Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-09
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
The Saint Andrews Society meets
tonight to arrange for a picnic.
The height Of water at Memphis
above low wfter mark, is fifteen feet
seven inches.
The Sunday-schOOl celebration to-
morrow will be the affair Of the year.
God bless the Sunday schools.
Frank Steiber was pronounced out
of danger last evening. He talks freely
now.
Mr.. Ferguson was captured yestel-
day, and sent to jail without bond,
until the result of Steiber's wounds
should be officially made known.
In our report of the Church Home
festival Yesterday, for Mrs. J.H. Speed
read Mrs. J. X. Speed, and Miss Lou
Trout was printed Miss Lou Grant.
This, Ascension Day, is a holiday
of obligation in the Catholic Church.
There will be services at six and at
nine-o'clock this morning in st. Peters
Church.
The Superintendent Of street railroads
has very kindly proffered to keep the
cars off the several tracks during the
passage of the Sunday-schOol children
through our streets tomorrow
Young Mr.. Marks was examined by
Justice Moore yesterday touching the
shooting affair in James park. He was
discharged on the shooting difficulty
but bonded on the concealed weapon
question.
The hOg-pOund on Washington
street was broken open ON Tuesday
night, and all the imprisoned swine set
free. There were twenty-five of them.
1t will take four policemen to guard
each pound.
The report of the grand jury of the
Criminal Court is, we understand, a
document of great length, dealing in
particulars and calling things by their
right names. We hope it will be given
to the public.
"A man who was open 10 an engage .
ment, attended the picnic Monday, met
his affinity and married her on Tues
day. The lady lived on Causey street,
near the station house. The happy pair
have gone on a bridal tour.
A person of color in attempting to
earn "an honest penny by hauling
two goats to the Pound from Pinch,
yesterday, was induced TO part with his
last meal by a violent horn in the
stomach from one Of the irate animals.
Carl Shurz will be in Chattanooga
on the 23d of June. The Germans Of
this city will invite him to address the
T%urnvereins at an early day, and Tracy
has written to him to lecture here. Carl
SchurZ is the greatest of living popular
orators.
The hotel on top of Lookout Noun
tain was burned a few nights ago, and
the people in the valley below thought
that Lookout had become another Vesu-
vius, and that, sick at the stomach, 1t
was puking yer the famous hotels Of
Chattanooga.
Mr.. Barnes, of the Charleston rail-
road, reports that it will take twenty
cars to bring to the city the children re-
siding along the line of that road who
have signified their intention of partici-
pating in the SUnday-schOOl celebration
tomorrow.
-Chief-of-Polic Athy will furnish
sufficient police force to preserve the
line of march Of the Sunday-sehoOl
children, tomorrow, unObstructed. We
hope that wagoners and others will keep
off Main, Beale, Poplar and Second
streets between the hours of ten and
one.
The improving process goes on. A
was caught yesterday on the levee
with his hands deep in the pockets OF a
countryman. He had the vanity to
think that his clumsy digits were edu-
Gated enough to accomplish the feat, but
be failed, and vas put in the station
house.
Mr.. Fleming has served upon General
Wright a notice of his intention to con-
test the claim of Thompson to be magis-
trate of the Fourteenth district. In
view Of this contest, which will be de-
cided by the County Court in July,
General Wright holds over the election
returns.
This is Ascension Day. Cyrene
COmmandery Knights Templar viii eel
citrate il by a parade through Main and
Second streets, at three o'clock; after
there will BE an Grafton deliy-
cred at the First Methodist Church, by
its pastor, the Rev. Sir Knight Slater.
The admission to the church is free, and
al are cordially invited.
The next picnic which will draw a
crOeSBill be that of the BenevO-
.ent Association Of employees at the
Charleston depot. The shops will be
closed on that day, and as the assOcia-
ion numbers some three hundred mem
Ders, and holds the balance Of power in
he Seventh ward, Of course all the nice
Of every national stripe will at
end. "If they don't they had better"
The ladies Of the Central BAPTIST
II e.el-.N-I MHn.H fl - =
his section who are now crying out for 1,
ain shall have all they want and !
therefore announce their intention of
,Ome day next week holding a straw |
Jerry festival. II generally rains when :
hey make their announcement. We {
hope this present call will be no excep- l
ion; but that next week we shall have =
)ropitioUs skies. ;
The marshals Of Sunday-schOOls !,
viii form their schools into eight ranks a
of four, as directed i'm the pro- :
Owing TO the fact that the a
,hief Of Police and the Superintendent 4
f the Memphis City Railroad have
indy agreed to clear the streets of all n
-ehicles, we are enabled TO make the
bOve change in our column. The chill
.ren, thus arranged, viii be able to keen
etter time in singing on the march.
d. GOBER, Marshal. az
The pocket-bOok fall Of gFeenbacks al
hundred dOliars-whielf a man e
eft OF the counter Of BreretOn's store, Y
n Scotland, some weeks since, and u
bout which a notice wa published in "
he APPEAL, turns out to be counter >
The package has remained in the OF
OF Captain Athy ever since. Yes al
erday he took the money to a bank, 2
the experts pronounced il coun-
The Christian Brothers will offer a a
cry valuable prize at their picnic, IN
hitch is Ia take place ON the fifth Of In
une. A scholarship will be ratified. h
-bich viii entitle the winner to a COM b
Iete course of education at the college, of
Ztending over five years. Being trans nj
Of course the holder can make
Nv one he wishes the beneficiary of his
lod fortune. This is a prize.worth con-
nding for. Every young man in the
ty. who Is anxious fora superior course
training, ought to strive for this.
good-natured correspondent says:
The wild hunt for Office, and for very &C