Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-18

granted certificates; in the Second, 73l
in the Third. 1903; in the Fourth, y+0.
The Fifth and Sixth wards had about
1000 each. The Eighth registered 800.
These were all we heard from last night.
Yesterday, the people Of Shelby
county cast out seventeen evil MEM
bers, but not wishing that those evil
members should he free to attack other
civilized communities, or return TO this
county, with seven other devils apiece,
we sent Sheriff Doyle along with them,
having cur solemn and written instruc-
tons TO place said seventeen evil men,
beTs in the penitentiary at Nashville.
1t is charged by a member of the
Common Council that one of that body
who advocated the adoption or passage
of an ordinance which would compel
fiatboatmen to turn their produce over
to commission merchants here for sale,
claimed that he ought to get cOrnmeal
from one of those merchants siX1cents
per bushel cheaper than market value,
because of his support of the proposed
measure.
The educational folks are holding
convention at st. Louis. One of the re-
puted lights Of the gathering, in talking
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concise, explicit and logical (?); "There
is a good side to mental arithmetic, and
a valueless one. 1t had had its day.
While he did not believe in it altogether,
he would not give it up. 1t has a GER
tain value, and is not to be swept away,
though be did not believe in it in the
way in which it was taught The
question still is, what did that fellow
think about mental arithmetic
Within a week, since the APPEAL
gave assurances Of the decrease Of small
pOx in the city, business has tiOurished,
and gone on fiourishing to such an ex-
tent that Row there is fully twice as
much done in a day as there was then
in two days. We are getting out Of our
commercial troubles very rapidly, and
all business men now feel confident and
buoyant. The evil and depressing eff
fects Of epizoOtie have disappeared. The
smallpox is a thing Of the past, and
public and private attention is now di-
rected to the coming of Santa Claus and
Of cotton.
Here is the man for Peter Tracy. A
New York letter, speaking of Stanley,
says: cit was supposed he would be
the great platform sensation of the sea-
son; but his manager, who is under con-
tract to give him fifty thousand dollars
for his literary tour through the country
this winter, is already aware that he has
made as bad a speculation as Daniel
Drew recently made in Northwestern
Common. At his first lecture, the hall
vas less than a third full, and nearly all
present were 'deadheads.' At the second
lecture, the audience filed but a few Of
the front seats; and this so enraged
Stanley, whose manager was inconsOla-
bic, that he refused to appear at the
third lecture last night, or to permit the
doors to be opened for the haf-dozen
people with free tickets, who gathered
at them. During the two lectures he
actually gave, people kept dropping out
as he went on; others fell asleep, and
there was no sign of the least interest,
no applause or anything Of the kind"
Let that stupid manager" turn Stan
ley over to our Tracey; he will work him
up and knock the money out of him.
MAC" in the Missouri Democrat,
writing from Washington, speaks thus
Of the change in the Tribune. mentioned
in our Geographic news this morning:
This is not a new departure in the
journalism of New York. The New York
Times set the example a few years ago,
by installing Ex-Minister Bigelow
at its editorial head at big
salary and with full power. The
trouble with BigelOw was, that he
didn't know much about a newspaper,
and wasn't certain about what he did
know, so he went to reforming the es-
Enlistment with some of his peculiar
notions, and the stockholders had to ex-
terminate him in self-defense before
long. COlfax, however, if a man Of less
literary ability than BigelOw, is a man Of
more caution and tact, and as be would |
probably attempt less than what was
new, he would probably accomplish
more that was wise. His invitation is
not inspired by belief that the Tribune /
lacks newspaper genius, but by wish |
to re-establish its party and political
standing. Mr.. COlfax has never writ |
ten anything equal to the articles that |
are daily thrown off by Reid, Smalley, |
Hazard and Hay, Of the present Tribune |
staff; but there is an idea that he would |
be a safe guide in politics and an attract
i've head for large establishment