Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-17


LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
: Train is expected to be in Memph.
: during the Exposition, and to hold fort
r for two nights.
"A heavy freight train arrived fror
Louisville yesterday with materials fc
! the Exposition.
The fact-only three plain drunk
were Of record on the criminal docket q
twelve last night
! The fair at Sardis, Mississippi, is at
tended by many Memphians, and is
therefore, a success.
The excitement in the Crimina
Court now is the trial of Angelo Mare
which proceeds slowly.
The Agricultural Fair opens mex
Monday. Great quantities Of materia
going out there already.
The street railroad officials say tina
the travel on their car has increase
vastly during the past five days.
The New York Herald heads an ae
count of the OsceOla civil war, "TrOu'
Dies ia Tennessee" This is too bad.
The first shipment of iron for the
Memphis and Paducah railroad arrived
on the James Howard last night, and
viii be delivered to-day.
The city tax-gathener sold a lot 0.
lots and houses, belonging to delinquent
taxpayers, in front of the Chancery
Court, yesterday. The bids were low
and few.
Those wishing local notices in the
APPEAL, and findit too irksome to come
to the Office, can leave their orders al
MansfOrd's news stand in the EXpOsi-
ion building, near the Jefferson street
entrance.
-Fitzpatriek is to have a trial for the
| riots in Mississippi county. About forty
Z i've of the rioters will also have a hear
ng before the Criminal Judge. Court
5 now open at Oseeola, and all thing
move smoothly. That is the report.
A grand ball will be given by Kill
winning Lodge No. 34l, f. and A. NJ, al
the Memphis Club Hall, on Tuesday
evening, the twenty-ninth instant. The
purposes to which the net proceeds viii
Be applied are such as will appeal t.
The support of every Mason and every
friend Of Masonry in the city.
Colonel Curry, the indefatigable, has
procured the Memphis Transfer Com
Dany's consent to an arrangement by
which they will carry passengers to and
from the Exposition at half-fare. Eve
rybOdy seems anxious to aid the ExpOsi-
ion now that success is certain, and its
pronounced a glorious thing.
The angelo Mare case, il is said.
develops curious things. No doubt.
Many curious things cametO our knOwl-
edge yesterday, from both sides of this
trial, in both interests. We decline 10
make any comments or any publication
If documents, facts or rumors during
the progress Of the trial. Let justice
have full and free swing within the por-
tails Of the court.
The gas shoue brilliantly in the Elk
position last night. The bell for closing
rung at ten O'Clock upon the most gor-
geous scene ever witnessed in Memphis. /
some enterprising gas man got up a for
est of chandeliers, having about forty |
thousand lights to them. He then
tapped the supply pipe to Donovan's
meter, and, fsht! the light of day was
nothing compared to the brilliancy Of
al those Jets. There were chandeliers
enough 10 light up all the parlors in a
city of ten millions, and a few TO spared
1t was rumored on the streets late
last night that Fitzpatrick, the origi-
natOr of the riot at OsceOla, had sue
in convincing Governor Hadley,
Of Arkansas, that martial law was the
only thing that would save Mississippi
Arkansas, from voting the
straightout Liberal ticket, and that the
Governor had decided to issue the neces-
-a- - e. tho f.rpnfnn of tho mi Il
.itia. The rumor, however, could be
traced to no reliable authority, and we
rust it may prove incorrect.
"A young gentleman Of Memphis,
who has been corresponding with one of
he soldiers Of the Egyptian Khedive,
got a letter yesterday from said soldier,
which it is said that peace reigns over
he land Of Cleopatra. The letter then
winds up thusly: Compliments to my
Irind, General Pike, and ask him TO
end me occasionally a copy Of the
Memphis APPEAL, as we feel great anN-
to hear the political news. We are
ireeley out here, nearly to a man, and
incerely hope him success.
"chief Of stan, Army OF the Coast"
1t has been suggested that pools for
he trots 10 take place at the Fair
rounds would be sold at the grounds
the day Of the contests. This is not
Whatever parties may do outside
4 the grounds, the directory and OIL
ers are not responsible for, but they are
or what takes place within the inclos-
and they authorize US to say that
hey will neither permit pools TO be
made up or sold on the grounds at any
ime during the week of the fair. That
= all they are authorized TO do, or can
%. ,
News reached US yesterday Of the !
cath, It Montgomery, Alabama, Of
II. Ed. GOode, who was for many years
n employe Of this Office, as compost Z
Or, foreman and collector. He left :
Iemphis in June, 1862, when the AP- $
EAL took up its march through the
'O~nfederacy, and remained with IL
trough all the trying vicissitudes Of
nat trying time. Faithful and true, he
sturned 10 Memphis after the war, and a
ssumed his place on this paper, which :
G finally relinguished to engage in O
)mething more lucrative. Mr.. GOOde
'as a native Of Alabama, and in that
tate graduated as a printer. He was
n earnest, straightforward, honest man /,
! all his dealings, and was a favOrite
nth his fellOw-printers as well as with \
IS employers. he leaves a wife and c
70 children 10 mourn his loss. Peace
= 70 him, and rest. c
We have had a fortunate escape,
wing to the mistake made by NJ. Plan u
in his calculations regarding the
met that was TO destroy rs. Other j
.ep astronomers have been to work,
ID they have reached results which 4
claim are ineontestible. They con-
ude that the inevitable endo Z this UNI b
rtunate planet viii come on the zlst Of
@ll. Unbappily We shall not
here to verify the prophecy. This
il is not the fiery tail Of a comet =
at is to do the business and 10 roast the a.
tire human race. II Is the burningOut
the sun, which viii reduce the earth al
a solid mass Of ice. The temperature M
N descend 50 far below zero that no I
Of thermometers combined VIII
able 10 indicate the depths OF its frig-
This is a very bad lookout for
r descendants, TO whom the prospect
this dread October day one hundred at
d ~thirty-nine years hence cannot pos
prove a source Of eager and gleefui II
IticipatiOn.
IT has been satisfactorily settled that
y eAAAA4tA Mn1 TIC ADhANrA +NAA IA AAI IN
nited States in eighty-three years. II
Philadelphia Medical Journal gives
carefully prepared tabuiated statement ~
observations taken during the eighty y
rec year, passed. The mean tempe
ture during the month Of August was
ga. The highest point reached in the
Philadelphia hospital, where the Their
ometer was suspended, was 81. Now b.
e average for the month Of August "
ring eighty-three years was 1889. :,
wear il was Sl.64o. The highest y,
can temperature during the eighty -
rec wears was reached this year. In :,
70 the intense heat the above
eaks for itself: 1.-THE hottest month IN
ID the hottest summer ON record" The
approach for the month occurred
lS68-78.50'. and for the summer,
70-7s.sSs. The month previous, it
ay be remembered, was also the hot
It seventh month ever known here,
lille the sixth had only been exceeded DC
ice during the long period Of eighty &c
rec years, NAMELY, 1866, only a hac- TIA
ID OF 3 degree, and 1879, about . degree be
d three-qnaFieIA &C