Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-14
L0CAL PARAGRAPHS.

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One day this weekabout three hun
dred thousand brick were laid in this
city.
Captain Athy telegraphed yesterday
diligently after the murderer who shot
Murphy.
The very heavy rain last night had
a had effect on Intending pleasure-seek-
ers to-day.
The common expression about town
Yesterday ives that 1.-the ticket viii 90
through like a fiash.n
Crops in Desoto, the adjacent conn
ty OF Mississippi, which wiz yet be part
OF Memphis, are e~xcellent.
The cellar of the new Masonic Tenn
! Pile is nearly ~excayated. The founda-
ton will be commenced very soon.
There was no SaEurday in ten weeks
that either rain or threats Of rain did
not disturb the pleasOre-seekeFs OF Mem
phis.
Monday, at two o'clockin the AFTER
noon, the Democratic Executive Com
mittee will meet at the Second Chancery
Courtroom. &ErEFrHgWH sal
The Fire Committee Of the General
Council had a meeting yesterday, The
matter of a .hre-alaTnf telegraph was
under discussion. aE saw Fl
The First Circuit Court adjourned
Yesterday to court in course, which be-
gins the third Monday in September,
about ten weeks nom now.
The cotton mill at Corinth WILSON
be in fun blast and the people are exert
ing themselves 20 build a railway to the
Tennessee river at Summit that they
may have cheap access to St. Louis.
1t was rumOred around town last
night, that Mr.. William Mclean,
County Tax-COllector, had been again
incarcerated on a warrant sworn out by
q member Of the Grand Jury.
-~It4ssaid the happy fellows, whowent
to Baltimore, from Memphis were so ex-
eeedinglv happy e the result of the
deliteratiOns-Of the convention that
I they Were "OVerflOwing with joy" and
went TO Niagara Falls, TO see how il
might be properly spilled.
Young Murphy, the boy who was
/ rlthlessly murdered in the river Friday
hight, was buried from Smiths, on Sec
0nd street. a great number of sorrow
ing friends and acquaintance of the de-
ceased gathered TO the funeral. The
c0rteQe was %singularly solemn and i'm
pressiye.
Next week the regular complete dull
season In the city begins, The courts
will be all shut up, and n 0 one will at
tempt the severe exercise Of gasping
even, except the patriotic candidates,
who viii continue to labor for the good
Of the people, regardless of physical or
pecuniary consequences.
On Thursday evening, July II,
1872, after the installation Of officers in
Memphis Encampment NJ. SO, /. o. o..
F., Past Chief Patriot, Gus. w. Jones,
was elected Representative to the Grand
Encampment of the State, which meets
in the city of Nashville on the third
Monday in October next
In Memphis, yesterday was n of
the most d~isagreeable days that we have
experienced IN a year. In the morning
a dry wind blew through the streets and
gyrated into windows, loaded with fine
dust. In the evening there was q fall OF
that dTizzly, melancholy rain which
contains two chills in each drop.
1t is a curious fact that nearly every
spirit evoked by Dr.. Watson from the
Vastly deep shews its ghOstly face just
above the sea of human existence and
squeaks out its weakness for greenbacks.
tells Is in solemn accents that the
book is destined to have a great sale,
and it is surely a melancholy reflection
filthy lucre is the all-absOrbing idea
Of departed saints.
Marriage licenses were returned to
The County Court Clerk by the following
the past week: w. H. Campell
and Miss L. f. Dilworth; A. J.. De-
and Miss Susan T. Willis; L. s.
LindgTen and Miss Lena johnson; Azel
Williams and Miss Clara Bell; and the
blowing colored couples: Willis Boyd :
md Francis Phillips; Cash. Robinson
md Sarah Fulton. !
Judge Fllppin, Of the Criminal Court, T,
sentenced the following culprits yester- :
r. I. Bartelle, larceny, four years; ,
appealed. George Mail, malicious stab )
five years. Charles Miller, larce- :
~, three years; appealed. Joe Morris, ;
even years; larceny. Andy Polk, lar t,
five years. Irving Whitehead, :
arceny; one year. G. b. Hackett, lar :
twelve eases, n year each case.
The old Selden mansion, on Poplar I
treet, IS to become a sort OF miniature /
versailles to Memphis. Mrs. Mary Bull :
OCk has taken il, with the view of con- !
.erting the elegant old place into one c
# fashionable resort for pleasuTe-seek- \
ng city people. II win be the place for 2
ne respectable. Whole families will '
% out there and have quiet refresh c
nents under the trees, and enjoy all the I
of rural life within view of I
he city. @
The irrepressible +" Fatty" was Ia I
again yesterday morning. So .
ras his /" partner About daylight :
hey engaged in a race 20 warm up their :
.orses, that had been standing all night .
t some suburban garden Of pleasure. =
he hacks ratified Ike fury over the v
.'icOlsOn, and there were ladies in them :
hat the hackmen did not want to be :
cen by the police; so, when ordered to y
alt they dashed past the peace-preserv- =
rs Of the night and kept on at such a Y
ate that they could not be overtaken. a
alter in the morning, however, when !
heir hacks were emptied, they were i
rrested and fined twenty-five dollars u
ach by the Recorder. =