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

I 1t IL sun very DOT.
The weather continues 10 increase
its caloricism.
The city council meets at three
o'clock this afternoon.
The Southern express company has
| our thanks for files OF late New York
papers.
| The bishop Of Arkansas will admin
lister the rite OF confirmation tonight in
Grace church at eight o'clock.
The James D. Parker, we learn,
| will be on hand to take the Helping
Hand club on an excursion trip Friday
night.
The police and fire commissioners
met yesterday afternoon. Policeman
Cannon, who had been suspended, was
reinstated.
Sheriff Anderson yesterday tele-
graphed from st. Louis that he would
be here to-day or tomorrow with Wad.
dy Thompson.
An oil-lamn in KseI church, Chel-
SOC, fell upon the floor last Sunday
night, but the flames were extinguished
before material damage resulted.
"A bsccbanalian feast was held in the
upper story OF a Main-street building,
south OF Madison, last night. The revel-
lers were beyond the reach Of the police.
&C. w. Ashford, formerly a cotton
buyer in this city, is on trial in the
criminal court for embeZzlement. The
case was given to the jury yesterday af-
ternOOn.
When General Peter Tracy's Nam
moth Cave excursion reached Milan, the
parry numbered twenty-nine ladies and
gentlemen. The party will return by
Saturday.
General n. B. Forrest, Justice Rob-
ert d. Miller and DR.. r. z. Batemsn
have accepted the invitation to the pic
mic and barbecue of Union Star associa-
tiOn, No. l.
Yesterday afternoon a little son of
Mr.. Welsh, who resides on Winchester
street, near Third; was droWned while
bathing in Bayou GayOso. A negro
man recovered the body, and Deputy
Coroner Spelman held an inquest.
Last Sunday a man broke his back
by falling from tree at Raleigh. The
unfortunate man was workman in the
carriage factory Of Owen Lilly, Of this
city, and, owing to his severe injuries,
could not be brought TO the city. We
understand that the unfortunate man,
whose name was Pat German, died from
the effects Of his injuries.
The Pacific base. ball club, of Hum
bOldt, is to play the Mutuals, Of Jack
SOD, very soon. The Riversides, of
Trenton, have reorgsnized, end are anx-
ious to play q few match games. Last
Thursday the Star club. of SWayne bar
racks, defeated the Humboldt Pacifics by
a score Of thirty-nine to twenty-five.
The large score indicates loose playing
on both sides.
Colonel Mike Burke, the efficient
superintendent of the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad, has our thanks for
favOrs. This road is one Of the best in
the south, and its interests could not be
entrusted to better and more faithful
hands than those of Colonel Burke, who,
we are glad 10 know, also Identifies the
interests Of Memphis with those Of his
excellent line.
Yesterday the sheriff from Rock
port, Indiana, arrived in this city for the
purpose of taking into custody the fugi-
tive Charles, who was arrested last Sat.
urdsy by Captain Cranmer. Charles
broke Jail at Rockport, Indiana, and has
also effected escape from several county
prisons in the south. He says the Mem
phis jsil is the only institution OF its
character he could not get out of.
The man Charles Shorn, alias
Charles Lewis, arrested last Saturday by |
Captain Cranmer, who has been on the |
lookout for him for several weeks, is |
rather a noted jail-breaker. He broke |
Jail at RockpOrt, Indiana; Jackson, Ten |
nessee, and Donaldsonvills, Louisiana. |
Sheriff A. Stevenson, Of Spencer county, |
Indiana, arrived yesterday, and will to. |
day leave with Charles for Rockport.
"A baseball club, to be known as the
"Arctic," is being organized in this city,
for the purpose of visiting Louisville, |
Kentucky, and playing theclubs of that
place. 81. F. Smith will be manager of
the club, while the nine will be cap
tanned by Billy Jones. The Arctics will
be composed of the best Memphis play
ers, and it is expected that they will
play good game at Louisville. The
Arctics will leave here some time next
week for Louisville.
M. J. Slater, a jeweller at 224 Main
street, has mysteriOUsly disappeared, to
the great regret Of his creditors, in the
category of whom'is Mr.. Duffy, of Ad-
ans street, who is signing for the one
hundred dollars he loaned the artizan.
Slater carried away almost his entire
stock valued at two thousand dollars,
only lot of clocks and a small amount
OF old jewelry being left to his creditors.
He is supposed to have taken the train
last Sunday for Little Rock.
Yesterday morning an unknown
white man, aged thirty-five or forty
years, was found dead in his bed at
Ksufman's restaurant, No. $50 Second
street. Justice Caldwell held an inquest
upon the body, and q verdict of death
from unknown causes was returned by |
the jury. There was nothing on the
mans person to establish his identity.
He stated to several persons Sunday that
he was agent for New York house.
The body was buried by the county un-
dertaker.
-G@bels, the professional florist, who
has the best regulated and probably
most complete greenhouse in the south,
located near the corner of Second and
Beale streets, sent to this Office yester-
day species OF the serpentine or trail
ing cactus in full blOOm-a magnificent
flower. Gubels is certainly the most
scientific florist in the city, and being
SO, is truly the most successful. He has
the greatest variety Of flowers and flow
eTing plants; displays exquisite taste in
the arrangement Of bouquets and floral
decorations, and in the matter OF shade
trees and evergreens, ne can furnish
that will grow and flourish in
this climate.