Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-14

main here during the summer, PROVIDED the
CITY remains as healthy as 1t Is at present.
People are tired of running away, and this
season will fight it out on this line if it takes
all summer.
Yesterday Chancellor M'Dowell, upon
motion of Judge w. M. Smith, appointed
Ex. Chancellors r. ]. Morgan and w. NJ.
Smith and Messrs. B. M. Estes, w. NJ
Randolph, J. M. Gregory and L.W. Finlay a
committee to draft suitable and proper reso-
luCons of respect to the memory of the late
Chancellor Charles Kortreeht, and report to
the court Thursday next.
The concert and hop of the Memphis
Light Guards, at Estival park last night, was
attended by the elite of the city. The con-
cert was everything to be commended, the
singers excelhng themselves and receiving
well deserved applause from the audience.
The entertainment closed with a hop, In
which the young people INDUCED. The
Light Guards can congratulate themselves on
the success of their elegant entertainment.
"A special to the Nashville american
from Union City, dated the twelfth instant,
says: "a most distressing accident occurred
a few miles from this city yesterday afternoon,
resulting in the death OF Mr.. 81. j. Wade,
one of the most reliable citizens and enter
prising farmers of this county. Mr.. Wade
was driving his reaper in his wheat field and
while passing near an old tree the tree fell
striking Mr.. Wade's body and crushing him
literally to pieces, causing instant DEATH.
The GAINESVILLE (Ark.) Herald of the
twelfth, says: Evil disposed and unprlnclpled
men are spreading reports of yellow-fever in
New Orleans, Vicksburg and Memphis, for
the purpose of lettering country merchants
and others from trading at those points, with
the hope of inducing them to trade In more
northern cities. There is no shadow of truth
in these reports, and the man who willfully
starts such stories should be scorned by all
honest men. In the name of God, have not
New Orleans, Memphis, Vicksburg and other
southern cities suffered sufficiently to satisfy
these lying vampres?"
Quite a number of the patrons of the
Christian Brothers college attended the ex-
animation of the preparatory classes. The
Boys were closely questioned In arithmetic,
geography, grammar, history, reading and
catechism, and their replies were such as evil
IDENTIFY satisfied their teachers and grati6ed
their parents. The declarations by Ed Boyle,
r. Richmond, f. Venn, w. Ennis, 81. Loeb,
A. Vaccaro, A. Baum and Fl. Black were de-
cidedly well rendered and received due APP
plause. The music by the orchestra and col
lege band was even better than on previous
occasions. The selections by the viohns, flutes
and plccolos were well received, as were also
the instrumental pieces on the piano. One
of the attractive features at the college is 9
collection of drawings-pencil, crayon and
pastel-which is a credit to the students
and is much admired by the visitors.
AT the criminal court yesterday. the fol-
lowing business was transacted: Quarrel:
Crawford, assault with intent to commit muir
der; defendant pleaded guilty to assault and
battery. fined twenty-five dollars and three
months imprisonment; imprisonment sus'
pended during good behavior. Chas. Harris
IL. or,A 1orn
jury and verdict guilty, and sentenced tC
three years imprisonment IN the penitentiary
Joe, alias Bill Jones, larceny, jury and ver-
dict of guilty, and sentenced to three year
Imprisonment in the penitentiary. Thomas
Grady, alias Greeley, larceny, jury and YER
dict Of guilty, and sentenced to one years
imprisonment in the penitentiary. Henry
Harris, malicious cutting, mol pros. entered
owing to the fact that the man whom he cul
died of his wounds and Harris stands in
dicted for murder.
About nine o'clock yesterday morning a
fire broke out in an old two-story frame
building on fernando street, just north of
the Beale street market. The displacement
of brick in the chimney was the cause of the
trouble. The engines were quickly on the
spot and extinguished the flames before they
had made much progress. The damage was
mainly to the roof and the furniture in the
lower part of the house. The latter was not
insured, and it belonged to a lamp-lighter
named Martinelli. The building belongs to
a number of orphan children, for whom
Captain J. b. Signiago is guardian. The
loss is fully covered by policy of Eve hum
bred dollars in Darlington Mason's agency,
the Home company, of New York. While
engaged in the work of putting out the fire,
Captain Cleary, OF engine No. 3, was rather
severely scorched On the neck by falling
cinder.
1t is announced that LippiHtott's Maya
zine for July will present some extraordinary
attractions both in its reading matter and its
illustrations. Among the articles there will
be defense of Franklin against his preju-
diced English critics, by Thomas Hughes,
author of Tom Broloa'S School Days; a
biography of Joe Jefferson, from material
furnished by himself, with portraits of him
as seated In his studio, and In each act of
Rip Van Winkle, andiviews of his country
seat in New Jersey; an exquisitelY illustrated
description of charming New England vii
age-Stratford- the-Sound; and the open
ing paper OF a series by DR.. Felix L. Oswald,
giving sketches with pen and pencil of travel
and adventure around the wonderful and I'M
familiar scenery of the backwoods of Mexico
and Central America. The whole number
will be specially adapted to furnish entertain
ment alike to the summer tourist and the
family circle at home.
On Wednesday last the log calaboose,
at Columbus, Kentucky, was found to be on
fire. A negro horse-thief was confined there
burned to death. He was thought to have set
the PRISON on fire with a view to escap pc
When citizens arrived he was almost sur
rounded by sheet of fame. An attempt
was made to get him out by cutting through
log, but it was too late. An old ak was
handed to him and he worked valiantly.
knocking at the bars with all the force that
he could summon from his two stout arms,
but while the iron bent 1t would not break.
Citizens battered the lock, but all to no pur-
pose. When the city marshal arrived with
the key he could not open it. Meantime the
fire had approached nearer and became hotter
and hotter, while the blows by the negro on the
bars were notceably weaker, until at length
he was seen to fall back upon the floor, ex-
claiming, ''Oh, my God" When the fury
of the fire had spent itself his body was re-
covered. was found to have been badly
burned from the waist up, while from the
waist down to his feet had not been burned
at all.
"A writer in the New York Herald makes
a point to the effect that the designation OF
"cyclone" is not correctly applied to the re-
cent Kansas tornado. A cyclone proper is a
revolving storm, IN which the wind blows
round point called storm-center. No such
storm has occurred anywhere In the United
States since the signal service has kept its
records for ten years past. The Kansas storm
was tornado-small eddies and local whirs
being so calledr The Herald's writer
Launce Payntz-adds: ''The North Ameri-
can tornado is peculiar Institution of our
country, owing to its peculiar climate and
topography. A tornado is nothing more nor
less than the meeting and opposition of two
strong currents of air, hot and cold one,
very nearly in equilibrium, which equilibrium
is suddenly disturbed by deep ravine or steep
bluff, happening to coincide with the general
direction of the line of meeting. The theory
is very simple. Let two strong currents be
opposed to each other and three results must
follow if they are nearly equal-frst, calm;
second. heat, produced by the friction of one
current On the other; third, electricity, pro-
duoinG thunder and lightning. These three
conditions are found in the account of every
tornado on record, and in none more than this
last product OF Kansas