Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-26
P7Is DAILY EAPPEAL~-THU AY. JUNE 1879

forth musical notes. Their music is a null.
sance which ought to be abated.
Numbers OF Memphians have become
converts to the cremation theory. The sweep
lngs of houses and kitchen garbage are
burned In cooking stoves. 1t is a saving of
fuel and an economical way of getting rid of
prospective nuisance around the house.
The GAINESVILLE City Guards left for
home yesterday morning. The young gen.
tlemen composing the company are the rep
resentative young men of our sister city, and
it is pleasure to know that they enjoyed
their trip to, and snort sojourn in, Memphis.
-''Just look at him! Amt he daisy?"
exclaimed young lady, on Tuesday last,
while she was standing up IN a carriage look,
ing at the military display on the corner of
Main and Madison street. Our commissioner
gazed at the military with a view to pick out
from the warike bouquet the aforesaid daisy;
but ne found him not. He was there all the
same, however.
The old letter reception-box in the old
postoffice building, corner of Union and Sec
ond streets, not being closed up when the
postoffice was removed to the Masonic build
ing, many persons continue to put letters
and papers therein. These letters and papers
have been taken out by the postofhce officials.
The box should be closed up by the postoffice
authorities, and in this manner the careless
business can be prevented.
Saturday was the longest day Of the
year Byron immortalized the day In the
following stanza:
Down sunk the sun up rose the yellow moon.
The devil is in the moon for mischief; they
Who call her chaste, methinks began too sooA
The longest not the twenty-first of June,
Sees han the business in wicked way
That in three single hours of moonshine smile,
And yet she looks so modest all the while.
How fashionably dressed young lady
cen reach four-story house-top through
dark stairways, up shaky ladders and out
through eight-by-ten sfyhght traps in order
to witness a military parade or corner
stone laying, and then look as young and
charming on the house-top as she did on
the sidewalk, Is one of those profound mys-
teries no man, either married or single, can
satisfactorily explain to our corps OF re-
porters.
The blowing up of the amp-post in front
of the Peabody hotel, on Tuesday last, was
caused by the ignition Of coal-gas confined in
the hollow base of the amp-post. The fire
flew up the post into the lamp, broke the
glass and scattered the particles of glass
around where the ladies were sitting in the
windows Of the Peabody parlors. A Lighted
match Of course dad the business. Yesterday
but few persons sat on the base of that lively
lamp-post. Ii 1t continues to lift itself few
feet occasionally, and then settle down upon
the corns of people standing near by, 1t will
have to be removed or taken to the station
house and charged with being drunk and
disorderly. We can excuse that lamp post
for being drunk occasionallY-so many
drunken men have for years past made 1t a
post of support and embracing affection.
At a meeting of the veterans of the Rock
CITY Guards held at Nashville on Friday last, ON
being called upon, Colonel r. B. Snowden, of
Memphis, explained to them the plan OF Or
ganzatiou adopted at Memphis. The sug-
gestlon was concurred In, and Colonel Snow
den said that they could form society or
social club where the old members of the
Rock City Guards, as a nucleus, could have
an institution that would benefit all the MEM
bers, most of whom, he supposed, belonged
to a mercantile community. He was satis-
fed they would find it not only pleasant, but
profitable. They had such a club In Mem
phis. It was the Tennessee club, and was
composed of two hundred gentlemen, and
had been In existence about three years. The
club-room was place TO which all strangers
were invited, and where every body liked to
20. He suggested that building could be
erected in the central portion of the city,
having stores on the first floor and halls
above, in which could be introduced billiard
tables and other amusements, library and
reading-rooms, all of which would have
tendency to improve, mentally and other
wise, the members of the organization, and
TO prevent young men from going to saloons
and other places calculated to affect their
morals. The Chickasaw Guards had built an
armory after the above plar, the object being
to make the rent of the stores pay the sub
scriptions, and then become perpetual sup
port to their organization.