Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-16
LOUAL PARAGRAPHS.

night
The Southern Express company has
our thanks for file Of late eastern papers.
Baker and FarrOn will open at the
Theater in Conrad and Lt'ette on Monday
next.
Matinee ST the Thester to-day,
when the great Oliver O,Dowd OByrOn will
make his last appearance this year.
Work has been commenced at the
courthouse to repair the damage caused by
the recent fire, ana will be completed In Anew
days,
james Barron and Michael Watson
were appointed firemen at the meeting OF
the board of commissioners held yesterday
morning.
The streets yesterday were covered
with mud consequent on the heavy rain of
Thursday night. This will give work to the
chaln-gang to-day.
The ladies and little ones will have
an opportunity Of seeing Oliver Doud Byron
IN one Of his great sensational dramas at the
Thealer lhls afternoon.
The great attraction at the Theater
next week viii be Baker and Farron. This is
their third season I'm Memphis, and we nope
il will be as profitable TO them as the two pre-
ViOus.
The raw-Oyster trade on the half
shell fourisheth extensively in Memphis,and
the lovers of the bivalves enjoy the rivalry
between the vendors and the consequent low
prices.
The able and eloquent divine, DR..
Augustus r, Winfield, of Arkansas, VIII
preach at the central Methodist church to-
morrow at eleven O'Clock in the forenoon.
None should fail to hear him.
The erection Of the new grain eleva-
tor seems to be a fixed fact. 1t is reported
that thirty thousand dollars of the stock has
already been subscribed ard that work on the
building viii be commenced next month.
Visitors from various portions of the
country, aud from all the districts around
tn
gOodly numb ers. The Peabody and the other
hotels are ali doing fiourishing business.
The bar meeting to receive the res
OlutlOns of the committee appointed to draft
suitable resolutions relative 10 the death of
the late Mr.. John SOmerville, will be held
at ten O'Clock this morning in the circuit
court room.
Sickness in the city, which consists
chiefly O chills and fever, is gradually di-
minishing under the fostering care of the
medical fraternity, so that the demand for
quiuine is not now so grest as it was couple
OF weeks ago.
Yesterday was a dull, raw day, but
business was quite brisk on the levee and
Front street. The ladies' 10 great extent,
stayed in doors, but the good folk from the
country p8tTonized the dry goods and others
stores literally.
The police were busily engaged yes
terday in hunting up those engaged in viO-
lati1g city ordinances, and about dozen had
TO appear at the ADMINISTERED statlonhOuse
and put up forieits for their appearance before
the recorder this morning, which was prompt
ly done in every case. Crime generally Is
dull in police circles.
At the present time, when there are
so many persons on the streets, ana especially
ladies, the police ought to see that the Orui-
nance relating to draymen driving rapidly
round corners Is carried strictly into effect.
The nuisance is chiefly compliance of in the
afternoons, and a few prompt arrests would
have a most desirable effect on these modern
JeAus.
Complaints are made relative TO an
noyances and rudeness 10 ladies arriving by
trains on the Louisville railroad on the part
OF hackmen. 1t is the duty of the railroad
officials and the police to see that this null
sance is abated at once. Hackmen are very
properly not allowed on the depot platform,
but they completely crowd the sidewalk in
front on the arrival of trains. a word is suf-
hcent on this matter to the proper authOri.
ties.
"A letter from Mr. Frank CshilI, Sec
rotary Of the Centennial board, states that
space cannot be procured in the exposition
building al Philadelphia, as Tennessee will be
represented as a State. In order that this
may be properly done, money is wanted TO
pay incidental expenses. Mr.. Cahill urges
every county TO @ to work at once and raise
its quota, and then furnish literally for eXhi-
biuOn specimens Of every kind of It's pro-
ducts.
Mr.. WiIlsam L. M'Lean, who has q
most excellent farm three miles east OF Mem
phis, sent TO the APPEAL office yesterday a
dozen Of the finest ears of corn that are to be
seen in a days journey. Mr.. n Lean shelled
one Of the ears and finds that the corn on the
cob would weigh, on an average, one pound,
or dtty-siX ears TO the bushel. The sample
| sent was q portion OF crop of five acres
| which yielded three hundred bushels. Good
| for Shelby county.
| CHARLES Gallena, an Italian, got in
/ to a quarrel yesterday with Alexander Gillies,
/ a Scotchman. During the melee Gallena
maze a most furious assault on GillieS, and
| beat him in terrible manner, completely
closing up one OF his eyes. GIllles went before
| the grand jury, which is now in session, and
related the particulars OF the assault. An in
! dictment was found against Gallena, who was
arrested anu bound over for trial at the pres
ent term OF the criminal court.
! We have ampiss Of cotton shipped to
! Y. W. Williams by Dr. W. T. Eddins from
near Bartlett. 1t sold yesterday for the round
| premium bale at the st Louis fair last sea-
| son. He is one of the most enter prising
farmers that Shelby county affords, and de-
| serves mucn credit for the pains he takes
! with his cotton. The two aforementioned
| bales grew from the seed OF the bale which
! took the premium. Why not pick your cot
! ton clean?
p. r. Athy, G. K. Weatherford, c.
! Il. Braun, Pat M'Elroy, r. f, Aratta, W. c.
! Davis, Barinds, Pat Hackett, Henry Glenn
/ entsl A. NJ. Boyd, W @. Pryde, r. c. Manuel,
| James Scott, c. L. Morrison, and Pat Burns
/ have been constituted a body polite under
| the name Of THE Memphis Police Associa-
! ton" Thorn II. WilbuTn, Edmund TrQu-
! hsrt, J D. Mil6Urn, John f. Collins, and VIII
! liam MOffatt have been Incorporated under
| the style Of tAe Memphis Cotton and Wool
| Manufacturing Company"
"A young merchant, while slightly
! influenced" paid a visit with a friend to
| Madam Niucent's saloon yesterday afternoon
| While partaking Of drinks" the merchant
| pulled a revolver ana deliberately fired at the
! stove. The police, in the persons of SeTgent
| Aralt8 aud ana Tim Hope, were early at the
! spOt, and the madam in max ng the charge
! declared hat "the shooting was done without
| the slightest prOvOcatlOD." This fact was self
| evident 10 ali the bysianderS, who Uttered, as
! not one Of them for moment imagined that
/ the stove had commenced the difficulty. The
| shOotist was taken TO the station house, where
/ he was promptly liberated on bail.
1t would seem that Memphis gets
share of everything that passes through the
! country. The epizOOtic, which carried such
/ dire destruction among the horses OF Mem
phis a few years ago, and caused the old
| fashioned Ox-tesm 10 De called into requi~i-
| ton, has again attacked the equine species Of
the city. II is, however, in s. much milder
/ form, and no fatal cases nave as yet been re-
| ported. The horses and mules are affected
! with sore mouth and throat, and appear to
/ have lost their appetite. The horses in the
/ Il sery-stables and hack-hCrses seem TO be suf-
! fering to ihs greatest extent, and, being un-
! able Z, feed well, are lnadeq to doing a
! full measure Of work.