Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-27
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Yesterday afternoon was very warm.
Attend the Democratic ward meet
iDgs tonight.
The Memphis club will play the st.
Louis Reds at Olympic park this after
noon.
The criminal court meets to-day tn
hesr the grand jugs report, and adj
joun. All bills Of exception must be
filed to-day.
We hope TO see large and enthusi-
as.ic meetings in tHs ward CLUBS to-
night. Enthusiasm Is net out OF place
FOR the August elections,
"A numher Of cars are being rebuilt
ia the Mississippi and Tennessee rail-
road shops in this city. A new coach is
also being built, and when finished it
will be q handsome car.
The Chickasaw Guards will make
an excursion on the steamer G.. w.
Cheek next Monday night. This will
| be one Of the most gIseable entertain
ments yet given by the Chickasaws.
The White Stocking baseball club
Of this city left yesterday afternoon for
fernando, Mississippi, to play with the
clut 8 OF that town. Kennedy, Of the
Memphis Reds, went with the Whites
to do the catching. DIS
The Radicals are making an earnest
effort to elect magistrates in the sp-
proschiDg election. Democrats must
rally TO the support Of the nominees I'M
| less they wish TO see the Radicals
get posses ion OF the county court.
1t ia not improbable that the city
council will be without quorum next
month. 1t is very warm weather to
legislate on the sutject of lamp-posts,
sidewalks, and other municipal mat
| ters. ..a...-r-.-
A gentleman named Day has tele-
graphed to Chief Athey that he had ar
rested q negro boy who, last Monday,
while on the train, sold a valuable dis.
laord ring for five dollars. The ring,
viii \ is star-shsped, has been shipped
to Chief Athey and awaits Identification
by the ewner. sH...
The eighth ward Democratic club
meets tonight st Pendergrast's, No. $40
Main street, north of the Mississippi de-
pot. Speeches will be made by prOmi-
| nent gentlemen, and 1t is expected that
there will be a large attendance. Mr.,
PendergTast has prepared q large room
for the club meeting.
-Ex-Conncilmau Turner Hunt, col
orsd, makes the following denial Of his
| SUSPECTED connection with the domestic
felicity Of Tip Harris, colored: az do SOL
EMMY declare that had nothing to do
with the arrest Of Tip Harris, as pub
| lisbed in Tuesdays APPEAL, nor the is-
suance of the warrant. know nothing
whatever about his domestic affairs, and
as to his statement regarding my in
| timacy with his wife it is totally false.
| TURNER HUNT"
| Yesterday the Riversides, an anna.
| teur club of this city. played the St.
| Louis Reds game at Central park, the
result being 8 victory for the latter by a
score of IL to The game was not des.
| titute of Interest, and however it may
have been played by the Reds, wss
creditahle to the Riversides. It may be
that the Rsds will yet have to do much
better playing in order to escape defeat
| by some of the local amateur clubs.
Morgan pitched for the Reds yesterday,
| aud the game was not b3d one. The
Memphis club, which was SO anxious to
try the Reds, announce 3 game with
the st. Louis nine s! Olympic park this
afternoon.
j. r. Gavin, q colored sand miner,
late yesterday afternoon carried the
clothing Of a white boy to tbs police
station, and states that the lad has
| doubtless been drowned in the Missis-
sippi. He Gays that about noon yester-
day, a white boy, aged thirteen or four
teen, came where he was, at the foot of
Irrelevant street, and inquired the depth
of the water at thst point. He showed
the boy q stick standing in the street,
and, having given BIN the depth of the
river, went a short distance down the
bank and remained about fifteen min.
utes. Upon returning to the foot of
TreZevant street, he saw the clothes
.Irar the rivers edge, but could not find
afternoon, but has not yet seen the hoy,
and therefore believes he was drowned.
The boy was Of thick stature, ana Dad
black hair. His clothing, consisting of
gray sack coat, striped while shirt,
cOttOnade pants, cotton sOcks and box
tOed CATERS, is at the stationhouse.
1t seems that the prosecutors of
Mary Burton are to suffer the penalty Of
the law for their shameful conduct the
night OF her arrest Yesterday afternoon
fourteen State and city-WaTrants were
issued for the arrest Of the negroes who
were prominently engaged in the out
rageous conduct. Two OF the supposed
participants-Dave johnson, a colored
barber on Main street, south of Union,
and John Davis, coloTed grocer on
Beale, opposite Turley stTeet-were ar
rested last night. The city.warrants
alIege disOrdefly and riOtous conduct,
and two cases of assault and battery.
The State warrants allege that the per.
sons therein named melted and got 10
riot. All of the warrants were Issued ct
the instance of Mary Barton's aunt, a
colored woman, who Is determined to
have the guilty parties punished. There
were over g hundred scared negroes,
last night, and many q servant, porter
and office-boy may be missing to day,