Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-06

limited that Fritz threw too many
| torpedo chickens into the party which
placed them hOrs de combat ... We may
| be sent to congress some of these days;
II SO our first effort will be
10 modify the marriage ceremony.
It's too elaborate, and where there is
so much OF display there's sure TO be
much that is not genuine. We want it
something like this: A fellow wants to
marry he sets large mink-trsp baited
with a mans hat; a female goes for the
hat and is caught in the trap, and she's
his'D, provided ne gets to the trap first.
Inen they make arrangements to go to
housekeeping, etc......The sinking Of the
James d. Parker, which Captain Bob
Wise bad kindly rendered to the Help
ing Hand ladies of the First Baptist
church) club OF this city for g moonlight
excursion, will necessitste other arrange
ments. Captain Wise has large num-
Der of warm friends in this city who
regret bis misfortune. There was s
perfect dead calm IL river circles yesteT-
day. Every body took ali that was to be
had Of Fourth OF July, and business was
forgotten for the day. special dis
patch to the APPEAL in another column
gives particulars Of the killing 81
a man named VERIFY by two men
named Oliver, on board the A. J.
White as she backed out from st.
Louis landing yesterday morning..
The Thompson Dean, out of the Ohio
river, arrived yesterday afternoon with
eighteen hundred tons, Of which she
cat aff here about one hundred tong,
snd$dded one bundled tons Of Oil-cake
Among her passengers who got on yes
terday was Mrs. Becktel and daughter,
OF this city, who 20 to spend the sum-
meT with relatives and friends in Mis-
sissippi. This is the last trip Of the Dean
SIS she is; when she returns she will be
converted into 3 COtton-bOat, and ready
for the cotton trade by the first of OctO-
Der, 1t is fixed fact that the Dean will
enter the Memphis and New Orleans
cotton trade about the first Of October,
and also that Captain Miller's popularity
as a Mississippi river steamboatman will
win for the Dean an immense patron
age. His name will become a house.
hold word among the planters
in the bends below here.
The Allin had a good trip of pas
sengers out yesterday-her "bureaun
being pretty well filled..The Anchor
Liners received literally yesterday az
terDOon, Our marine heart is overflow
ing with patriotic emotions; As we write
ArnOld's Old Memphis band il discours-
ing the thrilling strains of Hail Colelnl.
bio in Court square, where the whole
world, including the Memphis nautics,
are assembled to hear the gushing
FOurth-Of-July OTations......The body CT
the young man Grubbs, drowned Oppo-
site Fort Pickering Saturday, was found
yesterday near the spot where he was
last seen. Esquire Elliott was notified,
and held an inquest, the result of which
was in accordance with the particulars
given in Sundays Applicability ban
ana war at Cairo RACES between the mer-
chants OF that city and the steamboat
clerks. By goug'ng system Of wharf
age rates, like our own, Cairo is left only
her banana and peanut trade, and It
seems that one or two steamboat clerks
are about tOwrench her only hope of ex-
istence left from her grasp, and Cairo
is 10 the sulks. For shame!