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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-19
PERSONAL.

H. B. S. WILLIANIs's health is much
impaired. He suffers from govt fear
fully.
THE good and wise Emily Faithful
viii lecture at an early day in this city.
Correspondence with this end in view
is now conducted.
S. S. REMBERT, ESQ.,, is the author of
the sharp criticism, that appeared last
Sunday, upon slang, and vulgar, and
incorrect expressions to which many
supposed decent people are much adj
dicted.
w. B. LOWE, Springfield, Illinois; J.
B. Best, Arkansas; d. Stewart, St.
Louis; Captain r. w. Dugan, Coving-
ton, Kentucky; w, A. Hedden, New
Albany, Indiana; E. P. Alexander,
Alabama; J. J. Williams, Mississippi,
are at the Peabody Hotel.
YESTERDAY we received a Dublin
newspaper, well worn in its passage
across the Atlantic. There was an arti-
Gle with black marks drawn about it,
which recited the fact that John Lilly,
an American citizen, had on board one
of the Allan Line of steamers, that
brought the newspaper, two casks of
Irish whisky and six Of Dublin porter
Lilly should advertise his liquors at
home, in his own newspapers.
EX-SENATOR MCDONALD, of Arkan-
sas, is engaged in New York in pro-
noting the purposes of railway builders
who would enrich and aggrandize his
State. In this, as we are advised, he
has been successful, and whatever Ar
kansas may think, Memphis owes the
distinguished gentleman a debt of last
ing gratitude. He cannot leave New
York, we are told, before the holidays.
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PREPARING FOR A TOUR.
A Sleek Young Man Finds Midnight In.
gress 20 a Safe, and Snate1es $1,000.
John GastOn's Market Money DIsap-
pears I'm the Ntght-ReeOVered Again
I'm n Few Hours.

Antony Vanucio was once a trust
worthy cashier, and manager for John
Castor, the celebrated restdurateur of
this city; but about three or four weeks
ago, Antony, commonly called ssTony, -
left the place, and has not worked since.
This same ''Tony'' was shot in the thigh
at saloon on Main street, near GayOso,
some five or six months ago, by some
gentleman with whom he had had
words. The shot-wound quickly healed
up, and ''Tonyn went on with his BUSH
ness. Tuesday night he went to the
negro Waterman at GastonIs. and told
him he would let him have five dollars,
if he would allow him access to the safe,
as he wanted to take ten dollars out of
1t. The negro, having been formerly in
the habit of seeing '"Tony'i 90 to
the safe for a little Ttchange, y
consented, being strongly tempted
by the prospective five dollars. An
hour after Tony left the negro went up
TO Gaston's room, and informed him Of
the whole circumstance. The impress
sion upon the mind of the negro was
that Tony had taken only ten dollars,
and the same impression was left upon
the mind of Mr.. CASTOR, so the affair
was aiioNeu W pass over. esleruay
morning, however, the extent of the
peccadillo was discovered, and Tony
was arrested by Detective Cranmer.
Tony denied the charge Indignantly at
first, but when locked up in the station
house confessed the weakness. Mr..
Cranmer found the money in Tony's
room on Madison street, which, being
identified by CASTOR, was returned to
that gentleman. Tony was indicted by
the Grand Jury early in the day, and
will have his little case disposed of very
soon by the Criminal Court. He twas
fixing up to start, per railroad, fol- the
North, or for Europe.
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ADJUSTMENTS.


There was another fine house at the
Memphis Theater last night, which
is ample evidence that the drama OF
Ddug Crockett is duly appreciated by
the theater-goers of Memphis. Mr..
MAYO pla Jed with his usual spirit, and
was well supported by Miss Hawthorne,
Miss Taylor, Mr.. Pike, Mr.. Ferguson
and other members of the dramatic
company. Tonight Mr.. Mayo will APP
pear in his great personation of "Riche-
lieu" in Bulwer's grand masterpiece.
Mr.. Mayo has received the warmest en-
comiums from the ablest critics of the
country for his fine conception of the
great and suble Minister of France. The
house will doubtless be well filled on
the occasion.
Grand OpeFahOuse-HunsPty DamPtS.
Old Hunlpt played to about nine hun
bred people last night. He grinned
much more pleasantly than before, and
indeed all the company did very well.
A big and meritOrious company, num-
beTing forty members, ought to have
full houses every night. The show is
emphatically gigantic thing, and fine
as it is large. There will be four more
performances this week, and as not
more than one in hundred of our pop
ulation saw HuDlpt as yet, there may be
expected a great crowd at each future
performance. Major Mcclure, the treas
urer of the establishment, is to have a
benefit on Monday next. On that Oc-
casiOn We may expect to see an over
flowing house.
liberation.
There was a matinee yesterday, at
two o'clock, another will be given on
Saturday. The evening performance
was well attended, the Assembly Hall
being completely filled by an interested
audience Of nice people. Whoever is
DESTROYS of seeing some of the fairest
spots in Ireland, done on canvass, will
not fail to visit the Hibernicon during
the week. There will be a matinee on
Saturday. We may honestly say that
the performances in the portrayal of
Irish character, as well as the music
and singing, are of very superior order.
.l-.--.--1-
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JANUARY 1, 1873.

We viii close the retail branch Of out
business on the above date, and the
SOUTHERN PALACE
will then be occupied by Messrs. Grubbs
& Austin, and we will, after that date,
be found at our Wholesale House, No.
S4S Main street.
In accordance with the above we will
close out our retail stock at sacrificing
prices, as it must be sold previous to
January /, 1873.
We will sell Irish poplins, costing
81 25 at IS cents; Poplins, costing IS
cents to 81 IS per yard at 50 cents; Dress
Goods, worth so to 65 cents, at 25 cents.
Our entire stock of Dress Goods has been
marked down in prices beyond all
precedent. Ottoman Striped (reversi-
ble) Shawls, worth So, at s.; Ottoman
Scarfs (reversible), worth IS, at 81. We
We will close out balance of real
Paisley and Broche Shawls at IS cents
on the dollar of original cost.
English prints at only l24 cents per
yard, English and French satteens, worth
10 10 % CCubSs Ut ~ CcAAOS pei y e1A0 4 uAo
at so cents on the dollar; 200 sets capes
and muffs, ladies' full size, worth IS to
$40, at only S. a set; ladies' bleached
British Hose, cost Sc, at "a so per dozen;
ladies' Lisle Thread Drown and
bleached) Hose at 70 cents on the dollar
of original cost, and warranted genuine
English thread; gents British half
hose, worth IS, at S375 per dozen; a lot
81 eli ~ "
soiled mot damaged), at 50 each, worth
50 50; lot of gents Undershirts and
Drawers British goods, worth 50 to
So so each to close at 81 80; JOseph's one
and two-button kid gloves, 50 cents a
pair; genuine "Alexandres" kids, one
and two-button, at 81 pair.
We must close January /, 1873, and
bargains Is the rule.
d. C. & II. NJ. L0EWENSTINE,
Southern Palace,
222 Main street doors from Union at
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FIRES.
What Our FiFemen Should RnOw-PhiI-
OsOphy in Extingufshing Fires.

1t has been remarked that while fire
apparatus has been constantly improv-
ing, no progress has been made in the
method of attacking a fire. On this
point, Rev. DR., Hill, not long ago Presi-
dent Of Harvard College, has this to say
Everybody is daily in need of kindling
fires, at least so far as to light match
or a cigar; few have ever need of
quenching a fire. Hence, most people
know that fire spreads by heating ada
cent fuel, and that, in heating adjacent
fuel, the heated air and burning gases of
the fire are much more efficient agents
than the mere radiant heat; in other
words, that to get fire to spread rapid
ly it must be lighted at the bottom or to
windward, or where a lateral draft may
be created by the fire; while few people
know that to quench a fire the same
principle is generally available, and the
quenching is most rapidly effectual if it
can be begun at the lower part of the
fire or at windward, or where a draft
strikes it.
Of course, in a oOnflagration it is often
impossible to avail ones self of these
facts; but at the beginning, while the
fire is confined to one or two houses, it
can generally, unless there be gunpow-
der or benzine in the building, be sub
dued by resolute, plucky adherence to
the maxim, 'Piay low" When build
ing is well on fire, and pouring a stream
of flame and burning cinders out of its
roof, the temptation to play on the roof
is very great, and a majority of firemen
yield to it; but the minority who resist
the temptation, and direct their streams
to the lower story of the building, pres
emily have the satisfaction of put
ting out the fire. II the gas pipes
under a mass of burning ruins be
open or broken, the effectual rem
edy is to shut off the gas in the main
pipe. The blazing roof is the burning
gas, the gas is generated from the heat
ed timbers, the heat generating it is
from the burning stories below; the
wind currents carrying the blazing elm
ders to adjoining roofs are produced by
the SO heat below; quench that low
er sto s., and you have put out the fire
at the gas factory and cut off the supply
of gas, and the steam from that quench-
ing has also gone up and deadened the
fire even to the roof. Improved meth
DDS of rendering buildings fire-proof are
imperatively needed in our cities; but
both in city and country we need still
more urgently general knowledge of
the principle on which smaller fires can
be quenched by a ten-dollar hand-en-
CINE as rapidly and effectually as by the
most magnificent of Latta's steam fire.
engines.
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A GAMBLING MAYOR.
Erue Copy OF the indictments Pound
Against JOh1 johnson, Now In the
Criminal Court.

The following is 4 true copy" Of the
presentment made by the Grand Jury
against John Johnson for his collision
with gamblers, now in the Criminal
Court A similar document is there
also, charging the Chairman of the
Common Council with the same species
of Otfense. The documents being ex-
actly alike except as to name, it was not
considered necessary to produce both.
The public, We presume, will think this
one quite enough for one time:
state Of Tennessee, Shelby cOunty-Criminal
Court OF shelby county:
The Grand Jurors Of the State of
Tennessee, duly elected, empanneled,
sworn and charged to inquire in and for
the body of the county of Shelby, in
the State aforesaid, upon their oath pre-
sent, on information, that John John
son, "LABORER," late of the county
aforesaid, on - day of -, 1872, in the
county aforesaid, and on divers other
days and times between that day and
the day of the finding of this Indictment,
in the city of Memphis, in said county
of Shelby, unlawfully did keep and
maintain q certain common gaming
house, for lucre and gain, on the said =
day of -, in the year aforesaid, and
lawfully and willfully did cause and
procure, and doth yet so unlawfully
and willfully cause and procure divers
idle and evil-disposed persons to fire.
quent and come to play together at
certain game, called keno, and in said
common gaming house, on the said -
day -, in the year aforesaid, and on
the said other days and times, there IN
lawfully and willfully did permit, and
doth yet so unlawfully and willfully per-
nit, said idle and evil-dispOsed persons
TO be and remain playing and gaming
at the said unlawful game, called keno,
for divers, large and excessive sums of
money, to the evil example of ell others
like offending, and against the peace
and digRity of the State of Tennessee.
On the back of the document the
names of the Grand Jurors appear, as
follows: Thomas B. NOrment, Foreman;
John E. Beasely, Thomas II. Allen,
Isaac Schwab, s. X. DrOescher, K. J.
B. L. VIM, John G. Lewis, A. Mala-
tesla, J. G. Stark, B. ]. Semmes, w. G.
Rutland, George f. RoOtes.
The law makes every participant in
"misdemeanOrs" a principal and
therefore every man who encourages Ii
censing or permitting gaming is guilty
as principal of the Offense charged in
this presentment. In felOnies there are
grades of criminality, and principals"
and accessories before and after the
fact.7 Our worthy Mayor is a principal
in the case to be considered by the Grim
inal Court.
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taches to them In instituting professional
relations with any one, no matter what
the character Of that person may be. 1t
is commonplace, we suppose, to refer to
the example Of Christ, whose life is sup
posed to be their model, although
in the present instance it seems
as if Jesus Christ would not have
done precisely as they did. But this is
progressive age. The fact is that Rev.
Mr.. BrOwner did nothing but his simple
duty, and it is wonderful that any
preacher Of the Gospel could be so utter
ly wanting In a knowledge of the obi
cations resting upon member Of his
profession and in Christian charity, as to
refuse to ofiiciate at the burial of this or
any other human being. We speak Of
the incident, not to induce any excited
discussion, such as attended a somewhat
similar case which occurred recently in
this city. but simply to suggest that even
among the clergy there is need Of a new
examination of the humane relations
which ought to be maintained toward
the poor, the ignorant and the sinful"
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
Boats Leaving To-day.


The river here has fallen one inch
since our last report, and now stands
nine inches above low water mark. The
river kilograms to Signal Observer
Rhode, received last night, report a fur
Their rise of five inches at Cairo, making
a total rise there Of nine inches; also a
rise of four inches at st. Louis, which
will improve the channel, and make q
depth of over four feet TO Cairo; a rise
of four inches is also reported at Pitts
burg, two inches at Vieksburg, and five
inches at Shreveport, but a decline Of
three inches at Cincinnati, and six inch
es at Louisville. Whether the rise at St.
Louis is caused by the breaking Of the
iee-gOrge at Alton or not, is not stated,
but it is quite likely that it was. The
Arkansas is down to fifteen inches at
Rob Roy, and there is not enough water
above Little Rock to run q small-sized
country grist-mill waterwheel. White
river is not much better, and has barely
thirty inches at Little Island. The bars
below here are reported In a bad condi.
ton, and but i've and half feet of wa
ter could be found yesterday at either
Reeves or Horn Lake. Above here
there will be five feet full to-day over
the worst places. Business at the land
ing was principally confined yesterday
10 the local packets. The GAINESVILLE
came up early with two hundred and
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and respected BY all with whom BUSH
ness brought him in contact. His fam
lily reside at Edgeield, opposite Nash
vile, and consisted Of his wife and, we
believe, four children, grown. One OF
his sons, a member Of the firm Of Hills
man & Brothers at Nashville, viii ar
rive to-day to take charge Of aud con-
vey his remains to Edgefeld, where
they viii be inferred Another son
came upon the Cheek yesterday to meet
his father, little dreaming that he had
seen him alive for the last time, and his
feelings, upon learning Of his death, csn
be better imagined than described. His
steamboat friends will long mourn his
loss, and his bereaved family have the
sympathy Of all who knew him.
A hammer weighing twenty-fvehuD-
bred pounds is used az Hickman, Ken
lucky, in driving piles at the wharf
While the piles furnish a solid wharf,
which brings trade, they act as a break
water to preserve a valuable portion of
the town from erumbling into the Mis-
sissippi river. Our city authorities
should borrow that hammer and drive
row Of piles from the foot Of Poplar to
the foot Of Adams street. A few hun
dred dollars expended there now will
save thousands in the future. II IL a
well-known fact that a large slice Of the
river bank caves into the liver between
the streets named every wear, and even
now the water is undermining the leyee
50 that the portion directly in front Of
the large wharf boat is gradually set
Ting down, and, not protected above,
viii one Of these days drop into sixty
or seventy feet Of water.
On Thursday last, the following
steamers were ice-bOund at Cincinnati:
TOwbOat Tom FarrOw, General Lyle,
LeOnOTs No 3, Messenger and Noun
tain Boy, a barge Of lumber, the barge
Eagle, Red Line barges John Ellison
and W. w. CulbertsOn, all partly
loaded; Ohio No. 4, Fleetwood
and BOstOna; Nick LOngwOrth load
ed, barge Nightingale loaded, Jas
d. Parker partly discharged, MinneO-
Ia, Louisville with some freight aboard
Potomac, Mollie Ebert, JUnisfa, United
States, K. r. Hudson, Captain Harris
uncOmpleted steamer, John II. GrOes-
beck dismantledl, Robert Burns dds
mantledl, and a new uncOmpleted
steamer Tor the Wabash river.
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o Phil. ]. Mallon. Esa. :

To Phil. J. Mallon, Esq:
SIR-Being long acquainted with your
patriotism and public spirit, and you
being thoroughly identified in business
and in heart with the best interests Of
the city, and moreover having full con-
idence in your ability, fidelity and in
tegrity, which confidence is the natural
result Of experience in watching your
action in the Board of Aldermen for two
years past, we deem you the fittest man
we can select to represent us again in
the character of Alderman in the Cen
eral Council of the city, and therefore
we call upon you to announce yourself
as a candidate for that Office-prOmising
you our hearty support at the election,
and expressing the confident belief that
you viii be elected by large majority
of the voters Of the
SECOND WARD
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WOMEN AND TELEGRAPHY.
How the New System will Effect social
Life.

A note from AIessrs. Lindsay and
Coleman, informs us that fifty thousand
dollars have been subscribed to the
capital stock Of the Printing Telegraph
Company. In the hands of Messrs.
Lindsay and Coleman we have the
greatest confidence in the success Of this
enterprise. The advantages secured by
using their machine are countless.
Everybody becomes a telegraph Oper-
ator, writing and transmitting at the
same instant his own messages, which
are printed by the simple mechanism.
Every business man viii have one of
the little machines in his wife's bOudOir
and another in his business Office, and
the dear creature will tell him at what
hour to come home to dinner,
whether the turkey is well
cooked, or that the baby fell out
of doors, or that the cook blew up Wet
ter's stove. If the old man lodges
around, the old lady viii telegraph for
him and scOld at him ferOciOusly by
telegraph. He may perpetrate little
frauds now and then, for Lindsay and
Coleman do not pretend to preserve the
in dispatches forwarded
and received. Colonel Jaques win want
about one hundred of these instruments,
not because Of any womanly or domes-
tic necessities, but collisions will be i'm
possible, not only in families, as above
shown, but on railways, when one of
these instruments is at every station,
and every engineer and every conductor
is capable Of receiving and forwarding
The precise whereabouts of
every train on the road will always
be known by every other train; now il
is quite impossible to employ operators
at every little station and stopping
place; then, everybody becomes an Op-
orator and thousands Of lives and in
property values will be saved
by Lindsay's and COleman's
simple device.
Eut the great good done consists in
the fact that the old man cannot escape
the old woman. She can rattle away at
him from day dawn till breakfast with
a Geographic cable coiled endlessly
within the depths of her little head, and
then when he is gone she hOwls by
till his head cracks. The
thing ought to be suppressed.
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The case was based on a claim for COM
pensation for services done in releasing
a steamboat at Vicksburg In 1864. The
boat was in the hands Of the Federal au-
thorities at the time. At a first trial of
the case the plaintiffs were awarded but
two thousand dollars compensation. A
new trial was obtained by the defend
ants, and now thesum of thirty-six hum
dred dollars is allowed by the second
ifrry
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To the Christmas Committees of Sunday
Schools:
We are now showing some $1,000
German CORRECTION Bores, handsome
ly gotten up and especially designed
for Christmas Trees. The prices of
them are so low from few cents up
that they will undoubtedly prove the
most attractive decoration which can
be used for the money. The more ell
egant ones will serve as handsome
sOUUe1lirS, and are very useful for the
toilet or parlor. On purchases made
for schools a liberal discount will be
allowed off the regular prices.
COILS, 273 Main street.
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NJ USI 3
soon at any price.

THE purest and sweetest Cod Liver
Oil in the world is Hazard & Csswell's,
made on the sea-shore, from fresh Sc
lected livers, by Caswell, Hazard 4 Co.,
New York. 1t is absolutely pure and
sweet. Patients who have once taken
it prefer it to any other. For sale by all
druggists.
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TO ADVERTISERS.

rs has been stated from the first
day of the publication of the
SUNDAY APPEAL, it is q dis
5inct and separate issue, and no
advertisement is inserted in it JCJO-
less specially ordered and paid
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GREAT SALE OF FURS

AT REDUCED PRICES PHIS WEEK
at Menken Bros.
Genuine Mink Sable Sets, muff and
cape, SIS 90. Ermine fur sets,
FRENCH SABLE SETS,
SIBERIAN SABLE SETS,
all at great bargains this week at
MENKEN BROS.
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FOR SALE OR LEASE.

+ AND-il15 acres vest OF the Fair Grounds
i north Of NJ. and e. K. R., for sale on II
ears time, or for lease for 10 wears, fronunS
IN Irrelevant avenue and the railroad.
del9 q. A. STOVALL, IS Madison st.