Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-07

ell meetings, but the great majority of them |
are generally from a half TO one hour late IN !
attending, much to the annoyance of report |
ers aud those members who appear at the
regular hour.
During the winter months something
must oe done with the roltlng Nlcoson pave
ment and the disease breeding Bayou Gayoso.
As TO the bayou, the question Is, shall 1t be
filed mn. or be turned into big sewer for
the city and become . channel Of health IN
stead of deathr
The criminal court continues to rattle
along In free and easy style. No business OF
public interest was transacted therein yester-
dav. Counsel of defendants are having no
easier time of it than they did OF yore, when
Attorney General Luke Wright occupied the
position of public prosecutor.
Fanny Wilson, colored, was arrested yes
terday on four warrants charging snooIhg
with intent to kill and other offences OF IKE
character. Fanny was committed to jail by
Recorder Quigley in default OF two thou
sand dollars bonds, and was turned over to
the jailer by Constable Bradley.
"A petition, signed by members of the
general council, was presented to mayor
Flppin last evening asking him to suspend,
for the present. the distribution OF supphes
to the INDECENT. 1t Is proposed to keep the
supplies for proper distribution among the
poor during the cold winter months
The river is rising at this point. The
Hopefeld sandbar has disappeared, and large
quantities of driftwood float down stream on
either side, the river being bulged up. IN the
center. When the drift floats down IN mid
stream, it is a sign that the river ls falling,
mid stream being lower than the sides, and
being followed out like trough.
The Nashville american, of the fifth,
states as to the shooting contests now being
held near Nashville: 1.-The shooting tourna'
ment ut the fair grounds also opens to-day.
MANY crack shots are here from Mobile,
Louisville, Memphis, Knoxville and various
other points, and the matches will be closely
contested, and will, no doubt, prove as en-.
tertaining to visitors as have the field trials.
"A FIRE broke ont at Busby & Fursten-
helms cotton-shed, on Adams street, about
nine o'clock yesterday forenoon. The hre
boys were promptly on hand, and soon extln-
guished the flames. Some bales, OF cotton
were more or less damaged. The ire was a.
cidental, and broke out IN a cotton bale, IN
which it must have been smouldering for sew
eral DAYS 1t was fortunate that the ire was
discovered in daytime.
in the matter of the petition of the
liuuor- dealers ASSOCIATION, asking the general
council to remit license tax for the months
of August and September, and which petI-
ton was referred to the mayor and city attor--
ney, it is stated that the city attorney and
the mayor, while believing that the prayer OF
the petition is just and equitable, yet the
general council has } power, under the
charter, to remit the liquor-heensetax.
Special Constable Bradley last night ar
rested. near Five Points, negro named
Henry Lane, on a warrant charging him with
threatening to shoot colored woman with a
shotgun. When arrested Lane had his
L I, lt1EN
stable Bradley had the drop on him with
pistol, so he surrendered and was conveyed
to the county jail, to await an examination
before the recorder next Monday morning.
Some inconsIderate newspaper CORE
spopdent suggests that the attorney-general
of the criminal court should have the priv
lege of employing his own detectives. He
has that privilege now, but it would never do
to turn over the police to that Official HE
police commissioners and Chief Athy have
experience in such matters, and are the
proper persons to conduct detective affairs.
The encouragement has quite as much as he
can do when he attends to the criminal court
business, without running detective bureau
in conjunction with the same.
The Fairfield, (Freestone county, Texas
Recorder of the twenty ninth ultlmo, says:
1--WE think the Memphis APPEAL is one OF
the best and staunchest Democratic papers in
the south, and it can, doubtless, be called so
by virtue of It's proximity to the south and lis
southern circulation. The weekly Is large
forty-columu paper, and is filed up almost
entirely with reading matter. 1t Is ably ed
tied, and as POLITICAL and general newspa-
rer we think it Is equal to the best in the
country. We cheerfully recommend it to all,
and especially 10 Tennesseans IN the county
who may wish to take paper from their old
home State"
The regular meeting of the general
council was to have been held last night, but
there was no quorum of the board OF council
men present TO do business, SO an adjourn
ment was had to next Tuesday night. The
members present and absent were as follows:
Present--Aldermen Chase, Hewitt, Elder,
Green. Brown, Moores, Denies, Messenger.
Absent-Aldermen Dent and Jones. Pres
ent-Councllmen Bohan, Goodyear, Renkert,
Grant, Bates, Barrett, Gum. Radford. Alb
sent - Couucilemn Caro-, ProudRt, Boyle,
Tracy, Snowden, Crosbie, White, Harvey,
Seelig, Lawhorn and Wood.
The New York World, Of late date,
says: The Sunday service at St. lgnatlus' s,
on Reservoir square, is an all, day service,
beginning at seven o'clock in the morning.
again at nine, choral at half-past ten, and
without iptermission yesterday, the great
ice of the first Sunday in the Iaonth,
procession of boy and men chorlsters, all
robed in purple and white, filed in from the
vestry. Their leader and cross-bearer was
beautiful child. Beauty, harmony and solem-
nifty are evidently of great account in st. lg-
natlps's;. The prayers were intoned; O,her
parts Of the service we're admirably sung,
the voices exceedingly high, sweet and CLEAR.
The congregation was scrupulously and I'M
tiripgly attentive, taking some part even in
the choral service. The bowings and rever-
ences in passing before the altar are all SO
seriously and even nystically don't, that they
lose the impress of Journalism and seem the
expression of spontaneous devotion. Even
the ushers are not altogether as other ushers
they lose the business aspect so frequently
assumed in churches and move about their
duty gently and with soft footballs. DR..
Ever, the incumbent, is known as strong
controverslallst and an active high church
man. He oficiated as priest in the morning
service and administered the communion,
Bishop Quintard preaching the sermon on
the Patience OF Jesus in which he spoke Of
the trials inevitable to all persons in this life,
the righteous as well as the unrighteous,
illustrating the duty of the christian believer
by reference to the, life and sutferings Of our
Lord and his apostles.