Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-10
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The city council meets Thursday
night.
What has become of the twenty
cent tax movement?
If Reputation were trumps, Ten
nessee holds a poor hand.
The general councillors viii crate on
city affairs next Thursday Eight.
The twenty-centers banked heavy
on Andy, but their own sins were too
great for Andy's shoulders.
viii the Independent-Ralic IDEALS sing
that sweet song again-the one, you
know, about the penitentiaIy lease?
The attempt by the RAIDS and indie
pendents to ride Andrew johnson, with
twenty-cent saddle, proved q dead
failure.
John Edmunds, who was arrested
for alleged larceny Of three watches, was
yesterday committed to jail by Judge
Winters.
Harris Gaines, colOred, who appro-
pTiated another persons fowls to his own
use, was yesterday placed under bail by
Judge Winters.
Judge Winters recorded forty-three
cases yesterday morning. Miller Mack,
charged with attempt at murder, was
committed without bail.
The Ledger man, not satisfied with
the privilege of riding on the street-cars,
demands that he be furnished with q
seat. Some people will gruInble.
-"Know all men by these presents is |
used in official papers, bat sometimes
the meaning Of the sentence is explained
by sentimental and literary lovers.
"A trestle on the Louisville railroad, |
between Gsdsden and BslI's depot, was
burned last Saturday. The trestle has
been replaced and trains are running on
time.
If it takes six trials to get up an in |
dependent ticket in Shelby county, how
many attempts viii be required to elect |
one, or a single individual connected |
with one?
The great trouble about the funding |
bill is, that it keeps Tennessee bonds up !
to too high figure, 50 that certain |
class cannot buy them up to psy railroad |
debts with at par.
The matinee performance on Satur- |
day at the Thester will consist OF good |
bill, with Mr.. Edwin Adams in one of |
bis characters, and Professor Mueller's
pupils in q grand ballet. OfcOurse there !
will be an overlooking house.
Mr.. Edwin Adams viii appear in 1
EaOch arden tonight, and will no doubt |
have a full house. The company will |
be more thoroughly posted, and give the |
great actor support more in accordance |
with his position in the profession.
If the twenty-cent-anti. funding
independent radical fusion Barbour |
LeWis-Andy- Johnson fOr-senatOr-sixth- |
edition-O great-refOrm.r reputation |
movement didn't get settler in Shelby |
county last Tuesday, they have more |
cheek than jackass.
Yesterday Hoist & Brother disin- !
tered the remains of E. NJ. Leaning, |
who suicided here last Thursday, and |
shipped the body to NOblesville, In |
diana, where the wife and three children |
of the deceased reside
Saturday last al GAINESVILLE an ex-
press train, when leaving the depot, ran |
into VIM. Gardeners tWO-hOrse wagon, |
which was crossing the track at the |
time. Both horses were killed outright, /
the wagon was smashed to pieces, and /
Mr.. Gardiner seriously injured.
Owing to continued improvements |
in the OvertoD hotel building, the courts |
yesterday adjourned to await the cessa-
lion OF the noise and the rappiDg of the /
hammer. One Of the chancery clerks /
says the second cnancery court is like |
Hamlet, haunted by repeated rappings. |
The third assistant postmaster gem
eTal, ia his annual report, estimates that /
the proportion Of washed stamps used 1
again in payment of postage, is five per /
cent. Of the value OF all the stamps sold |
each year, causing an annual loss Of one |
million dollars to the revenue Of the de-
partment.
The case of Barbee as the Bluff 4
City insurance company, was taken up /
by the first circuit court and is still on /
trial. The calendar stands unchanged, /
but the lawyer who accidentally carried /
off the second volume of Thompson d 4
StegeT's code from the office, is requested /
20 return the same Immediately.
The Ledger man says the APPEAL
man should 90 to the West Tennessee
lunatic asylum. There Is no such insti-
tuition in existence, but there is a walled /
place in the suburbs of Nashville that 1
would accommodate the Ledger man.
For particulars address Matt Brown,
warden, or Dr.. Wright, superintendent.
The Memphis annual conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
will meet in the Methodist church at
Humboldt Wednesday, the eighteenth
instant. The examining committees
and the classes of the first, third and
fourth years' studies will meet Monday,
tine sixteenth. 'Homes have been Sc