Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-15
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The thermometer indicated So in
the shade yesterday afternoon, tut out
in the sun it rushed up 10 l0z' without
difficulty.
A six.foot rattlesnake, adorned with
thirteen rattles, was captured st the
Memphis and St. Louis packet elevator
on yesterday.
The steamer Illinois arrived st the
Ievee at late hour last night, with a
big trip. She will leave again for Nicks'
burg this evening at five o'clock.
Rev. Father Magevney will deliver
a lecture at st. Msry's Catholic church
this evening at eight o'clock. After the
lecture the beautiful chapel Of Our Lady
of Lourdes will be Illuminated.
Our newly elected magistrates are
anxiously awaiting their commissions
from Nashville, so that they can open
offices and go to wOlk explaining the
law and infiictiDg Justice on litigants
and criminals.
VIII it ever quit raining? Or are
we to have a send deluge? 1t has rained
daily and nightly since the second in
slant, and it looks az il the clerk Of the
weather intended to give it to US for
forty days and forty nights.
The Chickasaw Guards, forty mus.
kets strong, gave a dress parade and
drill on the bluff yesterday afternoon.
The Guards fired several volleys in good
style, much to the qualification of sew
eral hundred citizens who surrounded
the drill grounds.
Ca yesterday afternoon the police
arrested Richard Green (negro) on the
charge Of threatening to kill colored
brother. They also arrested Sam Hill
(negro) charged with obtaining money
under false pretenses; and w. Frazier
(uegro) charged with larceny. These
worthless will be interviewed by the re-
corder this morning.
"A few days ago heavy rsin-storm
along the Tallahatchie river sWelled that
stream out of its banks, and in many
places along the Tallahatchie valley the
river and tributaries OVERLOOKED every
thing, making clear sweep Of fences,
crops, etc. The freshet ruined a num-
Der OF plantations, taking their entire
cotton and corn crop.
At Central park yesterday the base
ball game between the Memphis Reds
and the Germantown club resulted in
the defeat Of the Germantown boys by a
score of thirty.egbt to nothing. The
Germantowns wee struck out every
time, and got nut two base hits. Only
one man reached the second base. But
one error was made by the Reds, and in
addition Clinton gave two players first
base on called balls.
On the streets yesterday afternoon a
rumor was current to the effect that the
packet Illinois had struck a snag and
had surk somewhere down the river,
but an up river boat which arrived laier
in the afternoon contradicted the report,
the Illinois having been passed thirty
miles below here, az she was laying at
some way landing. The unfounded ru-
NOR created some excitement on the
streets for few hours.
The game of baseball on Sunday
afternoon, at Central park, between the
Reds and the B ues, resulted in an easy
victory for the former. At the Olympic
park the Eckfords and picked niue OF
the Riversides played a game, which re-
suited in favor Of the EckfOrds by q score
of five to two. During both games the
rain fell and materially intertered with
playing, as well as the Enjoyment Of
those in attendance as visitors.
The Nashville American furnishes
some probabilities, that did not come
from Washington, but are none the less
true on that account: "For Tennessee
ture for Tilden and corn. For Indi-
ans and Ohio, and lower lake region,
threatening bread-riots storms and de-
creasing temperature for Hayes. In
New York a tornado for Tilden, fol.
InWnA hry q rafOrnn tidal vUoUa ho
Pacific coast"
The following very plimentary
notice Of the Valley Monthly appeared in
the London Times of July 23d: 1--WE
have before US q copy of the Valley
Monthly, splendid magazine published
in st. Louis, United States of America.
1t is most creditably gotten up, and the
literature Of high class. We notice in
it an excellently compiled article on
The Late Duke Of Kent her majesty's
father. 1t is from the fluent pen of cur
friend General Marcus J. Wright, q
gallant and meritOrious officer OF the
late Confederate army. We are in.
formed that the general has purchased
the Palley Monthly. We predict for him
a brilliant success.u General Wright
also sent copy Of the article referred to
teous acknowledgment of the attention
from Major General 81. F. Ponsonby,
her majesty's secretary.
-Hdrper's Weekly has picture this
week, by Mast, which tells better than
whole pages Of type what is going on in
the Republican party. 1t represents
powerful recumbent lion, suddenly
awakened, and looking with counte-
nance full of terrible anger at herd of
kicking mules running away with stu
pid alacrity. Two of them are unmis-
takably intended for the late secretary
of the treasury and his solicitor, and,
with exquisite irony, Mr.. Mast has re-
called therein the incidents of the cele-
brated "mule case" The moral OF this
telling picture is apparent. Grant, the
old lion OF the party, has been provoked
by the irritating abuse Of the ''refOrm-
ers," by the suggestive refusal Of Bris-
tow to testify, and by the tale-telling of
Wilson, to lift up his head and look
about, whereupOn ell the reforming
mules, of high and low degree, which
had been lashiDg out st him under the
delusion that he was dead, take to their
heels and start for the woods. The
warning of HaTper's Weekly, "kick
with care" means, being interpreted
into practical politics, that the RepubIi-
can leaders have come to see that the
"Old Man" holds the canvass of Hayes
in tine hollow Of his hand, and can at
any moment do for him what Conkling