Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-12-01
LOCAL PARAGRAPH rs.

The city council meets tonight.
Yesterday was clear and bright.
The waterworks were out Of fix yes
Jerday.
The city is infested with sneak
thieves.
-Chsncery court has adjourned until
Friday morning.
Main street was throDged with pref
ty ladies yesterday afternoon.
The municipal canvass will arouse
general nteTest among our citizens.
-MIKee Rankin's T1UO Orphans will
be presented ar the Gr5eniaw Operahouse
next week.
Might before last sneak-thief en-
tered Mrs. Pitts's clearinghouse, I'D Court
street, and stole several hats, one Of which be- be-
lOnged 10 Major Ed. W. Gibson. The gentle
men have cur sympathy.
The Tt0O Orphans viii be at the
GTeenlaw OperahOuse every night next week.
M'Kee Rankin's Tao Orphans Will doubtless
attract large houses, as he Is said to have an
excellent stock company.
The United States court yesterday
fued Fatty MGinnis Ten dollars for illegal
voting. Fatty is now working in black
smith shop and trying TO earn an honest ltv-
ing, commeDdaUIe example worthy OF imi-
tstion.
To-day the officers Of the Gotten eX-
change will be elected. There is some feeling
between the friends OF W. B. GalOreath and
w. A. Goodwin regarding the respective
claim> of these gentlemen to the presidency of
the exchange. We regret TO see this unnece7-
ERry i'll feeling between men who represent
the commercial importance and dignity of The
city of Memphis.
BY request of the friends OF the
Memphis and Knoxville narrow-gauge rail-
road, the chant Der of commerce viii meet
the sixteenth Of this month to hear an adj
dress of General r. =. Nicely, of Bolivar, upon
81 biart of the city Eub.CribinR flftV tDOu-
sand dollars 10 this important enterprise In
view of the importance attached TO the South
eTn Pacific railroad and an extension east to
Memphis, the construction OF the Knoxville
road assumes very important magnitude,
which we trust will be iuily considered and
properly appreciated by our citizens.
During the yelloW-f fever Epidemic Of
1873 a destitute stranger, named Robert May
her, applied at the residence OF Captain Bob
Leech, Georgia street, for food and shelter.
Mrs, Leech afforded the unfortunate young
man all the assistance that She was able to be-
stow, and be departed In JOY. A few days ago
a weil-dTessed young nan visited the resi-
dence, and aSceTJ3ln1nS that II was the home
OF Captain Leach, related the incident just
given above, Spd presented Mrs. Leech with a
me volume o! poems, as a slight testimonial
OF his appreciation and gratitude Tor the kind
ness CT the family TO him during the yellow
fever.
Yesterday morning Deputy. Sheriff
7. p. Wes5On, who resides at Olive Branch,
DeSoto county, Mississippi, had difficulty
with "A drunken man named Paine at Bakers
old 81 re, few miles from this city. WesSUn,
who was coming to town with a wagon load OF
cotton, met Paine at the store, which is kept
by German named Hammer. Paine having
drawn a pistol, Wesson told him to put IL in
his pocket, and the former retired into the
grocery, where he procured a shotgun, and,
going out of the back door, came round the
building toward the depUty-sheriff, where
upon WessOn fired two shots from his pistol,
but they failed to hit Paine, who, in return.
discharged both barrels OF the gun. The con-
sequence was that WessOn was seriously,
though not dangerously, wounded with bird
shot In the face and breast.