Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-03
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

-Remember the election to-day.
The city council meets tomorrow
night.
Magnificent Democratic triumph
| to-day.
The Radical employees are the indie.
pendents.
"A new preacher discOursed ON the
bluffs Sunday.
The fight is between white men and
negroes for social supremacy.
The Independent ticket is the Radi.
cal ring In disguise, 70 entrap white men.
All the merchants should Gloss
heir business houses to-day, and go to the
polls.
The ledger naan is troubled about
recent foot-Taee between two suburban
Let every white man who values
his honor and loathes negro equality go TO the
If you love negro equality, vote for
Emerson Etheridge & Co., who are Barbour
Lewis's employees.
/ The explosion OF coal-oil lamp at
the Commercial hotel last night caused a fire
alarm TO be sounded. t4 HF5 B
jesse Brown, the modest patriot.
has been rcsurTected, and runs to-day as one
OF the Radical employees. n
There is an expert theater fiend lin
this city that would make a good figurehead
for New Orleans cottonboat.
Negro equality, in the shape Of the
civil rights bill, is aimed at by Barbour Lewis
and his employees, the independents.
Memphis has received seventy-oue
thousand four hundred and ninety-seven
bales OF cotton since the first of September,
Barbour Lewis held q negro meet
lug at Cochran hall last night in behalf OF
n nI'Asen' Emerson btherldge, Jesse Brown q
AT four o'clock Sunday morning
Nh. O'Bannon's negro shanty, corner of or
leans and Poatot0e streets, was destroyed By
IRE. No insurance.
The roof Of a one-story negro shanty
on Second street, between Beale and Gayoso,
was burned about daylight Sunday morning
Damage light; no insurance.
+ There was Democratic Meeting at
the Turner hall last night. Colonel KsIlar
made speech, advising all the people to vote
Tor the democratic ticket.
N. Bachelor, who killed another
negro near Somerville last Friday week, was
Sii tsssso a. Ssntial foint sunday, and com
nftted TO jail yesterday By the recorder.
Z The OvertOn hotel county court
building is getting ready for business. The
probate court commenced business there YES
terday. By tomorrow all of the courts will
~ S0bsAcO Iedug lOT WOfE.
Thomas Swan, -colored, late presi-
dent OF the Pole-Bearers OF this city was in
TERED sunday. His funeral was one of the
largest ever witnessed In Memphis, over two
thousand eolored persons, Including the Pole
Bearers, Sons OF Ham and other Benevolent
societies, with two bands OF music, enrsrino
IN the cOrte0e.
-Ihe finance committee met yester.
day and resolved TO recommend to the CITY
council the propriety. Of receiving the gold |
Gearing coupons, which fell due yesterday /
and pay cash for the same during the present. /
week. The undispCted coupons will also BE-
essned at eigllty-fiye cents on the dollar dur
So the rumor goes.
The Nashville Union and Americana
1f Saturday says: "a squad OF United States /
troops, embracing nearly all the ayaiIable
men at the barracks, left for Memphis BY this
mornings train on the Northwestern road
We hear Of no trouble there; in fact il looks
Z ke joke on Governor Brown as he smoke
here last night The troops have arrived |
No were sent out 70 station on the Paducah
The fire Sunday morning was in 7,
Ackermsn's twO-story frame grocery store.
,orner of Alabama and Exchange streets
ne STOCK OF goods, valued at two thousand
ladly damaged, as WAS also the afi50ipin-s
rouse. Mr.. Calhoun, owner of the. grocery2
louise had on Il an insurance of one thousand
-ollaTs N the Home OF this city; damage, six
hundred dollars. Mr. Alderman had an in.
ursnce on his stock OF one thousand dollars
n the Hartford, Of Hartford, Connecticut.
Sunday q man named Hug, went
With his little daughte aged FIVE wears on a
uniting excursion TO the woods in Arkansas
opposite this city. When he had reached the
hore TO take the boat for Memphis, two ne
roes armed with shot guns walked up to ar
est him, and told him to surrender, which
tr. Hug refused to do. Thereupou the ne |
roes told the little girl to stand aside and as
ne old 50, one OF them fred, the heavy shot
iriklng her father in the face, body and legs
II, Hug returned tue IRE and wounded the
egrO in the face. A crowd OF nearoeS then
1rrounded Mr.. Hug, and after overpowering
I'M carried him and his little daughter ,
rlsoners to Hopefield.s Mr.. Hug is a SWede
nd works as blacksmith in Fort Pickering /