Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-01
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

day appointed NJ. M'Hugh to I'LL the va
cancy on the police force caused by the
removal Of P. o. Bradley.
The Sunday-schools OF st. Johns
ami the Fort Pickering Methodist
Episcopal churches, yesterday enjoyed a
picnic at the Morrison place.
Detective MCune yesterday re-
turned from Holly Springs, Mississippi,
with the negro Isaac Adkins, charged
with stealing a mule in this city several
months ago.
"A Front street youth yesterday
rugged himself up in pair of spotted
pants and ornemented his lead-colored
straw hat with q rooster feather for the
purpose of attending the circus.
The fete chanlpetre st Mr.. Brink
ley's tonight will be one Of the most
recherche entertainments Of the season.
The proceeds of the fete cbnnlpetre will
be devoted to st. Mary's Episcopal
church.
There will be glorious time at the
Monmouth Cave next week when the
two delegations from this city and
Nashville meet. Music, dancing, fish
ing and general jollity will be the order
of the day and night.
Deputy Constable Dock Jones, col
ored, yesterday returned from Missis-
sippi with Archy Parker, colOred, who is
charged with beating Maria Holmes with
q hickory stick. He will be tried before
Justice Elliott this morning.
The fete chUnpetre tonight for the
~ aft OF st. Mays Episcopal church,
a. q tnt residence Of r. G. BTiDkley,
toPIaI street, Will be an entertainment
Vi IsIe o.. light. All who attend are as
suieU M 9ning Of unboun6ed pleas
ure. Ticket fifty cents.
IN coop Oh hIUkens received by Hill
Fon'S H ySSterday, was found a
extended beyond tH0st .Sa,a us s DOdy Dethg
extension are two f SSn Sr1I, vi ne tbe
rooster, or rather the rOosti- .Snd.e.b s
a four.legged bird. The G!rd "a mi
grown and unusually fierce.
Memphis business is exte,d;,c,
The house of E. p. Reid & Co. has thf.
week shipped off to Denver City, CJn'
RADIO, three carloads OF potatoes and
pies, and they have further shipments
In prospect. They are bought by John
II. Martin, Esq, Of the enterprising
firm of Martin & CornfOrth, OF Denver.
The acknowledgement has issued
the following order: cit is hereby Or
dered that the fee for registering letter,
mailed at any pO5tOffice within the
United States, addressed to any other
postOffice III the United States, or to o
foreign country, be fixed, on and after
July /, 1875, at the uniform rate of ten
cents, in addition to the regular postage,
to be fully prepaid by postage stamps
affixed to such letter and cancelled at
the mailing office"
In the first chapcery court yester-
day G.. II. Pickering filed q petition for
divorce against Maggie E. Rains, to
whom he was married last February.
Petitioner says that defendant was mar
ried at Jacksonport, Arkansas, in March,
1873, to John T. Rains, who is now liv-
ing at Marthasville, Louisiana. Petit
TONER further says that when he married
defendant she believed her husband,
John T. Rains, to be dead, and did not
know he was alive until few months
ago.
We understand that quite liberal
sum has been subscribed for the Court
square fountain, which will be located
in the center of the park, where now
stands the statue Of Andrew Jackson.
This statue will be removed from its
present location and placed in the Gen.
ter Of the avenue leading to the western
gate. The addition of a fountain to
Court square will increase its popularity
very much. At present it is quite beau
tiful, the trees and grass being kept in
good order by Mr.. Heating. Among
the different trees and shrubs in Court
square are maple, red and white oak,
sycamore, silver-poplar, boX-elder, box,
magnolia, pine, etc.
other session this afternoon at four
o'clock, owing to a want of harmony of
action or a Misunderstanding between
the two bodies. The common council
adjourned over to the next regular
meeting, but did not have the consent
of the board Of aldermen for so long q
recess, and having important business
still unfinished, desire to meet the MEM
bers of the GLOVER house" in sweet COM
muniOn once more before the month
expires. Some members of the board of
aldermen did not seem to like this |
seeming want Of courtesy of adjOurning
over without their consent, and adj |
jOurned to meet this afternoon. 1t is to |
be hoped there will be a full board to- |
day, and that henceforth the adjourn |
ments may be made in peace and har. |
mony.
in the matter of the suit of G., De- |
LO2ch, deceased, VS. E. NJ. Apperson, |
Of which we have already published two |
paragraphs, it is proper that we should |
apprise our readers that about five years |
ago the matters in controversy between |
the litigants were given to two of |
the oldest and most responsible mer- |
chants OF Memphis for arbitration and |
adjustment, with the consent OF coun-
eel. By these gentlemen the books and |
papers of the firm Of E. M. Apperson d |
Co., of which Mr.. Clabe DeLOach was
member at the time Of his death, were
submitted to two competent bookkeep.
ers. After months of patient investiga-
ton and examination, these gentlemen
reported the books in perfect order; the
second stubstantiating the report OF the
first. This did not safety the plaintiff
or her counsel, and the result was per-
emptOry appeal to the courts, whence
the present suit, which has been contin-
ued until the October term. 1t is due to
ourselves to say that in publishing any
thing about this matter in the APPEAL
we had no desire to prejudice the case
either one way or the other, nor to ap-
pear as in any way interfering with the
smooth passage OF justice.
|
ers TO know that Attorney General
PierrepOnt officially announces in re-
gard to his recent decision concerning
the payment Of duties on imported
goods at the place of destination that,
by the act OF March 3, 1875, increased
duties were imposed on many kinds of
merchandise, sugar, mOlssst s, etc. The
statute excepted from the operation OF
the law goods actually on shfpboard and
goods in warehouse or public store prior
to the tenth day ofFebruary, 1875. Large
quantities Of goods reached the port Of
New York and passed on in bond to in
terror ports. Before they had reached
such interior ports the law struck them,
and as they were not on shipbOard OF in
the warehouse or public store they were 4
not, in the language Of the law, relieved
rom the increased duty. He, therefore,
g Of the opinion that it is clear there
vas an unintentionsl omission in the