Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-07
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The fair will be continued Monday
and Tuesday nights.
The MendelsshOn club win give their
concert at the theater to-mOrrOwvnight.
The street cars will run in Chelsea
to-day, within a block Of the brick
church.
Business is reported dull on the
levee, but a refreshing time is expected
very Don
The butchers still resolve to adhere
to their meat-stOres, and to try the city
government "anOther TWIST at the stall
litigation.
The matinee was a success yester-
day. The fine weather and the irresisti-
bic lisp Of "Dundwery" filed the thea
ter to It's utmost capacity
The little road to Raleigh, which
will be the most popular and best trav-
eled in the State in a short time, is now
ready for the iron, which will be laid
down very soon.
If you will hook your neighbours
Sunday paper when he is out of town,
why not return it next morning ? This
is the question of a correspondent who
hBs frequently been robbed.
The members Ofthe Hibernian Brass
Band will give their great ball tO-mOr-
row evening In the Memphis Club hall.
The ball is for the benefit Of the band,
and viii be a great success.
There are four hundred tons Oil-cake
at the Southern Oil Works, ready for
shipment 10 England via New Orleans.
A close calculation shows that this much
cake will fatten three thousand cattle for
Johnny.
"A dozen or 80 butchers formed a ring
round a wild steer in North Memphis,
yesterday, and chanted our chorus Of
La Plata's jerked beef" The whole.
neighborhOOd was scared almost to.
death, and several dogs went mad.
Two little negroes were arrested yes
terday on the leVee for stealing cotton.
When in the hands of the police they X
pressed severe penance, Wept and wore
sack cloth, their habitual garments. The
Recorder will teach them the laws to-
morrow morning.
The SOcieta de Unione Fratellanza
~Italiana, viii give a grand picnic on the
18th of May. We understand that cur
sterling friend, A. b. VaccarO, is chair
man Of the committee of arrangements, /
and the public will therefore be justified
in expecting superb affair.
E-The following parties married dur
ing the week: James Marshall and
Miss Maggie Hall; J. i. Stevens and
Miss Mollie COOpwood; Michael Feeley
and Miss Jane BlRckwOOd; Irving b. /
Sheldon and Miss Ida E. King. -Four
couples sought happiness
through the same agency.
Two constables went armed with
-he proper wTits to levy on a "fellah"
Yesterday, in order to realize four hun
fred dollars, the amount of an execu-
ion. Having passed over everything
IN the premises exempt by law, there
nothing left but an old cane, worth
fifteen cents, which they took along and
Tied TO raise the drinks on it for a mile
md a half Of saloons along Main street
-Rdrper's Weekly, for this week, con-
aims the first of the promised supple
nents to contain sketches of London by
Jerrold, illustrated by the
DOre, the greatest Of French
and Frank LeSlie's, beside a host
f good things, including a political car
Don or two, has a colOred full length
LIKENESS Of the great Massachusetts Sem
tor. Joe Locke, 1864 Main street has
together with all the other illus
rated papers, weeklies and monthlies.
The telegraph last night brings us
rom Cincinnati the following very hope
Vi item of news: +. NJ. Mahan, fnan-
ial agent Of the Memphis Waterworks
company has concluded a contract with
Cincinnati firm TO ship Immediately
D Memphis two thousand five hundred
of iron water-pipe for said works, {
eing twenty-five miles of pipe, TO be
aid for by the first mortgage bonds on {
De works. (
-Yesterday Colonel Robert Baleh was
not in Crittenden county by the Sheriff, '
II. Hardin. The difficulty which pro-
uced this sad result vas about the pos
sssion Of some land. The Sheriff, il
.pears, had a writ for the election of
OlOnel Balch from a place he occupied.
he latter refused to retire, and there i,
re was shot by the Sheriff. The de- J
eased was a tall, portly man, who was !
ell known IN Memphis, having lived :
the OvertOn three or four years ago. :
There appears 70 be new life infused Z
ato railroad-building Ia this section.
lessIs, Patterson, Ledbetter & Co., con-
IaeUofs ior b Memphis and Paducah r
seHs y sixty cOnvicts 70 work In I
ne won nver swamps yesterday. This
one hundred and seventy hands
gentlemen have working on that
lute now. The Nashville Uason 0nd
lmer7cGa, Of Friday, says: lone him.
red convicts are expected to leave here =
)-morrow, fifty going to work on the
lemphis and Selma railroad, under Cen
and fifty going to the Etna coal q
lines. They are being uniformed in
.gular zebra style.n
The second largest congregation per-
APPS the very largest, in the United States
that on Beale street.-The COlored Bap- I
st. It issixteen hundred strong. They
ave q chief pastor of their own race. 1
b. MOrIis. and threa assistants.