Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

| ing room during the HttHsptg Ds1sDtsj
engagement, whiehlcommences Monday
and continues all the week.
The Masonic lodges Of this city gave
banquet last night to Mr.. A. J..
Wheeler, who was recently elected
grand master Of the order ia this State.
Might before last burglars entered
| Mrs. COwell's beer garden, on Poplar
street, and stole lot OF articles, inciud-
ing shotgun. They then made an in
eftectual attempt to enter MonteverTede's
grocery, near by.
The Memphis Microscopic society
VIII meet tonight At the Office Of DR..
Cutler, corner Of Main aud Adams
streets, at half-past seven O'Clock. Dr..
Morse will read his paper, and we hope
the attendance viii be large.
In the first circuit court yesterday,
Mary COwdry filed petition for divorce
from her husband, W. F. COwdTy, TO
whom she was married January n, 1868.
She charges him with cruelty, desertion
and violation Of the marital obligations.
-Oficer Ahlt yesterday arrested the
noted negro cottOn-thief "Old Wiley"
who had seereted himself IN the wheel
house OF the steamer George w. Cheek.
''Old Wiley" escaped from the recorders
court few days since before his case
was tried.
The. New York Tribune Extra, No.
%, Forest and Stream, Galaxy and
Harper's Monthly for December; also,
the New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, st.
Louis, Louisville, and New Orleans
dailies, can be found at Msnsford's, cor
ner Second and Monroe streets.
The knights of Pythias will give
grand parade and drill at the EXPOSE
ton building the eleventh OF Deem
Der. Seventy-ive mounted knights, in
full uniform and helmet, will head the
procession, which, It is expected, will
be engaged In by different lodges of Ten
nessee and other States. The display
will be one of the most magnificent
ever made In Memphis.
Justice Miller yesterday issued
warrant, at the instance of 8 negro wo-
man named Frisbee, for the arrest of
her husband for the larceny Of her trunk |
and q violation Of marital VOWS. The
unfortunate woman went on board q |
steamer TO meet her worse half, but was
Mortified to learn that be had stolen her |
trunk and eloped with negress named |
Sylvia, who resides near Germantown.
The body Of an unknown white
man was found floating In the river at /
Mound City, Saturday, and tied to the /
bank by gentleman named Johnson,
who thereupon informed the Arkansas
Of the fact. This official took no
notice OF the body, which being swept
from its moorlng by the waves, 6Oated
down the stream and lodged at the
Hopeheld elevator yesterday, where 1t
now remains.
The first circuit court jury, in the
Ease Of the Mississippi and Tennessee
railroad company versus Mrs. Addie
Pamplin e al, yesterday rendered q YER
1ict for defendants in the sum OF three
thousand eight hundred and twe1ty-oDe
iOllSrs and thirty cents. The railroad
company claimed a balance OF three
thousand one hundred and eighty-nine
iollsrs due nom Pamplin, their agent,
who alleged thst he paid in December,
S66, the sum Of five thousand one hun
lTed dollars TO plaintiff, for which he
eeeived no credit. X
Notwithstanding the unfavorable
weather. there was another large eongre- ,
-stiOn at the First Baptist church on ,
ast night TO hear Rev. A. P. Graves's
thanksgiving sermon. The effect was
> marked that scores Of the audience {
rOke out in audible giving of thanks /
I'D raised numerous prayers in token
i gratitude to the GiyeF Of every good. II
4srge numbers of the unconyerted went !
onward for prayer, and some professed {
be name Of Jesus. The meetings viii s
Ow be somewhat reversed, as follows:
reaching at night atquarter past seven
'eloek il the Central instead of the I
Inst Baptist church, and preaching at /
1ree O'Clock in the afternoon at the / s
'iTst Baptist church, instead Of the Gem 7
raj. The half past eight O'Clock prayer
leeting ia the mornings will he con-
nued in the First Baptist church as t
susl. Let none fail to attend these t
MEETINGS.