Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-12-03
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The chanceTy court meets this morn
ing.
There will be a Lolita matinee to-
morrow afternoon.
Recorder Winters yesterday fined 6
wiie-whipper, named Casey, fifty dol
lars.
-M'Kee Rankin's Ttgo Orphans viii
be at the GreenlaW OperahOuse next
week.
Anthony Crenshaw, celcTed, was
arrested yesterday for assaUlting friend
with knife.
The conservative club
of the eighth ward meets at Hentges's,
opposite the market hOuse, tonight to
perfect its organization.
-Grangers should attend the ThesteI
tonight and behold the garden at Elk
ton Grange" with Lolita as the fsirest
flower on the dramatic stage.
The Chastaine cases were called up
in the criminal court yesterday, out con-
tjnued because OF the illness of the de.
feudant, who will appear for trial as
soon as he is well.
Yesterday Jane CssselI, colored,
fled petition in the circuit court ask
ing divorce from her husband, John
Cassell, whom she charges with cruelty,
abandonment, etc.
Yesterday Colonel II. D. Money,
Colonel o. r. Singleton and Colonel
G. E. Hooker, members-elect Of con-
gTess from Mississippi, left UiG Hum
ooldt for Washington.
Lolita makes her farewell appear
ance at the matinee tomorrow after
noon. This will be one of the most
fashionable and brilliant entertainments
of the season. All who attend will be
interested and delighted.
Last night Leila Scott Lodge, No.
$50, F. and A. M, elected the following
officers for the ensuing term: A. F. Da-
Wis, w. NJ /; A. S. Myers, S. W.; r. w.
Mitchell, J. W.; S. II. Brooke, treas
urer; r. A, Ly tie, secretary; Earl Cant,
8. D.; ID. Gensberger, J. d.
Out of eighteen prisoners who ap-
pesled from the criminal court to the
court, only two, Charles Trot-
ter and Oscar Turner, indicted for MUIR
der, were granted new trials. This is
a great compliment TO the judicial ability
and intelligence Of Judge Flippin.
AT the semi.annuaI election of Off
GERS held by the Irish literary society,
At their hall on Poplar street last night,
the following gentlemen were chosen to
oil the respective positions named:
President John Mulroy; Yice-president,
Captain d. Smith; recording secretary,
Andrew Hamilton; financial secretary,
[. L. KehOe; treasurer, Captain J. Har-
yey Mathes; censor, James FlaheTty;
Librarian, E. J. Kremer.
Ten Of John Robinson's actors and
together with the big tle-
)ba1t baud-Wagon, arrived ia the city
by rail, and will go up on the
Jols MilIaT tomorrow afternoon as far
IS Cincinnati. We learn that the war
,etween HOwe's Great London and |
2ObiDsOn's show have ended, all differ |
.Dces having been amicably settled !
Mr.. Robinson has reduced his company |
or the winter campaign.
The United States courts yesterday
iisposed OF the following cases: United |
states Us. N. Com s, j., motion to quash |
frauds; United States Us. |
Ohm Order, motion TO quash sustained; |
United States as. Howell, judgment sus- |
'NLNNAf 4t"hNA TO- WY VI LbLOW WIFE,
,leas stricken OFT and lesve to file ads |
Iitionel pleas before Monday granted; |
ireen Us Mitchell, Green as George |
Srskine, dismissed.
Last night a stranger, with his va
ise, went 10 the Arkansas house, on |
street, between Main and |
,ecOnd, and expected to take lodgings /
u a few minutes after he set his vaise
side he could not find 1t, but was told
al youth named George O'Neal had
AIKEN sossessiyn OF The baggage. Al |
be instance Of the stranger, the police
'eut in search of O'Neal, and in a short
'hil3 arrested him. O'NesI had on a
hit belonging TO the young man, ana
lso had box Of caps, razor, aUd sew
raj other articles which had been taken
ON the vAlise. He will be the suit ject
Investigation by the recorder this
forming.
in ths criminal court yesterday, q
hite woman and a negro man, IN
icted for living together as man and
lie, were ssnteUced TO four years i'm
risonment in the peni,tntiary. The
egrO being asked what he had to say,
ated that when he married the woman
he believed her 70 have negro blood in
r veins" This, however, was not
ought out il the trial, and will not
ysil in the appeal taken to the supreme
'Urt. Section fourteen Of the cOnstitu-
ID Of tie State o, Tennessee, says:
The intermsTIisge Of white persons
it'll negroes, mulattoes, or persons of
liked blood, descended from negro to I
g third generation, inclusive, or their {
ing together IS man aud wife in this
ate il prohibited Three years ago /
Idge TuTDey, OF the supreme court, [
1rmed decision Of circuit court in I
iddle TenEe ssee, which sdjudged {
lily and sentenced To imprisonment a {
gro woman aud q white man, who
d married 10 Alshama, where such /
arria1e was not iuterdicted by law, q
{ were, at the time Of indictment, In il
Is State. Judge Turney's opinion was Z
OFT, yet most conclusive in Its reason c