Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-25

ESTA ABLISHED 1910.

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after falling into the water, from which
il has not been recovered.
The Masonic board of relief tender
their sincere thanks to Captain Athy,
chief of police, for his kind and courte-
Gus reception of their representatives;
and TO himself and his efficient assist
ants in escorting their procession and
furnishing such detail as ensured good
order upOn the grounds at the picnic.
They appreciate the kindness thus eX-
tended. and will ever remember, with
lively gratitude, the gentleman and the
officer to whom they are thus indebted.
Peter Hubbard, of Polkis station,
Pamela county, brought to the APPEAL.
office yesterday the first cotton bloom of
the season. It was produced in mar
row strip of country in which there has
been no rain for fifteen days. Mr.. Hub
bard says the rains have been ruinOus to
the last degree everywhere except in the
vicinity of Polk's station. It thus will
happen that, when Madame Hubbard
gees her cupboard, to give her poor
COG bone, will not find that famine
has preceded her, and left her breadless,
and her cottOnfieids desOlate.
The Southern nagdziRe for July is
an excellent number. The contents are
as follows: "On the Giersfeld," "On
the Steppes of the Bema, " 1" The Rail
road Question at the West, " " Enchant-
ed, p stJust in Time" "a Visit TO Para
guay,'' "In the Infinite" 'The Period
Of Transition from the Roman Empire
to the Frankish,n Non Diu," "The
Story of Katharine Hollis" /" San An
tonic De Bexar," " Smoked Out, 1.-THE
Philosophy of UglIness,n +" Reviews -
" The Green Table" Mansford, corner
of Second and Monroe streets, has it for
sale.
The Ledger of Monday says:
somebody here forwarded to President
Grant, at Long Branch, for his son
Jesse, a live alligator, four feet long.
Jesse declined the present, and the Presi
dent paid the express charges, fourteen
dollars, leaving the alligator with the
baggageman. The monster soon after
became detected and died" viii the
Ledger man tell how many cities this
same alligator has been sent from?
Louisville claimed it last week. We
knew the Ledger man was very much
interested in 'pony-brandiesn during
the cholera times, but thought the ef-
fects of spirituous liquors only made
men see snakes, and not alligatOrs.
Between eleven and twelve o'clock
last night officers Clansey and McNalty
found a white woman named Mary
Murphy seated at the head of the steps
leading into DIR. Erskine's office, Union
street, and having in her possession
several medical books belonging to this
gentleman. The woman denied the
larceny of the volumes, saying she hoped
she ''Would never walk down the steps
again and would be as dead as a corpse"
if she had any dishonest purpose in
lodging in the strange locality. She
lives in south Memphis, and says she
left her home because of domestic trOu-
BILE, and wandered about the streets,
finally seeking rest in the hall of the
above DOCTORS office, from which several
books have previously been stolen. She
was put in the stationhouse.
Last November, Mr.. Rawlings's
barn, located on the north bank of the
HatChie river, was fired by an incendi-
airy. Nine mules, four horses and six
thousand dollars's worth of provender
were consumed with the barn, involving
a loss of twenty thousand dollars. A
negro was arrested for the deed, and on
his second trial-the jury failing to agree
on the first-was convicted, but on ap-
peal to the supreme court the case was
Mr.. Rawlings says that
} edge Flippin has issued an order for
the release of the prisoner, but that he
will be held by Judge Horrigan, who is
temporarily, until the former
gentleman resumes his seat on the
bench. We know nothing as to the
merits of the case, but presume Judge
Flippin is following the law.
The Lebanon Herald, extra, of the
devoted 10 the cholera, an
oouDces the abatement of the disease,
but adds the following sensible advice,
which we indOrse, to be followed by our
people: "Our greatest danger is to come,
however. With the abatement of the
disease comes naturally decrease of that
fear of the epidemic which has rendered
our citizens so cautious as to diet; and it
is to be feared that, should no new cases
be reported for a day or two, imprudent
persons may be less careful as to what
thew eat and drink than they have been.
In such an event, a return of the cholera
would be almost inevitable. We urge
upon all classes Of our people a cOntinu-
ance of the utmost care. 1t is better to
be oocautious than not cautious enough;
and it is certainly preferable 70 deprive
ourselves for a week or two longer of
accustomed luXuries than, by a hasty
to risk the return and spread
Of the epidemic"
EDITORS APPEAL-We read in your
paper, of the twenty-third, by
one who Is pleased to sign himself
Irish, and as we are of that ma
ton, and lived seventeen years in the
dear old land, and never have even
heard the word used, We respectfully
ask the writer to please inform us what
4 Scotch -Irishman is, and as the Lumber
. large as two million in Ireland, |
-, ne he will not find it difficult.
During ,he years of know-nothingism
n Ay,erio.' we have seen some who
,re-eminentivs tyled themselves Scotch
rjsh. but we aske, not for the import,
or we knew thew We .-e so Ignorant they
we're not able to info1'u US; but now
lur Scotch Irishman, ae'uresSlhg
earned association, surely will t1hilg men Yen
Is on the subject. We believe - une
nifty ofthe human race; that lrishmsil
,ften 90 and live in Scotland, and their I
hildren are Scotch, as we often meet
Iurphys that are genuine Frenchmen.
That there is a continual passing and /
epassing between the good people of
be different countries, marrying and |
we know that they are
he same people we contend, ana that
here are no Scotch-lrish.