Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-03
C PARAGRAPHS.

phis and shelby county Bible society win
Be held this afternoon at three O'Clock In
the Cumberland Presbyterian church.
The circuit and district courts of the
United States for Western Tennessee viii
open tomorrow; rooms In the Wsldran
block; Mr.. Andrews, clerk; kmmons,
judge.
-Tbe circuit and other judges Of the
courts of Tennessee viii meet IN Nash
Vile, Monday, the 18th instant, for b
purpose Of suggesting m-uoh-needed re-
forms In the State
The railroad tax imposed upon Chicot
county by Jim Mason and Jehorum
Jumper, Is two instead Of four hundred
thousand dollars, and Jim pOcketed Ave
i1stead OF two and q halt per cent. for the
job.
An African youth named Bolton was
arrested by Ohcer Mshony yesterday for
having g small box Of tobacco In his pos
session, being unable to account for the
same. The charge OF larceny was entered
against him.
We will publish the "gridiron" map
Of the railroad system OF Memphis in the
next WEEKLY APPEAL, Of which we will
publish an extra edinon. Merchants will
do well to remember this fact, and send In
their advertisements early.
Cole, Of coal black c~ountenRnce. is
1 h6uk1A ~ DHaAn1A OCR1A " EM0La GAHA
zsns, who were in Memphis yesterday
looking him up and hunting him down.
he is represented as q victim of lsFceneous
habits, which the Aforesaid citizens oesiTe
to cure.
Squire Burke had more luck yester-
/ dsy thar on q notable former occasion In
The performance Of the marriage cere-
m6oy, which he liz for couple of
try dark1es, who were dressed In Jeans,
and had the pecunisry means to pay the
solemn iustics the legal f5e Of two dollars
and hfty cents.
Toe has disappeared and the enlarged
| Portland canal around the falls Of the
| OaiO lessons the charges on heavy frsights
and Memphis derives palpable advantages
as a Wholesale market from the fso-. The
city now needs most direcs railway con
uection With the grain hsldH and Touring
mills Of Kansas,
General Horrigsr, the prosecuting
counsel in the Hsckett case, says that the
Msssrs. LOewenstine were anxious 70
have an investigation on Mondsy, and
would have bad IL, bat for the sickness in
the family of Judge Flippin, which caused
General HorriRan 20 occupy the bench in
the criminal court. The bonds were At.
tached by telegraph.
"A surgical operation Of a most deli
cate nature was performed yesterday, by
Dr.. Rodgers, Of this city, assisted by Drs.
Ware and Morgan, of Stanton station,
upon Mr.. King, of the above named place,
A stone three and 8 half inches long and
three inches In circumference wss AIKEN
from the bladder Of Mr., King. The pa
tient is doing well.
The following are recorded In the
county clerks office as having entered
into matrimonial alliances during the
past week: George n. Burt and Miss
Maggie Dunn; John Besttie and Miss
Mary NJ BOrland; ". 81. Cook and Miss
Mary E. Walker. In the colored line,
five couples are also reported married
until death or divorce.
IA subscriber" who keeps posted on
passing events, writes to the APPEAL,
saying the attack recsntly made on tbs
Queen was q put-up Job 70 get lrelsnd
into worse trouble. The note of subseri-
Der says further, that 1t was the intention
OF the Irish people I" TO strike out for lib
erty this summer" Very true; the Irish
people hsve been striking Gus for that for
several centuries.
When women get to making laws, |
there will be no need for street lamp.
They will enact that, in the first place,
every married man must be at home
promptly and permanently at six in the
evening, and, secondly, that every man
must be g married man. Such, 81 least, is |
our inference from the declarations OF the |
Tablet. 1t is q lively paper, and every
body should read its fresh, original pages.
An undue indulgence In exhilirstiDg
drinks so "limbered out" q respectable
looking individual yesterday that he
stretched himself IN the sideWelk at the /
corner Of Main and Adams streets to take
q EnOozs in the SUM-. Three policemen
lifted hin from his recumbent posi- ion
shortly afterwards, and conveyed him
tsnderly to the ststionhouse, without sp-
psrently disturbing bis slumbers.
We have many letters OF inquiry
in reference TO the Plantation Compress,
3 simple one-mule machine, oompsctly
shaped, by which cotton bales are "oom-
pressed" and reducsd to proper dimen-
sions for shipment on the plantation pro-
ducing 1t. Ali such letters should be adj
dressed to hessrs. Register & TreEsvRnt,
of this city, at whose office = model Of the
Plantation Compress may be seen.
The beat Of yesterday generated q few
cases of premsture hydrophobis Ashaggy
pup, of partly Newfoundland and partly
British origin, went mad In an alley bs-
tween Adsms and Jefferson streets yes
terdsy, evinciDg a strong desire TO feast
bis hungry nav upon the shins of the re-
spectacle citiEsns. When preparations
were made to shoot him, the owner OBJ
jscted ,ssying that the dog was only crazy.
Five shots were fred into him, and the
! EalkNanAAl l1ANNa
In answer to q suggestion of ours, Mr.,
Bandmsnn writes a letter expressing his
williu gness to give readings from the
German classics or his return, which will
be in about six weeks. 1t is to be hoped
that our Gsrmsn citiE 3ns, who have
always shown themselves public spirited,
and who are among our best supporters OF
fine srts, Will svsil themselves Of the op-
portunity thus offered them TO hear the
readings of q of the best delineators Of
the drama In their original language, OF
their poets. All they have to do Il
to mske the necessary arrangements.
The WEEKLY APPEAL, which will be
published on Tuesday next, and which
may be had, i've centR per copy, in
wrappers ready tor mailing. will contain
all the current news Of the week, editori-
sis upon leading events, local news, tele-
graph dispatches from ali parts of the
word, g full market report, river and
otber interesting matter One Of the best
advertising mediums in the country, we
invite merchants to avail themselves Of
its columns. Advertisements should be
in to-day or TO morrow. In Arkan-
sss, Mississippi, Alabsms and West Ten
netsee, our circulation is larger than that
of most papers in either OF thoss States.
Among certain friends Of the fire de-
psrtment there wss some oommotion yes
consequent upon the
ment hat foul old hremen we're to be dis
charged. The four names mentioned in
connection sre Messrs Phelsn, Gala
CHAN, DobeFty and Weaver, belonging to
Nos Two and Three engines. The captain
Of the hook and ladder wss also Dsmsd as
q victim Of this last sweep. For what /
the contemplated removals are TO
bs effected, is not known. The fire COM
mittes met Friday night, when, il Is said, {
these changes were decided upon. We
could not learn from any source what was 4
5he nature OF the charges preferred
these men. Il is even said there
we're no charges, nor any cause. This car
hardly be 30. &
AT tbs annual meeting Of the stock \
holders Of the Pss company, held on the :
.st inst the following directors were q
W. N. Harrington, ". s, Bruce,
". A Goodwin, w. a. Williamson,
5noch Ensley. JIM. Williamson and ]. N
)hver. On yesterday the new board met
elected W s. Bruce president, j. NJ.
manager and engineer, and
". Gift secretary. The great act
4 this board, and one which will entitle 1t
o the everlasting gratitude of the public, +,
3 the reduction In the prloe Of gas TO two =
per thousand feet. Mr. Bruce has .
ong been sn advocate for reduction, and :
las at length succeeded in having his !
adopted Long may the cid Ro- q
nan Waye, and may he make millions for :
is company at the reduced rate. 4
1t has heretofore been the practice for
public to send by mail, notices of
he non-psymsnt and protest Of bills and
,romissory notes to indorsers residing in
vicinity. The validity Of this prac- 8
Ice was recently tested in Pennsylva- &
lie court, from which it appears that Il
where an indorser resides in the same city Q
7 neiRhDorhood where the note is made 80
he Is entitled 70 personal notice
T to service At bis place Of business or A
.esidenoei but, There the indorser does
OF live In the same neighborhood the T