Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-16

Pa rick's day, have b5eu postponed one
week on account OF the funeral Of the la
meuted Judge Horrigan occurring on thai
da7.
The QuspaE Guards have backed out
from tn. Nashville drill. They are rather
skittish about tackling the Porter Guards
again.
The river now is two inches below the
danger line and has ceased TO overflow its
banks here. This will be good news 10 the
people below.
Sam Ellison, an old pressman, who has
been working on the APPEAL of and on for
twenty year,, died Tuesday. He was the last
member Of the Crockett Rangers.
There was a FIRE at No. 46 Winchester
avenue about o'clock Yesterday evening.
The loss to The owner, A. R.nkeri, was about
$40; 10 the occupant, Sau Howell, about
1925.
AT the election of officers fJr the Mem
phis Water Company, Judge T. J. Latham
was reelected president, Mr. W. S. Bruce
vice-p president, and Mr.. w. L. Cameron
secretary.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, who while in this
city made call upon Mrs. Gen. Forrest and
visited the grave of our greatest hero in
Elmwood, will call to-dsy on Mrs Polk in
Nashville.
The Holly Springs railroad and the
Kansas City railroad will both by finished
this summer; and Memphis will take fresh
start IN the fall, setting her pegs Tor 100000
people in 1900.
The Democratic platform adopted last
June, and upon which the present Legisla-
ture, WAS elected is clear, forcible snd point
ed az TO the necessity for the passage Of the
Railroad Commission bill.
Mr.. George Ticknor Curtis announces in
the Nav York Sun that the Hsrpers will
issue in May his life of President Buchanan.
His term ended when war hstWesn the sec
tions had become inevitable.
"A meeting of the Memphis Society of
the Red Cross Of Geneva will be held at the
effice OF Greene g. Bessley, Is Madison street,
tonight at $50 O'Clock, TO take action con-
corning the death of Judge HorrigaR. A
full attendance is specially requested.
The Democracy Of Shelby county, in its
convention which nominated the Democratic
members Of the Legis ature, declared in its
platform That We are in favor of a law Gre
ating Railroad Commission with super
visory powers over railway corporations for
the protection Of the people"
Col. Josiah Patterson denies ",hat Mem
phis or Nashville will e injured by any of
the provisions OF the Railroad Commission
bill. Under it the commercial cities OF
other States cannot compete IN cheapness of
transportation with them in contiguous eec-
lions Of country from which they draw their
trade"
Gentlemen, don't forget the Woman's
Christian Association dinners. A pleasant
dining-room, the center of business, attentive
service mot overwhelmingly, frst.cass home
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inducements offered guests. Added to these is
the universal claim of a well-mansged char
ity, which is too well known TO need any fur
Their recommendation. Remember tie place,
300 Main street. Dinner, fly cents aud no
extras.
MI. Joseph Specht yesterday received
the following very handsome cksowIedge-
ment of the subscrirtion Of the people of
Memphis for the benefit OF the Germ an food
sufferers:
BERLIN, February 49, 1888.
To JOS Specht Esq, Chairman
DEAR SIR do myself the honor to acknowl-
edge the receipt of remittance from You amount
ing to s000m which sum has been kindly donated
to the flood sufferers in Germany by the benevo-
lent citizens of the city of Memphis. Tenn. 1
shall duly advise the German Parliament at its
next session of this magnificent donation on the
part Of your esteemed fellow citizens and beg of
you t9 express my most heartfelt thanks to al the
President of the German Parliament
The length of railroads in Tennessee
amounts TO 200 miles. The aggregate stocks,
bonds and floating Indebtedness sm1unt 10
Sll5000,000, or over $4,000 to every mile
of rairosd in the State, however indiferently
constructed It may be. On the other hand,
the comptroller's Office shows that all the
railroad property in he State ia assessed for
taxation for only S27, 100000. The railroads
not oRly evsde the payment of their just
proportion of The public revenues, but they
are run and operated in the interest Of
Eastern capital, and want to control the State,
its Legislature sad its future.