Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-17
AuUAA PARAGRAPHS.

The more you think about it, the
hotter 1t gets.
Tennessee has almost five thousand
common school districts.
The Little Rock Gazette says that
the pOstcffice at Texsrkans has been
robbed.
The first fresh Baltimore oysters OF
the sess son were received by Victor Fuchs
yesterday evening.
The alarm Of fire last evening was
caused by the burning out Of chimney
OF Winchester street.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment Of the Raleigh high school, In
another part Of this paper.
The man who outstrips all Of his
nEighbors remains the coolest during
these oppressively hst days and nights.
No petitions in bankruptcy are be-
ing filed now-a-days in our United states
district court, all OF which is q good
financial Sign.
Money is close, but not close enough
to reach in this city. Everything is get.
ting tighter, Iullbacks, corsets, habitual
drunkards, etc.
-Magdalena Juncker filed a divorce
bill in the chsncery court, yesterday,
against Louis JunCker, asking that the
bonds of m2trimcny st present existing
between them be dissolved.
County school directors are required
to maize their annual reports to county
superin5endents by September 18th, and
county supsIin sendents to The State su-
perintendeLt by October lst.s
The ColliervilJe baseball club will
play the Memphis Reds, at Central park,
on Wedne S Jay, tWenty-third instant.
There will be an excursion train on the
Charleston railroad. Oae fere for round
trip.
1t is whispered around that party
Of young men went bathing in the Court
square fountain basin, about midnight,
one dark night not long since. They
climbed over the fence, and went SWIM
ming with Hebe and the tish.
This steam fire-engines were out
pluu ging through town yesterday after
noon in search of conflagratiOn, but
the alarm proved to have been a false
enc, and the steamers returned in dis.
gust to their respective mansions.
The Hot Springers of Arkansas are
loudly complaining about the enormity
and Unprecedented action Of the gov.
eminent in charging rents * + buildings
erected by private individuals upon gov
erGment lands by private individuals,
and the Hot Springs journals sssert
"thst this action has most efectuaily
squelched the village"
The Helena MGa, of the thirteenth,
says: captain Marsh Miller, pilot on
the steamer 4. J. White, swOre out
warrant before Esquire VIM. s. Burnett
on yesterday against Jacob Logan, col
ored, charging him with HOUSEKEEPING
in the city OF Memphis on the thirty
first OF July last. Arrested and held for
examination on the fifteenth Instant"
The Shelby county Republican con-
ventiOn, to select delegates to attend the
Rapub lean gu0ernatorial convention,
viii assemble at twelve o'clock to. day
ut Assembly hall, on Main street, near
GayOso. Delegates will ALEC be selscted
To attend the congressional convention
Of the district. The State guberDatorisl
convent on will convene at Nashville on
the twenty.fcurth instant.
New York is suffering from an at
tack of had water, q greenish white
scum having settled upon the surface of
CrotOn lake, ard, in consequence, the
New Workers are driven to whisky and
other beverages for consolation. Mem
phis is also suffering from an attack OF
water, but only of muddy wafer from
Wolf river, which cannot be drank
with any pleasure, unless it is filtered;
hut, yet, there are many Memphians,
who, like their New York brethren,
seek for consolation in the whisky jug. !