Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-21
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.


rested last night for stesling.
"A Tale of 7tOO Cities, by Charles
Dickens. Ten cents copy, at Mans
| fOrd's.
Recorder Duff yesterday fined the
two WIFE whippers, who were arrested
Wednesday.
-Life's Promise to Pay. Miss Con-
ways novel is having a large sale.
Msnsford received his third invoice yes
terday.
-Park-Keeper Il eating deserves cred
| 1t for the excellent manner in which be
has adorned the Court square fountain
vsses with living flowers.
The old sailor who was released from
the chain-gaDg Wednesday was arrested
last night by Officer MalOney, and put
! in the statiOnhouse to answer the charge
Of being drunk.
When last heard from, he was still
sitting up, and ere long that Bull will be
bsllowiDg again. Wonder, if Ole Bull
couldn't tune him up to the right pitch
| for civilized amenities?
Tuesday night q negro boy, aged
| twelve years, while asleep on the rail-
| road track at Sardis, Mississippi, wss
|
| tirely severed above the hips. The boy
talked sensibly for half an hour after the
accident, and lived two hours and half
from the time of the injury.
"A number OF boys have been steal
ing books, etc., from the Market street
school building. Yesterday they en-
tered the building and carried away q
bag Of plumber, supposed to contain
books. The day previous they were in
the act of stealing chair, when the in
reference OF q neighboriDg lady caused
the little thieves to run.
The Louisville Courier Journal
/ says: "a florist of Brooklyn kissed q
| girl without her consent the other day,
| and she has sued him for five thousand
dollars damages. A girl who can be
damaged to the extent Of a single dollar
| by kiss has no business in Brooklyn"
| No; she ought to become q Shakeress or
go to Paradise. Anywhere but Brook
Ign.
The Athletics, of CoIlierville, played
q game with picked nine club at Chat
tanooga Wednesday. The Athletics
also challenged the Eagle Cliff club of
Chattanooga, bnt the results of the game
have not reached us. The Corinth club
recently defeated the Moscow and Iuks
club, but were beaten.by the CORTLAND
| (Alabama) nine. A Little Rock club
will doubtlass play q series OF games
with the Helena nine this season.
The Linck club, of Nashville, which
pretends to clamor for three hundred
dollar game, was defeated few days
ago by the Nashville club. The Nash
vile Banner of the eighteenth, com.
menting on the game, says: "The
Lincks are not disheartened by their
defeat, and still say they are willing to
play any club for three hundred dollars
side. Up to date they have received
no answers to any Of their challenges to
clubs 10 southern cities" There are just
two clubs in this city-the Memphis and
the Reds-that would like to play the
Lincks. Now play or pay, or be silent
hereafter.
Yesterday Ledger has the following:
"The Washington City Gazette, of the
sixteenth, says Hon. Casey Young,
member Of congress from Memphis, has
by instruction offered the services OF the
two volunteer companies Of this city
the Chickssaw Guards and the Irish
Volunteers--to aveDge the death of Gus
ter. There is some mistake in this, as
the Irish volunteers have disbanded, and
no longer exist as a militia company of
the State, except on Paper.n The Irish
Volunteers did offer their services to the
government, as we are informed by one
Of its officers, but we have not been in
formed that the organization has dis.
banded.
1t is doubtless true that the confirm
ed gossip is either malicious or ignorant.
The one variety needs change of heart
and the other a change of pasture. Cos
sip is always q personal confession either
Of malice or imbecility, and the young
should not only shun it, but by the most
thorough culture relieve themselves
from all temptation to indulge in it. 1t
is low, frivolous, and too often a dirty
business. There are neighborhoods in /
which it RACES like pest. Churches are
split in pieces by it. Neighbors are
made enemies by it for life. In mary
persons it degenelstes into a chronic
disease, which Is practically incurable.
Let the young cure it while they may,
for the old cannot.
1t will be seen from the following
note to DIR. M. B. Ire ZevRnt, that Colo
mel Lesth accepts the position TO which
he was recently elected, q fact upon
which we congratulate our people:
WHITE CLIFF Spring S, Tenn, JuIyI7.
N. B. TTezevant, Esq, Sec'y pro tenn, etc.:
MY DEAR SIR am In receipt OF
your favor of the twelfth instant, in
forming me of my election by the board
of education, on the third instant, to the
Office Of superintendent Of the Memphis
city schools for two years. return my
thanks to the bosrd for the compliment
conferred, which appreciate the more
because it has been unsolicited on my |
part. accept the position, and promise |
to discharge its duties to the best Of my |
ability and with eommendable zeal. I |
am, very respectfully,
]. T. LEATH.
The Cairo correspondent Of the Gin |
cinnsti Commercial says: "W. T. Scott, |
colored, has brought suit against the |
Cairo and Vincennes railroad company, |
under the civil-rights law, for having |
refused him admittanee to q car in |
which white people were seated, on Dec
grafton day. The company do not seem |
to be disturbed about it. As near as / |
can find out, he was not allowed to enter
the car because orders had been given to
reserve it for ladies and their escorts.
Scott's wife had passed into the car |
ahead of him, and as he ha no lady |
with him he was refused. He objected /
and there was q little kicking done, |
some OF which he caught in the mouth |
and other tender places. He claims pay |
for allowing himsslf to be used as foot
ball by brakemen, but il the above yer.
sion is true, will hardly get it.
Last night Mary Burton, a mulatto
musician and formerly teacher in one
of the public schools here, was arrested |
in 8 bagnio on DeSoto street, by the |
police. A crowd Of negroes, over a hun
dred in number, Lit candles and escorted |
the girl to the Adams street station
house. Mary Burton has recently been
teaching in Bolivar county, Mississippi,
and used to be member OF the choir OF |
q colored Baptist church ia this city,
her home being In TURKEY street. She is
q graduate OF Fisk university, Nashville, |
and has occupied the leading position |
in the colOred society OF Memphis. The |
negroes last night exulted over her ex-
posure, and would doubtless have mobbed |
the woman had she not been in
charge of Policeman Wilson. They
tainted her at every step, and upon
reaching Madison street, near Third, ut
tered yell that was heard long dis
lance, but understood by none OF the
citizens.
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