Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-21
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

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dsy were quite elegant.
Governor Tildep, Of New York, has
our thanks for public documents.
Pat Bsys sud Thomas BrOffey were
arrested last night for fighting. The lat
ter was bruised considerably.
"A snow. plow was kept going on the
street-railW8y track yesterday, 80 that the
few cars running cCu'd make their tips.
Thomas Rose, q Mexican, was az
rested for hOusebTeaking and carrying
concealed weapons, and locked up last
night.
Joseph O. Th@eat, a citizen of
Shelby county. fled petition in bank
Fuptcy in the United States circuit court
yesterday.
If the almanac did not say that yes
terdsy was the first day a spring, it
would have passed muster as middle
Of December day.
The sun took peep at the snow.
clad face Of creation yesterday before
he sank to rest, presenting a picture of
enrapturing beauty.
-Mollie Robinson charges her hus-
band, Harry x. RobiUson, with absn-
Comment, aud has petitisned the chan
Gerry co1Tt for divorce.
1t was fun to see a number Of ladies
trudging back home through the deep
snow yesterday, after their impromptu
sleigh REFUSED to do duty.
The opal-tints Of the western hori-
ION, at the setting Of the sun, yesterday,
indicated clear weather, according TO
Uncle Billy Dardis's theory,
"A beautiful drawing Of the Coult.
square fountain may lie seen at the
Bank Of Commerce. Sixty days is the
time now allotted to its completion.
The oldest inhabitant says the
snow-stoTm thatpsssed over this Reality
Sunday night wss the heaviest ever ex-
peFieDced in this lbtjtude-the snow fall
ing foot In depth in twelve hours.
Those who could not box upj their
wives 81 d sweethearts yesterday, and
go sleighing, enjoyed Themselves pelt-
ing those who could with snOW-balls. 1t
was Fun for the pelters, but rough on the
peltteS.
Everybody who could raise, borrow,
hire, or Otherwise possess a horse and q
glods-box yea erdsy went sieighing.
Dinner-bslls, COW. beliE, and everything
else that would make noise, were tied
to the hoTss's rigging, and "bells were
ringing ali the day, money spent and
thrown away, and there was the devil
to pay, Whsn We went out sleighiDg."
w. G. Watkins received frightful
wound during the day from a cub in
the hands of ]. Bogiano. The latter
save that Watkins came into bis saloon
and threa eGed to shoot him with pisa
to-, Whersupon he dealt Watkins blow
on the head with 8 mace, and inflicted
al ugly cash. Watkins says Bogiano
struck him because he did not have four
bits, the amount which he owed him for
drinks.
TIE passage OF TIE ordinance Of the
general council et its last meeting, ex-
empt!ns tie ninth snd tedth wards
from liability on the Nicolson pavement
tsX, ard ali other taxes end Claims in-
Cured prior TO the admission OF these
wards into the city Of Memphis, Deem
Der 3, 1867, will exempt nearly ten
million dollars worth OF property from
taxation, but will nearly double the tax
on the property in the other words.
The executive committee, in view OF
the fact that the fountain for Court
square will be received In few days,
and must he paid for on receipt, asks
nat subscribers will be SO kind as to call
on DR.. s. r ClerB, secretary and
treasurer at the Phoenix insurance COM
psuy, and pay amounts respectively
Subscribed. We hope that the request
will be promptly complied with, as the
much desired fountain is now an as
sured fact, and no impediment should
come in the way of its earlies. comp'e.
ton.
The Helena Nal. Of the fifteenth
| instant, announces The death, "after q
| painful illness OF more than eight
months duration. of Judge O. X. Ua-
derRoOd, one OF Phillips cOunty's oldest
citizens and widely known throughout
the state, at his residence in West
Helena, at twenty five minutes past
/ eight O'clock the previous night.
| Judge UndCr wood, with his brother,
| long since dead, founded the Helena
| Shield about 1910, snd Published it as 8
| Ieaiing and Influential Wing . and
! American paper up u the commence.
meut OF the war. So long he and his
paper had g large influence throughout
| Eastern Arkansas. After the war he
served s term or more both SIS circuit
and county judge.
A petition was filed IN the United
States circuit court yesterday, styled
William + Walker, fsSsnee iu bank
TUptcy Of the North Missouri Insurance.
company, yerS1LS T. g CsskiD, for the
sum OF seventy five thou ana dollars,
due on LrJm:ssoTy EO:es executed
by said IT. c. Cassin and s. c
Caskin, at Memphis, Tenne see,
March, 1873, TO the Mound City IT,
suraBcs company, said notes having
been transferred 70 said North Missouri
| insurance company, q corporation doing
business az St..L0uis, but recently sd
| judged 8 bankrupt by the United States
district court for the eastern district OF
MiSsouJi. The sSid IS. G. Caskin, " lie
Of I c Csskin, and one Of the signers
Of said notes, is dead; hence the com.
| piainsnt cues ssit r, G.. Caskin for tire
amounts due on said notes, which were
found BY the assignee among the assets
OF said North Missouri insurance COM
psny.
The ChsrIotts IN. c. O6serUer, of
the tenth, says that ColoUel William
johnson, delegated from inst city TO at
tend a mce.ing OF tina directors OF the
Southern life insurance company in
Memphis, reports thst "tbe directors
found the failure TO be very bad me;
the company is entirely swamped snd
in such condition that il could nov
psT almost nothing at ali. The Gaus ss
Were the failure OF the Carolina ille 10
pay up its reseFye-eighty-e EIGHT thou