Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-18
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

LAVAL hAAVh "A AAC'
Thanks to the Southern express
company for files Of papers.
The closing exercises Of lie Moyne
institute will be held next Monday.
Andrew Kelly, a negro chicken thief,
was yesterday convicted and will be sem
fenced to three years imprisonment by
the criminal court.
Justice Miller, yesterday, issued q
warrant for the arrest OF Con Casey,
whom VIM. Fitzgerald charges with OBJ
tanning the use Of 8 mule under false
pretenses.
The jury in the csse Of BOyce, in
dicted for obtaining money under false
pretenses from Constable Brennan, be-
ing unable to agree upon a verdict, was
discharged yesterday.
The privileges for the Masonic pic
mic will be sold at auction in A. J.
Wheeler's Office, No. Magnolia block,
corner OF Main and Front streets, at four
o'clock this afternoon.
The fete chGmpetre at Alexsnder's
park tonight will be a recherche enter
tainment. 1t will be conducted SO as to
please all visitors, and no improper
characters will be admitted.
BY request Of the Pastors associa-
ton, Rev. Dr. David Walk, Of the Lin
den street Christian church, will deliver
his lecture on "SpuTgeOn and his Work"
at the above-nam place next Monday
night. Admission fifty cents.
-"Why not leave that question open,
Mr.. President, whether she be q lady or
a gentleman" remarked q member Of
the school board last night during the
session of that body. How can she be
gentleman? we would like to know.
The temperance societies of this city
will give a picnic at WhitehsveD, on the
Mississippi and Tennessee railroad, to-
morrow. Excursion trains for the pic
mic grounds will leave the Mississippi
depot st ten and half-past eleven o'clock
tomorrow morning.
-Messrs. Fred. II. Starr, George w.
Starr and /. Seligm an, have our thanks
for an invitation to attend q moonlight
excursion to Raleigh this evening.
Wagons for r leigh will be at No. III
Monroe street, 10 leave at half-psst six
o'clock this afternoon.
One Of the most gratifying evidences
Of faith in Memphis is the fact that the
full limit of the stock of the Security
building and loan association, amount
ing to three Thousand dollars, wSs taken
in six days. The books were closed yes
terday upon many who were unable to
subscribe.
The directors OF the Memphis Beth
81 have ratified a contract for the erec-
lion Of handsome brick building on
lAf ,f - a
street and Charleston avenue. The
building will be commenced this month,
and will cost between ten and twelve
thousand dollars.
The fete chdnlpetre, to be given at
AlexandeTs park this evening for the
benefit Of the Church Orphans home,
promises to be unusually attractive.
Excellent arrangements have been
made by the committee, and pleasant
entertainment awaits all who attend.
The best music in the city has been Sc
cured, and dancing will be one of the
more prominent features Ofthe occasion.
Yesterday afternoon negro woman,
upon returning to her house near the
corner of Fifth and Greenlaw streets,
was Mortified to discover her child, aged
seven years, lying dead on the floor, its
skull being broken as if struck by club.
Last night a negro named VIM. An
derson, was arrested upon the suppo-
sition Of being the murderer of the child,
it being proved that he was in the habit
Of beating the little fellow numerically.
In the second circuit court yester-
day, the Jury rendered the following
verdict in the case of The State UersNS
J. NJ. Pierce ct al, sureties for the Ten
nessee national bank: 1--WE, the jury,
find that the sureties under the bond
were released FROM liability for the school
fund by the action of the legislative
committee; that no part OF the fiscal
agency fund was settled at the time the
school fund was settled; that the sure.
ties were liable under the bond to the
closing OF the bank for the fiscal-agency
fund; that according to the report in
Senate Appendix 69-70,' page 349, the
Tennessee national bank owed the State
$50, S63 81, less the amount credited to
the same, as per same report, S1l 1852 81,
leaving balance of Sal, 800 so. From
this the jury think the sureties are en-
titled to a credit of 81, 900, deposited
after the bank closed; also for city police |
scrip, $4,000; total, SAL 900; making |
the amount due by sureties, $500 so. |
This suit was instituted in 1857, and at |
the time aroused much interest. 1t will |
be remembered g. w. Rutter was presi- |
dent Of the Tennessee national bank, it |
being the depository and fiscal agent of |
the school fund. In the case the State |
was ably represented by Colonel 81. Ca.
sey Young, General Heiskill. states-at- |
toTney, and II. Clay King. Colonel |
Young and General Helskill made able |
and exhaustive arguments on behalf of |
the State. The defense was conducted |
by Colonel d. K. M'Rse, Patterson &
Lowe, and General w. Y. G. Humes.
Colonel M'Rae and Colonel Patterson
made able and effective arguments in
their summing up for the defendants. |
The attorneys for the defendants claim |
that the evidence in the case fully es-
tablished the fact that the prompt and |
energetic action of NJ. G. Pearce in fore |
ing the State to a settlement with the |
bank saved the State over four hundred |
thousand dollars, which otherwise |
would have been lost to the taxpayers.