Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-13
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Mad Ophelias should not wear long
trains Tor dresses whose stiffness show
there's method in madness.
Owing to the great number of re-
Gently arrived thieves in the city, six
men viii be added to the police force.
Henry Lewis and Joe Smith, both
negroes, were arrested yesterday for
breakingsinto Pete Connelley's house on
the Pigeon RoOst road.
Night before last negro entered a
Beale street clothing store, near DeSOt0,
and knocking down the proprietor, stole
a coat aud made of with it. Police!
The Gruetli association will give Its
anniversary ball at Cochran hall next
Monday night. The occasion will be
one Of much interest and pleasure to all
who attend.
The Ledger man says: "Summer is
over, and each citizen who can afford it
appears wrapped up in an overcoat. -
He is a long time finding it out. He
has doubtless been Rip Van Winkling.
The protracted meetings that have
been held at the Linden street Christian
church for the past three weeks will
close tonight. Rev. J. B. Larimore
will deliver a sermon on the "Great
Commission"
Young Ramsay, who attempted sui
eide at the Worsham house day-before.
yesterday, still lives and will doubtless
recover. His father arrived yesterday
from Helena, and is at the bedside OF
the rash young man.
Tuesday last white man and two
negroes, all armed, went to the residence
Of German on the Old Raleigh road,
and knocking his wife senselss, stole a
horse and made off with it. The hus-
band, upon returning home, went In
pursuit Of the thieves, but failed to catch
them, and has not recovered his horse.
kaufman and Morrison, residents of
South Memphis, yesterday fled g bill
in the second chancery court restrain
ing the city from the collection Of taxes
due by them until the fence across
Main street is removed. They claim
that the city has no right to collect
taxes while they are debarred the use of
the city's public highway, etc.
Officers Davis and Richards ar
rested Henry Lewis and Joe Smith, |
evening, for robbing Peter /
place, on Union street. They |
had stolen lot Of provisions and sold |
them TO a clearinghouse and saloon, and |
had carried about two hundred pounds |
Of seduction to a grocery near Central |
Point, where they sold it by telling that
they had been picking cotton for farm
n, who paid them in seduction in
stead of money.
The Ledger man says: 1.-THE smoky
which caused our Indian L
summer weather was caused by the big
Tres in the Arkansas woods, but the late Il
aims have eXtinguished the fires and
dispersed the dense clouds of smoke and
% which hung thick and low along the
st. Francis and Arkansas
ivers. At night the Odor of burning {
caves and brush has been noticeable in |
ur city, Noticeable is good, and '
ne "OdOT' must hsve been quite solid.
A special 10 the APPEAL, from {
last night, announces the !
rival OF the following stock there for |
le fair trOt6ng-race which comes off s
lere to-day: Colonel ]. A. Forest, q
lemphis, enters sOrrel mare Kate; v
harley Bracket, sorrel mare Kitty; b
yOod Hall, bay gelding Ugly Jim; e
eneral J. J. Crowley, roam mare g
ollie; J. B. Lacey, Silver Heel; r. II
HauDJ Milan; Master George Hast Il
g, bay stallion Clipper jr.; J. R. q!
cad, bay gelding Joe. Hotels and
reefs are crowded with people. A
The series Of meetings opened last
-ening by Rev. A. P. Graves, the great sc
'rthern revivalist, indicated profound e
Ovement ia the hearts Of all present. IL
De attendance al the First Baptist ~
urch, although the meetings were &C
aroely announced in time. was good, tn
d viii doubtless largely increase dur n
3 the week. Mr.. Graves is q plain, Al
rnesL, practical speaker-a man Of
eat piety, faith, and prayer, and has Ps
en- wonderfully successful in the work Sc
revival in almost every State in the si'
ll0n. We cannot help but feel great ~
-eTest in this, as in all other religious a
Dvements il the land, and will keep an
e public informed of the facts and re- ~
It's as they occur by regular reports Of M
e meeting, Services this morning at ye
D O'Clock in the Contra Baptist church; NJ
night again, at quarter past seven, at Ii
e First Baptist church, and so on II.
rough the week. or