Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-17
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The Water Valley Cotton Factory
will be open and running next month.
What's the difference between legeT-
de-main and the man Of the Ledger?
The Memberships expect to inaug-
urate a grand musical season shortly.
Nashville r~ejoices in the arrest of a
noted horse thief and an equally noted forger.
Yesterday morning Recorder Win
tiers fined Henry Stein fifty dollars for carry
ing a deadly weapon in the shape OF a razor.
Henry Woods was yesterday sent
to Jail by Recorder Winters in default OF four
thousand dollars bail, on a charge Of larceny.
There is A. J. and there is A. J. X.
Both are dead ducks, killed outright, the hrt
by Chatham and the other by Landon {.
Haynes.
Mr.. James McGrath, furnance-
builder. was not the individual of that name,
charged before the Recorder for wife-beatlng
as published. Mr.. McGrath Is not IN that
Kind Of business,
IS. Wolf, who is the miserable propri-
etor of a house Of ill-fame, was fined twenty
five dollars, and eight Of the unfortunate in
mates ten dollars each, by Recorder Winters.
The several amounts were paid.
Frank McCune, the negro thief who
robbed Mr.. J. Bedford, Of CollierVille, OF nNe
hundred dollars in valuableS, was sent TO jan
to await trial at the Criminal Court, IN de-
fault Of five thousand dollars bail.
The Ripley NetUS says that a num-
Der Of hands are at work upon the Memphis d
Paducah Railroad, inside the corporation nm-
its Of the town, and the sight of the earth
turning is a welcome one to u nelghbors.
Henry Bright was asked by the
Recorder TO contribute twenty-five dollars to
the city treasury, for carrying concealed
weapons, and give a o OF nye Thousand
dollars for disappearance before the Criminal
Court.
james Reynolds and Frank Lake,
the circus attaches who were arrested on sun
day night, for riOtOus conduct, were before the
Recorder yesterday morning, who fined The
former fifty and latter twenty-five dollars Tor
their little Sunday evening amusement.
Sheriff Doyle yesterday made the
following appointments: Chief of stan, John
c. Lanier. Deputies; First Circuit Court J.
l. Lanford; Second Circuit Court, = \
son; Second Chancery Court, w. W. Coleman;
Criminal Court, J. J.. DuBOSe; Jailer, D.. l..
jackson.
"A resident Oh Beale street employed
a colored drayman, yesterday,t 10 take sew
ing machine TO Sinnottls furniture store, on
second street, but he failed TO do so up tiu a
late hour last evening. It is suspected that he
appropriated il to his own use, and the
police are looking after that drayman.
"A telegraph dispatch was received
by Chief Athy, from sheriff Glover,
Of st. Aibans, Missouri, 10 the effect that an
officer had started from that place having in
surgeon the nalDbdlAAAaAn ~ 0AlFA
and killed the young lad Murphy while he
was bathing in the river, near the foot OF
street, a few months since. He IS brought
here on a Tequisition issued by Governor
Brown.
Hart, the painter, is engaged in
transferring to canvass the figures that swept
beyond his vision in a dream. As II appears
Death is holding a dead cupid on
its knees. The beauty Of the little god, though
dead, with It's fallen bow and arrows beside
him. and the hideOusnesS OF Death that grlns
In frightful glee because OF riulmp over one
never dreamed Of Death, beget many
conflicting emotions.
Last Sunday Rev. Mr.. Landrum, a
Baptist minister, in his usual health, dropped
deadin the pulpit in the church at Rover,
Bedford county. He had sung and prayed,
read his text, and was proceeding with his
sermon, when he remarked that he felt sick,
a drink Of water, wet his forehead, fell
back in the pulpit and expired Immediately.
He is the second one, We are informed, who
has suddenly died in that pulpitin the past
two years.
The Gallatin Examiner of the four
tenth SAYS on Friday Of last week VIM. STRAIT
ton. son OF Thomas StrauNn in the Cairo
neighbOrhOOd, was found deBd,l lying near the
gate not far from the house, by two ladies,
Mrs. Youree and McKamie, who were passing.
He had evidently been shot by accident, by
his own hand, the load passing through his
temple. The trigger Of the gun had prob
ably been caught by the gate. This is the
third death by accident, from cunning, within
a year in this county.