Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-03

ers are holding back until Christmas,
with the expectation of getting good
pricesfor them. The consequence will
be that eggs will then be plentiful and
prices low. They had better sell now
while prices are high. A good hen can
pay for herself in two weeks at present
prices" "Holding eggs till Christmas
is not bad. They will improve with
agei
1t was not the usual crew of miser-
able humanity that filed Recorder
Winters court yesterday. The mass OF
offending humanity that gathered
round the doors and choked up the pas
sage ways and damned the little room
had not the usual amount of " rhino"
to pay the fines and costs, and then go
round to the orner and take another
drink. They were even more unfortun.
ate than that. There was downright
poverty and utter depravity mixed up.
The picture these people presented was
one of utter wretchedness rather than of
reckless deviltry. The fines assessed
were heavy, but the money paid was
little.
Samuel Smith, a colored person, was
arrested last night by Chief Athy who
charges the festive "Samuial" with lar
ceny of the direst sort. The barrel of
liquor which was stolen from the honest
Germans wagon, and the vehicle then
abandoned and afterward picked up on
Linden Street, was found in possession
of Smith, together with the copper
boiler that was missing ~ the same
time. Smith is accused of leading away
the Germans mule from the corner Of
Second and Union streets to a remote
part o. the city, whereh he event into the
the contents of the wagon and then
turned the affair loose. A colored wO-
man of the name of Wallace, who lives
on Clay street was also arrested as a
receiver of the stolen property. Smith
left the whisky and boiler at her house
Saturday night at eight o'clock. Sun
day they all had jolly drunk, and Smith
took the barrel of liquor away.
The November term of the Circuit
Court Of Hardeman county, Judge
Flippin presiding, closed last Saturday
night, after having cleared one of the
heaviest dOckets ever known before that
tribunal. The court was in session two
weeks, and the latter week of the term
the sittings were far into the night.
Many important suits went over to the
next term, among which We're three
eases for murder in the first degree, and
the great cotton suit of UsseTy against
which has been in litigation since
the close OF the war, and was first begun
in a Memphis court, thence transferred
10 Hardeman county, thence to Fayette,
and now back again to Hardeman,
it remains to be tried at the next
term of the Circuit Court. Judge
Elippin's arduous labOrs and earnest
efforts to clear the dOckets of that court,
and bring to a close the many veXing
suits in litigation, have won for him
friends and the strongest
cOmmendation.
Next Friday will be the anniversary
IF st. Nicholas, the titular patron saint
IF Russia and of New York city. In the
ashamed place the inhabitants have
dedicated one of the largest hotels in the
world to the memory of good st. Mich
'las. The saint was native of Asia
Even as a babe he evidenced
lis piety by refusing his natural mate !
ial nOurisbment on Fridays and other b,
appointed fasts. He is the patron of the !
who, in some parts of the world, !
expected him to visit them on his day, :
nd bring them presents. st. Nicholas !
commonly represented with a tub :
obtaining three naked children, in !
memory of one of his miracles, per- =
Drmed in a time of great scarcity, when :
certain man, being short of provisions, !,
eized some little children, cut them up, =
allied their limbs, and served them up :
his guest. He set a dish before st. :
Nicholas, who, at once perceiving what
contained, went to the tub where the =
mbs were in salt, offered up some !
and restored the children alive :
nd whole. He performed many other =
bod and piOus works, and died Bishop :
T Myra, A. d. 326. :
-Spiritism is again an epidemic in G
lis town. We hear of numerous Q
,ances being given all over the city. a
everal new mediums have been devel- G
led, ONE of them Of a scientific turn. a
Ie hear Of a man who has a " familiar >
This " familiar" was an Officer Il
the French army at the time of the q
.ssiOn of Louisiana to the United y
-ates, is very tall and soldierly in lear Il
g and courtly in manner. He defines n
sOu as 4" disembodied thought" In n
lie flesh, says he, thought travels with n
conceivable rapidity. 1t is in London
DIV, and now in Vienna; " presto" it D
in YeddO. When thought is freed, it n
with ven greater rapidity to all n
.rts of the earth. This " familiar n
irit seems to be very ignorant of AZ
pathological science. We are of opin- :,
that it is as difficult for thought to r
avel as for the body. We have no h,
idence Of thought being anywhere ~
the body does not go. This thing a
I" flashing to Vienna " is " all in my n
e, and BettyMartin." The imagination n,
erely pictures these things, or the h
emory calls them up in the brain, 81
lich is within the skull-bOne of the r.
dy, and thought does not go the eighth r.
an inch away from that precinct. n,