Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-04
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

-Arnold's Band serenaded the APP
PEAL yesterday before going out to the
races TO make music there for the sports.
The splendid oilcloth which Messrs.
Mitchell & Hoffman put on the editorial
floors of the APPEAL was woven twenty
four feet wide.
-Chicken-hghting was continued all
yesterday, thus dividing the hOnors with
the raee-honses. About a dozen fowls
were killed and wounded.
The gentlemanly professors of the
"art preServativen viii have their re-
cherche picnic on Wednesday next. 1t
viii, of course, be the best of the season.
The ladies will go out to ElmwOOd
to-day to decorate the graves OF the
Confederate dead. Trains on the Mem
pbis and Charleston road will III fire.
quently, but the street-can will be found
quite convenient. They start from
Court Square every ten minutes.
Tomorrow afternoon all the Sum
day-schOOl children will rehearse in the
GreenlawOpeTa house, preparatory to
the usual great Sunday-school festival,
which was first suggested by the AP-
PEAL now nearly fourteen months ago.
The celebration will take place this year
on Friday, the tenth Of May.
Mr. J. Oakley is opening the pretti-
est saloon nthe city, ct l07 Beale street,
directly opposite the market. The style
and get-up of this superb refreshment
emporium, will excel any previous at
tempt made in the city. This evening
it viii be formally opened by a grand
lunch, to which all the citizens are in
vited.
-AphilanthrOpic gentleman suggests,
in a communication, that the members
Of the chain-gang have a picnic toward
the end of the month. This must bethe
same person that got up a petition to
Alderman Pettigrew, asking him to sup
port a measure of reform which would
enable that afflicted class of the commu-
nifty to enjoy two hours repOse al mid
day during the summer months.
-Mr.I /. NJ. Booker young gentleman
who has been educated in law, and
who, as United States Commissioner for
two or three years past, has given salts
factory evidence Of his ability TO dis
charge the duties faithfully, is a candi-
date for Justice of the Peace in the
Fourteenth Civil District, election on
Tuesday next. Mr.. Booker Is favOrsbly
known to the bench and bar, as well as
to the bankers and commercial men of
Memphis, and if they could we know
they would elect him. If elected, he
will be found a conscientious, pains
taking justice, a gentleman worthy of
the position.
John c. Lanier is announced as a
candidate for Justice of the Peace
in the Fourteenth Civil District of Shell
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be held Tuesday, May Z, 1872. The
boundaries of the Fourteenth Civil Dis
trict embrace that portion of the city OF
Memphis south Of Madison street, Mar
shall avenue and Union avenue, as far
east to a line just east of Trezevant ave
nue.; thence south to the Pigeon-roOst
road, neal Bethel's former residence;
thence west on a line south of and par
allel with Kerr avenue Including a por-
ton of Presidents Islandl, to the Mis-
sissippi river.
An alarm Of fire sounded at ten
o'clock yesterday morning, owing to
the unfortunate fact that the grocery
house Of Levy d Mcdonald, near the
corner of Poplar street and Carroll ave-
nue., WAS discovered to be on fire. The
engines arrived in a few minutes, and
with difficulty Suppressed the flames.
The building, a three-stOry frame, WAS
burned out and the stock of groceries
destroyed. The adjoining drug store Of
G. P. johnson & Go. was slightly dam
aged by water. The frame building was
owned by the Garvin estate, and was
valued at three thousand dollars. The
stock of groceries was valued at two
thousand five hundred dollars, and was
insured in the Home Insurance Com
pany and the Memphis City Insurance
Company for that sum. The building
was insured in the Bluff City Insurance
Company for fifteen hundred dollars,
and in the Merchants Insurance Com
pany for twelve hundred and fifty dol
lars