Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-01
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

"A DuICu OF Keys was yesterday
found which the owner can get by ap
plying at the Louisville ticket office, No
PSI M4in street.
Sunday morning an unknown burg
lar entered Mr.. Jacob LaCroix's resi-
I depce, Bickford street, Chelsea, and
stole two hundred and forty dollar
which was in his pants.
"A match game of base ball al
fernando trotting park Sunday, July
/ Both, between the Memphis Grsys and
a picked nine, resulted in q score Of to
2 in favor OF the Memphis GTsys.
Miss Mary G. Fudge, Of Hawkins
| has sued Hon. John E Starpes for 8
breach Of marriage contract, placing bel
/ damages at ten thousand dollars. 81
much for leRE-yeRr prerogstives, for tn |
Is clear case Of sentimental fudge.
The national debt Of EogIand d
about 81 $50, 900, 600; of France, about
| "a, zoo, 900, coo; of the United States
(which, however, is gradually being
paid OH about s., 240. 900 Goo. These are
the heaviest debts carried by any
nations.
"A negro burglar enteied a residence
on the Raleigh road, beyond the Chel'
sea limits Sunday ght, and was seized
by the gentleman or the house. The
burglar managed to escape, leaving his
hat 10 the possession OF the gsntleman
whose house he had tried to rob. El-
Five or six months OF married life,
remarks q veteran observer, viii often
reduce naturally irsseible man TO such
a condition Of angelic humility that Ii
wouldn't be safe to trust him with s
pair OF wings. We don't believe this,
nor will we until the felicitous influ nee
of an imperious mother in-laW has been
experienced.
Why do people talk so much of bar
times, when two Cuban girls are cfe-tiI 6
a sensation at Saratoga by the rare ele-
gance of their costumes. Their COM
bined luggage numbering only nineteen
trunks. Again, rich widow from the
Pacific coast, residing at q Chicago
hotel, pays only one hurdred dollars per
week for extras.
Patriotic citizens who love to sing
national airs are offered the following
new "Yankee. Doodle Do" rs apProFrs-
ate TO the times:
The thieves and rogues have ruled the land,
And all the people swindled;
Expenses every year Increase,
While revenues have dwinuied.
TIs time TO drive the rats and ice Is
Fren out the Treasury buildin';
There's only one can do the job,
And him we call sam alden.
"A young widow is, perhsps, the
most interesting object In nsture-9r in
art. She represents experience without
its wrinkles or its grey hair, She hiss
N tronly beauty and naldeniy freedom
combined. Sue is grief with q laughing
eye-nofrow in 3 holse Of festivals
Silver moon IN sable cloud. She is
too sweet for anything! Like all good
things, she can only be created st q
great sacrifice. Mrs, Bro RninR saws
that man must be pretty thoroughly
spoiled before he can leave q widow.
Chief M'Fadden has received an
invitation to attend the fourth annual
conven ion of the National association
OF IRE engineers, which meets in Phils.
desphia on September 4th. The chief
ofhcer or representative OF escf fire de-
partment in the United States is ccr.
daily invited to attend, aud the execu.
tive committee viii be pleased to meet
on the occasion such repre- senjRtives Of
the fFe insurance interests as NAV be
selected by the National board OF fire
underwriters. Inventors and manu-
facturers Of improved apparatus for the
extinguishment of fire viii be afforded
every facility for their inventions, which
they are desired to display. The chair
man OF the executive COMMITTEES, Mr. A.
e. HeDdrick, of New Haven, resided in
Memphis before the war.
The Nashville American, by request
OF the secretary OF state, announced on
Saturday th 1t under the constitution
every magis rates office iE tue State
must be flied at the election next
however late it may have
been created or filed. The following
are the extracts from the State constitu-
ton which bear upon the subj ct:
Justices I the peace shall be elected for the
term OF six years.
The Legislature shall have power to provide
Tor the appot utmeut of an additional number
Of justices of the ptece in il cOrpo ated towns.
Tine election OF all officers aud the fill ng OF
all vacancies not otherwise. directed or pro-
vided by this constitution shall be made in
such manner as the legislatu shall direct.
Elections for judicial and other civil Officers
hail be held on the first Thursday IN August,
SO, and Tor Yer thereafter on the first Thurs"
lay In August next preceding the expiration |
y their respective terms of service.
The term OF each officer so elected shall be |
from the first day OF September |
lext succeeding his election. |
No appointment or elect N 70 I'LL vacancy |
haIl De made for period extending beyond |
he uneXpired term.
Every officer shall hold his office until his |
uceessor is elected or appointed and qualified. |
Since the election In Aug Ist, 1870, the |
legislature has authorized the selection |
Il number Of additional Justices Of the |
'eace. But under the construction of |
he constitution given by the secretary
4 state, they all expire the first day OF |
september, and must be filed by cleo
ions on the first Thursday in August.
We have frequently advised the girls
lot to wear striped stockings, for the
ature OF the dye used ia colored stock
1gs, as well as in undershirts, has been
fen illustrated during the hot weather.
he Scientific American says that red,
rown, b'ue and yellow may be poison
as, and tells Of q case as follows: 1.-THE
al ments were OF light wooden mate
ial, ana having become somewhat
7o1n, were sent TO an extensive dying
nd securing establishment to be dyed
ark blus. The owner, after wearing
ne clothes for few days in hot wealth
!, observed that the blue color stained
ls undergsrments, and in the localities
the stains he became sensible of Gu
IueOus eruption. The latter soon ex.
ended on large area, which became
Ecessively in1amed, and a pustular
ste followed, resulting in excIu siatiag
lfsring and prostratiop. The case Wss
arefully examined by several eminent
physicians, who pronounced it one of
he most severe attacks of poisoning |
lat they had ever encountered, and an.
sscibed it to the dyeing of
he fabric with aniline blue. Had the
lderer been a child or an invalid, the
pinion was that the disease was suffi.
entity malignant to prove fatal" A
Ife way is to discard any garment the
'loring OF which stains the skin. Now
lie ladies ought to heed the above warm
q, and 80 should gentlemen.
The great new Robert E Lee, which !
az so anxiously looked for ali Sunday
I'd yesterday, did not put in her an. {
afsnce until about ten O'Clock last |
ght, having consumed forty five hours /
tween Cairo and this port. Her delay I
rs not occasioned by any fault Of the 9
at, but by distressing and rapidly
veloping thinness in the channel, the I
ost troublesome place being at Osceo. i
where the Lee lost five hours in q
andiDg for sufficient depth to let her C
rough; and then sgsiu she lay up g
srly all Sunday night. We have given Z
dimensions and capacity, and said
much about her b9su.y and supel ior G
that we deem it not
ceEsary to say more; indeed we a
aid not, IL we attempted TO describs G
many attractions and palatial b