Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-04

was accused OF cruelty whipping a ulue
female domestic, went on yesterday.
Hosts of witnesses were summoned.
All the facts in the affair were lengthily
detailed in these columns last winter.
A eolored man went to the Poplar
street markethOuse yesterday afternoon
to repOse on one of the benches. lie
was found dead there afterward. Justice
| Spellman held an inquest on the body,
which resulted in a verdict Of natural
death. The man had been suffering
from chills. A colored society took
charge Of the body.
Whether it is due to kziness or
| meanness cannot be ascertained, but it
is painfully true that the postOffice folks
neglect to send letters away by the next
train after they are mailed. The conse-
quences Of this crude, shutting, awk-
ward way Of doing business, is that it
takes about four days to get replies to
letters sent to Nashville, and sometimes
five.
The monthly report of the p~Ostoffice,
which we received yesterday, shows that
the business of Memphis is improving.
Eleven hundred and sixteen thousand
two hundred and seventy-siX mail let
tiers were delivered, twenty-six thousand
four hundred and ninety newspapers,
/ and seventy-siX thousand six hundred
and one letters were collected and forty
five hundred and ffty-three newspapers.
The J~ohnsonians are already col
lecting money for some purpose or other.
The lofty cOnstitutiOnalists do not blush
to stOOp to the mOney-gathering habit
" for electiOneeTing purposes" This is
the result of the Cochran Hall COnven-
ton. If Andy is honest in his profess
siOns he ought to turn round" on that
~conclave and give it fits. 1t is de-
signed to divide the will of the free
people. Perhaps Andrew doesn't Kerr
about this.
The johnson clique wanted to hold
their little caucus with "private secre-
sy," il appears. It is curious how those
nice little men who admire the smasher
Of conventions, slide into the worst
style Of caucusing when oDce they get a
chance. These tyrOs in politics-mOstly
new-hedged patriOts-don't dream Of the
task they are assuming. Few of them
ever worked in a canvass before, and
will do little now except SplUrge. They
like to hear themselves talk.
The patrolman who does duty all
the days or nights Of the month, serves
about four hundred and ten hours. AT
the usual rate of ten hours for a days
labor, this makes forty-One days. His
paw is, therefore, about two dollars and
thirty cents per day, upon which be is
expected to keep himself respectable.
The Recorder serves about ninety hours,
or nine days, for which he gets Onehun-
dred and seventy-fve dollars, or about
twenty dollars per day. A railroad la
bnrer gets one dollar and a half per day.
Here is food for COmmunistic imagin- |
ings.
Religion in Dyer county is looking
up. Brother +. A. Slater writes Sep
tember 25th: brother w. A. Yancey, |
preacher in charge, began a prOtraeted
meeting at Blue Grass, Augustl7t that
lasted eight days. Christians were
made happy. Eight souls professed to
find peace with GOd-eleven joined the
church-seventeen were penitent. We
have a fine Sunday-schOOl of fifty-six
members. The school is located in
Dyer county, on the bank Of the Mis-
sissippi river, in IN Of the best neigh
borhOOds between Memphis and Cairo.
An esteemed subscriber residing in
Walden, Mississippi, writes US on the
first in the following complimentary
vein, for which we thank him: please |
send me a copy Of the APPEAL for Sep |
TENDER Both. Have just seen a copy, but
have not time TO read it, and the party
who has il will not part with il. One /
time in life you have melted out what
that old lifelong Tennessee demagOgue, 1
Andy johnson, justly deserves. For the
past twenty years he has been a curse
and a political disgrace. He is the real
cause Of all the political woes that now
ahiict the South. He opened the politi-
cal Pandora's box in 1865, while Presi-
dent. He broke the political ice. and
made the suggestions which fired the
abolition fanaticism of the North, head
ed by old Thad. Stevens, Wilson, Sum-
ner, and hosts. Their press, pulpits,
Legislatures, Congress, religious assOci-
literary associations, made up
most Of their stock in trade in lying, |
slandering, abusing, cursing, hating and
the Southern people, TO which
Andy johnson, a native Southern man,
politically made by noble Tennesseeans,
said amen-even more, but was checked
by General Grant"
"A sad accident occurred at Decatur
at four o'clock Wednesday morning.
While the passenger train on the Nash
vile and Decatur road was being made
up for Nashville, a lady named Louisa
on her way from Walker county,
Alabama, to Jacksonville, with two
little nieces, tried 20 cross the track, be-
confused and got in the way Of a
ar which was being backed into al,
As IL neared her a brakeman
ihouted 10 her 10 get out Of the way, and
Il the same time ~endeavOred TO stop the
ar, but In vain. His cries seemed rather
o confuse her, and she seemed 50 badly ]
cared that she knew not which way TO 5
The car struck her and she was !
boyed some distance along the track :
the brakes. Notwithstanding her
.wn Derilous position, she nov eXhib-
ted q wonderful presence OF mind, and !
ucceeded In throwing one Of the chill !
rem out Of the way, hoping TO save :
II possible, from death. The other, !
.Owever. was caught by the car and so
adly mangled that il died shortly after.
frs. Davis was badly injured, and may
ot recover.
AT the shops Of the Cairo and Fulton
sailroad Company, in Argenta, may be !
cen an elegant and substantial embOdi- U
lent Of Arkansas skill and enterprise,
D the shape of q first-class passenger
zach, which, in conception, design,
material and manufacture, is entirely a
.Ome production. Colonel Morley, chief {
ngineer Of the road, Is entitled to the c
Ionor Of originating the idea Of It's con- G
.tructiOn, and 10 Mr.. George w. Viii
Jams, master mechanic, Is due the
redit Of putting it into successful exc y
utiOn. Externally the car presents
cry neat and attractive appearance, n
handsomely painted an olive =
reen and tastefully ornamented. The !,
inside is finished in ash, pine and :
lack walnut, simply vanished, the !
latural colorB of the wood being retained, I,
nd, by their contrasting effects, pro- 4
Iucing a beautiful appearance. The
eats are Of the latest pattern, uphol-
tered with green enRmelled cloth, and n
Omfortably cushioned. The iron-work
all madein Little Rock and Argenta,
nd the whole car is essentially an lC
arkansas production. We trust Il Is q
Ut an Inauguration of new branch Of o