Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-08
C PARAGRAPHS.

Lillian Edgarton will not lecture in
Memphis this week as announced. she Is
I sick, but hopes to be wei enough 10 appearon
Wednesday, the eighteenth
DIR. Laski was yesterday made happy
by the recovery OF his horse and buggy. a
Constable, seeing the n standing uncared
for, quietly took In and did ioriL
The Western and Atlantic Railroad
! COmpanEsFun six trains a day out OF Atlanta
! 10 ChattaAoora and Dalton, making close con-
necfion with trains on the Charleston rail-
road.
Recorder Winters yesterday re-
CURED i. Fontaine 10 enter into a bond Of one
Z thousand dollars for his prompt appearances
az the Criminal C0nrt for carrying concealed
weapons, at the ensuing term.
John Mitchell, a vagrant and Pom
ndenee man, was sent to 5al yesterday IN de.
/ fault of tive thousand dollars bail 10 await
The action of the Grand Jury for swindling a
countryman at three-card monte.
The requisition Of Governor Brown
for Louis Sturgeon, charged with the murder
Of Johnny Murphy, arrived BY mail yester-
day morning, and was Immediately forward
ed by CHIEF Athy to the authoriues OF mis-
The directors and officers Of the
Planters, Manufactures and Mechanics
Association, of the State of Mississippi, have
our thanks for an invitation to attend their
I fourth annual State fair. which commences
at Jackson on Monday, the eleventh OF Octo-
Der next
The game of chess az played be-
tween a CHASTITY, gr.nning skeleton-Death-
and a hapless wreteh-an angel watchingt the
prOeress OF the game-has bean admirably
painted by Mr.. Hart an artist OF TINS CITY.
The picture may be seen at the APPEAL edl-
torial rooms.
-Itis stated that General Chatham
will canvass the state with ex-President An
drew Johnson-the disorganizer-and propose
10 do his own talking after his own fashion,
] Da vuf1f meat NJ Johnson at all the principal
points in the state. They will publish a list
Of appointments soon
About six O'Clock last evening,
! James Loxel white, and James Rink colored,
got into an alteration, az the corner OF Pop
lar and Fourth streets, during which LOVel
was seriously. though not dangerously cut
with a knife by Rink. Both parties were AZ
rested.
Since the wealth Of Arkansas and
Texas constitutes, at this hour, the subject
/ matter Of terrible contest, involving the Tor
| times al great commercial cities, Memphis
being one Of themi the people eNeryWhere
viii read with avidity a discussion OF ques-
lions and interests involved in the APPEAL
OF tomorrow.
Sam Whitney was fined fifty dol
lars in the Recorders Court yesterday Tor
being drunk and disordeTly, Whlcn was I'M
mediately paid. Ida May and Joe Cline,
who were his partners in the little tear
we're ordered 10 pay a similar sum-, but they
Ianguish in the for want OF
funds to pay the amount due
An interesting meeting has been
in progress during the past week al the
Georgia street Methodist church, Rev. W. II.
Patterson, pastor. The citizens OF south
Memphis and Fort Pickering have availed
themselves of the religious services in their
midst and have filed the church nightly. b
meeting is 10 be continued during the week.
The Societd a. Uni0ne H0lidnd held
a grand ~eonvocation yesterday, and II was
agreed that, in conjunction with all other
secular associations Of the city, proper onors
should be endered to the memory and deeds
Of Columbus After a procession through the
leading fh~orougbfares, there will be q sofrec
ddHsdHtC, in which the wives and daughters
Of all members Of associations invited VIII
participate. This admixture OF the best
classes of people viii promote generous good
feeling, and the plans Of the S0eietd d UfltoRe
HGIidna are everywhere approved.
"A shooting affray occurred last eve
ming, on Jefferson street, between a couple OF
sports named respectively Tom valley and
Mickey Free. The two had a quagrelf in front
Of the Senate about some checks, when
Mickey Free pulled out a deringer and opened
fire on Valley. At the first attempt the cap
snapped. On the second the bullet glanced
past Valleys head. He took to his heels and
at eight o'clock was reported sui running,
rested and locked up in the Adams street sta
tionhouse. The Recorder viii take eogni-
zance Of his case on Monday.
Many who are in various ways in
terested in the Webster Block have been
much exercised over an article which ap-
peared in the columns Of the APPEAL and
headed "MYStery," some days ago, and which
related, in a graphic manner, vague rumOfs
and foolish superstition Of the ignorant and
unlettered concerning this truly admirable
In publishing thaVaftlele, the AP-
PEAL had no Intention Of damaging the prop
erty, which every citizen knows TO be one OF
the finest and best built in the city, but
merely to bring into TidIcule the foolish sup
srstftiOn OF not only the negroes, but some
and unlettered whites, who en-
Lertain just such ideas about this place as they
10 OF many other buildings in the city. No
one Of eoOd cOmmon-sense viii pay any atten-
ion to the embellishments Of mysteries put
mon the article. The fact tina two or three
Unusual accidents happened in the building
no reason why ghosts and COLLINS
should make it their tr~ysting-place, II was
By no means the intention OF the APPEAL 20
rodue the belief that the building was
aaunted. The necessity OF this explanation is
lIustrative Of the power Of the press, in this in
it is alleged 70 have impaired even the
value of property by the universally Of diff
,usion given absurd ghost stories among the
and superstitiOus. |