Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-11-09
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

-Twenty-eight dodgers were accom-
modated with spring mattresses by Captain
Forrest, landlord of Hotel de Athy last night.
Merchants who want to make up
for lost time, will do well to advertise in the
APPEAL. Remember our immense circula-
ton.
The board of school visitors and the
city teachers will attend DR.. A. p. Merrill's 5
funeral to-day in a body. This is a proper and
becoming tribute TO a good mans memory.
The steamer James Howard, which
arrived here yesterday afternoon, reported
that taw-miil and gin were on fire at Osce-
ola, Arkansas, yesterday, as she passed that
place. The cotton in the establishment was
saved.
The physicians of Memphis will to-
day attend the funeral of DR.. A. p. Merrill,
which takes place at two o'clock from Cal
vary church. In doing 50, they viii do credit
to themselves and honor to the memory OF
one of our best physicians.
We have been requested to notify
members that there will be a meeting of the
Pastors's association tomorrow Monday at
the Cumberland Presbyterian church at ten
o'clock in the morning. IL is earnestly re-
quested that all the members will be present.
The board of education, the teachers
and the pupils OF the public schools will as
semble in front Of odd Fellows hail at one
O'Clock this afternoon for the purpose OF at
father OF the public school system in Men,
Phis.
Jimmie Randle, one of John Gas
tons walters, who is esteemed by all who
know him for his gentlemanly manners, after
caring for his wife through severe case OF
fever, yesterday lost very bright and promis-
ing child by death. We tender our sym
pathies TO the Dereaved parents.
james Clark, who arrived by the
steamer James Howard, yesterday, COM
menced operations at once by peddling Shoes
The police arrested him for having no license
and put him in the Adams street station
haxr hat eafn
the SHOES were stolen in Cairo, as also a silver
watch which was found on his person by
uncle Jim Torrey.
Yesterday the teachers of the public
schools in this city published in the APPEAL
letter accompanying donation to the
teachers OF this city of five hundred dollars
from the teachers of Chicago. Mr.. Cairnes
the secretary of schools here, also acknowl-
edges the receipt OF the same. Both commu-
nications express the very best sentiments
and go 10 prove our oft-ssserted phrase" /" Blood
is thicker than water"
Among the many acts of kindness
performed during the late epidemic, that are
becoming known, now that the intense ex-
citement of the past two months is dying out,
we take pleasure in recording one that re
bounds TO the credit Of an estimable lady
Mrs. John A. WOrley furnished Rev. DR.. Car
michael with her horse and buggy free dur
ing our late Scourge, thus enabling him 10 do
much more for the sick and suffering than he
otherwise could have done. We know that
our good people appreciate her generosity.
Who is it that calls himself intelli-
gent who does not buy a store of good literary
food at the ManSford de pot, corner of Monroe
and second street? Not even the far-famed
BreutaDo of New York has anything like the
stock that Mansford has. He has not only
all the best American monthly, weekly and
daily publications. but those of Europe, es-
peclally the splendid English pictorials,
standing unrivalled and unmatched by any
lining we have here, save the beautiful Aldine.
MsGsford's s will have fresh stock to-day and
will be open in the morning TO walt on Gus
toners and friends.
Rev. Max Samfield, Jonathan Rice,
Louis Leubrie, David Hilman, Henry Seessel,
sr., q. II. Judah, Elisr LOwenstein, and A. Z.
Frankland, MED in the second chancery court
a petition OF incorporation, under the name
and style of the Hebrew hospital and relief
association. The objects of the corporation is
as a charitable Institution, 10 labor for the re-
lief of the poor and sick IN the city; first, by
erecting and maintaining hospital wherein
all worthy persons afflicted with sickness or
disease may receive proper medical treat
ment and nursing, and second, by donations
and gifts from the treasury OF the corpora
tion relieve all such worthy persons a. may
at any time be found in condition requiring
assistance of such character, etc.
-Jessonliyae is the name of a new
novel by Marion Harland, author of True as
Steeti AtOne, etc. A new book from this
popular home author will be received with
all cordiality at this time as peculiarly season
able. We need an infusion OF other thought in
these days, when Wall street panlcS and gen
eral apprehension render us all more or less
monomaniac. Either the entire tendency of
thought-even that OF our authors-is to this
direction, or the unsettled monetary cOndi-
tion discourages literary venture; for while
we fnd notices of numerous English republI-
cations, the present is a dearth in home
books. Marion Harland, IL we do not mis-
take, has availed herself of an advantage in
bringing forward her volume at once For
sale by Cleaves Carnes, this city.
"A good advertisement In widely
circulated newspaper ia the best of all posi-.
bic Ealesmen. 1t is a salesman who never
sleeps, and is never weary; who goes after
business early and late; who aceosts the mer-
chant in his shop, the scholar in his study,
the lawyer in his office, the lady at her break-
fast-table; who can be in a thousand places at
once, and speak 10 million people every