Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-11
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

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that he will lift up his tender eyes, IN
the penitentiaTy within three months.
The great picnic Of the Charleston
Railroad Benevolent Association takes
Dlaee to-day. The members themselves,
with their Immediate friends, will make
IL an UNPARALLELED success. Every ar
rangement has been made for the COM
fort and pleasure of visitors. 1t viii be
exceedingly pleasant.
The ladies of the Central Baptist
Church having heard that the ladies OF
the Central Methodist had made all their
arrangements for festival next week,
out of courtesy to them, have postponed
their proposed strawberry festival until
the week after next, when We hope they
will be fully rewarded for this act OF
Christian generosity.
The panel papering done last week
by Hook d LagTill on the walls of the
Editorial Rooms Of the APPEAL, is pro-
nOunced the finest piece of work of the
kind in the South. The rooms have
been thrown open to visitors. Ladies
and gentlemen who feel an interest in
such work, can call and examine. One
would scarce believe that such effects,
with such means, could be worked out.
But these euterprising gentlemen, Hook
4 Iagrill, are certainly at the head of
their business in the Valley of the Mis-
sissippi, and the work in this office
speaks for itself.
We yesterday looked in at the far
famed hardware store OF Allison
Brothers, a firm that has grown upon
the public of Memphis and the Mlssls-
sippi Valley by cautious attention to
customers, fair dealing, prompt dis
patch and the fulfllment of orders just
as they came. In this fair and high
toned mode Of doing business, this firm
is greatly aided by an accomplished
corps of clerks, among them, Mr.. Z. L.
Smith, who have not only the conf
dence Of the house, but the increasing
esteem of the public. Allison Brothers
is deservedly popular house, and bids
fair shortly to rival any of its older con-
tempOraries.
Mr.. T. L. Roach, of Little Rock,
Arkansas, submits a plan for tunneling
the Mississippi river, which, he says, Is
the only one that can possibly be sue
cessful if the Mississippi river is ever to
be tunneled. His plan is to take the
river at one of its short bends and build
a tunnel Of sufficient depth and strength
across the course which a channel would
take if the river were straight. This
done, new channel for the river is to
be cut of sufficient width to carry the
whole mass of waters over the tunnel.
/ Then at the proper time the old river
channel is to be blocked up by sunken
I ffiatbOats and the like, the river turned
| into its new bed, and the tunneling is
| accomplished. Say that all this could
/ be done, which is very doubtful, what
particular need have We Of tunnels al
/ the short bends of the river? Except q
bend should happen to be in the right
place it would be of no use for tunnellng
| purposes, unless the tunnel is to be q
mere plaything.
/ The last of the Chinese who were
employed by Stanton on the Alabama
and Chattanooga railrOad-starveG7
weary, fOOtsore, and penniless-camt
| trudging through the city yesterday OF
| their way to Pekin or Hong Kong. II
is a considerable journey for the two
poor wretches, but they contemplate Il
with seeming confidence. They wert
told Of the Chinese ragpicker who fol
months frequented our streets and then
mysteriOusly disappeared, and said that
in view of his fate they would bow be-
fore their Joss. Expressing keen
anxiety for a draught of tea, they were
directed to Cavanagh's, 365 Main street
where the intemperate Asiatics drank
! till swollen to double their original pro
portions. They were furnished iced tea
a novelty TO them, but most deliciOu:
/ they regarded it. Some wicked fellow
/ then furnished the poor wanderers witt
pipes of opium, and last night they wer'
steeped in slumbers too profound to
! dreams even of the Celestial Empire.
of organs alone thirty thousand ar
made in the United States every year
/ What a fearful hurricane of discOrd the.
all make, but their combined sound is a
the breathing of smiling babe com
pared with the brazen roar of brass
1 Three hundred thousand brass horns, 0
all sorts, are sent out with their auricula
1 rIpturing pOtentialities to fret the quie
people Of the country. If we add Z
these the acres of sheepskins stretche,
on drums, the countless jewsharps, vic
ilins, guitars, piano-fortes, accordeons
banios, flutes, hugags, bones and bas
fiddles, we can very well understan
how Gilmore finds it easy to get up
roaring jubilee.
A good and simple disinfectant
made by saturating pieces Of millbOar
d with carbolic acid. These sheets ma
be hung up in the rooms requiring puri
ficatiOn, or a small piece may be tor
off when only small quantity of car
bolic acid is required. Another simpl
disinfectant is made of one hundre
parts white clay, one thousand part
distilled water and thirty-ive part
: nitric acid. The mass thus obtained
allowed to stand for a few days, bein
stirred frequently; the supernatant fiui
! is then TO be poured off, and the claye
mass thoroughly washed with distille
water. Five parts Of peTmanganate {
pOtasb are now to be added, and tn
composition, when dried, is made u
into tablets and wrapped in paper satI
rated with paraffin.
Youth is the season of theiving, lN
ing and all sorts of petty crimes. TheI
is more viciousneSs in an aspiring gen
70 US between the ages Of ten and twent
wears than in fifty persons of more m;
tured knowledge and experience. II
p wagon which carries about, for philaI
thropic distribution, the bread baked {
4l6 Main street, having followed I'll
horse a few yards from the bakers doc
r. Yesterday morning, while the driv'
. was absent, was Immediately beset by
squad of vagrant, rampant, hungry, M
r licious bows, who 'pitched intO' Il
cakes, pies, mullins and other thin
E intended for the breakfast tables Of Il
bakers patrons. Having stuffed the
e pockets full, they filed their caps al
, hats and, finally, went to line the
5 shirts with the booty. They escape
D without detection, leaving little fello
9 in the wagon whom they had hoistt
= up to pass out the "prOg', to be captu
ed by the driver because he was L
small TO crawl out without assistanc
He told the whole tale of guilt, thl
adding meanness TO his other crimes.
One Of our New York sporting e
II changes says of Vandal, who died
. Belle Meade stud farm, near Nashvill
: on the night of April 18th: Z" His dea
q was not unexpected. Besides beil
about the best racehorse imp. Glenc
ever sired, he was no less successful as
b sire. We have a vivid recollection
3 his great three-mile race at LeXingto
: Kentucky, May 25, 1855, when he be
T, Frankfort, Henry Perritt, and Puss Fs
l. ris in 5:364, 5:33. He was ridden
7, this race by a boy fifteen years Ol
!; weighing seventy-four pounds, who e.
5 ried thirty-siX pounds Of shot, all de
weight. The first mile of the seeol
e heat Vandal run in l As, which '
J. timed from the judges stand back
: the stand, and friend, long since des
S who was then in the last stages Of co
y sumption, timed the second mile in :.
! Vandal ran like wild horse, with
n ears laid back and the brow band slipp
a on his neck, the little rider holding
a reins; the horse seemed to US as II
I could fly. What he was capable of p
al forming on that day viii ever rema
is hidden in the womb Of time, but
n think, and shall ever think, that
y could have marked heat low down
re the twenties had he been required to
st so. Coming of a racing family Of 81
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