Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-23
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The B. Lewis hosts were out in full
force last night, beating sheep-skins to
an alarming extent. They perambulated
Main street principally.
The members Of st. Andrews Soci-
ETY. will meet at nine o'clock this morn
ing at their hall, to attend the funeraLOt
A. H. Brown, ESQ, n Of their men,
bers.
Attention is called to the picnic for
next Thursday, at Big Creek. From the
character of the gentlemen getting il
UP it promises to be n Of the most en-
joyable affairs of the season. See ad-
vertisement.
The attention of those concerned is
directed to the announcement, TO be
found on our first page, in reference TO
the celebrated Cheek cotton press. This
press has achieved a remarkable success,
which is the legitimate result of ac-
knowledged superiority, simplicity,
cheapness and durability. The cotton
press season is now approaching, and
those in the country had better be con-
sidering the matter of where to pur-
chase. Study the advertisement.
1t is estimated that there were
about five thousand votes cast in the
city Saturday. These were all Demo
cratic. At least one thousand others did
not vote, and there are at least two
thousand Others throughout the county.
This shows that the Democrats can poll
eight thousand votes for Sheriff-Jack
Doyle. Admitting the whole negro
vote be polled for Curry, which is not
probable, he cannot get more than half
many votes as Doyle. That is the
way many people look at the matter,
and bet on it.
The demand for houses grows apace, |
and whatever the extent of public bur
dens, Memphis pTOspers. Everywhere
new houses are building, and the de-
mand grows with the number of struc-
lures. The block of brick buildings on
the west of St. Martin, near Beale street,
once an ugly den of vice, has been rem
ovated by H. A. Louis, and given to
excellent tenants. So il is everywhere. |
North Memphis shares the prosperity of
southern districts Of the city, and the
demand for plain homes for plain,
industrious people was e greater.
The authorities are digging trenches
very industriOusly in different parts Of
the city. They call it grading streets"
It's an ugly business, expensive TO tax
and Tuinous to propeTty-owners,
whose burdens Of taxation are heavy
enough. While digging great bitches,
leaving houses aloft on mountain peaks,
to the great delight of civil engineers,
il costs nothing, the alley be-
tween Gayoso and Beale, and between
Main and Second streets, is a lofty ridge
rising far above adjacent lots. And
thus il is that those who want the ser
vice of the street force in making eXca-
are neglected, while those who
would have Gods engineering stand are
cursed with the picks, and shovels, and
iitehes as made, that lesson property
twenty-five to fifty per cent.
Mrs. Lorentz, the mother of the boy
who was drowned on Sunday, would De
sincerely grateful for any information of
he whereabouts of the body, should it
De found. Young Lorentz was beloved
~ all who knew him. He was sprightly
md polite. He worked for Schmidt,
he lOcksmith, on Monroe street. Itwas
lut a short time ago he repaired our
oor-fastenings, and was admired 50
much for being so handy and quick.
1e was the sole support of his mother.
His wages had recently been increased
siXto eight dOllras per week, and ON
he happy occasion he remarked cheer
w to his mother: Mother, we GOT
long tolerably on six dollars a week
,efOre, but with eight Wen be frst-rate.
We car put on style, eh?n AS a result
f thisincrease of wages they felt happy,
ut just at the moment when their bliss
vas at its hight, the hand of death /:
matched that good boy to a better world,
nd left the widowed mother mourning ]
ere.
"A few immigrants to certain por-
ions of Memphis, like the hero Of the
blowing story from ST. Louis, would 4
e a blessing: "In u portion of st.
.Ouis, which r~ejoices in the name Of
Kerry Patch there is a small, open
Iuare, lined with houses. One of these c
Ouses wa rented, last Tuesday, to a
III, gaunt Pike from Arkansas. He 6
loved into it the same day. Chief
mong his possessions were three large s
lack bears, which be tetbered in the
MP Of yard in front of the house. )
Kerry Patch was cOnvulsed with ex-
The luckless children, who I
already making hair-breadth es- t
apes from the claws of the maddened n
were seized by their mothers 5
nd tied TO stoves aHd bed-pOsts, while
he women themselves bolted the doors
nd held a parley with the Arkansas I
'aveler from secOnd-stOry windows. He I
obdurate. He felt right smart
elk and powerful weak and he had :
)me 70 stay. The police were appealed
}, but could do nothing. The menage- z
e still controls the square. The chill
rem are kept under lock and key. The
scold at the unmoved pike r
be men threaten to eject him by force. =
is still unmOved. PanOplied with
sars, he has nOthingtO fear from men, :,