Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-27
FOR LEASE.
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Rev. J. F. Truslow viii preach this
evening. at the Chelsea Methodist Church, al
seven o'clock.
We are indebted to a newsbOy who
runs on the Charleston road, for Nashville pa
pers of the ~twenty-stxth.
A couple of coloreds had a midnight
fight in Arkadelphia, Tuesday last, about 6
woman, and stabbed each other 10 death.
johnson, the negro who is accused
Of killing a brother African at Whitehaven, a
good while ago, is TO be a~rraigned before Judge
FUppin this morning.
The Memphis Theater bOx-office
opens his morning at nine O'Clock, when
seats can be secured for any evening during
MI. ByrOn's engagement.
The recent rains, while very useful
70 other sorts Of plants, did powerful damage
to The open cotton. Instead OF increasing, il
will shorten the crop still more.
1t is reported among the police that
the Board" composed OF the Mayor and
Chairman Of the two branches OF the city leg
stature, Will do some investigating into the
sOnduct OF various officers this evening.
Mr.. Magevney, who rules supreme
az the city clearinghouse, is making prepa-
rations for the fan rush Of business. Extra
accommodations are getting ready, n a coat
Of whitewash is going on, as an extra induce
ment TO intending dodgers.
Judge Flippin yesterday inflicted
.AE Statutory punishment VI AuAAult1
dollars fine and thirty days imprisonment on
France, Of North Court street, for dealing in
lottery tickets. An appeal TO the supreme
Court wastaken. There seems 10 be an inev-
liable conflict between the imina Court and
lottery dealers.
Mr.. Willard sues the city in the
First Circuit Court to recover ten thousand
dollars damages, which he claims to have
sustained by falling into a hole on Beale street,
On the night Of the Fourth of July last. The
complainant says the hole was ten feet deep,
and that the city, government was rimtna
", OF at least a~ctionably negligentin not hav-
ing said hole filled up. TIT trial IS now going
on
The County Court will meet on
Monday week. The session will open lively,
There is a Tax-collectoT, to collect railroad
TAX, to be elected, and also a Coroner. Besides
these, there are bonds Of officers to be APP
proved, and many other matters OF import
snce. Already there are nine candidates in
the field for the Office Of Railroad Tax-col-
iector, which is said to be worth five or six
thousand dollars a year.
The darkest hole in the darkest
dungeon in the station-house is the place for
him. His name is Stewart, and he is impris-
oned because he could not pay a fine of fifty
dollars, which the Recorder levied upon him
.or his immOdest conduct in entering the
house Of a lady on Market street and insult
ing her IN the vilest way conceivable. He
refuses to work on the Changing, and is,
therefore, enjoying the cOngenial darkness OF
a dungeon.
Here is another epitaph that comes
20 US from Iuka. 1t does not look complete,
but here is enough Of 1t to make music:
Ike Thomas was a soldier bold,
OF the seventh cavalree;
As scout, vidette or forager,
A rafting blade was he.
For his sword was red and his pistol black,
And many a foe had felt,
With a bullet-hOle OF slash on the head
The contents Of Ike's belt.
-Paducah, Kentucky, has a saw-mill
carries OF the palm for rapid work. The
number Of logs, each twenty feet long, cut in
one hour and three minutes with the time Of
cutting each, Is as follows: First log, six
minutes; second log, ten minutes; third log,
eight and One-half minutes; fourth log, eleven
and One-haf minutes; NTH log, nine and one
half minutes: sixth log. eight and ne-haIf
minutes: seventh log, eight and one-half min
utes. We advise the gentleman who owns
that patent TO have il on exhibition at the
Memphis Industrial Exposition.
The Mississippi river bluff, where
old Fort Pillow is located, il is said has been
steadily burning for several weeks. The fire
is about ten feet above the water and extend
several hundred yards on a parallel with
rises up, spreads white smoke, which passes
above the brow Of the bluff, is waited away.
Recently. when the steamer Celeste passed by
the burning bluh, the river was filled with
smoke. whose hazy appearance mble "a
thick fog. At night the flame is very brilliant,
and CLEANS far DER the waters. The cause OF
the dre is nknOw
Running the Beale street cars out to
the Charleston depot, ria jefferson street, was
a brilliant thought, brilliantly executed. The
Job was completed this week, and on yesterday
superintendent Barrett run out the first car
on the new track. Tn car was also new-One
Of those light, graceful, elegant, handy affairs
thar have been found SO useful IN our street
railroads. Pat. Short was delighted at the
facile, smOoth way in which the new thing
worked. Superintendent Barrett was also
much pleased. He is becoming a great rail-
road builder. He has grand designs in his
head about those street lines. He will extend.
them down 10 his plantation in Mississippi, II
everything prospers with him.