Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-05
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.


-"The diamond fields of South AM
ca. - a correspondent from Pixies Peak
writes. care not to be compared IN flcn-
ness and I'm the vast number OF valuable
stores found with those of this wild des-
olate mountain region. The people are
going mad about diamonds"
Owing to the very large number of
families who are at present absent from
the city, the churches were not so well
filed Yesterday as usual. The services
were interesting and instructive, and the
music in some instances very fine.
The building fol the water-woFks
machinery is about half completed; the
principal well has been dug and the
sheet-irOn with which it is to be lined is
in process Of manufacture. 1t is conf
IDENTIFY expected that the works will be
completed and supplying our city with
water in October.
The street cars did a splendid bust
ness yesterday, being crowded nearly
every trip. A very large number of per-
sons visited ElmwOOd Cemetery in the
afternoon, while hundreds took a run
out to the suburbs and peeped into the
beer gardens, which were all doing a
fOurishing business. The refreshments
at those popular places of resort are
chiefly lager beer, lemonade and smeiT-
kase, neither of whichare very intOXica-
ting-sO that peace and good order al
ways predominant at the gardens.
We have received, with the compli-
ments Of Colonel Thomas c. AndeTsOnOf
Little Rock, a copy of the " Programme
of the Fifth Annual Fair of the Arkan-
sas State Agricultural and Mechanical
Association" 1t is a very neat PAM
phlet of sixty-fOur pages, printed on
tinted paper in a style that does infinite
credit to the Association as well as the
printer. Distributed abroad, as it will
be, this programme cannot fail to i'm
press all into whose hands it may fall,
as the best earnest that can be furnished
that the Fair, to be held in October, will
be successful.
When you advertise see that you do
it on the same principle that you buy
goods. Get the most you a for the
money. We can't recommend adver-
vertising as the best way to get 4 wife,
but we know il is the best way to get q
trade. People who advertise only once
in three months forget that most folks
can't remember anything longer than
about seven days. If you can arouse
curiosity by an advertisement, it is a
great point gained. The fair sex don't
hold all the curiosity in the world. A
constant dropping will wear a rock.
Keep dropping your advertisements on
the public, and they will soon melt I'M
der it like rock salt.
The Old Folks have their regular
monthly meeting, as advertised. 1t was
agreed among them at their last convO-
cation that if the merchants and people
did not finish the Raleigh NarrOw-gauge
at once, so that the city might be emp
tied into the village, that they, the Old
Folks themselves, would do the job, in
order that they might enjoy the hospi-
talities of Coleman and Wallace, and
of the great old Vulcan, Raleigh. The
question of time and place for the COM
ing annual festival of the antediluvians
viii be learnedly discussed, and this in
wolves the probabilities and possibilities |
of the h~alf-fnished narrow-gauge, and
of course the meeting will be most III
teresting.
The building for the great Industrial
Exposition, on Fourth, Jefferson and
Court streets, is beginning to put on a
ship-shape appearance. Nearly all the
framework is up, and the contractor,
Mr.. John Wylie, has a large number OF
men employed, and everything is being
done to facilitate the work and finish
the building by the middle of September.
A brick house which was on the lot was
elevated with screw-jacks, and bodily
moved to One side, out of the way, on
The managers of the Exposition
are men Of yigOr, and allow DC impedi-
ment to stand in their way. They are
determined to make it a success, and a
success il viii be, ifmOney, time, trouble,
and good management a achieve it.
The managers Of the National In
dustrial Exposition at Louisville, to
commence on the third of September
and continue to the third of October,
have sent US an invitation 20 be present
during that time, Of which we will be
happy to avail ourselves. The building
for this, the grandest and best effort
made by Louisville, and the
general arrangements, are spoken Of
70 us, by those who know, as a de-
sided improvement on anything of the
Sind ever seen or heard Of in this
country. We hope our neighbOrs Will
be entirely successful, and that the we'll
Known mechanical ingenuity of Louis
vile viii establish Itself on a solid basis
IN competition with that of other cities.
An intelligent looking lad went to
the Adams street stationhouse last night
and informed officer Forrest, who was
On duty, that he wanted his assistance
searching for his father. The boy
that his name was Patrick Gro
gan, and his fathers name was James
.rogan. Patrick becoming tired Of city
life about ayear ago, ran off from his pa
rents, embarked on board a steamboat
going down the Mississippi, and landed
1t Laura, Arkansas. Here he found
employment with a farmer, with whom
he has remained up till the present time.
Being anxious 10 once more see his pa
rents, he arrived in Memphis yesterday,
and was directed to the police station as
the best place to get the information he
wanted. When he LEFT he says his
father was working as a blacksmith in
)ne of the fOundries of the city. He
will remain at the station till he can
information relative to the
whereabouts Of his parents.