Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-20
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The Memphis Fair will be Yearly
equal to the great animal show at st.
Louis this year.
The victims of the confidence games
are few in Memphis this fall. Our city
IS getting lived out" Of bad characters.
A special train il expected from
| Brownsville next week, carrying a dele
| CATION OF five hundred people who pro-
I pose TO attend the Exposition.
The three-minuUe trottinr race, for
Shelby county horses, viii attract quite
a large crowd at the Fair Grounds to
morrow.
A gentleman who has Travelled ex-
tensively 10 Arkansas and Mississippi
says that the woods look greeuer at this
season than they were ever known ~
look before.
Judge EmmOns,o of the United States
Court, was on the bench yesterday nom
nine O'Clock in the morning until after
ten O'Clock at night, with but two hours
intermission.
The Secretary Of the Agricultural
Association and his assistants were kept
quite busy, yesterday, in receiving en-
tries and arranging matters for the Fair,
which opens tomorrow.
The nights now, though not marked
BY sharp frosts, yet require closed and
curtained windows and cheerful s~ea-c0al
dTes, slippered feet, and hot Irish
punches in thin glasses.
The Board of Officers Of the Cham
Der Of Commerce met yesterday, aud
resolved to make it a live institution for
the future. They reelected our friend
Colonel TrOusdale, Secretary, by a unan-
imOus vote.
-Leslie's Lady's Magazine, Cooley,
Peterson, Demorest, Harper, Galaxy
and Atlantic for November, also all the
leading periodicals, weeklies and d~ailies,
stationery, blank books, ETC., at Joe
LOcke's, 2364 Main street.
There were people registered at the
Peabody last week from foTty-fve differ
ent counties in this State, and from ff-
teen States Of the Union. This city is,
in fact, 8 metropolis, and the fastest one
Of its size in the whole world.
Father Burke, who is to visit Mem
phis during the fall weather, and lecture
n the Exposition Building, had a six
thousand dollar house in New York the
other night. He lectured in the Coils
-ulp, Boston, to seyenty-eight thousand
people.
Josh Billings's AIlminax and the
November Magazines have been laid on
.1r table by the enterprising MaDsfOrd,
Eho has the latest and best assortment
u literature at his Exposition news
tand and at the corner Of Second and
Monroe.
A peculiar feature Of city litigation
e present is the heavy run made on
Magistrates offices by all sorts Of people,
Who feel they must have Justice any
how. st any price. The Constables grow
iat, and the Magisterial pocket sweileth
Dut with the proceeds Of the htigants
folly.
We learn from good authority that
a number Of our best, most intellectual
and intelligent young men have, OF are
about to organize q lyeeum, with read
ing-rOOm. This is a good movement.
and that viii be heartily Endorsed
by all u people.
Satisfactory evidence Of the mar
riage Of the following parties was re-
turned to the County Court Clerk during
the past week: ID. Collier and Miss Mol
lie Mackilvain, LlbuTn Peyton aud Miss
Lille B. Sims, A. G. ReynOld and Miss
Julia A. Bowden, E. J. Reed, jr., and
Miss n. E. Stewart.
The Champion ~e0tton-gin is becOm-
ing an astonishing ~fayOrite with plant
ems. Colonel w. B.. Galbreath, whose
Office is Just across the alley from the
APPEAL Building, on Union street, il
the agent. The Champion gin is a motel
Of improvement, and viii be worth mil-
lions Of dollars tothe people Of the south.
The stables for horses at the Fair
rounds are full, and more are
elng erected for the accommodation Of
b stock now coming in on every train
and every boat. One stable from Little /
Rock and one from Huntsville, Ala
oama, are expected to-day OF to-mor- I
row.
The Southern hallway Security
Company will allow visitors to the Ex-
position 10 travel back free, who paw fuIl
fare this way. Those coming from Bun
tyn or SomeTville, or stations between,
viii be allowed four days; from La
Grange to Florence, inclusive Eve days;
from Leighton to Chattanooga, inclu-
sive, six days. Similar liberal terms are
allowed BY the Louisville road.
Mr.. Henry Todd, a prominent man
in the White river country, who had
charge Of the b~Fiek1aying on the Cairo
and Fulton railrOad, died very Suddenly
of congestion at White river, Monday
morning at two O'Clock, He was y
Young man, IN the prime Of life, and
leaves q wife at Ozark, ia this State, /
who is yet uniformed of his death.
One of our citizens lately arriving
from ST. Louis reports; .'SsBe fiend
uIaeed a tie before the train on the Mo-
lie and Ohio railroad. The baggage
car was thrown from the track; fortu-
no person was injured. The
Freight train was following and ere il
reached the spot il was discounted by a
rail being placed across the track" The
Perpetrators Of such hellsh acts deserve
the utmost penalty Of the law.
The pious men Of the Exposition
have decided not 70 open on the Sabbath.
It would be a horrible iDiqulty 70 DO 50.
It is evident the devil lies concealed IN
every bootleg on exhibition and turks
c~unningly down in bottles o. pickles
and in Walls Of tartar emetic and qninine-
These imps come Out 10 dance ever the
floor on Sundays, and il would be rlsh-
ING headlOug, like the five hundred, F"
into the laws Of death to 60 a the Tx
position on Sundays.
A giant among his fellows. truly,
was the big potato which Messrs.
Thomas Il. Allen & CO.. sent over to our
Office yesterday morning, on a donkey
Cart. Il was sent w that We might
look upon it aud say We had seen q mar
vel IN the tuber line. The potato
weighs fourteen pounds and fourteen 4