Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-15
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The weather yesterday and last
night was undoubtedly frosty. The
bayou was frozen over all day.
The account Of the loss Of the st
/ Marys, bound from here 10 Cincinnati.
will be found in Our river column.
There is no account Of the fellows
who perpetrated the Barnum diamond
robbery vet. That cool thousand does
not seem to have much effect in the de-
tecting.
The pits Of dirt and heaps Of gar
bage that were swept together by the
| chain-gang, were dispersed again by the
fury Of the gale yesterday. On some
I streets the dust was so thick that the
strongest eye could not penetrate two
blocks.
The actual loss by the Boston fire, il
now appears, viii be within the AP-
PEAL's figures of Monday morning,
1 seventy-five million dollars. Salvage
and insurance may cover twO-thirds OF
this amount, so that Boston will not be
Frustrated so much, after all.
The series Of protracted services at
the First Baptist Church continue with
unabated interest. Many souls have
been and are still being blessed and add
ed TO the church. The old, the middle
aged and the young are iOcking to the
folds of the Great Shepherd. This series
OF meetings will continue indefinitely
at least until such time as may be DEEM
ed best to close them. Services each
evening at quarter past seven o'clock.
Harry Cranmer will leave this
morning for Vieksburg to bring Bel
mont, the garroter, to this city, on a
requisition from Governor Brown. Bel
mont is one Of the Speed garroters. He
snatched a watch in Nicksburg before
he aud his party had been there two
hours, for which he was arrested, and
held in bonds to the tune Of n thou
sand dollars. The requisitiOn Of Gov
ernor Brown will fetch him.
Old ED seems to be marching along.
He will visit Memphis, sure enough, il
the livery men do not look sharp. Cos
tellO sees no reason why it should not
come. 1t is already across the Ohio.
twenty-five hundred horses have been
Frustrated in Louisville with it. The
peculiar weather Of yesterday may help
it along. Old Ep must be entertained
with warm blankets and bran mashes
mot brandy smashes), when he comes.
The Helena papers are congratulate
ing the citizens on the fact OF the fair Of
that place having terminated, because
the thieves cleared out the moment it
over. They saw: "These vultures
are a nuisance that will always be on
hand on such occasions, but will disap-
pear as soon as their chances for plum
der diminish. The packets both up and
down the river on Sunday and yester-
day, took scores Of them away, and We
are quiet and orderly once again"
The Grand Lodge Of Tennessee
for the ensuing year D.
r. Grafton, of Chattanooga, Grand
Master, and James d. Richardson,
Of MurfreesbOrO, Deputy Grand Master.
T. Irion, Of Paris, Senior Grand War
den; w. S. Findley. of Sparta, R. W.
Junior Grand Warden; John McClel-
land, of Nashville, r. w. Grand Treas
urer; John Frizzen, Of Nashville, r. w.
Grand Secretary. The last named Off
GERS were reelected without opposition.
"A coIored, Of vicious stabbing pro-
pensities, is now in the statiOnhOuse, for
cut the clerk Of the Pat Cleburne
in the thigh. The negro lost his ticket
and applied at the Office for another in
its place. He was very imperious and
insulting In his demands, and when the
clerk, Mr.. Neal Booker, demonstrated
with him, he became very insulting, and
declined to leave the cabin. Mr.. Booker
walked from behind the counter and
collared the ~Insolent fellow, with a view
to enforcing his demand, when the negro
drew a knife and stabbed him in the
infiicting two painful flesh
wounds.
VIM. H. Dewitt, Of Smith county,
has been appointed by Governor Brown
temporary Chancellor Of the Fifth Chan
Gerry Division, during the tendency Of
the contest as to the validity Of the cleo
ton of w. G. Crowley, who has been en-
joined by w. J. Cox. Mr.. Cox claims
that there was no vacancy at the last
August election, andthat the Governors
proclamation, assuming the existence of
the vacancy, was void. w. w. Ward
was elected Chancellor Of this Division
In 1870, and died Dol after his election.
Before his death a contest was being
made by Cox as to the legality of his
(Ward's) election.
The Somerville paper of yesterday
IL. L. Boyd gained his suit with
the County Court in regard to the Tax
CoIlectorship, before Judge Flippin, last
Friday. Monday he gave bond, and
was indicted into Office. He will send
in his resignation, as Floater, to the
Governor in a few days, when a new
election will be ordered. Boyd appears
TO be very popular and highly success
ful before the people, having been elect
ed to two offices the am year. A good
many men that we know of would have
been willing to put up with one. Since
writing the above we learn that
Peebles's counsel is preparing to file a
bill Of exception to the action Of the
County Court, and throw the affair into
the courts"