Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-26
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Tor an invitation TO attend their picnic
to-day at Brunswick Springs.
Bishop Feehan will administer the
sacrament of confirmation to numbers
of persons in st. Peters Church, to-day.
The Machinists and Blacksmith's
Union No. l, Of Tennessee, will give a
picnic at James Park, on Thursday,
June 18th.
The Odd-Fellows to-day will attend
the funeral of their brother Dodge, re-
Gently deceased. The procession will
be an imposing one.
Attention is directed to the an
nouncement Of Barney Hughes, pub
lished on this page. He offers "a free
ride to Philadelphia.
We have received from the publish
ems, Sheldon & Co., Of New York, a copy
| of Sermons of Rev. G. H. Sturgeon,
Ninth Series" For sale by Goodwin q
Co., S6l Main street.
The German Lutheran Church will
have a picnic at Humboldt Park Mon
day for the benefit Of the school at
tached to the church. There will be a
procession in the morning.
The troubles of the city government
accumulate. Yesterday judgment was
given against the city of Memphis for
nine thousand two hundred and fifty
dollars, by Chancellor Morgan, in favor
of J. B. Cook, the architect.
"A market wagon on Poplar street,
last night, suffered the misfortune of a
runaway. The horse attached to the
wagon headed toward Main, and by the
time he reached there, all the vegetables
| and other "marketin'" were dispersed
profusely about the street.
1t is one of the best signs of the
times that our people are coming to like
best and patronise best, the wines that
strengthen but do not intOxicate. Such,
| for instance as those imported direct by
the firm of Nathan Brothers, pa Front
street. Their pure Rhine wines are
choice and exceptional, and must have
a run not only in Memphis but in the
country.
"A bridal party of thirteen, who were
bound for New Orleans Ud Memphis,
from Mississippi, got left here yesterday.
They had made full arrangements with
the r. E. Lee, and had sent all their
baggage to the wharf to be shipped,
while they attempted to improve
the shining hours about the city
Aallu TIE bNaL cLlDAlAu Bt lCduN " 1EdNts
The boat got ready and left before the
happy people took any note of the flight
Of time.
AT twenty minutes past two O'Clock
yesterday morning the frame building
belonging to Mr.. Fraime, on Charleston
avenue, and occupied by Mrs. Walker,
fired up and was consumed. Mrs.
Walker says that a drunken servant
left a candle on the washstand, which
burning down, set fire to the wood, and
hence the confIagration. The prompt
attendance of all the ire-engines pre-
vented the spread of the flames. The
loss was trifiing.
The first of the weekly concerts
which it is proposed to establish took
place in Court Square, yesterday after
noon, between the hours of five and
o'clock. Arnold's band ~discoursed
music Of a cheering character for two
hours. Lou Leubrie, the indefatigable, |
he has only half enough subscrip-
tiOns to secure a series Of twelve con-
certs for the season. Let other people
Of taste enter their names on the list for
a few dollars.
Twelve more skeletons were brought
up from the vault on "ROtten Row"
yesterday, and the bottom is not reached
yet. They were all good sized skele-
tons, and some Of the frontal bones in
dicated, in the possessOr, intellect. They
were all BACKED by the action of the
gases in the vault, and in many in
stances the bones were rotten. Theory
was rife all day trying to account for
the presence Of the bones in that
place.
The Upton Recordtells this horrible
tale: a. man, whose name we failed to
learn, working on the farm of Nh. Cow
ard, near Randolph, met with a horrible
death on Saturday last. He had been
and on leaving his work in the
evening, he Unhitched his horse from
the pillow, and, without removing the
gears from the animal, he mounted and
for his home. He had not pro-
ceeded far before his horse became
frightened at some object, and threw
him. In falling, his feet became entan-
gled in the traces, from which position
he was unable to extricate himself, and
this condition he was dragged over
the field all night. When found in the
morning his lifeless remains were still
fastened in the gears, bruised and man
gled in a shocking manner, having been
literally kicked to pieces by the fright
sned ANIMAL
"A correspondent signing himself
Front Street, writes us yesterday:
II see that candidates for judge of our
Chancery Court are announcing them
selves subject to action of the Demo-
cratic Convention. This is certainly a
most dangerous plan Of electing judges
IF our courts, and particularly at this
Tine, for this reason: There are to be
nominated, by the coming convention,
candidates for several very lucrative Of
ices, and there is, 1 fear, great danger
hat the most important, but poorest
Office of chancellor will be made
! matter Of secondary consideration in
he convention, and become an object
If barter and trade to further interests
If seekers Of more lucrative positions.
Therefore / ask if it would not be best for
he convention simply to agree to in
iorse any applicant that may be recon-
nended by a majority Of the practicing !
aWyers at the bar.n p.
1t is wisely said, don't build a house {
With "a whim in it. a man has a right 4,
exercise his fancy in what is his own, {
Dut i'm the construction Of buildings it is G
n expensive pleasure, almost sure to
all on the pOssessor. Our American |
and domestic life has not the
readiness of former generations, or even |
hat of older countries over the water.
he household tie is elastic-we are not
linking Of divorces, but of social mu-
atoms and changes in all wi communi- /
les. The house of to-day rarely answers s
u more than one generation, and
here the maniac of hOuse-building takes
sst hold Of the head of the family, the
ouse changes occupants with every coat
T paint. Even the farm homestead is
OF exempt. for the farmers boys fly off
ne perch, and the girls go to new
ONES, and what remains for the old S
,lks tut to sell out. Whatever you n
uild, b. it house, barn or shop, OF a pre- d
city structure, keep your whims 1
ut Of it, and lay the same charge on L
our architect, and thank us for the
int, if you needed it.