Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-15
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Yesterday afternoon was very hot.
There was slight shower yesterday
morning.
Up to six o'clock yesterday the
police had made twelve arrests.
There is considerable talk about the
excursion to the Mammoth Cave next
Tuesday.
Charles Jones and Gus Bsber, two
calored persons, were arrested yesterday
upon the charge Of COW stealing.
The Mechanics and Traders bank
yesterday paid ninety cents for firemen's
scrip. This is encouraging, and shows
that both firemen and policemen will
soon realize the full face value OF their
scrip.
-Messrs. John Douglas, D. F. Jen-
nings, J. NJ. Young, J. R. Sloan, Sam
Sanford and w. J. Harris, have our
thanks for an invitation TO the second
annual moonlight and picnic promen-
ade concert at the Upton county fair
grounds, CovingtOn, this evening. We
understand that quite q number OF Ia
dies and gentlemen will leave Oh the
AFTERNOON train Of the Psducah road for
Covington, and return tomorrow MORN
ing.
-Encsmpment Guards No. l, 1. %. o.
F., Of this city, have resolved to give a
grand basket picnic at fernando, Mis-
sissi9pi, on lie twenty.eighth Of this
month. The committee of arrange
ments consists Of r. J, Walker, J. J.
Ross, J. Steele, Z. Smith, and F. II.
Starr. The entertainment will be held
in Vance's grove, and a special train on
the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad
will leave here at eight o'clock on the
morning of the picnic, and return at
twelve O'Clock that night.
Several candidates for mayor are
cropping out, and consequently divers
ity OF popular preference will be ELECTED.
Municipal candidates have announced
themselves in several wards, but their
printed aspirations are Of minor import
anCe, inasmuch as that specimen of the
great American office-seeker from East
Tennessee is silently signing for the
mayoralty or some other vacant chair.
He is said to be an evangelist of pre-
meditated success and prepensatory
triumph, full Of the e ptUri5aLs It1lttnl and
effervescing with patriotic FOurth-of-
Julyism. Do not imagine his name, but
await his announcement. HOni soft q1ti
NAL u penSe, for doth not the Spanish
prOverb say: Ha6Len cGrtdS, g cGuea
6drbdSg
The "immensest" beet we ever saw
was received at this Office yesterday. Its
avoirdupois was eight pounds in the
clear; measured fully ten inches in di-
ameter, and having rich, healthy ap-
pearance, evidently belongs to a healthy
family of its species of vegetable. The
beet was plucked from the garden Of
Mrs. T. D. Radcliffe, formerly Of Mem
phis, on her Riverside" farm, near
Little Rock, and is production of soil
that has been in cultivation for thirty
years, and has never had a pound OF fer
tilizer put upon it. This, together with
the fact that it is the good laay's first
attempt at gardening, leads one to Won
der at what proportions beets would
grow in that locality If cultivated by old
experienced gardeners. The beet thas
been turned over 10 an experienced ag-
riculturist, who will re-piant it in order
to secure its seed.
The county court met yesterday
morning, Judge Holman presiding. The
principal business transacted was of
routine nature, relating to accounts,
petitions, bridges and roads. Eugene
Lehman, upon petition, was elected a
notary public. The report of Justices
Hoegel, Miller and Winters, that they
had employed DR.. 81. Ess to attend to
the sick at the county poorhouse for the
balance Of the present year, Wasreceived
and adopted. F. B. Willard was reap
pointed notary public, and an order
was passed that James Reilly, clerk, be
authorized to loan the assessment books
for 1875 to the deputy assessors, he taking
their receipts for the same. A petition
from l.. B. CASTOR, ]. d. Davis and ].
2. Prescott, committee from the Old
Folks society, asking permission to stow
in the archives of the court box con-
tanning various papers and manuscripts
of value, was granted. The court ad-
jOurned until this morning, when the
Judge will sign the minutes of the pres
ent session and adjourn until the o.
tober term.
The fire and police city scrip is paid
out to our hardly worked policemen and
fremen instead of cash. They have to
sell it, and all it brings below dollar
they lose. Recently they got eighty
five cents from the broker, who sold it
at ninety cents to the merchants and
others, who can use it in paying their
corporate privilege tax. Several gentle
men have had the happy thought of no.
tifying the firemen and police
men that they would each take
from them the amount of the priv
ilege tax they had to pay, and
give them as much as the brokers sold
at, or ninety cents instead of eighty
five. The effect has been to raise the
buying price paid by the brokers, so that
every holder Of the scrip has been bene-
flied, while the benefactors are not one
cert out OF pocket. Every merchant
and retailer should post up in his win
dows the price at which he will receive
fire and police scrip, and also school
notes. Let not the schOol-teachers be