Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-18
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The county court has adjourned t.
Tuesday.
There was a good house at the The
/ ster matinee yesterday afternoon.
Tomorrow argument will be CON-
menced in the case Of Lewis Jefferson, col
Ored, charged with the Dugant robbery.
Yesterday morning a deputy sher-
iff7s pistol fell on the pavement at the corner
OF Adams and Main streets, aid was accident
ally discharged, to the crest excitement OF The
people in that locality.
--NdSt's illustrated Almanac for 1873,
a large supply of novels BY noted authors all
the latest magazines, Illustrated daily and
weekly papers, will be found on the counters
OF Jimmy Corwin, the prince OF news-dealers,
at No. 2S5 Main street, near Madison. Give
him a call
Mr.. Emil Levy has again taken
and to-day will preside at the organ. The ser
vices viii be sung by full and very efficient
choir. In the evening at half past seven
O'Clock, services arranged by George F. d IS
tow VIII be sung.
A fashionable marriage is to come
of on Wednesday next, the twenty-fir.t in
slant, at i've O'Clock in the afternoon, at the
Cumberland Presbyterian church, on Courl
street. We Withhold the names Of the par
ties, but as they are well ard fayorabiy
known there will doubtless be large assem-
blage 10 wi ness the interesting Duptisls.
AT the newsstand OF Billy Lieben,
256Z Main street, will be found, this morning,
GOdey's Ld5feS' Book, HG per-, and Lodtts'
ia nal, for November. He Is also iu receipt
OF two late novels, entitled Lorna D0One, 10y
R. ID. BlackmOre, and Squire Arden by Mrs.
Oliphsnt. The usual supply OF miScel aneous
reading matter win also De found on hand.
The executed marriage licenses for
the week were as follows: John NJ. Mccain
aud Miss Ida DOoly. Aug. Lwiefel and Miss
Mary Hen. VIM. Pleilz and Miss Mary WeiS'
Il, II. Mcllvain aud Miss Jenny TAFT John A.
II. Rutherford and Miss Mary Moore, Charles
+. Hunter aud Mrs. n. L. Hyatt, Thorn IS
OConner ana Miss Jenny Whitehead, Ken
dali smith and Miss Clara Wills.
Several very important bills are now
pending in the inst chan Gerry court. Under
The eighty-frst section OF the act OF 1873 the
city tzN-eollector has been enjoined iron coll
lecttng more than forty cents on the one
thousand dol ans worth of stock owned by
certain banks and lneuranc &c com paules, upon
the ground that the municipal tax cannot ex-
coed that levied by the STATE. The city AT
t0rHey demurs 10 these bills as uncOustitu-
tionaL The chancellor's decision WI be
given In few days.
Many have doubted that the splen-
did display made by the Memphis wocd
home manufacture 1hey could not believe
IL. ON inquiry we find that every door, biiru,
sash, newel-post, every specimen Of mould
ing, serOu.work, mantel, etc, etc, was made
az the factory OF this home II stitution. This
company should feel proud Of their success,
and Memphis should feel proud Of the iusii-
Of lumber and the most extensive box factory
In the south.
Yesterday q. b. Brumby and T. NJ.
Brumby, OF Delhi, Louisiana, arrived here
with two manacied young men who murdered
a stock ERASER near the abOVe-uamed place
some time ago, and then fled 10 Collins coua-
IS, Texas, where they were arrested. Accord
ing 70 Brumby , 81 zfement the prisoners, after
shooting their victim, disembOwsled the body
aud, filing II with sand, threw u into river.
The young murderers, with two hundred dol
lars stolen fgom their victim, then fled 10 Tex
a., where they We arrested rev days ago
by MessTs. Brumby.
We observe IN our wanderings up
and down the Charleston railroad, That oar
neighbOrs at Rozeil station, three miles from
the city, have erected most beautiful and
commodious building tor school purposes SO
that station. II has Teen built by private in
dtviduals, and a school opened by 2 gentle
man OF large experience and noied capabill-
~, Professor galloway, assisted BY Aiss Rosa
lie BabO, widely known as an educator OF
youth. This is a new institution, inst opened
with about eighty scholars. We celight IN
seeing such marks OF educational euterprise
In our vicinity.
We learn the sehoOl-board has not
vet secured competent teacher OF Latin Tor
the female high school. As members Of the
board are rot elected on account OF their SUI
pefiOr classical attachments, % follows thRt
they may not be the d test 70 examine com
peutors tor 30 responsible place. t is TO be
hoped the board will see nj to cal on such
well known classical scholars as Mr.. Auder-
son. OF their male high school, or Prof. Lanier.
10 make examinations, Tor such = position
must be obtained by merit, not faNorltism-
II were better our daughters be taught 10
Latin than be taught improperly.
We learned from private sources
Yesterday that al accident occurred at noon
Thursday 70 \ Northumberland freight-traln
90 the Little Rock railway a. Blacklist cross
ing caused by the giving way OF treSile,
preci plating the engine and four freight-cars
10 the level below the grade. The conductor,
Mr.. j. T. Mayhem, had an arm broken, Mr..
the engineer, and the nremsu,
whose name we did not learn, were badly
scslded, and one Of the brakeSmen received
several serious bruises, The wounded were
taken 70 Forrest Guy, where everything that
could be WAS done TO alleviate their suierings.
We are informed that the damage 20 the road
was repaired Immediately, aud the regular
running OF the trains between this city and
Little Rock will not be interrupted.
The United States Official Postal
Guide corrected and published quarterly, by /
Hurd q Houghion, of New York, by authOfi- /
" OF tine pOstOfftce department, l. q book that
should dnd place IN every bank ana cont
m-rcial business office n the co1uty. Il
contains an alphabetical hst OF p0Stonlces IA
the cited states. with county, stalls aud
salary money order ON ces, domestic and In
ternatiOnal; chief regulations OF the posiofiice
department.; distractions 10 the public; for
eign and domestic postal tables, schedules OF
Steamers, together with other Information.
II Is for sale By W. B. Hood. letter-carrier No.
8, Mem phis pOEtOelce, Of whom Il may be or
deied every quarter Tor one dollar and nfty
cents per year, or ATTY cents per number.
-Mortuary report for the week ending
at SIX O'Clock in the evening, October II, I7L
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