Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-03
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS,


State securities quiet.
The city council meets tonight.
Attend CoUldOck's benefit at the
Theater tonight.
There will be q grand matinee at the
Memphis Theater tomorrow afternoon.
The police and fire commissioners
meet at hsli-psst nine o'clock this
morning.
Last night a sneak thief stole 6
couple Of oveTco8ts from John r. Mil
leT's residence, No. SO Adams street.
"A woman aud a man fell through
an awning on jefferson street, near
Fourth, yesterday afternoon. The fall
rendered the woman. senselsss, but the
man seemed more frightened than
injured, as he quickly regained his feet
and ran some dietsnce up the street,
Mrs. Carlock, OF Senatobia, Missis-
sippi, who fell from the secOpd-story
window Of a Main street store during
the Mardi Grss procession in this city
Tuesday last, is suffering very much
from erysipelas and the effects of the
injuries sustained by the sad accident.
MIR. w. B. Shattuc, corresponding
secretary and chairman Of the commit
tee on entertainment, has Issued cir
culsr stating that he has a contract with
all the leading hotels of Cincinnati to
entertain all visitors and delegates to
the National Republican convention, to
be held In that city June II, 1876, at
regular rates, which run from two to
four dollars per day.
Yesterday afternoon Deputy. Con-
stable Dock Jones and Henry Jordan
arrested Joe Payne, colored, on Madi-
son street near the bayou bridge, and
placed him in Jail. Payne was arrested
on a warrant sworn out at the instance
of Pink Ross, colOred, who charges him
with having killed an old negro named
VIM. RuftiD, on Alabama street, near
Commerce, in December, 1873.
General Chalmers, of Mississippi,
who is chairman OF the committee to
employ shorthand writer TO report
the impeachment trials of Governor
Ames & Co., at Jackson, has been in the
city for the purpose OF engaging the
services Of Mr.. Walsh, the well-known
stenogTapbeT. Owing to other engage
ments Mr.. Walsh could not undertake
the work, ard we understand that Gen
ersl Chalmers has engaged the services
of two reporters from Washington. The
progress 81 the investigation will be
read with interest by the public.
The Sherman (rexas) Courier of
February 26th, says: "PrOf s. s. Bald
win, the exposer of spiritualism, gave
two lectures in Courthouse hall, Moa-
day and Tuesday nights, to full houses.
The performance consisted in doing all
orgorYoaI bty cp-ooIaI M obi
ums and showing they were produced
alone by human agency. This the pro.
lessor did to the entire satisfaction of
his listeners. We don't suppose he con-
WINGED any confirmed spiritualists of the
error Of their belief, but he certainly gave
the skeptical cause to rejoice that they
had never given ever to such ideas. The
professor challenges the world to pro-
duce any test by so-called spiritual aid,
which he cannot duplicate and prove it
to be produced by human agency alone,
and we believe him fully able to keep
his word"
We have just seen copy of the de
cree recently rendered in the case of the
Goodyear Dental Vulcanite company U8.
Jared KibbeI, by judge Emmons. in the
eastern district OF Michigan. This is
the end OF protracted controversy b.
tween what is known as the Cummins
patent and the Hyatt or cellulOid pat
ents. Judge Emmons holds in this case
that the use of celluloid by the defend
ant, a dentist, in the manufacture of
dental plates, was an infringement of
the Cummins patent, and the decree
awards damages to complainants, the
Goodyear Dental Vulcanite company,
for the use of celluloid in the manufac-
ture of dental plates by the defendant.
1t also makes perpetual the Injunction
in the case, restraining the defendant
from infringing upon complainants' pat
ent by the use of both vulcanite and cell
luloid in the manufacture of dental
plates.