Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-06
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

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The various courtrooms in the city
are the hottest places in creation these
a~welterlng days.
-Michael Meehan petitions the court
or divorce from his spOuseOn the ground
II intdeliy aud inebriety.
Mrs. Lide Meriwether's poems viii
g published at an early day, and con-
stitute a most attractive volume.
1.-THE harp of a thousand strings
viii be played on next week. All the
loys IA the city viii 90 to hear the pecu-
lar music.
The Memberships and Henry Far
ma are going over to astOnish Browns
vile, July 10TH The music will surely
be charming
Our dog remedy finds great favor
With all sensible people. The City Coun-
eli alone, not comprehending It's beauty,
u v sneered at il. They prefer the dogs-
pr. Sam Watson's new book, in
volving a thorough discussion OF the
.u1ject Of "Spiritualism, viii be on
le to-day or tomorrow In our BOOK
stores.
The Brownsville Bee says the small
.0ox is raging with some violence in the
vicinity Of Bartlett. A couple of weeks
inee. the wife Of J. L. Bland died Of the
disease. and last week her child and her
brother, Milt. Tate, died Of the same
disease.
1t will be seen, by a correspondence
n another column, that Jack Doyle has
donated his five hundred dollar horse to
he orphans. It was voted % him at
ne picnic by Z vote of ten hundred and
Jxty-one to three hundred and forty-One
ast for Curry.
The darkies who don't pray in Rad
:al churches say that Barbour Lewis i
he Bill Tweed of Memphis. The ike
ess is most ridiculouly correct. In
he whole United States not another
luld be found 50 much like Billy as
Barbour. Some people think they are
rothers, but this, of course IS prepos-
arOus. 40
The steamboat Celeste is TO have
nat excursion on Sunday. The rain
evented The intended one 10 Bray's
sland on the Fourth, and later in the
~ a number of negroes chartered her
al took a trip u Mound City. As viii
= found by an announcement in an
her place, the postponed fun will take
lace tomorrow.
The cut of between the White and
rkansas rivers Is reported entirely dry,
% likely TO SO continue. Il has not
zen known 70 be dry since il was
rmed. At low-water mark this viii
lp incOnvenient to boats, as they cannot
ross the bar at its mouth, nor get into
from White river. It is another and
strong argument in favor Of COwdOn's
Ian Of continuous inland navigation.
Half dozen Chinese, m~ild-looking
p mng fellows, complained to Justice
Miller yesterday that they hired with a
down the river eight miles TO do
me work at the rate of eighteen dol
rs per month of twenty-siX working
avs. 1t appears the Chinese worked
very day, and at the end Of the calen-
5ar month wanted five weeks pay.
ne boss would not give it. Hereafter
mere must be some understanding with
le Chinese about the worth Of work OF
ne Sabbath Of the Lord.
Tibet Grenada Sentinel SAYS. at il less
one hundred miles between here
nd the Tennessee State line, Oh the
= fis>issippi Central railroad, and yet the
United Staoes has a camp of soldiers at
NO points between here and there, OK
ord and Holly Springs. The report IS
hat we are to sOOn to have the soldiers
ere too. The Presidential election.
vmes of next November, and that &c
cunts for the fbOys In blue coming
south. Put on your loyal looks, good
.Jizens, and get ready to sneeze when
rant takes snuff!'
Our city government is singul6rly
ind aud deaf and insensible to the nth
n of fanny sort Of statistics. The public
re not furnished with any of any sort
kept such as the newspapers gather
lgetheT with great pains and endless
abOr. The uses of statistics ara various
nd valuable. We ind by recent re-
)lrts for instance, that The proportion Of
ufantile TO other deaths in New Orleans
3 as one 70 four, while from another re-
Jort, We ind that in one district in Eng
and, the neal proportion Of infantile
0 other mortality is a. three to Que, and
nat the locality is a very healthy one,
hOwing that there must bea fearfully
tepraYed condition OF society producing
his proportion.
Abduction for purposes Of pr0stiuI-
ion is generally carried on in a way that
annOt he made amenable TO the law.
Wednesday morning Sergeant McElr0y
as cogniZant of what he considered an
tempt Of that sort. a young girl, who
ives GA Commerce street, went out look
az for a strayed sister Of three years;
nd IN her search happened across the
lath Of two women, who told her they
'0Uld tell where her sister was. They
ured her on to Washington street, and
we're about 10 enter a house, with Oil
;ioth on the stairs, when the Sergeant
uterfered, for ne had been watching
hem for some time, and rescued the girl
rom the fearful temptation.
The Seventh ward is not peculiar
done for It's extent, but also for It's color
aud the complexion Of its politics. IL
lad the power At the last municipal
lection 10 return a member 70 the body
known a. the Common Council. Since
hat time it has become more intensely
radical, add more hopelessly immoral.
Since the nest and hOt-bed Of iniouity
hat had iesJered at the corner Of Shelby
aHd GayosO streets has been rooted out,
he Seventh ward has lost much Of its
peace aud quietude. The son and
laughter Of iniquity that cursed Rotten
Row have found new quarters on Be2le
treet, at the crossing of DeSotO. There
nightly the strong traits of their charac-
eT are made manifest. The decent
beOple who live within a radius Of one
hundred yards are not only outraged, but
Sr0nged. They are deprived Of their
lccp by continuous and revolving noises,
urses and ~Obscenity, fighting and bac-
hanalian reVelry make night hideOus.
II is a fearful neighOOrhOOd; property
Iepreciates, and the blackness OF dark
ess seems to be settling over the
doomed region. The unhappy Seventh.
yard is now in a condition to sendthree
members instead of one to the body
known as the Common Council
The Signore Arata, who peanuts for
a living on Main street, near the corner
If Jeflers0n, is ia q mighty bad fix, as
the saving is He was arrested ysster-
Jay by a policeman, Pat Walsh, who car
Tied him to the statiOnhOuse and entered
. charge OF shooting ia the corporation
a rather mild one for the crime
be Is accused vi. Arata is a dealer in
small fruits who runs his small estab-
fiament adjoining LeR0y's tailoring
establishment, and has had some trans
actions with Leroy in the way OF rent,
did not give the SignOre entire
satisfaction. Thursday night the Sig
more vas enjoying himself hugely un-
der LeRoy's window by 6ringOff crack
ers, aud also, as is charged by firing
pistol bullets through LeROy's shutter.
tie fired gradually and deliberately.
and fired again. 1t being the
Fourth uf venerable memory, no.
one noticed the occurrence; besides, he
ired of several bundles of fire-craekers
10 drown the noise Of the pistol. 10
this way he managed 10 perlorate the
shutters twenty-one times, making as
many holes ia the glass behind. The
bullets were found ia the taiior's shop
Yesterday morning. A gentleman.
across the street says he saw him firing
the pistol, but thought IT was in limo
cent fun. Signore ATata viii have an
examination intO his case tAis mOrn-
.ng.