Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-20
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Last night was cool.
The Bartlett circuit court is in ses-
sion.
Moonlight picnicsn are becoming
fashionable IN the surrounding country.
A colored minister preached ser
mon in the Adsms'street stshonhCuse
Sunday.
Judge Stocton, Of the second chan
Gerry court, heard q number Of motions
in divers causes yesterday.
Yesterday was comparatively toler-
able. That is, it was tolerable, az it Was
less hot than the days of last week.
"A mosquito bar in q Washington
street house caught fire Sunday night
and was consumed. No other damage
was sustained.
General Forrest yesterday transport
ed fifteen county wOrkhOuse prisoners
to Presidents Island, where they,Will be
put 20 work on plantation.
Trains over the Memphis and Louis
vile railroad run from here TO Louis
vile, distance of three hundred and
seventy.seven miles, in less than fifteen
hours. Good.
Six merchants and six salOOn-keep-
ELS were arrested yesterday for doing
business without license. This looks
somewhat like an eXemplificatiOn OF the
old saying, "six of one and hRlt-a-dozen
OF the other"
Mr.. T. Roane Warning, jr., chairman
of the executive committee OF LO.O.F.,
OF Sardis, Mississippi, has our thanks
for an invitation to a moonlight picnic
to be given by the order at the above
named place next Thursday night.
Mr.. J. c. NOrmiIe, the prosecuting
attorney, and Chief-Of-POlice Harrlgan,
OF st. Louis, deserve much credit for
their efficient services in assisting Sher-
if Anderson and Attorney General
Wright to secure Waddy Thompson.
Last night w. II. Thatcher, agent
for a ST. Louis jOb-pTinting house, was
arrested while in bed at the Peabody
hotel, and required to give bail for his
appearance before the recorder this
morning to answer the charge Of doing
business without license.
in the second chancery court yes
terday Mrs. Eliza Dies and Thomas Dies
by her, Is proclaim ami, filed 8 petition
for an Injunction to restrain the Mann
moth compress company and the Mis-
sissippi and Tennessee railroad company
from extending 3 track across South
street to the cottOn-shed.
The cases disposed Of by the recorder
yesterday morning are as follows: James
Lee, larceny, bail two thousand dollars;
Mike Gavin, drunk, etc, twenty-five
dollars; Mrs. Miller, drunk, five dollars;
Mrs. TOhin, drunk, five dollsTs; Jesse
Davis, drunk, etc, ten dollars; Joseph
Johnson, drunk, five dollars; Frank
Roach, drunk, five dollars; George
Miles, sleeping on sidewalk, five dollars.
General Tracy's Mammoth Cave
excursion party leaves at eleven O'clock
this morning. The party is composed
Of sOrla Of our best people, and we know
that the entire trip will be one Of genu-
inc pleasure, as the inimitable genius of
mirth, General Peter Tracy, goes along,
and will supervise affairs with charac-
teristic grace and pleasantly. The party
will return by next Saturday. A merry
time they will have.
We have received an invitation TO
the first anniversary picnic OF Bartlett
lodge No. IS6, independent Order of
Odd-Fellows. The picnic will be given
in the grove at Bartlett next Thursday,
will be of great interest and pleasure to
all who attend. The executive commit
tee is composed OF D. q. Shelby, n.
Blackwell and JShn f. Cochran, gen.
tlemen who will give their entire atten-
ton to the enjoyment Of visitors.
The board OF police commissioners
were engaged several hours yesterday
morning taking testimony pro and con
g J.
character on Washington and Second
streets. The complaint was made by
Thomas O'Sullivan and some other
property. holders on Second street. Judge
J. R Flippin, Attorney General Luke
Z. Wright, Alderman Robbins, mem
Der Of the late police board, and sundry
other officials and residents OF the neigh
borhOOd. The evidence was quite vol
luminous. The commissioners are eX-
pected to render decision in the matter
this morning.