Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-11-18
LOYAL PARAGRAPHS.

Yesterday was clear and cold.
The city council meets tonight.
Send your advertisements to the
APPEAL.
Our citizens should take some inter.
J est In the Southern Pacific railroad conven.
ton.
Several hundred persons came in on
| the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad yes
] terday.
J The United States district court,
| with Judge Trigg presiding, opens in this city
| next Monday.
The city is crowded with strangers.
Now is the time for retail merchants especial.
| ly TO advertise.
"A magnificent assortment OF cos.
| tunes and dominoes will be in demand on
| Thanksgiving day. Let our nlodfStes AXE the
hint.
The Kurdish company and John
Robinson's circus are reRping a harvest just
now. All their performances are well at
tended.
-Armstead Collier is not the name of
The person who was stabbed by M'Call, at Oak
Hill, ia Haywood county. last Saturday. The
man wounded is named Henry B. Collier.
Judge Flippin, of the criminal court,
having sent up his resignation to the govern
or, lawyer of ability and experience should
be his successor If his resignation is accepted.
We notice in the windows of our
fashionable stores very neatly printed pla-
cards announcing the coming masquerade
ball on Thanksgiving night, the twenty fifth
instant.
We hope tie people of Memphis
will see that the railroad convention repre-
sents every branch OF industrial and mechani-
cal interest of the city. 1t is one of the most
important ever held in Tennessee.
The gentlemen connected with the
Centennial commission wish to return thanks
TO Messrs. Young q Bro, booksellers, for cOur-
tesies extended them in stamping their tick
cts Tor the masquerade ball.
Judge Flippin, of the criminal court,
has rendered his resignation, to take place
Immediately. He has made an excellent
judge, and will be no easy task for the gov
ernor to select a successor TO the vacancy.
Eight or ten carloads of excursion
lists arrived yesterday on the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad. The excursionists visited
the theater, circus, hotels, restaurants etc.
Nearly every visitor had an opportunity of
seeing the elephant.
"A Tate county Miss man, named
BilIingsiy, left his wife and child at a Main
street dry goods establishment Tuesday, but,
upon returning, was unable TO find his fam
lily. The woman went 10 the stationhouse,
and was cared for until yesterday.
The orphans of Memphis are in.
vited TO attend Old John RobinsOn's circus
and menagerie this afternoon. Old John
Robinson has visited Memphis for fifty years,
and has never failed to give the orphans
complimentary invitation to his show.
The leading citizens are not taking
that active int est in the convention which
It's importance deserves, but, az usual, are
leaving it to a few to do all the work, etc.
We cal! on them TO come forward and aid
in the reception and entertainment of dele
gates, showing them the various objects of in
Lerest IN the city, especially cotton ware
houses and congresses, oil-mills, waterworks,
etc.
The insurance on Hargsn & Co g
soda-wster factory was as follows: In the
Royal, one thousand dollars on mules, no
loss; in the New Orleans, two thousand dol
lars (dfteen hundred ON building and hye
hun0red on machinery, total loss; in the
Queen, four thousand dollars on boxes bot
ties and materials generally, less about fifteen
Hundred dollars; total loss, three thousand
five hundred dollars.
There is no gsyer city in America
than Memphis, and the coming season will
surpass all its predecessors in frolicsome ele-
gance, The masquerade bali Thursday
the twenty With instant, viii be the beginning
of a splendid series of IeteS. We are delighted
10 learn that our friends from the country will
be here in great numbers TO attend the Cen
tennial balls T1dSqIe. Come one, come all you
shall have a jolly time.
Among the recent black wool COS
TUNES are those Of acknowledgment cloth of
twilled. This Is made into stylish basques,
with deep aprons that have square backs and
trimmed with wide black braid in which are
silver threads. Eo.ds of silk and OF braid pass
down the back ofthe basque and form loop,
through which the sash Of the overskirt is
passed.
Cock feather ruches of dark green
ish hues are greatly In favor for trimming
black silk costumes. They are especially
liked with suits completed BY a wrap of the
same, a. they trim outside garments very
handsomely. These outside wraps of silk are |
very thickly wadded, TO give the effect OF fur |
Innings new design, more lately intro
duced than sacQues, makes these garments
with Dolman backs and gacque fronts the |
sleeves beginning al the elbow in Dolman
fashion.
Perforated channels vests lined with |
flannel and worn under wTappings add great !