Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-16
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

-Ninety-six in the shade yesterday.
-waddy Thompson will arrive to-
day.
-Prayer-meetings continue despite
the warm weather.
The market is well supplied with
local fruit and vegetables.
The Changers held a meeting in the
county courtroom yesterday morning.
The oppressive heat OF yesterday
was subject Of general comment among
our citizens.
The criminal court meets to-day for
the purpose of attending to the bills Of
exception in the cases appealed.
There are rumors OF railroad COM
binstion between two companies whose
respective lines terminate in our city.
1t would be grand enterprise.
Peter Tracy's Mammoth Cave ex-
cursion leaves next Tuesday morning
We understand that there will be quite
q number OF persons in this excursion.
Mrs. Flood, who resides near the
south market, yesterday had Charles
Edwards, colored youth, arrested upon
the charge of HOUSEKEEPING and rob-
berry.
-"Oh, for the springs, or some seques-
tered spot among the rural shades of
mountain. quietudes," exclaimed an in
toxicated man who yesterday afternoon
exercised himself by walking several
miles from the country to the city.
The net receipts of the st. Peters
orphan asylum picnic, given at James's
park the fifth of this month, amount to
4hor,Oard nna anS
five dollars. This is quite handsome
any picnic there this season.
All the pictorial papers, comic and
sentimental, the leading journals and
periodicals for the week, have just been
received by Mansford at his well-known
book and news store, corner Of Second
and Monroe streets. The latest new
and standard novels will be found in
great variety on the counters and
shelves Of the store. Give him call.
The Arctic base ball club played
picked nine Wedne sday, and from the
score which we append, it was one OF
the finest contests our city has ever had.
At the close Of the ninth inning the
score stood four and four. In the tenth
inning the Arctics added one more tally
to their score, and ChicagoeVi their OPP
ponents, thereby winning the game.
Yesterday Constable Ingram and
another officer from this city went to
Nonconnah bottom in search of negro
charged with stealing COWS near Horn
Lake, Mississippi. The negro knocked
one Of the coDstables senseless, and seiz-
ing his pistol fired three times at Con-
stable Ingram, and escaped into the
woods. Constable Ingram was not
struck by the bullets.
Tom O'Sullivan at his popular es-
Enlistment, corner of Second and
Washington streets, keeps full stock of
the purest and most reliable foreign
wines, Scotch ales, English porters and
Irish WHISTLES. His well known repu-
tarion is guarantee that he offers only
the very best brands Of imported liquors,
wines and cigars to be had in Memphis,
Imported ginger ale speciality.
Yesterday we received a lot Of ex-
cellent apples, grown on Mr.. J. II.
M'Neil's plantation, near Scanlsn's
landing, Arkansas. The crops in that
section Of Arkansas are in good cOndi-
ton, and planters are hopeful of making
money. Mr.. M'Neil has under cultiva-
ton eight hundred acres of cotton and
four hundred acres of corn. He thinks
the yield will be q bale of cotton per
acre, and fifteen barrels OF corn per acre.
Mr.. Francis D. Stocton yesterday
received from Governor Porter the COM
mission appointing him judge of the
second chancery court. He convenes
court next Monday, and will then pro-
coed to the transaction Of business, of
which there is large amount to be dis
posed of between this and the time for
the expiration of the second chancery
court, pursuant to the late law of the
general assembly.
-AppletOn's Journal has been re-
ceived and contains the usual vdffety of
first-class articles. Among these may
be mentioned "Recent explorations of
the city OF Moab's." "Queen Mary's
ghost, q thrilling story, is concluded in
this number. A series OF articles by AL
bert Webster, John Esten Cooke, Rev.
E. g. Holland and G. A. Wsrfield, with
a number of spicy paragraphs of every
description. For sale by the news
dealers.
The excellent brass band of the
steamer Illinois favored the APPEAL
with serenade last night. The band
was in a bus mot on buss) and in tow
of an open carriage containing Mr.. Joe
Speers and corps of the steamer ILL
nois, and Captain James Carr Ofrailroad
fame. The serenade was very much APP
preciated, for the music was unusually
good, and it will be we'll to state that
all who travel on the Illinois will be re-
called with the strains of this band.
We have received an invitation to a
grand ball to be given at the new hotel
in Raleigh tomorrow night. The occa-
sion will be made attractive and inter-
esting by means of excellent music,
pleasant dancing and q sumptuous feast.
A special train will leave the Louisville
depot at nine o'clock tomorrow night,
the fare for the round trip being only
fifty cents. Pat Walsh, who manages
the cuisine for the occasion, assures his
friends that he will satisfy the most
epicurean Of visitors.
Who will be the first to post up in
their windows the APPEAL proposition
TO state what they will give for fire and
police scrip, and for school notes? Do
not let those who have worked hard for
the city suffer to the amount of a cent.
Take the school notes; take the fire and
police scrip; and let the generosity Of
The merchants Of Memphis rebuke the
narrow spirit that left the working
men and women to bear the conse-
Iuences Of the depression of the city's
credit. How much will you give the
teacher, the fireman and the policeman
FOR their scrip? Put the amount in
broad characters in your window, all
you who can use these scrips and notes
In paying your taxation. You can do
good, hard-wOrking people great favor
IN this way, and lose nothing by it. Let
All your windows be ornsmented by
your generous offers, this day.
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