Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-03
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Read G. II. Merrifield's card@tis
very funny. The entertainment will be
novel.
The City Fire Chief says in MS
report that the big fire was the work Of
an ineendiary.
The fire engines were out last night,
filling the city cisterns with water from
the tanks on the bluffs.
The amount OF crime committed in
Memphis during the month Of Septem-
Der appears to have been unusually
small.
The revival meeting at the Chelsea
Methodist Church still continues. Serv-
ices are held each evening at a quarter
past ever o'clock.
"A few sorehead admirers Of John
son held a crOaking meeting in Cochran
han last night. The Kerry onion told
The crowd what be knew about pOtteen.
We have received the first number
Of the Chattanooga Ereninq Mai, a very
live little paper, well got up and spicy.
1t has the merit-rare in a country news
paper-to be devoted to local news.
The J-ohnsonians say there is "vie-
tory in the air. There Is where IL Is.
VI AAN AlAh vi N1NEDAnNA IL VIII AlNAhs
like the baseless fabric of a vision, and
leave not > rack behind.
We are reliably informed that the
letter Of Ed. Shaw, indorsing Lewis's
nomination was written by Lewis him
self and paid for by him. Barbour IN
derstands how to pull the wires as well
as anybody.
Robert Read and Charles Sherman,
who did the cutting at a house Of i'll
repute on Poplar street on Tuesday
night, were sent to the county Jail with
out bonds by Recorder Winters, TO await
the action Of the Grand Jury.
The re-districting Of the city by the
General Council, last night, will cut
down the vote Of the Seventh ward by
several hundred, and make that ward
rather respectable in size. Its former
extent was altogether unnecessary.
The recent disaster to the town Of
| Osceola was such that a little timely aid
by the merchants Of Memphis would be
Of incalculable benefit TO the sufferers.
| Those people are intimately connected
with Us in many ways, and relief from
Memphis would be nothing more than
natural.
A new novel, entitled The Married
Belle, or or Red Cottage at Merry
Bank was placed On our desk by Messrs.
j. ;. Hatcher & Co., booksellers andsta-
tioners, 3l5 Main street. It is written
by Julie P. Smith, and published by G..
w. Carleton & Co, Of New York.
The anniversary Of the Temple OF
Love No. !" viii be held in the Central
Baptist church, Second street, near
Beale, Friday evening at half past seven |
o'clock. Orations willabe delivered bv
Gilbert D. Raine, Edgar f. Weber, \
Lowry w. Humes, John c. MallOy and
Others.
Yesterday Detective McCune, who
is always on the lookout for old offences, |
arrested one T. Beasly for a robbery
committed about the fourth of July last. 1
The articles taken were a gold watch
chain, a gold medal and various small
trinkets, in value amounting to about
two hundred dollars. Mr.. Beasly will
interview the Recorder this morning.
Some scamps got to guarreling in
the alleythatruns by Phil Mallon's gas
lifting and plumbing establishment on
Main street. One threw a brick at the
other in the heat of combat. The brick
very luckily missed the head it was
aimed at, but instead went through
Mallon's window and broke several
valuable l~amp-shades inside. The vii ]
lains have not yet been brought to jus
tee.
-Four individuals, named, respect
lively, John Kelly. George Williams,
Griffin and Charles Thompson,
were arrested at the depot Of the Mem 4
phis and Louisville railroad yesterday
morning and lodged in the Adams street
stauonhouse, on the charge Of rObbing a
car. A portion OF the property s
claimed to have been stolen was found {
IN their possession. The Recorder will !
give them a hearing this morning.
General J.. J. Brooks, Of jackson, I
Fho is a candidate for FlOater from the l
'ountes Of Haywood, Hardeman and q
Madison, ~pronounces, in nc unmistak- 9
-ble language, his support of General !
]heatham. His card is in tO-davls I
APPEAL, and it will be read with pleas y
re by all true Democrats. General J. 1
e. Brooks is a bold, outspoken, honest '
andidate, who is not afraid to Law down I
lis platform and acknowledge his [
references. We surmise, from the S
.irect simplicity Of his style, that he i a
Ist the man to adhere to his platform :
his preferences, and do battle for i
hem " through thick and thin ?
We learn, from a private telegram, -
the death of William Prescott Smith. '
hitch took place in Baltimore on the y
rst Of October. Mr.. Smith was n Of y
mos promising railroad men in the y
1untry. Formerly he was Master of Il
transportation on the Baltimore and -,
.hiO road, which position he left to Z
an important appointment in the =
Vest. 1t is only a few weeks ago since u
e returned 70 Baltimore again, having .
made Superintendent of his old =,
lad. He was Of the great rising n
ilrOad geniuses Of the country. His u
cath will be regretted by the brother IL
pod Of the rail. ~
The m~achinists Of the country have ii
for several days holding a conven-
on in Albany, New York, which has 70
zen, from the first, marked by d degree n,
common sense too often absent in n,
AIDES meetings. The machinists, after "
,olly discussing some of the relations fa
tween labor and capital, and comiEg
the conclusion that they were poorly st
aid, passed the following very sensible N,
Gamble and resolution: Whereas, W
lr mechanics Of the present day are m
.dly deficient in the theory OF mechan-
5 and its higher branches, and this is of
he Of the causes why they are so poorly fe
i'd; therefore be it resolved, that some
cans be taken 10 secure the promotion "a
u members, so that all may have
opportunity OF a full and thorough lis
eOretical and practical knowledge Of ay
II profession, and thereby raise the te
andard OF intelligence among our an
ethren 20 insure q greater proficiency
every branch Of our profession tis