Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-24
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

A 1aN VI SCAR 1AA4 9NNAA
wheel Skif are now propelling at the
New Memphis.
"A divorce biIewas fled in the First
Chancery Court yesterday. The mar
rage yoke is not sweet in all cases.
The Convention of the Baptists, in
relation to the establishment of a great
university in the South, was concluded
yesterday.
The APPEAL Office wasserenaded by
Franc de Lucas band Monday night. The
music was very sweet, and We, all of us,
feel grateful for the courtesy.
-Mansford has the May number of
the Eclectic. 1t is most attractive and
every tasteful reader Of current htera-
ture viii have a copy.
The decoration of confederate graves
will take place this year on the fourth Of
May. A full programme Of the pro-
posed ceremony will be published in the
city papers.
1t will be happy news to many peo-
pie in Memphis, that Mrs. William the
Good, now in her SEVENTEEN year, was
made the grandmother a~bouncing girl
yesterday. Germany rejoiceth.
An old poet of much legal accumen
sagely remarked,
4 A kind and gentle sleep
| Ger grinding courts allowably may creep"
Our Memphis courts are taking a COM
Portable snOOze at present.
Hall, in his journal Of Health
SAYS: off the stencil of the eXcremen-
tai matter in the vaults is above the
bottom Of the n~eighboriDg cisterns-the
water In the cistern becomes impreg-
mated, and those who drink of it are
sure to be affected with excremental
fever-Le., typhoid or typhus."
"A very useful agitation, and one
likely 20 produce results of great benefit
to the city, would be in favor of a u
tOm-house. 1t is likely we will be
favored with an appropriation of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars as a
first instalment for the construction Of a
custom house here in this city. We
want at least one building worth a mil
lion in order to give architectural char
acter to on city.
The police department of Memphis
has been very successful recently in re-
covering stolen property. Yesterday the
police restored to Captain Malone, Of the
Cheek, a gold watch which had been
stolen from him while asleep OF his boat
in Helena months ago. A watch which
was taken from a lady in Cairo, Illinois,
was also recovered, and will be restored
when properly claimed and identified.
The thief of time in the Malone case was
a mackerel.
We are told that the colored boy,
Garter, who wss sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for ten years at the last term of
tho DoNf1aNf fIrGtrfH Hnrnrf IN q O1apul I
of stealing cotton, was discharged from
custody by the Supreme Court at Jack
son yesterday, the court considering
that the evidence against him was so
weak as not even to justify 1t in re-
handing the case to the original court
for q new trial.
The COMMITTEES recently appOintedby
the members of the Mcdaniel Institute
to arrange a plan for the proposed Expo
held a meeting last night, and
agreed upon a report, which will be sub
mitted in meeting this evening for gen
eral discussion, alteration, amendment
and improvement. Very soon a public
viii be submitted, and the public sym
patty enlisted.
Those in need of legal advice and
services In Memphis, are con-
complaining Of the extFaordi-
nary high price of lawyers here, which
Is said TO be much greater than any
else IN the world, but the thing is
natural. The lawyers themselves are
imposed on; they say that they are
charged twenty-five cents for a glass of
liquor in Memphis, which can be had in
the cities north ofhere for ten cents; and
FhnnM Num.ELamw Kill -
sides this they have 70 pay seven dollars
and fifty cents for copies Of Heiskells
while the Michigan reports can
De bad for three dollars and fifty cents.
The moon has supplied material for
for poets and for speculation for
philosophers. Her usefulness is not yet
,ver in either respect. She was about
uii last night, and as she bulged up at
he end of Poplar street, she looked as
f she were full Of beer. Hundreds of
were out on the streets that run
asst and west, looking al the beautiful
'rb IS IL slowly assembled above b hor-
ION apparently at the end Of each street.
IN Poplar, the rising luminary looked
IS if the street ran night into 1t. The
'iew was SO attractive that whole fami-
les rose up from their suppers to see ii, I,
nd were astonished TO md their tea +,
lad cooled of during their absence.
"A festive darkey from the country I
vent into p. ID. Boyleis Office yesterday
0 obtS4n7a few instructions as to the best
manner Of procuring q divorce from his
ole 'omann without any outlay. He Z
Tas greatly astonished to find that the
would be an expensive one. He
aid he had paid big taxes for the last /
lree OF four years to keep up courts and +
in the county, and when he B
-auted them to do the smallest job for r
i'm they demanded as much pay rs if Il
ley had not been swallowing the b