Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-03
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.


The Board Of Aldermen meets
this afternoon.
The Chinese labor convention
meets tonight at the Chamber Of
Commerce.
The LaWsOn-Ma rshall-E Erich affair
was squelched before Squire Norton
yesterday. NObody's head has been
broken about tbs matter get.
Will Mansford, at the Catholic
Book Store, has the very latest week
lies, as well as everything new in the
way Of late Catholic publications.
The stockholders of the Planters
Insurance Company held an election
Yesterday for officers, with what re-
suit, however, we have not been in
formed.
-Hoo6and's German bitters We're
recommended to an invalid punster
Of our acquaintance Yesterday as an
excellent tqpic+' Hes,h Mas the dis
gushing reply ''they are t%Qotonie.A
in our notice Of the Eagle boot
and shoe store, yesterday morning,
we got not only the number but the
name wrong. 1t should be POegeii,
d44 Main street,
The subcommittee of the Con-
federate Soldiers Relief Association
Picnic Committee will meet to-day.
Everything looks most encouraging
for a tremendous success.
"A man named Anderson took out
q PEACE warrant before Squire Norton
Yesterday against his own wife. She
vas put under bonds fer six months
and he went her security.
There is one Memphis leather man
that the correspondent of the Reporter
did not put IN his list (Which we copy
elsewhere)-our late candidate for
Governor.
Shelton, the youth who killed
Hughes at ehelhy DepOtsome time
since, was Brought cut CT a writ of
babeas corpus yesterday bat remanded
to iail, Judge Hudson refusing to re-
lease him on bail,
The dwelling Of l.. Kremef, 81
Union street, was broken into yeSter-
day morning, and rObbedOf $40 worth
OF clothing. Entrance Was effected by
way of the back porch. No clue to
the thieves.
Sam Bolton, the darby who filled
Monroe ThQma5i skin chuck full of
squirrel ShOtOn saturday, W2sbreught
before Squire Griffith yesterday and
remanded until the 9th inst. for a fur
ther hearing.
a man named Kelly was arrested
yesterday and brought before Squire
Kiernan charged with threatening to
kill a darky for making a Stokes
speech. The Squire bound him over
TO answer next Saturday.
"A motion was made in the Chan
Gerry Court yesterday by Col. Morgan,
City Attorney, to dissolve the injunC-
ton against the Board of Aldermen
in the matter OF the hypOthecature of
the Little Rock r. II. stock and OBJ
tanning a loan, etc. The attorneys for
Mr.. Davis asked and obtained leave
to file an amended bill. This delays
the hearing Of the motion to dissolve
ANOTHER week.
The darkies celebrated the thirty
fifth anniversary of tAe abolition OF
slavery in the West Indies, yesterday,
The various cOlored societies were out
in force, with PLANNERS flying and
drums abeating." The Sons of Ham
and sons of everything else, and
daughters too, were out in grand gala.
The next turn out will be when Moody
is hung. He is President of the
COlored Young Mems Christian AssO-
citation.
Wash Gothins, a darky black as
the hinges of Hades, had George Ste
vens and Babe Davis, two mokes not
much blacker, arrested for malicious
shooting. The case was carried be-
fore Squire Griffith, who disposed of
the case by putting all three under
a bonds for six months. Squire
Miller, who was his attorney, went on
Gothins' bond, and he was released.
On his way home he came across his
wife, who was the cause of the diff
Guilty las usuaD and he jumped on her
and gave her a '1genteelD trOuncing.
lie was arrested therefor, brought
back, his bond declared forfeited, and
he lodged in the Second District Sta
tion-house.
Officer Wright was standing on
the corner of Fourth and Adams
streets yesterday, on his beat, when a
negro woman rushed up to him and