Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-11-19
LOCAL NEWS.

The police made FIVE arrests Saturday
NEIGHBOUR drunks and one misdemeanor.
Six tramps applied for lodgings at the
stationhouse Saturday night, and all were
accommodated by Captain Davis.
-Molly BdiOn, a new novel, by the au-
thor of Phyllis and Rare Pale Margaret,
are the late novels, in cheap series. Mans
ford, corner Second and Monroe, has these
and all the late magazines aud papers.
Policeman Randolph, were it not for his
being little off color, reminds one of the
Broadway policemen who escort ladies across
the street. He is six feet in hight, well pro-
portioned, and looks the beau ideal of the
swell policeman.
1t was pleasant to meet four old friends
on the corner of Poplar and Main Streets, yes
terday, each one of whom had yellow-fever
experiences to relate; but when the chief OF
police reckoned his chances of escape with
those of the fifth or hind teat of muley COW,
the crowd dispersed, and the gentleman Of
the star went home and was fed well. Room
al choked him off, however.
Bret Harte will have a completed story
called The Great Deadwood Mystery. in the
December number of Scribner's Monthly,
| and I. w. Higginson story called An Irish
Heart Mrs. Burnett contributes the second
instalment of her Haworth's, and Prof
Boyesen the fifth of his Falconberg. Prof
w ". EdS Oh lie NAHUM
al Bank Circulation, and DIR. Brewer his
fourth paper on Bird Architecture. Under
graduate Life at Oxford is the subject of an
article from Ansley Wilcox. Two short COM
panion poems called Dawn and Eve are con-
tributions by "H. 81. O."
New York World, 18th: CDR George
Simmons, of Charleston, South Carolina, an
unpretentious hero of the yellow-fever cpl
demic, who has just been visiting New Y ork
should not be suffered to go home without
some recognition of his good work. He vol.
unteered for the war against the pestilence,
and after serving at Savannah and Fernan-
dina, went to Memphis, where he remained
two months during the height of the plague
only returning to Charleston when his services
were no longer needed. During his short
stay here he modestly refused to accept the
by the medical faculty of the metropolis, or
the plea that he had simply done his duty
and was content with that"
jackson Tribune and Sun: "We are
proud of the Memphis press. 1t has ilustra
ted the highest type of human courage and
devotion to duty. 1t has added new lustre tc
a profession that is second to none in philan
thropy and heroism. Wherever the story Of
the great southern plague is told, all along
down the corridors of time to be, whether in
palace or hovel, in city or desert the daunt
less 1dltululnesS VI heHpulS newspaper nleI
will be sounded and applauded, and unborn
generations will be thrilled and ennobled by
the epic they lived amid despair anc
| death and direst misery. All honor to the
Memphis press say we, and may fortune il
rich and flooding streams make their future
bright with the appreciation of a grateful
people,"
j. B. Lppincott &, Co., Philadelphia, an
nounce long list of holiday books. 1t In
cludes GeneUiere Of Brabant, legend in
verse, by Mrs. Charles Willing, handsomely
illustrated; Iris, a poem, by Mrs. M. B. N
Toland, of San Francisco, deliberately illus.
trated by designs from Fredericks, Schel
Frenzeny, and others; an elegantly illustrated
small quarto, containing choice extracts from
Miss Mitford's Our Village, and popular is
sue, the Peoples Edition of the Wauerls
NOrels. Also, for young readers, the follow.
ing illustrated works AdOentnres Of G
Cricket, by Ernest Cardeze; The Ttcc
Friends, by Lucien Biart; with Ar ana
Rifle, by W. H. G. Kingston; angelo. thu
Circus Boy, by Frank Sewall; The Playmate
by ''Uncle Herbert" and Ny Picture Story
Book, by "Uncle Harry"