Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-17
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
90 in the shade.

Thermometer 80 in the shade.
The Summer Night club has our
thanks for a serensde last evening.
The weather yesterday and the day
previous was the hottest Of the season.
We renew our thanks to the South
ern express company for late eastern pa
peTs.
The thermometer is not long enough
to hold the mercury when placed under
the rays Of the sun.
-Waddy Thompson has again hdbeGs
cOrDused, but the sheriff yet holds him.
For particulars see telegraph.
There will bea grand hop at Raleigh
tonight. Trains for Raleigh leave the
Louisville depot at nine O'Clock tonight.
Thursday night George Washing
ton. colored, was shot and dangerously
wounded by another colored man near
Kinks grocery, Oh the Pigeon ROost
road, four miles from the city.
AT Benefits Landing, Arkansas, a
well-knOwn gentlemen, Mr.. Sim Tate,
was assaulted 10y q negro, who beat him
on the head and thereby inflicted Sc
we're, though not dangerous Injuries.
Five hundred barrels Of apples were
shipped last night to Cincinnati by the
White line, OF which Captain J. &.
Forbes is agent. The shipment was
made yja the Louisville and Nashville
and Crest Southern railroad,
In the first chsncery court Nancy
Simmons has flied 4 divorce-bill against
Cain Simmons, to whom she was mar
ried in 1870. She alleges desertiOn and
abandonment on the part OF her hus-
band as grounds for the divorce.
Wednesday, night the western-bOund
passenger train OF the Memphis and
Little Rock railroad was ditcIed, about
q mile this side Of Brinkley, Arkansas.
All Of the coaches, except the baggage
car, leaped the track. A cOlored man
had his leg broken by the accident.
Many people of Memphis are on the
qtii UjUe about the Alexandria, Virginia,
lottery, the drswiag OF which was ex-
pected to take place last Thursday. So
far, no information Of the drawing has
reached the city. Should there be any
news, We will publish the same in to-
morrOw's APPEAL.
As the police have been arresting
gardeners FOR selling vegetables in the
CITY before the close Of the market at
nine O'Clock in the morning, Chief Athy
Yesterday instructed the officers not to
DO so, as section IS of the new charter
guarantees the privilege of a producer
selling at any hour or time.
We have in this office a green apple,
One-half OF which was cooked by the
heat of the sun yesterday. A gentle
man, living a few miles in the country,
started to the city with barrel of apples,
and by the time he arrived those on top
were cooked, so great was the SUMS heat.
The thermometer yesterday ranged from
ninety-nine to one hundred and four in
the shade.
Wednesday last Charles Phipps and
Anderson Heiskell, two cOlOred men,
while st work in q field near the Ma
tiOnal cemetery, had q difficulty which
resulted in the serious wOunding Of the
latter. Phipps obtained q dOubte-bar-
relied shotgun, with which he shot Heis-
kelI in the leg and back, infiicting pain
ful but not dangerous wounds. Phipps
has not yet been arrested.
Nh. Tracy last night received g
telegram from General Carey, at New
Orleans, informing him that he would
issue haii-fare tickets on the railroad
from Holly Springs to Milan snd return,
in order to accommodate all who wished
to 90 on the Mammoth Cave excursion
which leaves here next Tuesday morn
ing. We hear that quite q number of
lsdles and gentlemen Of Holly Springs
will avail themselves Of this opportunity
and join Tracy's Memphis party at
Milan.
The Chattanooga Times of the thiT-
teenth has the following mention of
young man formerly connected with
mercantile detective agency in this city:
George =. CsDleT, the advertising dead
best, was arrested Saturday night upon
"a warrant sworn out by M. D. VanHOrn,
'Or obtaining board under false pretenses.
He was discharged upon trial by Esquire
Pearson yesterday, whereupOn he threat.
eneq Major VanH9rn's life. Major Van
Horn then sued out peace warrant, up
Oh which Cabler was bound over in five
hundred dollars for six months, and in
default Of bond was committed to jail"
Yesterday Chief Atby received a
telegram from Marshal Ed S. Payne,
Of Grenada, that the newsbOy on
the Tennessee and Mississippi railroad
was suspected Of being engaged in q
robbery in the above town last Wednes-
day night, and to arrest him as the train
came in. Yesterday afternoon Captain
Cranmer awaited the arrival Of the train
&c the depot, and discovered the suspect |
ed party 10 the act of leaving the rear
platform Of the hind coach. He how
ever arrested and lodged him in the sta.
tiOnhOuse. It is said thst the persons
who committed the robbery stole six
hundred dollars worth of diamonds.
The COvington Record of the six |
teenth says: ain Lauderdale, it appears |
from the Ne0Us that the first intimation |
the county court have Of a suit on their |
railroad bonds is q notice Of judgment |
already taken. Why, they must have q
sleepy court over there! The people in |
TiptOn county take the Record, and |
everybody and his family keep up with |
he status Of our bond suits" The Rec. |
ord further SAYS: 1.-The committee APP |
pointed by the county court to confer |
with the holders OF the Upton county |
railroad bonds proceeded to Memphis |
last Wednesday in discharge of that |
duty, but returned without even seeing /
the agent OF the bOndhOlders. 1t is sup |
posed the whole affair will amount to |
least for the present"
The Chattanooga Times says: IA
decision by the supreme court of Ten |
nessee, delivered on the seventh, settles |
an interesting question growing out Of |
the new tax law. The special point in |
vOlVed in the case was the right Of the |
State to collect the six per cent. in !
teTest upon taxes since the first OF last |
This case originated before !
q justice OF the peace. Park paid the /
interest on his taxes under protest. /
AiterW2rd he brought suit t0TecOver the |
interest in ajustice's court, and obtained .
Judgment from which Myers appealed 10
the circuit court, where the magistrates /
judgment was affirmed. The supreme |
court has reversed that Judgment, de-
claring that the collection Of the interest
is clearly warranted by the law and the
OF the State"