Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-18
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Yesterday was very warm.
-Cen:sIEa'ites continue to return
home.
The colored military company was
on dill lssE night.
The last Bali Of the season is at the
European hotel, and she weighs eight
pounds.
The Court square fountain is still,
and always will be, attractive to our
citizens and visitors.
Fears are entertained that the cotton
crop in some parts of Mississippi will bs
damaged by the frequent rains
1t is said that the fresh Vsssar COL
lege girl is taught to pencil her eyebrows
long before she learns to dot her "i's."
--Df. B. A Morris, of Springfield, was
crushed TO death by railroad train at
Cedar II II, Robertson county, last Mon.
day night.
They now call him General s. Bull,
and say he is West Pointer. Well, he
is OF the west, but how can he be both
pointer and setter?
Mr.. George s. Inge has become as
sistant locale ditor of the Corinth miss }
COrigath50s. He is a valuable acquisition
to that excellent journal.
James Berry, an Edgefield hotel |
proprietor, has been arrested on q charge |
OF forgery, and invited, by requisition,
to return 10 Pennsylvania.
Thomas H. Allen d Co. will to-day
receive 1.-THE fret bale Of cotton" of the
present season from A. II. Simpson, of
Tibbee station, C0lfsx county, Missis-
sippi.
The Oneidas and Reds play q game
of baseball at Central park this after
noon. This game will be ex 'iting, as
the heds have determined to whiteWash |
their opponents.
The lady selected by Governor Til |
den TO grace the White House next year |
as his wife, is ssid to be Mrs. Todd, of |
Huntsville, Alabama. Toddies would |
enIiven the Prs sidentiaI mansion and |
give lie to its official quietude.
The dog law is being enforced by
the police, and many diminuSive Ca
nine low wears a wire muZzle big |
enough for sn questionable filter. The |
canine's mUzzle, however, is located in |
an opposite direction from that of the |
tiIter.
Moore, Emery & Co., Of Front |
street, have sem US a well-developed |
cottOn-bo |, grown by Jerry Davis, an
industrious and thrifty coloIed man,
who has twenty acres Of the staple under |
cultivation in this county, and expects |
TO msRe good crop.
The Senatobia Tidal Wave has our
thanks for the following kind mention |
OF the APPEAL: awe are constantly in |
debted 10 this enterprising journal for /
the latest news. 1t is well worthy the |
patronage Of north Mississippi, as well |
for what it did last fall as for the good ii |
Is now doing"
"A statement lie now going the rounds
that Virginia girl has prevented seven
duels within a yeSr, and she dare not
go eff visiting for fear that some one
will get hurt during her absence. This
same girl will doubtless comb her hus-
bands head with shovel or brush it
W III broom within year from the
date OF her marriage.
Yesterday the Democrats of Iuks,
Mississippi, hoisied their lag on the Til
Cen and Hendricks pole, which is seven
ty-fve feet high. The pole is surmount-
ed by cock and new broom, emblem
stic OF victory and clean sweep. The
hosting Of the flag wss noised by the
cheers Of large crowd Of citizens and
an appropriate number OF guns.
Barbour Lewis, in his speech to the
Radical convention yesterday, endeav-
ored 10 create little enthusiasm by tell
ing falsehoods On Governor Hendricks,
and, when he finished, asked If any
honest man would vote for him. A
shehby-lOoking colored man answered
NO." but was so much ashamed of it
that he dropped his head and snesked
out Of the house.
AT Water Valley, Mississippi, last
Wednesday, Lafayette M'Farland, an
industrious colored emplOye Of the Mis-
sissippi Central RAILROAD, was stabbed to |
death by o negro named Columbus
Cock, whose wife had run into the
formers house to escape the villains
deadly assault upon Der aud her infant.
The negroes of Water Valley join in
c0udemning the crime. and would not
object to lynching the murderer.
The SumerVille Falcon, of yesterday,
hRs the following: "MT. j. G. Tbomp-
son, who lives niue miles east of Som
ervills, brought to our office last week
the finest stalk Of cotton, pulled from
one OF his fields, we have ever seen
raised in Fayette county. 1t was of the
Peeler variety, was about six feet in
hight, contained one hundred and
thirty large bolls, eight or ten blossoms,
aud so many squares that we could not
undertake 10 count them"
The SOmeIviIle Falcon saws: DIN
the game Of baseball played last Thurs
cay between the Somerville and Mos
cow clubs, the Somerville club were
badly defeated. 10. Kslisky, the catch I
eT, who is about the best player in the
club, had bis arm so badly sprained by ,
: fah as to unfit him for duty, directly ,
fer the game commenced, which &C. !
counts fer their being bssten so badly,
.hOUgh the Moscow club would undoub's i
sdly nave been the victors even had this {
nos occurred"
Referring to the correspondence {
published in Saturdays, Tuesdays and
Wednesdays APPEAL in reference to {
he challenge Of the Memphis Blues {
o the CoIlierville baseball club, we I
earn that Mr.. 81. +. Smith was not the 6
.utnor of the articles appearing over his
ignature, but that they were written by !
clerk of his who was secretary OF the {
his club, aud who signed Mr.. {
smiths name from force of habit. The
iect of the clerk in sanding the chsl.
eDge was to get up game between the
NO clubs. We hope this will end the l
uhject, and that the ColIierville club
viii make Memphis a visit very soon =
ud contribute to the entertainment of =
ur citizens. !