Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-12-04
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Yesterday was gloomy.
Attend Lotta's matinee this after-
noon.
The Bartlett court meets next Tues
day.
Five Chicago fakirs reached the city
yesterday.
The city Democratic executive COM
mittee will meet at ten O'Clock this
morning.
-M'Kee Rsnkin's ItUo Orphans at
the Greenlaw OperahOuse next week,
will attract full houses.
The city engineer is asked to repair
the dangerous break at the corner of
Monroe and Wellington streets.
The Tenth.wsrders hold another
meeting tonight at the usual place OF
meeting. A large attendance is ex-
pected.
-"Love's Victory" by B. L. Fayeou,
and twenty other novels, at ten cents
each, at Mansford's, corner OF Second
and Monroe streets.
We hope to see full house at Mr..
CouldOck's benefit to night, upon which
occasion this excellent old actor will APP
pear in the Chimney Corner.
Lolita makes her farewell appear
ance this afternoon. Her matinee will
be largely attended, especially by the
ladies, for,they, too, admire Lolita.
-Georgiana Evans, colored, yesterday
filed petition for divorce in the chan
Gerry court, charging her husband, Geo.
Evans, with cruelty and desertioD.
x,n,fnrIo,r fnoA
Joseph Graves and William Ball fifty
dollars, and placed them under five hun
dred dollars bond, they being ropers and
individuals of suspicious character.
The Tenth Ward Democratic. Con-
sentative club meets tonight in The
Mississippi house, when it is expected
to complete the organization Of the
club. Those who have not yet given
their names as members should do so at
once.
The greatest nuisance of the season
is the Theater stsmpeder-the individ.
ual who starts out while the last act is
being played. Such creatures ought to
drive an oX.team across a sandy desert
or through an Arkansas bottom knee-
deep in mud.
The Nashville american, OF Thurs
day, says: 1.-THE homeopathic phyai-
cianz of Tennessee held a convention ia
the Federal courtroom yesterday morn
ing, tWenty-four OF the profession being
present: DR.. r NJ. Lytle was called to
the chair, and DR.. E. r. Smith appoint
ed secretary. DR.. DRke delivered wei
come address. The fOlloWing-named
persons were elected officers for the en-
suing year: Dr. J. P. Dake, Nashville,
president; DR.. l.. D. Morse, Memphis,
and DIR. E. II. Price, Chattanooga, vice
presidents; DR.. E r. Smith, Edgefield,
secretary; DR.. T. E. Enloe, Edgefield,
treasurer.
-Gustave Wassenberg was found
dead in his room, in William Quinn's
boarding house, on Poplar street, be-
tween Main and Front, yesterday, and
on his person was found an envelope
labeled strychnine, by which the coro-
ner's jury were led to the opinion that
he had committed suicide. He was
native Of Germany, had been in this
country about twenty years, and
was an upholsterer in this city.
He was about fifty years old, and about
five feet ten inches in hight. Coroner
Spelman held the inquest, and the coun-
~ undertaken will inter his rem aims in
the potter's-fieid to-day. Coroner Spell
man also held an inquest on the dead
body of a negro named Tom Williams,
found dead In his house near the Mem
phis and Ohio railway depot yesterday,
but the jury were not able to agree on
verdict until q post norton eX&mina-
ton Of the remains is made by DR..
Marable to-day.