Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-20
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

That rat has not been shaken out OF
the mealbag yet. The question is,
"WhO has been and gone and done itY
A steamboat goes down the river
/ this morning with seven thousand tur-
keys to feed the Christmas appetite OF
New Orleans.
The "houseless by night" become
| numerous once more. These hard nights
/ drive great numbers of them to the sta
tionhOuse for shelter.
The Christmas holidays are upon Us
and our merchants should announce
their preparation for them in well-dis
played advertisements IN the APPEAL.
The first quarterly meeting fol
Bartlett Circuit will be held on Satur-
day and Sunday next, December 2lst
and 22d. Rev. A. H. Thomas, Presiding
Elder.
We learn from abroad that "Keno
is kOrrect" in Memphis. In order t.
evade the laws the bankers are about to
buy a wharf-boat and play their game
at anchor.
Under tie GdsligH will be the at
traction at the Memphis Theater next
Monday. The Memphis favOrites, Miss
Katie Mayhem and Miss OCOnnOr. will
both appear.
Thirty miles Of track are laid on the
Mississippi, Ouachita and Red River
road, eighty-five miles graded, and fifty
more to grade to the starting point of the
Southern Pacific.
Those parties who had unacknOWl-
edged and unregistered deeds in the
County Clerks office had better look
after them, for if such were destroyed
where is their title?
On Monday next, Major Mcclure,
the affable Treasurer of the Grand
Operahouse, is to have a benefit. The
mere announcement is enough to I'LL the
house on that occasion.
The most impressive fact that could
be found yesterday on the streets Of
Memphis was this: A drilling rain
poured down necessarily from morning
to night, and after night.
The rate of city taxation this year is
two dollars and half per hundred dol
lars, and yet there is no money in the
treasury. The value of property taxed
is over twenty-siX million dollars.
The Irish Literary Association, the
Memphis Library Association, and the
Young Mems Christian Association are
the only purely literary concerns in the
city, outside of the newspaper cateres.
Two Germans who settled near Tus-
Alabama, not quite year ago,
renting farm, have raised and sold one
hundred and twenty-six bushels OF
wheat, six hundred bushels of corn, and
eight bales Of cotton.
When even the carrying Of con-
cealed weapons is enough to send man
to jail, as was done yesterday by the
Recorder, what may we expect in the
future will be the punishment for those
who use the weapons?
The other night some lazy fellow |
leaned against the glass door Of Mans |
ford's book house, at the corner of Sec |
Dnd and Monroe streets, so heavily that /
tune was not discovered until the next |
The levee between Union aud Beale |
streets is in such horribly muddy con- |
dition tlIat drays cannot be found TO /
yield to the ordinary mule pressure with |
any sort of a load. The fiatboatmen |
suffer in trying to dispose
Of their truck.
We have been informed that a young 1
gentleman well-knOwn in Memphis /
society as a first-class dra.
matte amateur, viii appear on Monday
evening, on the occasion Of Treasurer
benefit.
The act of Congress, passed last
Thursday, giving one hundred and sixty
acres of land TO all soldiers Of the Union
win take about three hundred million
acres of the public domain, or patch Of
ground as large and half as Mexico.
The total registration in the city
TO ninety-fiye hundred and
eighty. The coloreds are in the ascen-
liant in the Seventh ward only. This is
a tolerably full registration, still there
are seven or eight hundred colored peo-
pie not registered, perhaps.
The business men along Howard's
Row complain OF the obstruction of the
sidewalk consequent upon the removal
Df the pavement by the Water Compa-
nv, several weeks ago, TO lay down pipe.
The pavement has rot been replaced,
and the sidewalk, or what formerly was
Inc sidewalk, is passage OF slippery
mud.
We learn that the mud is so deep
among the flatboats below Union street
landing that drays, etc, cannot get 20
the boats to take off their cargo, and
that perishable products, much wanted
by our storekeepers, are spelling by the
delay causedby inattenhon
10 the condition of the landing there.
The boats have to pay, Notwithstanding.
The police detectives are on the
track Of the scoundrels who made the
deadly assault on ths Ginoccbio
family Saturday night. Cranmer az.
rested a chap yesterday, whose foot-
mark corresponds precisely with the