Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-15
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THE
DAILY APPEAL
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

There was frost yesterday morning.
Yesterday afternoon was dark and
dreary.
The city council meets at seven
o'clock tonight.
The Southern express company has
our thanks for late eastern papers.
Hereafter the recorders court will
open at nine o'clock every morning.
There will be 8 Donald MRdy
matinee at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
-Mausford, al The corner Of Monroe
and Second streets, has Cooley and Harper
for November.
Work on the Lesth Orphan asylum
building is progressing rapidly, The second
floor OF the buildings now being laid.
The revival meeting AZ the Central
Methodist church continues with undated
interest. The public ere invited TO attend
The mechanics Of the city are busy
in erecting new buildings, improving and re-
pairing old ones. A large amount OF build
ing Is now being done in the city.
General ROrrigRn has received a
letter from Attorney General HeiSkell, in
forming him that the Shelby county criminal
docket would be taken up by the supreme
court at jackson, next Monday week.
Chief M'Fadden has returned from
the convention OF SupeTinteUdentS recently
held in New York. During his absence ap-
tain Madden supeunieEucd me nre depart
ment OF this city in most creditaDIe manner.
The annual tournament Of the Ten
nessee state Specimens association will be
held at the fernando tTOtting-park, near this
city, the twenty fifth OF October. The owners
OF many fine kennels are now en- TOUe here
with their dogs from Canada, Boston, New
York and other remote places. Some OF our
local bIutes will be hard 10 beat and we hope
Memphis owners OF CANNES will retain some
of the prizes offered by the association.
The following named gentlemen
constitute the railroad ticket and passenger
agents meeting now in session at tie Pea
body hotel. James a. Semple, Louisville and
Nashville railroad; Fred A. FOllett, st. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern railroad; Bev-
erly W. Wren, Western and Atlantic railroad;
William l.. Daniey, Nashville, Chattanooga
and ST. Louis railroad; Cyril 7. Oakley, Texas
and Pacific railroad John Il. Perry, Memphis
and Little Rock railroad; NJ. :. jay, Memphis
and Charleston railroad; J. 4. Miller, Inter
national and Great Northern railroad; a. j,
Knapp, Mississippi and Tennessee railroad
They have Ueen labOring assiduousiy, and the
result Of their WORK will sooo be made
known. Mr. J. &. Semple, OF the Louisville
and Nashville and Great Southern railway, is
the chairman, and Mr.. John II. Perry, OF the
Memphis and Charleston railroad, Is the secre-
tary.
One OF the most remarkable inVe0-
tiOns in the way OF telegraphy was recently
exhibited at the office of the Dominion tele-
graph company at Bradford, Ontario. 1t con-
sistS of an apparatus by which musical sounds
every word and note be as distinctly heard at
The END Of the wires as at the place where the
music originates. In short, when the inven-
you is IN king order, il is held that con
cert given at san Francisco can be as plainly
heard in New York as at That place. n second
Improvement, soon to be exhibited, is that OF
sending messages already written out, with
oIt the usual telegraph operations, and pic
lures As well. The plan Is to have the mes
SAGE written on sheilac paper, then placed in
90 machine made for the purpose 1t Is re-
ceived at the other terminus upon piece OF
suc.lsc paper from like machine, plainly
written ike cOpperplate. Pictures, the in
y-ntor says, can be perfectly copied by the
same process All this wOrK can De done by
boys aud, il put into operation, will do away
with Telegraph operators altogether. SJlll an
other discovery, which ii IS claimed can be
qGf into use. Is that of transmitting over a
s. ug.e wire any amount of messages to the
Same point and Al the same time. The plan
Be- 90 have "a corresponding uumper of in>tru-
meats al each terminus of the wire, ard one
~. each OF these tuned TO cores pond with one
at The other end BY this arrangement the
entire number Of machines can De operated
simultaneously, and each VIII sound the one
tuned 10 the corresponding pitch at the other
end, without any one interfering with an
other.