Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-18
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

"A fair for the benefit of the orphans
is to commence at the Assembly Hall
next Monday.
There is a mouse in the municipal
mealbag. Several people about the
city smell rat.
A masked ball is spoken Of as pos
sibly contingency at one of our hotels
during the holidays.
Several dead mules and horses were
hauled to the bOne-yard, from various
parts of the city, yesterday.
The great lucturer, Father Burke, is
coming down this way. He will have a
reception at Louisville on the twenty
first instant.
Mr. Rush Bowen, Registrar of the
Fourth ward, reports six hundred and
iifty-six whites, and two hundred and
eighty-tive negroes registered.
1t will be seen by the announce
ment in the amusement advertisements
that there will be a matinee at Nc
Evoy's HibernicOn to-day, commencing
at two o'clock.
About ten ladies are among the reg
istered voters of Memphis. As the Reg
istrars have not refused papers to any
Ag
sex sought their rights.
The following item OF interest to
this locality, is going the rounds Of the
press: "Mr. Waggoner found fault with
The beef at a Memphis hotel the other
morning, and the coroner made three
dollars on him."
The epizootic having ceased, thu free
license privilege is recinded, and as
consequence, dozens of drivers were
pulled by the Police yesterday, and
VIII be fined, perhaps, for net having
"the documents"
Mr.. H. NJ James left five dollars
for the poor woman on the Raleigh road,
whose sad case was mentioned in the
APPEAL. The good lady can have the
money by calling at this Office at eleven
OF twelve o'clock.
Rain fell in torrents last night. The
previous night was quite cold and clear
at eleven or twelve o'clock, and gave
promise of a spell Of agreeable weather.
The bitter, Geld, drizzly, penetrating
rain is much worse than snow and ice.
The total city debt of all sorts is four
million four hundred and forty-seven /
thousand dollars, and not a cent in sight |
to pay it; no funds available even 10 pay /
the police, nor to meet the January in /
terest-One hundred and ten thousand |
dollars.
The pOrker that dipped her long
sneut into a pot Of boiling bacon and /
greens at Horn Lake, and thus caused /
the destruction by fire Of a house in that /
place, was the same old razOr-back that |
cot whipped out on Union street two .
months ago by Chesterwhite.
Those worthy people on the Poplar /
street pike, GinnOcchiO and his wife, are /
showing symptoms Of returning vitality. 1
that aged people like them, beyond 4
sixty years, viii ever fully recover from
the severe beating they received.
The counsel in that contested will /
case entered on the argumentative por-
ton of their labors yesterday, after din
ner, and continued them up nearly to
All parties engaged made
heavy speeches and conclusive argu-
ments. The jury viii have the case to-
day.
The members Of the Young Mems
Christian Association have opened new
rooms over Guy, Mcclellan & Co.'s 1
store, at the corner Of Court and Front |
streets. They viii be opened from seven .
o 'elock to nine every night in the week,
and from two O'Clock 70 six on Sundays. !
1t is the Mayor who is charged with |
the duty Of seeing that the lamps are |
properly cleaned and regularly lighted !
The CITY Council referred that matter to /
him a month ago, when complaint was
made by the Committee on Lamps and J
Lights. This is why the darkness in /
creaseth.
"A man was shot at DesOto Front /
Saturday by the Deputy-SheriR Of De /
Soto county, Mississippi The citizen |
was resisting the service Of some law
process with a shot gun. The Deputy
Sheriff shot him in the thigh, breaking
the bone, and doing such damage to the
apparatus that death resulted I
not long afterWard.
The Police Board met yesterday and 4
aQitated three hours or so upon patrol 1
and men. II was decided, and |
30 done, TO appoint five additional men /
on the force. whose names are as fol- /
lows. Thomas DOlan, John Fitzpatrick, /
John McElroy, James Richards, and |
Fifz Croker. Besides this heavy bust |
ness. the cases Of eight or nine delin-
euents were heard, but the misdemean- +
ors not being Of a greivous character,
they were ali gently reprimanded and /
told, in the benign accents Of charity, to
90 and sleep no more.
The Registrars finished up their
work yesterday at three o'clock. They
did not report TO the Exchange Build
inR, and when our item-snatcher went
round looking for the Registrars he could
find only a few The total number reg
istered viii probably reach nine thou
sand. In the First ward, IlS9 were