Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-01
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
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A man named john Maher was ar
rested bv officer Birmingham yesterday
on the charge of stealing a coat from {
countryman. John was locked up, anc
will have a hearing before a magistrate
this morning.
The dry-docks commenced sinking
Yesterday, and before dark were several
inches under water. 1t is stated that
immediate steps Will be taken TO raise
the docks, and have them, as o a
possible, in full working order.
The mercury in the THERMOMETERS
made a sudden fall yesterday afternoon.
Shortly before the storm it marked
ninety-three degrees in the shade, and
after the storm it had fallen rs low
as seventy-eight degrees. During the
evening il was nice and cool.
Yesterday while engaged in bust
ness. Mr.. Louis Collier, an attache Of a
saloon near the Peabody, was suddenly
stricken. DR.. G. :. FJdte, formerly OF
our city and now of Helena, was called
in. and in a few hours pronounced the
patient convalescent.
1t will be pleasing to all the patrons
of Mr.. John CASTOR TO learn that his
celebrated restaurant will be reOpened
this morning. For the past few weeks
they have been roaming about the city,
but now they will have an opportunity
OF returning TO their old headquarters,
and partaking of all the substantials and
sweets which Memphis or any other
market can afford.
Important information has been i'm
parted recently, which some letter
writers will receive comfort from. The
experts in the p~OstOtlice have discovered
the method by which old stamps have
been cleaned. All the letters bearing
the "twice used stamps are being for
warded to Washington, where the writer
will be discovered and prosecuted with
the utmost rigOr of the law.
in another part of this issue we pub
fish an advertisement Of J. d. Stewards
one of the best conducted OF the
private institutions of Memphis. Mr..
Stewart is a gentleman of great prac-
teal experience, and conducts his school
upon the best modern plan. We recon-
mend this school and its learned cOn-
ductor to parents and guardians who de
sire to educate the children committed
to their care in the best manner possible.
Notwithstanding the extreme heat
of the weather yesterday morning, the
thermometer marking ninety-eight de
grees in the shade, only two cases OF
sunstroke We're reported. The first was
Mr.. Charles, who resides in Chelsea, and
who was suddenly Frustrated abOutnOOn
near the front Of the enginehouse, cor
ner of Adams and Second streets. The
iremen attended to him with praise
assiduity, and about an hour
lfterward he was conveyed home to his
residence in Chelsea. A cOlored woman,
whose name could not be a~Scertained,
vas struck down on South street while
It work. The usual r~estoratives having
1een actively USED, she was soon beyond
William Prewitt, Esq, of Poplar
treet, says that the NicOlsOn pavement
5 fatal TO shade trees, and that the
'e2son is that no moisture can penetrate
he blocks, tar and planks below, and
hat the soil ten feet down is dry as
3arbOur's flask after an hours harangue
Africa Bailey's church. There should
,e more holes through the pavement
hOugh Barbour is hollow down into his
'OOts. The trees are all dying along
he paved thrOughfares and the pave
1ent should be bored for the admission
t moisture, even as Barbour should be
Orked up to exclude it. Poplar street
vas paved in any event with good in
entions, and this makes, according to
1r. P, a sort Of hot place of it.
AT a meeting of the Directors ofthe
'lemphis and Paducah railroad, held
asst evening at the Overton Hotel, Pres
dent EX-NOTtOn in the chair, it was
rdered that contracts for work on the
inc of road between COvingtOn and
be considered to-day at the Com
office, and a committee was APP
Ointed to locate depOts between this
and COvingtOn. A portion of the
York between COvingtOn and Ripley
'as let yesterday TO responsible parties
tho will put it through expediently.
he letting of the work beyond Ripley
been postponed on account of the
clay of the Newbern people TO complete
heir subscription. But the work will, tits
oped, be let on the fifteenth, at which
me the Newbern people are expected
, come up.
"A young negro, with the cOg1OHlcH
{ Nose Parsons, was arrested a short
from the Mississippi railroad,
v Detective Cranmer, yesterday, on a
barge of larceny. Nose has, on sew
raj occasions, acted as jockey for Mir.
eter Mitchell when that gentleman en-
sred horses on the Memphis turf. He
as considered to be very trustworthy,
nd for a heightened period has been
mplOyed around Mr.. Mitchell's prem
.es in various capacities. Within the
asst few weeks several sums Of money
nd sundry articles Of jewelry have mys-
disappeared, and suspicion
to Nose. Information was given
} the police, and Detective Cranmer
TO work up the case, which he
id with his usual ability. Yesterday he
as captured and brought to the Adams
rect s~tatiOnhOuse. In the afternoon
e was committed to Jail TO await his
ial at the forthcoming term of the Re
Court.
About three o'clock yesterday after
Don the heavens became suddenly over
and dark, heavy, ,leaden clouds
ere to be seen lowering in dense masses
-er the city. A brisk wind sprung up
at soon became half-a-gale, in nauticaI
lr4sc. In a few minutes Main and
her streets were filled with clouds of
and everybody made preparations
r the impending storm. In a very
time the streets We're deserted and
the thunder rolled, the lightning
and the rain descended in tor i
nts. Several " flying signs We're car
ID away by the violence of the storm,
ID two Of the handsome plate-glass s
.ndows in the store of Messrs. b. Low {
stein were shivered to atoms. As s
III be seen elsewhere, an OH lady, Mrs.
was killed instantaneously by {
e lightning. In about an hour all was '
rene again, and the atmosphere was {
.nsiderably cooled ~ the operation Of s
e storm, which made everybody re- a