw him and informed her master,
who rushed down stairs with a pistol in his
hand. The thief took the alarm, and was in
the act of crossing the back-fence in great
haste when the pistol bullet went whizzing
after him.
Sheriff Wright sent out a posse Of twenty
five men yesterday TO the camp where the
convicts who are employed bv General For
rest stop. Word had been sent to the city that
a procession of negroes from Mississippi in
tended to march close TO the camp with drums
and flies and firearms. The posse got out
there in time. The negro procession took
place sure enough. a whole host OF them
came within three or four hundred yards of
the camp with four bands and two or three
hundred rifles. They marched up and down
a hill some ten or fifteen times, shouting,
drumming and firing of their pistols, bul
finally retired without making any further
demonstration, seeing that about fifty armed
men were prepared at the camp to give them
a warm reception should any demonstration
be attempted.