Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-16
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

There are half dozen professional
mocking-bird fanciers and raisers in this
city.
Congress having adjourned lest
night, our cor gressmen will be coming
home soon.
E-You can now get into the true in
wardness OF q watermelon for a ten-cent
shinplaster.
1t Old Sitting Bull resided in Mem
phis, he would be hscksdriver-he is
such "scalper.n
Our magistrates and constabfes- ect
will not go to work in official harness
until the first proximo..
Yesterday concluded the season for
dog poisoning by the police, SO we are
informed by Sergeant M'EIrcy.
"A reunion Of the Seventh Tennessee
cavalry will be held in CovingtOn on the
twenty-first of September next.
Mrs. Ellen Johnson filed a bill for
divorce yesterday in the chancery court,
on the grounds of desertioD, failure to
support, etc.
"A few arrests were made by the
patromen last night of persons charged
with being dunk, dlsorderly, and using
abusive language.
Watermelon rinds, COWS and hogs
can now be found on the streets without
difficulty. It is about IS dangerous to
step apon one as the other.
/ ,--Moscowites will come to our city in
full force to.dsy to witness the Moscow
+ and Memphis Reds play match game
Of base ball at Central park.
We are glad to see that LIES Prom
Use to Pay has such 3 large saie.- Mans
ford, the wide-aWake neWsdealer, now
has his fourth invoice on hand.
Centennial weddings have not been
very popular in this city, although such
affairs are spoken OF to take place next
month, when cooler westher comes.
-"WsftiDg the epssnguined UNDER
wear," is the poetical way of saying,
"waving the bloody shirt" Oar city
'Rads" should remember this, and be
governed accordingly.
Quite an amount Of brilliant light
nirg appeared in the western heavens
last night. 1t was pronounced by some
meteoroligsts to be storm lightning, and
by o.hels heat lightning. y
The Irish Volunteers should follow
the example of the ChIckasaW Guards,
and appear in pRrades, drills, etc. The
company should reOTganize, now that
the hottest end OF the heated term has
pcssed swsy.
To accommodate many friends, tie
Riverside excursion, which leaves the
whsTfboat at foot of Court street at half
pact eight O'Clock, will land again at
same place between half-past ten and
eleven o'clock. - a--...
Quite number Of heavy bets have
been made 10 this city on the result I
the Presidential election. In such mat
ters man generslly backs his political
convictions with his money, and does so
upon very slight provocstion.
Mrs. J. A. Signiago announces her
self IS proprietoress Of the Grenada Sen.
tineL in well written editorial. Colonel
Signf8go- her husband, owing to a cad
mental sfflictiOn, has been compelied to
retire FROM the paper for the present.
Yesterday afternoon the police ar
rested white man named Henry Floyd
on charge Of larceny, and W. A. Ds.
wilson, also white man, charged with
hOTse-stealiDg. These parties will have
ahearing before the recorder this morn
ing.
An exchange asks, "what can more
q
rect idea Of female grace than to see 3
young lady dressed in the hight Of
style, pause in the middle of the side
walk and deity yank her hustle to its
proper position with one lily white
hand2n
? Citizens having occasion 70 pass the
vacant lot on The southeast corner OF
Washington and Fourth streets, COM
plain Of the siekening smells arising
from the green scum and rotten mud
collected by the recent rains, and there.
suit Of no drainage. Look to it, city
officials.
The oppressive heat on yesterday
was generally complained Of The mer-
cuCy in the thermometer swung up
among the nineties in the shade. 1t |
seems as If we are in for another hot
spell OF weather, consequently beware
81 drinking too much Ice- water or too
many alcoholic toddies.
The latest news from the Sioux il |
that Sioux maiden named Suse sues |
her Sioux lover for breach of promise |
and Ptr-sloux him with such pertinacity |
that there en-siouX much trouble among |
the Sioux how to quiet matters between |
Suse and her wayward Sioux lover, who /
is not worth scu-as lover.
The odor emitted from the several
snackhouses surrounding the north mar
ket is offensive to the nasal organs OF
psssers-by, and the attention of city |
officials is called TO this fact. In addis
lion to this the decayiDg vegetables
thrown aside by the hucksters make |
matters worse. Reform.
The report that scarlet fever has in
vsded the Church Home is incorrect, as
we are informed by DR.. Morse, the visit
ing physician. There has not been a
ease of sesrletinR in the institution the
present year. Eight or ten Of the chill
iren have recently been seriously LII, but
ali ere rapidly convaleecing.
The litigious disposition of the col.
lred population keeps several Of the
busy. Suits are commenced
or the most trivial causes, and Warran s
are sworn out by them for the most in-
Iignihcant misdemesnOrs; but in this
'egard the colored people are not far
ahead of some white people.
On the steamer Andy Baum, which
eft port last evening, quite number Of
people left the city for the purpose of
going east and visiting the Centennial.
Among the Memphians were Messrs.
[. J. Bsrchus, G. E Crosby, Mrs. Judge
5wsyne, Mrs. Milton, Misses Rswlings,
Yerstn and Winters, Mr.. Reuben Jones
md family, and number Of others.
Rev. Father Msgeyney delivered q
earned, interesting and eloquent lecture :
It st. Mary's church last night, before 3
reTy large cCnccu Of people. Father
has won golden opinions dur
ng bis visit TO this, the city of his birth. !
It the close of the lecture the beautiful !,
rotto OF Our Lady Of LouIdes was light
up, to the admiration Of all in attend
nee.
The Nashville Bonner remarks: /
The State Democratic press, as far as
eaTd from, speak in complimentary
rms Of the late Democratic State con-
sntion. There is, however, just slight l
1T cropping Of dis abstraction at the Sc 8
ction OF Elk. Governor Ishsm q. Harris c
elector for the State at large. This
ay wear off in time, although it is
,ubtful If East Tennessee, in particu- 3