Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-17
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The election in the city will take
place on the second of January.
Business rushed into the city yester-
day. The dealers in all sorts of articles
were 'alive" and hopeful.
&C. L. Partee, Esq, respectfully de-
clines, to become candidate for Alder
man Of the Tenth Ward.
Now is the season Of charity. All
the Christian communities are now busy
at practical works of charity for the ben
eft of the poor.
The recent thievish events about
the city show there is a grave necessity
FOR watchfulness on the part of house
keepers. Keep the door shut.
The registration offices will close
this afternoon at three o'clock, precise
ly. People who have not got out their
papers yet had better ''fly round"
The Police Board, a venerable body,
composed of the Mayor and the heads
OF the two Boards Of City Council, will
meet this afternoon to talk things over.
There is too much Of the article on
smallpox for one dose. Give it piece
meal and it would do admirably well.
IL was recei we'd, too, at eleven O'Clock
last night.
1t is a curious arrangement of the
city that coupons due last January and
July, will not be taken in payment Of
taxes, and yet taxes are collected to pay
those coupons, as it were. How is that
And still there is no provision made
for that January interest. Are we 10
have the interest funded all the time?
The usual income is insufficient for the
Unsuitable NAV Of the City Govern
ment
"A hungry goat walked off with
pair of green-Iopped boots from John
NRgeli's store yesterday. He thought !
they were grass. An active policeman
recovered the understandings from the
larcenOus Billy.
The general growl with discomfort |
ed taxpayers now is, "What becomes |
Of all the money that goes into the city |
treasury" Does the machine" take /
all the money to run il, and an odd issue /
Of bonds besides?
Since the lOquaciOus Orville Yerger
was robbed by the thief, acquitted by his
may we not express the
pleasing hope that some lawyer NAV be
knocked into "pi" by some murderer
whom be acquits? Is there any other
hope for society, and law and order and
government? Don't every good thus
depend upon the well-doing of the
knaves?
-" Big Lou" the greatest friend of
he reporters that has appeared in this
,ity in several centuries, died Saturday.
She was a "yallern woman Of gigantic
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licking several policemen dozens Of
lines in her varied history. She had
he poor cOlOred people in such terror
hat none of them were bold enough to
her. She was sworn against
,nce or twice before the Recorder, but
he parties did not dare to repeat the ex-
she put heads on them. Her
ines were always promptly paid, and
he lived an object of dismay to the
whole neighboThOod Of Hell's Half
Acre.
One Of the neat little houses on
loFth Horn Lake was accidentally
burned Fkiday. This will be a cause Of
grief to many huntsmen and fishermen. /
Many remember with pleasure the Mon
ana camping grounds. A negro boy in
on the party who were
,amped there at the time could have
aved some of the things, but having
aid his dinner on a stump, as he was
ushing to the burning building. he
oOked back and saw hog making for
he dinner. This was too much for Sam.
lie saved Ais dinner, and suffered the
lOuse and things to burn. There Is a
furnishing settlement started on the op-
,Osite side of the lake, and it is 70 be
'Doolysburg."
"A young man called upon US yes
erday at dark for the purpose of elab-
rating a plan he had conceived of saw
ng boats from wreck on the Mississippi
liver. His plan is to have fifteen sound :
lg boats steaming up and down the :
tream hunting snags, sandbars and Z
unken wrecks and notifying the world
v telegraph of their locality "When
5und.n These boats are to be built and
Imported by the United States Govern
lent OF by the State Governments most
lterested. The cost would be about
fteen hundred dollars per day, or about
x hundred thousand dollars per an }
una mere trifie compared to the {
uantity of property they would be in
in saving. That much
loney's worth is now lost some weeks !
pom the river.
The quarterly examinations are GO
* ON at the City Schools. II Is time 4
intellectual refreshing" All hands Il
10 brushing up their brains and their b
lemories 70 see what they know and 10 81