Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-03
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

-Knightsof Pythias, Memphis Lodge
No. 8, meet promptly this evening in
your hall at eight o'clock. By order.
The scholastic year of our public
schools commenced yesterday, and the
different departments were consequently
opened.
Hon. LandonC @. Haynes and Colonel
A. J. Kellar sounded the bugle note OF
the Congressional campaign at Coving-
ton yesterday.
The total amount assessed for drunk
enness yesterday morning in the Re
corder's Court yesterday morning was
two hundred and sixty dollars.
The new Judge OF the Second Chan
Gerry Court, s. P. Walker, ESQ.,, having
received his commission, was sworn in,
and will Immediately enter upon the
duties Of his Office.
Twelve warrants were yesterday
issued out Of Squire Miller's court for
the arrest Of parties charged with keep
ing houses of ilI-fame. They will be
returned this morning, when q lively
time is anticipated.
Lizzie Holt, a -pugnacious colored
negro, will answer at Squire Miller's
tribunal, this morning, TO the charge Of
assaulting her namesake Emma with
an ak, with the intention Of making
mince-meat Of her.
-Roushe & Cunningham, the well
known wagon manufacturers on Fourth
street, between Madison and Union.
are preparing for the Exposition a va
riety of wagons and carts that will do
credit 10 them and to Memphis.
Among the numerous wedding gifts.
which were on exhibition at a marriage
which took place at the Overton Hote. |
yesterday, was bank stock to the amount !
Of two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars. Quite a respectable start in life for
the happy couple.
Tom Sawyer, negro, writes us from
COll1erville, to assure US that he is fOr
Horace Greeley for President, and is
working for the success Ofthe ticket that
We think is the nope of the whole
country. We chronicle Sawyer's atti-
-ude with pleasure.
Colonel F. B. Irby, a well-known
of Pamela county, writes to a
merchant of this city, that he must
,ountermand orders for gins, gin-bands.
tic. The worms have ruined the crop.
not more than One-third of the usual
product will be gathered.
Squire Miller, who holds the mar
tie in a very sacred light, issued a
warrant, yesterday, for the arrest OF
Bob johnson and William Bradley.
10Th of that cOwardly class knOwn a.
'wife-whippers.p The Squire will deal
With their cases this morning.
The Memphis Exposition building
S progressing rapidly, and promises to :
all the Board of Directors and officers s
promised. 1t viii be a credit 10 !
1emphis, and viii revive the ancient {
lOries of Jefferson street. Rents there {
already increased as q result Of it.
The case of the State against c. II.
Weston, for fraudulent breach Of trust,
vas brought up before Squire Hall, yes
erday, and resulted in the defendant
leing bound yer in the sum of two
thousand dollars to appear at the next
itting Of the Criminal Court. The pros
cutOr, Mr.. Cunningham, wa also OBJ
iged to enter into bonds in the sum of
wO hundred and fifty dollars TO appear.
{ was stated last evening that the !
Ounsel for Nj. Weston would sue out q
writ Of hGbeGs corpus in his behalf to- i
.sy. !
As is usually the case on Monday
morning, the Recorders docket, yester- {
.ay, was rather a lengthy one. Martin }
'asey, a rather hard case, was fined ff- !
Y dollars, OF hundred days on the
hain-gang, for battering and bruising q
lis cara SpOsd; Lowry Sanders paid !
twenty-five dollars for the pleasure Of /
arrying a pistol, and the youthful thief,
I'd. Mitchell, who stole fifty dollars on q
'riday last went to Jail in default of I
our thousand dollars bail, to await the !
ctiOn Of the Criminal Court. The bal I
nee Of the cases, most Of which were {
II minor o~ftenses, were disposed of by
mall fines. n
The following sufficiently explains f
self and Is published for the informal
Of the public, and to show that the p
excursion, for which the APPEAL il
lbOred single-handed, was a success be- s.
ond any speculation of the projectors: {
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, August p, 1872. 81
Gorge ". Alexander, Business Manager Ap-
peal, Memphis, Tennessee: p
Ny DEAR Strive desire to ackBoWl- Il
ige the great service you have rendered "
our citizens by your exertiOns in direct g
them this season toward Denver and
le famous resorts of the Rocky noun v
.ins. The Colorado watering-places D
e superior to any in the country, and d
le grand climate must certainly have b
a beneficial effect upon those who
ere induced to visit them through your A
strumentality. The whole trip Is so d
alike that usually made to the hack "a
syed places Of resort in the East that fC
traveller is filed with wonder and o.
and we have yet TO see the first a
he who has not returned with feelings s
thankfulness that his steps have been Il
rected there. Engaged, as we are, in 81
e work Of making known to the public 2
advantages Of our routes, we de-
re TO bear testimony 10 the important c
d you have rendered us, and to thank v
~ for what you have donein our behalf. p
18th kind regards, we are lip
BEVERLY X. HEM. M
neral Freight and Passenger Agent Kansas Il.
Pacific, Denver Pacific, and Denver and y
Boulder Valley railways
r. CHANDLER. VI
neral Passenger and Freight Agent st. u
Louis, Kansas city and Northern railway.
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