Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-13

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Andrew KelIar. 1884 Single Martin. 49,. q5 3-5
Young Humes. ...93 John Anderson. 9414
Frank woodruff .97I3 Johnny Jack. ...9313
Chambers Kellar. 97A Patton Anderson. 90
Watkins Overton.97 Alfred Martin. .....92
Spence Lamb. ~ LIZ RObt. C. Brinkley. %
Percy Patton, " .96Ia Walter Lamb " S6ls
Charlie Ray. ..96
IT is generally understood that Mr. John
T. Moss is a candidate for attorney general
OF the Bartlett circuit court, and will go be-
fore the Democratic convention which meets
to- day, and his nomination will be urged by
his friends. Mr.. Moss has had considerable
experience in the criminal practice, he having
devoted his time exclusively to that depart
ment for the last seven years. Mr.. Moss has
developed considerable strength in the con-
test for the office, and, if nominated and
elected, will make good and faithful officer.
CAPTAIN R. J. BLACK, who has so long
and so efficiently filed the office of deputy
clerk and master of the chancery court, will
submit his name to the Democratic conven-
ton as candidate for the office Of clerk of
the county court. He comes before the peo-
pie simply upon his own merits. His ca
paclty and integrity no one can question. His
friends claim that he has developed a
strength and popularity among all classes
which even surpassed his most sanguine ex-
pectatlons when he first commenced the can
vass. He is certainly a gentleman of envi-
able reputation among the best people both
in the city and country. He will be strong
man before the convention.
REV. MILES GRANT. president of the
American advent mission society, is in the
city. The reverend gentleman is in his fifty
ninth year and is remarkably hale and hearty,
more like man of forty. He has been
strict vegetarian between twenty and thirty
years, and says he never met any minister
young or old, who was equal to him In en-
durance. HIS health is perfect. He does
not use glasses, and his mind is as clear as
crystal. When travelling, he rarely uses a
sleeping-car. He arrived yesterday morning,
after travelling two nights and nearly two
days, and the only sleep he got was in an Or
binary car, end he felt as fresh as though he
had his usual rest. He eats only two meals
day, and small ones at that, and does not
recollect of having been i'll a day since he
adopted this diet.
A GERMAN citizen of this city writes as fol-
lows: LAS the convention meets tomorrow
Thursday, let me, In behalf of my fellow
Germans, say word in regard to Mr.. Charles
A. Beehn, who is a candidate before the Dem
ocratic and Conservative convention for the
position of register. Mr.. Beehn, If mistake
not, has lived in Memphis twenty one years,
during which time he has endeared himself
to the people of every nationality, but most of
all to the Germans, of whom he is Just and
intelligent representative, and to whom he is
and has been a true and tried friend. The
Germans now ask to be represented in the
nominees of the convention, and they also ask
that Mr.. Beehn be selected. He is certainly
the strongest German that can be nominated,
and In addition to noble qualities of heart and
mind, is popular among all classes. | urge
this all the more because Mr.. Beehn would
make an efficient, honest and faithful officer,
in whom the public can rely and place i'm
plicit confidence. Nominate Mr.. BeehD, and
the Germans will be more than satisfied"
FROM Murfreesboro, Tennessee, of date
the fifth instant, comes the following letter
to w. A. Goodman, Esq, and others:
my DEAR SIRs-You esteemed favor of
May q, 1873, has been received, inviting me
to be present at the unwilling and dedication
of ''the monument to the Confederate dead,
erected in Elmwood cemetery" near your
city. i regret exceedingly that circumstances
will not allow me to be In attendance to aid
you in making appropriate honors ito the
soldierly qualities of our fallen brave" Moth
ing would be more grateful to my feelings.
For, although there is no communion be-
tween the living and the dead, it compen-
safes the human heart to bestow respectful
grief and tribute upon the memory of friends
who are mo more" And. if possible, In a
higher sense, it Rratifes the surviving heroes
of a great, though lost and disbannered |
cause, to enshrine with tributary memorials |
their late comrades-in arms who died on |
the field of honor" Wishing that every |
possible success may attend you in this NOBLE |
enterprise, and most gratefully acknoweldg- |
ing the favor of your invitation, have the |
honor, gentlemen, to be, with the utmost re-
spect, your obedient servant,
l.. ~.