Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-21
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

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saloon keepers and merchants for doing
business without license. Each was
fined ten dollars.
Memphis will do a great business
this season. In view OF the excellent
crop prospects, the merchants are hopeful
of a big fall trade. The season will
doubtless open early.
Bob Lyons, colored man, yester-
day swore out q warrant for the arrest
of a number of white boys who de-
stroyed his wheelbarrOw and a lot Of
bottles, on Court street extended.
Barney O'Farrel, an enterprising
iehu Of financial talent, was yesterday
fined five dollars by the recorder for
Overchsrging passenger whom he took
from the wharf to Winchester avenue.
Mr.. w. B. Hood, of the postoffice
department of Memphis, has our thanks
for a late number of the United States
Official Postal Guide, which, as its name
indicates, is Of great value, especially to
q newspaper Office.
saAxIn the Dies Injunction case before
fde second chancery court, the petition
ers yesterday prayed an attachment for
contempt against the railroad and COM
press companies for alleged failure to
obey the process of the court.
We have received the second mum.
Der OF Vide Al0dke, charming maya
zine for boys and girls. The Wide AaOdEe
is issued by D. LothrOp d Co., of Boston,
and the present number is certainly at
tractive in the character of its contents.
An unknown burglar few nights
ago entered the residence of a we'll
l.. IA, al, Lii, q,
set OF diamond studs and pair offspring
style pants. 1t is needless to say that
the burglar will be arrested by the de-
tective.
We have received from Commission
er Eaton, of the national board Of educa-
ton, circular of information No. 4, con-
tanning an address entitled Waste OF
Labor in the Work Of Education" by
President P. A. Chadbourne, Of Williams
college, Massachusetts.
Rev. DR.. w. E. Boggs, pastor Of the
Beale-street Presbyterian church, will
remain ia the city all summer, and hold
morning and evening service every Sun
day. We make this statement by re-
quest, and in order to correct the belief
that this minister mad left the city.
The cornerstone Of the Bethel build
ing, at the corner OF Adams street and
Charleston avenue, will be laid at six
o'clock tomorrow afternoon. ApprO-
riste exercises Of an interesting nature
will be conducted under The auspices of
the Bethel, the friends Of which, as well
~ the public generally, are invited to
attend.
We observe that the work on the
Bethel building is progressing finely,
and the ground floor is now fully devel-
Oped. Laying the cornerstone is next
in order, and We understand that this
ceremony will be performed at six
o'clock on the twenty-third instant.
We will publish the programme tO-mOr-
row morning.
"A neatly printed pamphlet Of the
proceedings of the South Carolina Press
association, held last May, has been re-
ceived. The typographical beauty and
excellence Of the pamphlet are cTeditable
to the printers, Walker, Evans & Cogs-
well, Charleston, though the secretary
in his report fails to state in what city
the association met.
H. Russell, a colored man, who re-
sides in the suburbs of the city, between
Poplar street and Union avenue, has
been subjected to great annoyance and
malicious trespas5 by two negro boys
named Frank and Greene Walker, who
destroyed the melons in his garden,
abused his family, and chased his daugh-
ter, threatening to kill her with razor.
The weekly weather chronicle, is
sued by the war department last Satur-
day, says: "During the last week the
Missouri has fallen slightly between Fort
Sully and IIesvenWorth. The Missis-
sippi has fallen from one to four feet be-
tween st. Paul and st. Louis, but has
risen from two to six feet between Cairo
and Vicksburg, The Cumberland has
risen sixteen feet at Nashville since
Sunday. The Ohio has risen twenty
two feet at Cincinnati and three and a
half at Louisville"
The proposed Court square concerts
have aroused general interest among our
citizens, many of whom are anxious to
know why the committee appointed by
the German Casino has not inaugurated
these entertainments, as the city council
has given permission to use the park for
such purposes. We would state that
while several members OF the committee
have been prevented from acting, the
rest are now engaged in soliciting the
required money for the concerts, the
first Of which We hope will be given next
Tuesday night.
We have received from Mr.. Joe Van
Dusen, travelling agent Of the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati and st. Louis railway, a
beautifulpicture Of the Centennial build
inQE, now in course OF construction at
Philadelphia. The picture is issued by
the great Pennsylvania railroad, which
gf fhnf1oarzH az nd
sixteen miles of railroad lines, that con.
meet all sections of the Union with Phil
adelphis. Its facilities for the Centen-
NAL next year will be unequalled, and
although the only company running di-
rect trains to that city, its fare will be
literally reduced, in order to accommO- |
date the people Of the United States.
Young q Brother, the popular book |
sellers, Main street, near North Court, !
have our thanks for tive vOlumss of |
great merit and interest. One is Martha |
Walker Cooks Translation Of 1.-THE I'm !
dine Comedy, and other POEMS" by |
the anonymous poet of Poland, Count |
Sigismund Krasinski. The other vol |
1me is "Principis, or Basis of Social |
learned and philOsOphic survey Of the |
yet liberal and progressive, standpoint, /
by r. J. Wright. The numerous sub |
ects treated are Of rare interest, and the /
author expresses the hope that il the /
public cannot tolerate these writings as /
I work of science, il will, az least, tOler- .
ate them as kind of sermons to poll
.icisns and statesmen.
The police com nlissiyBeIs yesterday /;
refused to grant Tom 0 ~ullivsn's peti-
ion to abate the Washington street
houses Of il-fame. The following is the
ieciEion OF the commissioners: "The
petition Of complainant is rejected, as
he proof before us shows that the houses
OF are IS orderly as any
loure Of this kind in this city, and as
veil regulated, and that rs little harm is
lone in that vicinity to as few persons
= in any location that the inmates
night remove to; that we do not deem
hat the complainant has any cause of
COMPLAINT, as he is shown to have asso-