Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-19
LEGAL PARAGRAPHS.

Yesterday was hot.
The coIored citizens had a barbecue
and picnic yesterday.
The c0lored miliisry company pa.
raded on Main street yesterday.
st. Louis received her first new bale
of cotton yesterday just one day behind
Memphis.
The CrutChy Thompson excitement
still holds out. MaDsfOId hes another
supply Of Days Doings.
- Young Ladies' Journal, B0oO Bells,
Leslie'S Lddy's Magazine and Den1Orest
for September, at Mausford's.
The present warm weather is ex.
ceedingly disagreeable, the thermOme.
ter yesterday being 9l0 in the shade.
Mr.. William Simpson, Of this city,
has our thanks for an invitation to a
ball to be given August oath at the Jack
son house, BlOunt Splings, Alabama.
Colonel Albert NJ. Stoddard yester-
dsy suctiOneered the Centennial bale of
new cotton. May he live to sell another
Centennial bale in 1876, and that We
may recCrjIt
Merchants and business men gener-
ally should remember that the APPEAL
Will i3sue a mammoth sheet the fret of
EeDtem Der. AS an advertising medium
this issue will offer unusual induce
ments.
Provisions are cheap, and calico is
selling at seven cent?. These are in
ducements for young people TO marry,
hut the difficulty is that calico cannot
be substituted for silk and other expen-
sive goods.
Day before yesterday the horse at
tached to a buggy took fright on Adams
street, near Fourth street, and ran
away. Fortunately the young lady and
gentleman had just alighted from the
vehicle and escaped injury.
Mr.. Clinton, the pitcher of the
Memphis Reds, left yesterday for Louis
vile, WI ere he joins the Louisville base
ball club, Snd engages to play there for
this and the neXs season. His with
dIawal from the Memphis Reds was by
consent OF the managers.
The Helena base ball club will re ach
the city tonight and play the Memphis
Reds at Central park tO.mOTrow after
noon. The mem bers Of the HeIena club
LOOK handsome in their new uniforms,
and are said TO be a strong nine. The
game will be interesting.
The Helena (Ark.) World declares
that "some inventive genius would do
cur citizens large amount Of good by
getting up q series Of cat funerals to be
prolonged, dsy by day, until there were
fewer cats, or less noise made by them"
Thst kind Of catastrophe in this city
would not be lamentsble.
Mrs. Ryan, who resides near the
curve on the fernando street railroad,
is in very destitute and helpless condi-
ton. We understand that Mrs. Ryan
is q deserving lady and worthy obj 2ct
of charity. She is destitute Of every
necessary of life, and has three children
who sre suffy ring for bread, the young.
est being quite sick. VIII not some
charitable persons 60 to the relief Of the
suffering woman?
-Abaut three O'Clock yesterday after
noon there was an exciting scene on
Monroe street, between Second and
Third. A country negro wearing pair
Of rusty brogaps wss beet by 3 cr0wd
OF negro bootblacks, who annoyed the
stranger not q little. The persecution
was fiuaIly ended by the c0UUtry negro
knocking down half a dozen Of ihe boot
blacks AID chasing the others up the
alleys and streets.
-EDITOBs APPEAL-In your refer
ence to Judge J. w Clapp in your Issue
OF the twelfth instant as eIector for the
tenth district, you fell into one or two
errors Of fact which correct, by stating
that IN IS4l be removed from Abingdon,
Virginia (the place Of his bigtb), to Hal
~ Sp1ipgs, Miss ssippi, where he re-
manned until the close of the war in
1865, when I became g citizen of Mem
pitts. He hiss for some time been absent
from the city, and is now at White Cliff
springs. ANXIOUS.