Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-08-01
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Court square concerts next Tuesday.
Pleasant zephyrs famed the fevered
brow Of the overworked buffer yester.
day.
"A lot Of newsboys went for a fruit
wagon on the corner OF Madison and
Main yesterday.
Shin Skee, an enterprising China
man, was five. dollared by the recorder
yesterday for doing business without IL
cense.
The excursion to Mammonth Cave
will not start until August 10th, as
echo rivern is too high for visitors to
make the "Long Route" in the cave at
present.
Every body is discussing the river
and the prospects OF an overflow. 1t is
amusing to hear the opinions advanced
by people who hardly know which way
the current of the Mississippi runs.
An individual named William Doak
amused himself yesterday afternoon in
whipping his wife, when the police inter-
ferred and arrested him. He was locked
up, and will be interviewed by the pc.
lice recorder on Monday morning.
-WOrkmen were repairing an inner
wall Of the county courthouse yester-
dsy. The wall threatened to depart
from a perpendicular line, and was as
Stunning aldermanic proportions. A sys-
tenn OF anchors and hog chains RENE
died the business.
"A telegram from Norfolk last night
says that the Memphis excursiOnists,
who arrived on the twenty-ninth, have
had series of pleasant trips. About
seventy of the party left last night for
New York. Others go to Richmond,
North Carolina and points in the inte-
rior.
-Citizsns living east of the Memphis
and Charleston railway are put to great
inconvenience, the bridge over the track
being blOckaded on account of its re-
ported insecurity. The authorities
should repair the bridgeimmediately, as
it is too important thoroughfsre to
keep closed.
Billy Lieben, the well-known news
dealer on Main street, between Jefter-
son and Adams, has just received every
thing for the coming and past week per-
tanning to the pictorial and periodical
line, embracing all the comic and senti-
mental papers. A fire stock Of new
novels.
An old negro named Imodine
Vaughan, was arrested by the police
yesterday for having in his possession a
skifT which had been stolen. He claims
he purchased the boat for dollar and
half from a negro, and says he will be
able to prove this fact before Recorder
on Monday morning.
james Turner, who. has recently
been engaged moving houses, was taken
sick yesterday afternoon; and went to
the residence of Mr.. Welsh, on Market
street, where he died in q very few mo-
ments after his arrival. Coroner Spell
man was summoned, and held an in.
quest, the verdict being death from sum
stroke.
About two o'clock yesterday morn
ing an alarm was raised and the state
ment made that there were burglars in
4 house on Poplar street, between Third
and Fourth. In q few minutes po-
iceman arrived, and found that the
sause Of the alarm was tomcat which
lad got loose in the storeroom, and was
making a racket among the chinaware-
A singular freak Of nature is mani
ested in a reuaThoblc specimen OF corn
laced on our table yesterday, plucked |
rom the farm Of Messrs. Jones q Buck |
ey, near Shelby Depot. The stalk from |
which the lusuS nature was plucked |
Iore no ears, the grains appearing in the |
asset, all pretty well matured, but of
cry irregular formation. 1t is singu- |
ar phnnnrnonnn-
james A. Chastaine mas been in |
icted in five cases, and his bail in four |
{ them has been fixed by the attorney
enersl and judge of the criminal court |
{ eight thousand dollars. The bail on |
be other indictment was not fixad at |
be time, but it will be fixed at probably |
wo thousand dollars, which Will make |
be entire bond to be given by Chastaine |
mount to ten thousand dollars.
The lovers Of light literature will |
ind The World We Live In, by Antho- |
~ TrollOpe; Byzantine, by Eliza Tabor,
nd all The pictorial papers for the week,
With the leading journals of New York,
'hicago, Cincinnati, Louisville and |
ther cities, at Mansford's store, corner
f Monroe and Second. His collection |
f all the latest novels and standard |
forks will be found full and complete.
Tomorrow, the second of August,
ne least OF POTZlunCula, one OF the great
st festivals of the Franciscan order,
7ill be celebrated at St. Msry's Catholic
hurch, on the corner Of Third and Mar
ct streets. The first mass will be cele-
rated at six O'Clock, solemn high mass
nine o'clock, and vespers and bene-
icsion will be at eight o'clock in the
veniDg. A plenaIy indulgence can be
aimed by all those who worthily ap-
roach the sacrament, and visit the
bove-named church.
List of undelivered kilograms in the
Western Union tele graph office: John
+. Lewis, /. Mac ID. Massey, w. II. |
'ates, d. NJ. Scales, A. NJ. AgelasLo,
copper 81 Co., B. L. d Bros, Estes, FIJI
sr & Co, Ben Bsbb, M. Toube, Bohlen,
Iuse & Co., John MontedonicO, Thomas
rankin, w. J. Smith, Joseph 81. Ack.
n, G. F. Leland, Joseph Rogers & Co.,
=. J. King, Henry thurman, l.. Law
orn q Co., NJ. Apperson, D. B Dill
nd, a A. Patton & Co., F. D. Buel,
Irs. d. N. Watson. Stanton, Potter &
O., L. Monticello, E c. Jacobs, Col. w.
Carroll, Gen. E. w. Pettus, E. G.