Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-12
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The latest sgony-diphdistic rheum-
Rtism.
Anna Gallagher and her smsEons are
held to SIC, 900 bail for robbing one OF her
patrons.
The secretary bird Of cur morning
contemporary didn't sing worth g cent.
He Is dumb.
"A fight occurred between two ooun-
trymen on the Raleigh road s6outa mule;
one was shot In the head. Squire Sneed
arrested.
The commissioners of Panels county,
Mississippi, advertise for proposals to
erect,a courthouse from q chsste and ele-
CANT design by James B. Cook, architect.
Contractors should read their notice.
The following officers were elected in
the county of Crockett last Saturday:
Asa Dean, county trustee; William Bert,
circuit court clerk; John Wood, county
court clerk; W. K. Tucker, sheriff; -
FOuoheIl, register; John Smothers, tax
collector.
The Cotton Association is a dead cock
in the pit. Even II ss%venty-hve sigma
lures are secured there will not be money
enough at $50 g head to keep the gambling
pot boiling. Thus: seventy I'VE members
at $50 will net $3.50, that is the credit side,
Now for the debt. Hail $500, telegraph
$500, secretary $1,000, and stationery $1,000,
making a total Of $500. Expenses Will,
therefore, exceed receipts by $3.50. Fare
well, Cotton Exchanges a long farewell; or
as the secretary would say, farewell, 8
long farewell to all my greatness"
The presentation to Chief of Police
Athy Of q horse, buggy, harness and whip,
yesterday, by q numOer Of the first citi
E---IE- ~z-sNal W-sA-Wz
to the ability INT worth Of q public officer
from those well qualified to judge of the
appropriateness OF 90 b~estowing the testi-
monial, Mr.. E. Marshall, on the part Of
Messrs. Woodruff &Co. Messrs, s B Rob
ms & Co, Mr.. F. s. Davis, Mr.. a. Wood
ruff, Mr.. ". Mclean, Messrs. B. Lowen-
stein & o., and nearly a hundred others
prominent in business and social relations
in the city, made q neat and appropriate
presentation speech, to which Captain
Athy replied in fitting terms. Lack OF
space alone prevents the giving in full the
remarks of the gentlemen.
The passengers on the magnificent
steamer Thompson Dean held a meeting,
Z. K. Hunt, Of Hartford, Connecticut,
presiding and J. M. Weaver, of Louis
vile, being the recording angel. A com
mittee was appointed and resolutions
passed asserting hat the "Desn" should
u GrChDiHnOp OF realms OF western
commerce.; that Captain J. Il. Peppsr
was unsurpassed IS a commander, and
that Fowler was matcbless IS q clerk.
Mstson and Carroll, the stewards, were
fsultless, snd Jolly and Drouillsrd, pilots,
as skiIlful as those that shaped the course
of E1ess between Scylls and Chsrybdis
The resolutions were passed by scclsms
m8tion, the steamer utteriDg at the mo
ment sn awful yell that shook the low
lands miles away. Among the passeu-
gers on board the Thompson Dean thir-
teen States were represented.
A dispatch from E. A. james, Of
Ohattsnoogs, states that the lower house
oftbe Kentucky legislature has rescinded
he Objectionable features of the Ctncin-
natl Southern railroad bul by g vote of SO
70 10. The senate will concur. This il
sensible, though the APPEAL, come
months ago, incurred the e5nsure Of its
kentucky exchanges because 1t urged the
wisdom OF this course. This road will
csrtsinly be built, and while it should
properly be extended to Chattanooga
there is even greater reason why it should
ave access, by way Of Sparta, Nashville
and Jackson, Tennessee, to Memphis
Memphis needs an independent railroad
line TO hog and hominy, and orr chamber
OF commerce should present proper facts
tn Guoiur I'll