Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-12-09
LOYAL PARAGRAPHS,

winter mas come at last.
The weather is unpleasant.
The city council meets at seven
| O'Clock Tomorrow.
The beautiful snow made its appear
ance yesterday morning.
The school board meets next Mon
day night. F..
Many suffering orphan was adrift
in the snowstorm yesterday morning.
The George ington-street.raiI-
way has at last become through route.
The Democrats Of the fourth ward
meet at Assembly hall tonight to organ
| iZe club.
-"Free gratis for nothing" is a sam.
pie OF professional intelligence exhibited
in the common council.
The Democratic-C Conservative club
OF the seventh ward meets tonight at
Solari's store, Besle street.
The Eighth Ward Democratic-C Con-
sentative club meets at Mentges's, Pop.
lar street, tomorrow night.
-M'Kee Rankin's TtOo Orphans will
give matinee in the Greenlaw Opera
house at two O'Clock Saturday after
noon.
An unusual amount of babies have
made their appearance in Memphis dur
ing the past month, and the CRY is still
they come.
In short while a tunnel will be
made under Main street for the railroad
line, so as to dispense with the difficulty
of the present steep grade.
The street-car driver arrested on the
charge Of stealing three tickets, valued
at eighteen and three-quarters cents,
from the car-box, was acquitted by the
criminal court.
Last night Thomas Green, DeSoto
street darkey, became bOisterous and
resisted Officers Haekett and Cullen in
their efforts to arrest him. The officers
took him in, and he slept at the station.
house.
-Tuesday last stranger named J. B.
M'Cabe fell through an aperture In the
floor of the elevator and received dan.
gerous injuries. The unfortunate man
was removed to the city hospital, but
up to yesterday afternoon remained un-
conscious.
Among the Main street promenaders
yesterday was countryman wearing a
pair Of boots, knee-high, with his name
in white LETTERS printed on the leather.
We omit the name, but are incl ned to
think that the gentleman is a man of
his own miHd.
The O'DonneIl- M'Elroy difficulty
did not occur In John Cosgrove's saloon,
as previously reported, but on Main
street. We make this statement in
Justice to MI. Cosgrove, who informs us
that at the time of the difficulty he was
sick at home, and that the parties were
not in his saloon at all.
On Monday night Mrs. Bowers will
commence a weeks engagement at the
Memphis Thea.er, the opening play
being a charming production, entitled
AdTtt. Mira. Bowers Is supported by an
excellent dramatic company and will
draw full houses. The sale OF tickets
commences st ten o'clock this morning.
Captain AID Storm has our thanks
for Basket Of delicious strawberries and
a bunch Of mint, grown by Colonel G.
ID. Menship, at jackson, Mississippi.
The berries are well developed and in
every respect equal to these grown in
spring The mint-weiI, Its merits
we've sufficiently generous to be COM
mingled with white sweeteniDg and re.
frigeIated water.
About four O'Clock yesterday after
noon Dave Nelson, colOred, acted in a
dIsorderly manner on Poplar street, op-
posite the North mRrEethouse, and de.
Il, d anyone TO arrest him. Officer AIli- |
son, however, did arrest the offender,
and escorted him to the Adams-street |
stationhOuse, forty or fifty small boys |
the policeman and prisoner 10 |
see the result. Nelson is a well-known |
negro politician, and resides in Missis- |
sippi, whence he has come to help the |
Radicals in the approaching municipal |
election.
-Yesterday morning Deputy Coroner |
Spelmsn held sn inquest on the body of |
Eliza Hawkins, a cOlored woman who
lied suddenly at No. Is Turley street,
Owing to her helpless condition she was
BEING removed by her former master, ".
+. Brooks, TO his place In Mississippi,
where he had provided her home, but
lad TO be temporarily left on Tnley
reet. Mr.. Brooks, with q kindness
Characteristic OF the southern man, had
he old slave shrouded and buried by the
Idle Of her husband. The coroner's Jury
verdict OF death from heart.
isesse.
About ten o'clock yesterday morn
1g, Thornton Marshall, proprietor OF a
marine saloon and snack-house, near
he elevator, shot negro named Whit
cid Clements, but the latter sustained |
0 injury by the pistol-bsIl. Clements,
lille playing cards With another negro |
! the saloon, had an slteroation with I
Do proprietor, and cut hIu slightly In
he left breast. Thereupon MARSHALL
red, the bullet penetrating the negro's |