Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-20
CITY PARAGRAPHS.

The First Circuit Court goes into SEES
sion to-day.
Our Scheiisrs has gone TO Little Rock
and the Gazette has made a new depar'
ture.
A Memphis artist is engaged OF the
new stained glass windows OF 81. Peters
Church.
The annual commencement az St,
Agnes Academy takes place this morning
at . O'Clock.
The doctors say that all the signs In
dictate a very healthy season for Memphis
this summer.
The German Lutheran picnic at
Humboldt park, yesterday was a very
pheasant little artair.
The new schoOl-house at the corner OF
Market and Third streets viii be the finest
IN the city when finished.
The uptown boarding houses have
reduced their hssh to 5 per week, with
some whisky thrown In.
Mary J.. Holmes novel, Millbsnk
has sold 70 3 greater extent than any
other novel Of this season.
To-day, At 2OS Madison street, there
viii be a receivers sale Of Omcs furniture,
including safe, desks, etc.
The commencement exercises Of the
HhNLlCn A4aAAHAaI anu PM Ne~AAhLN -
eight O'Clock, az 100 Madison street.
DR.. Gilbert len at our ONCE yesterday
q shesf Of oats which measures fhy-nine
inches In length, grown in this county.
The grounds Of the Academy of the
Immaculate Conception St Jackson Will
be the scene OF g brilliant picnic to-mor-
row.
The POston-GraVes case Is now before
the Supreme Court OF the State, Our
specials from Jackson viii tell Of It's daily
progress.
-Cantelopes and watsrmelons are be-
coming plentiful ia the market. They
came from Alabama and are q little dear
yet for ordinary people.
Two new nOvels,-Delsplsine, by the
author Of Warwick" M the WidOwer,
by the author Of widow Goldsmith's
Daughter, will be Published this week
All the railroads coming into the city
have sgresd TO allow delegates 70 the
great Temperance Convention, which Is
10 be held here on Thursday next, to
travel at half fare.
"A correspondent writes Us tha Il was
not coal oil that exploded at Mr.. Hol-
lenberg's residence, OF Sunday night, but
an explosive huia which is commonly
sold a. coal oil
The policeman who does duty about
the mDNNu UA MDAA AANEA BaAhIA ~ . AAAAU
turtle Yesterday. There Is TO be turtle
soup at the Adams Street Station House
to-day for all hands. Call round there az
noon exactly.
Some boys report having seen q man
sink beneath the turbid water Of the
WoIfriver while bathing on Sunday after-
noon. He went down and hOEted no
more. he viii be inquestod next week,
perhaps.
Says Neups State Gazette; "When Hem
~ $. fo0ts WIS, as 3 member Of the Con
federsto Congress, hurting bis snathemas
at President Davis and using his mis-
chievous talent 10 disrupt the Confederate
States, we thought he should have been
hanged a. a traitor. We still think So"
On the Z2dOf this month there will be I
held in this city % Of the largest con- i
ventions OF the Sons Of Temperance ever
known before, and in honor Of that
convention, there Will be the grandest
picnic Of the season, under the augnicsa
Of the Young Mems Division, No. I'd. Som
of Temperance. The prizes 70 he award.
cd are on exhibition n Barnum'a.
The Franklin ReUielD gets in this chi
at the Jefferson street E~nOW-drop: "The
Memphis AUdldachc demands OF the AP-
PEAL 70 point out to us any means,
other than revolution and ~bloodshed, by
which the ballot can be taken from The /
MEEN0a E4I NANAAAH " ANAlNEA NA 1
els5tion Is 70 Be held let The editor Of the
Avalanche be confined In q lunatie asy-
lum."
The annual commencement Of Mem
phiE Female College wiz take place At
Memphis Club Hall, on Tuesday evening, /
the 10th instant. Several addresses Will
be delivered, and certificates OF diEtlnc-
ton and Of graduation awarded to those
pupils who in their written examinations
have attained 20 the highest grade of
scholarship. The public generally are in
Vited 20 attend.
Isabella ". Strickland, the vile Of q
steamboat engineer, and who has lately
shown marked evidence OF insanity. al q
O'Clock, yesterday morning, Ia st. Louis.
walked to 3 pond near her house and
manifested a disposition 70 throw herself
in, but wa prevented. Returning home
she put en- = calico dress and went into
the cellar and saturated her clothes with
coal oil and then set them on IRE. She
was burned 50 badly that abe died.
DR. J. NJ. Stafford, the distinguished
state GeOIogist, Of Middle Tennessee, viii
- IL Rwavne's Mammoth Springs on Fri
next. The rooms there, 1t is said, are
hIiing mp rapidly, and the probability is
bat visitors going up viii, before long.