Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-19
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

"A dispatch from LOuisvillelastnigh
says the epizOotic is now a completl
success In that city. It is the first sue
cess they have ever had there.
1t is said thatthere stOb be a ''green'
[ sergeant put on the police instead o
"brown.r We don't know that this is ,
natural arrangement in the order of col
ors.
The first anniversary Of the fOunda.
ton Of st. Joseph's Academy in Mem,
phis viii be celebrated with great ecla
at the building, on Adams street, to.
morrow.
A dispatch from Vicksburg TO the
Chief-of-Poliee states that Harry Gran.
mer has his man, and is "a his way tC
Memphis with him now. This man is
one Of the ubiquitous Speed garroters.
One of our exchanges ~reproduces
Beecher's eloquent equine discourse in
Plymouth Church under the caption
''The Horse in the Pulpit" When
Beecher breaches a sermon OF the ass,
then we shall have THE Donkey in the
Pulpit"
"A miscellaneous crowd of about
sixty persons confronted the Recorder
yesterday morning, to excuse themselves
for their little peccadilloes. Quite a
number were sent tOreplenish the chain
gang, while others were respectfully
fined.
Yesterday morning the Sheriff OF
Bolivar county, Mississippi, reached the
city, having in charge a cOlOred man
named Sam Levy, who some weeks ago
murdered a drayman named William
Burke, in Chelsea. Levy has been IN
dicted before the Criminal Court for the
murder, and will be brought to trial at
the next term
A negro ma was torn in pieces on
the Charleston road Sunday night or
Monday morning. He was at a jOllif-
cation that night, and going home lay
down on the rails and could not be in
duced 70 90 home with his comrades.
Two freight trains passed over his body
which was rendered into fragments.
when found yesterday morning a few
miles from the city.
-Barnum viii preach this evening at
the Assembly Hall on the much abused
and little understood subject Of temper
ance. All those who wish 70 be enlight-
ened on that science had better 90 to.
hear him. There is more 10 be said in
favor of this obscure virtue than is COM
monty thought. BarnUm viii throw
new light on it. He is said to be very
felicitOus On cold water.
There was one item left out of our
list Of crimes and casualties yesterday
morning, and that was the diabOlical
attempt Of Minard Harris to perforate
his "yaller" lady-love with a bullet
from his little pistol. Yesterday morn
ing he was fined fifty dollars, and com
mitted in default Of a fOur-thOusand dol
lar bond by the Recorder, on the charge
Of shooting at, with intent TO Kill, one
Bette Avant. The pistOl-bau missed
Bette and passed through the clothes Of
a white woman who stood near by.
Harris is a cOlored desperate, who
ought TO 20 TO the penitentiary.
"A gentleman named L. A. FAINT ar
rived in the city yesterday, by the Ohio
road. He was very troublesome on the
way, would not check his trunk nor mix
in with the passengers. he had a car
to himself He gave Major Waldran
great bother when be arrivedin the city.
He was the admired Of the gamins-re-
fusing to take a hack. He took his.
trunk on his head, and wrapped in four
blankets, like one afflicted with Old Ep,
he marched through the town, and
finally made a resting place Of the EX-
press Company's stable. be will be
round tomorrow, keeping company
with Barnum's whale.
Mr.. John Radley, who was the
of No. Il engine, on the Missis-
road, is a gentleman Of stict So
briefly and integrity, but is not very well
acquainted with the modes Of neWspa-
pens. He did not like the caption TO our
Of miscellaneous crimes and acct
dents in yesterdays issue, because it
stated that whisky was a. the bottom Of
al-that little explosion at Grenada
being put in among the rest. Mr.. Rad
tells Us further-that the train was a
freight, the engine had been
twenty minutes standing on the track,
and the steam-gauge showed a pressure
Of one hundred and thirty pounds. The
explosion resulted from defective con
structiOn. Six hundred dollars, he says,
will cover the loss,