Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-19
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.


(Masonic) picnic meet this morning.
Yesterday was the anniversary OF the
battle of Waterloo.
Read the description of the brick ma
chine.
Yesterday was the hottest of the sea-
son. The thermometer stood e20 in the
shade.
There were 1--WE arrests in tine First
and the same number in the Second Dis
trict up to seven O'Clock yesterday.
There was nothing Of any importance
done in the great cotton case in the
United States Court yesterday.
1t would take more than q /" SeateT
shot " to knock the black" out OF
Stokes.
Capt. ". f. Harris, General Superin-
tendent of the Transfer Company, Is in
the city at the Overton. He leaves this
evening for Louisville.
-Mansford, at the Catholic Bookstore,
has AppIeton's Illustrated for this week,
which by the way is a superb number,
and which everybody ought 10 read.
The injunction granted the keno pro-
prieRrs against the Metropolitan Police,
came up in the JAancery Court yesterday.
1t Will be decided to-day.
Judge Shackleford win address the
public tonight at the GreenIaw Opera
House, on the subject of the franchise and
other political subjects now engaging pub
lie attention.
The Commencement at The State Fe-
male College night before last was a grand
l success. There were over six hundred
/ guests present and the exercises we're of
the most Interesting description.
Merchants and Others who wish to put
their advertisements in the very best me-
dunn In Tennessee, should not fail to
hand in their favor for the SUNDAY AP-
PEAL by nine O'Clock this evening.@
Citizens on Alabama street complain
bitterly of the negroes who, in returning
from the Baptist Church Fair now in pro-
gress, make night hideous by discharging
firearms as they pass throughthe streets.
We respectfully call the attention Of the
| police to the fact.
Jim Cotton, an Ole. Woodworking and
i~nofiensiye Garkey, wSs arrested yester-
day morning for setting Rotten Row on
| fire, and confined in the Second District.
Jim didn't do il, We are convinced, but if
he did he deserves the thanks of the COM
munity, instead of Incarceration.
The Memphis public-those interest
cd in such matterS-whl have an oppOrtu-
nifty this morning of seeing something
\ before witnessed in Memphis. The
Dry Docks viii be sunk al eleven o'clock
TO take on the steamer America for re-
pairs. Everybody is invited TO be present..
Squire Kiernsn asks Us to set him
right in that StrelitZ matter. He says
that on Thursday morning Mrs. Sallfrank
came to him and said that Strelitz had
been brought out and examined while she
was al her husbands funeral, and conse-
quently could not be present, and she
therefore demanded a warrant for StrelitZ.
Il was granted, and he was arrested, ex-
amined, and held over for trial in the sum
Of two Thousand dollars.
BY some means the impression has
become current that the proceeds OF the
grand Masonic picnic 10 come of on st.
Johns day, t2tth inst.,) are TO be devoted
TO the Temple fund. This is a mistake.
They are to 90 to the Relief fund, and in
this much the affair Interests the commu-
nifty At large, as IL is 4 matter OF charity to |
the widow and fatherless.
Our friends Leo Wheat and Henry |
Farmer, accompanied by Miss Generes, |
are in Nashville, where they are winning |
golden opinions from all who hear them. |
The Banner Of Thursday grows enthusi- |
astic over Miss Generes and says: Sim |
ply 10 hear her voice is z pleasure, for it |
has to an unusual degree, q rich, musical /
flow, a complete Teliableness, and breaks
anon upon the ear like the ripple of a
spring in q desert"
~ . - AhOFI4, tAAC BAtAll HAIL VIII L
exhibit his magic-lantern views at the
Chelsea Methodist Chnrch on Saturday, /
Monday and Tuesday nights. Take the
little folks 10 see them and accomplish a
double good deed, in giving them an hour
or two of enjoyment, and at the same
time contributing TO the support of a
worthy man who has lost his eyesight,
and IS Dependant on his own exertions for
a living.
The cnru., ,ir;,o,,
to be outdone by either the Hebrew
picnic or h Turner's Maifest, have de-
to have a grand picnic and
UOtkS-feSta at James Park on Monday next.
occasion is purely a social oneIa sort
of ktTeb-apeKe, such as is held so frequent
ly at home In the Fatherland. The tickets
Of admission are fifty cents and we look
TO see a full turnout of all our German
on that day.
The exercises OF The
Memphis Ladies' Institute at the Mem
phis Club Hall last night, was largely at
Tended, and the character of the enter
reflected the highest credit on
principals, Madames Southworth and
MeGehee. The distribution OF prizes took
place at the Academy, No. 2i2, DeSoto
yesterday. Among the graduates (
last night who read an excellent compost {
lion, was Miss Mahan, daughter of Frank I
Mahan, Esq, of the house Of ToOf, Phil i
lips & Co. I
B. f. C. Brooks. kcrmerly OF the A0ya- I
of this city, but now OF the Labor l
of Nashville, makes the following {
announcement through the last number
If his paper: In response toR call made
~ the State Executive Committee of the q
Labor Reform party of this State. \
meeting was held IN this city yesterday, :
which, after passing a resolution request t
ng the State Executive Committee to is I
.ue an address to the workingmen of the i
State, adjourned, to meet again in this 8
IN the the 25th inst" c
An old gentlemen from the country ?
into a Main street drug store yes c
erday TO look at a tape worm over two q
and fifty feet long, which was 0
reserved in spirits, and is said to have h
,een taken from a little girl only four c
ears Of age. After looking at the ugly 5
hing for several minutes very i~ntently, a
comparing h eprintede circular slipped G
nto his hand by the agent of the xermI- d
uge which elected the monster, he NUT s.
cred to himself, "'taiut natral, the idee p
int, nohow; why 'cordint to accounts, Their II
vas more tGpe-porm than girl by a burned Il
ight." C
"A fair but frail damsel, bearing the Il
igbly romantic and aristocratic name of q
faud Rivers, had " the notorious I" Annie
Gallagher arrested yesterday and brought n
Squire Griffith, on the charge of 4
aking from her and appropriating TO her y
yTn use, certain articles of linen nnder- :,
rear. Annie's trunk-one Of them at II
sast-was attached and brought into n
curt, and during the trial, while the d,
curtis attention was attracted in another
irection, the gentle Maud, fearing that
ae case was abohtto 20 against her, raised o.
ne no and freezing to a half dozen of the g