Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-20
ROOMS N BOARD,
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Il Mr.. Barton, whose marriage wa:
announced yesterday, was reported as
being connected with the house o.
Brooks, Nelly & Co. 1t should have
been Smith, Neele & Co.
The June number of the Masonic
JeaCeI has been received. 1t contains a
large quantityO of matter, very interesting
to the Masonic fraternity, which Bro
Their Wheeler has culled with great care.
-Messrs. Forster, Kealhofer & Co.
yesterday received, by the steamer Phil.
AIlin, and forwarded to US, the first
Arkansas cotton bloom. 1t was gathered
on the plantation of w. Z. Hodges,
Walnut Bend.
Attention is called to the card Of
Mr.. T. w. Green, who is a candidate for
the office of Constable of the Fourteenth
Civil District. He is running on an in
dependent ticket, as he does not consider
that the Office of constable Is political.
The grand moonlight excursion, so
long talked of, and which promises to
be an event never to be forgotten by
those who attend, will, we are assured,
come off a week from to-day. A mag
nifcent boat is engaged. 1t will be a
grand affair. al,
"A couple of negroes named re
speetively Napoleon Turner and Sam.
Gray, were arrested last evening by De-
tective McCune, accused of robbing a
passenger ON board the Phil. Allin.
When searched at the statiOnhouse both
had concealed weapons on their per-
sons. They were, therefore, locked up,
and will have an interview with Re
cOrder Winters this morning in the Po-
lice Court
=POmpey Johnson, who was arrested
on Tuesday evening accused Of stealing
a mule, the property of Mitchell Holt
man & Co, was brought up before Re
cOrder Winters in the Police Court yes
terday. Pompey denied that he had
stolen the mule or even tried to trade it
off for a horse. The.evidence, however,
was too strong against him and so he
was committed to the county jail to
await trial in default Of four thousand
dollars bond.
"A couple of months since a valuable
trunk belonging to Mr.. Robert Talbot,
Of this city, mysteriously disappeared
while in trdBsjA to New York by rail.
A thorough search was made for a few
weeks, bnt no trace could be got of the
trunk, and the general opinion of the
railroad officials wa that il had been
stolen out of the baggage-car between
Humboldt and st. Louis. From some
information quietly received suspicion
attached to a young man named White
head, formerly connected with the road, |
and he was arrested, when he confessed
he had changed the check on the trunk
in the baggage-car en- route to ST. Louis,
and claimed the trunk as his property
when that city was reached. Yesterday
he pleaded guilty to the charge in the
Criminal Court, and was sentenced to
n years imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary. vr-r vfrF1w
"A gang Of expert and daring horse
thieves are infesting many of the coun-
try districts of Shelby county, and the
result has been that several farmers have
lost valuable animals within the past
two weeks. They give the city a wide
berth, through fear, doubtless, of the
police force, but they appear to be work
ing outside the limits, on the Pigeon
Roost road. Yesterday morning, after
daylight, a brace of these seamps paid a
visit to the premises of Mr.. Castle, who
lives about a couple of miles east Of the
city, and stole a valuable claybank mare
and went off with it in the direction of
Somerville. The thieves had previously
stolen a saddle from one of Mr.. Castles
neighbOrs, which proves that they are
expert in their business.
The married ladies of the city are
all on the Qui UiUe in regard to the grand
baby show which viii take place at the
Masonic picnic at James's Park on st.
Johns day, June twenty-fourth. There
are certain to be over hundred JUL
yeniles of both seXes on exhibition. To
the fairest baby under one year old a
coin silver knife, fork and spoon, worth
twenty dollars, will be awarded To the
fairest baby between one and two years
old, a solid silver cup, valued at twenty
five dollars, will be awarded, and do
mated by Mr. w. Q. Byrd, jeweler. The
second prize will be a beautiful coral
set, which cost eighteen dollars. The
entrance fee will be one dollar, and the
Judges will all be experienced parents.
Babies nurses and baby carriages will
be taken out from Court Square to the
mark and returned home free of charge. /