Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-25
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

We have received from the South
ern express company file OF late New
York papers.
-Leubrie's isckGss, mounted by q
huge baby, attracted much attention on
Main street yesterday.
The A. J. White arrived at a late
hour last night with a good trip OF pas
sengers. She leaves for Napoleon and
the bends on Saturday.
The steamer Illinois is the Vicks-
burg packet this evening, receiving for
all the bend landings; also through to
New Orleans by transfer TO the Natchez.
Yesterday Denies, the enterprisiDg
miller, received one hundred bushels OF
choice white Tennessee wheat at one
dollar and twenty-seven and half cents
per bushel.
in the printed list OF teachers re-
Gently elected by the board of education,
the name of Miss Carrie Reichenbacher
was incorrectly spelled. This lady is one
Of the teachers elected by the board Of
education.
The colored Masons celebrated St.
Johns Day yesterday. The lodges and
st. Peters cOmm&ndery paraded the
streets in the morning, and proceeded to
the Exposition building, where the ex-
ercises were held.
There will be a grand ball at the
new hotel, Raleigh, tonight. a special
train will leave the Louisville depot for
Raleigh at half-past eight o'clock to-
night and return after the hop is over.
The fare for the round trip is fifty cents.
Sam r. Cannon and J. J. Dubois
have returned from Jefferson City, Mis-
souri,, where they took number of de-
positions in the Waddy Thompson case,
which will be tried by the criminal
court of this city when the sbove-named
defendant is ready for trial, he being
now detained at home by illness.
About five o'clock yesterday after
noon, Butler Poole, cOlOreI, found the
lifeless body Of an unknown white man
in the river between South and Clay
streets. A justice of the pesce being
notified OF the fact, held an inquest upon
the body, the verdict being death from
drowning. The name of the dead man
and his manner of death are unknown.
General Peter Tracy's first NAM
moth cave excursion party will leave
Monday and return by Friday follow
ing. The party will be limited to fifty
persons. Much interest has been aroused
as to this excursion, which Will doubt
less be delightful to those who are 80
fortunate as to go on the trip. Tickets
for the round trip will be sold st twelve
dollars each, and can be had by apply
ing at the Louisville railroad Office, cor
ner Madison and Main streets.
Attention is again called to the in
T-r%ofinF fp tho fFinV7 us nf IOnnTIlor nnyT-
cation to attend an Interstate conven-
tien, called by the State teachers assO-
citation of Tennessee, in the city of Chat
tsnooga, on Wednesday, June Both, and
Thursday, July l, 1875. Eminent speak
in the proceedings. The citizens of
Chattanooga have made arrangements
for half-fare rates on railroads., and re-
duCed hotel charges. All friends of ed
ucstiOn, and especially professional
teachers, are invited most cordially to
attend.
The annual commencement of the
Christian Brothers college will be held
at the Memphis Theater tonight. The
programme for the evening is quite at
tractive, and will be enjoyed by very
large number of citizens, as over twelve
hundred invitations have been issued.
Hon. Jacob Thompson will deliver an
address to the graduates, and Mayor
League will present the gold medal for
excellence TO the student entitled to such
prize. The collegiate degrees of A. NJ.
and A. B. will be conferred upon those
students who have completed the
course of study and been adjudged wor-
thy Of these academic hOnOTs.