Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-02-19
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS,

| ASoIoAuhJ was bIJSut auu pledShut.
ATTEND the Brooks matinee this af.
ternCOn.
Spectators will be admitted, at five
O'Clock this afternoon, to Prof. MuelleT's
matinee.
The ladies enjoy the present weather
and throug the streets, much to the de-
light Of the admiring male eek.
The jury in the murder case of Joe
| Chase have been hung since Monday,
and yet they are not dead, nor are they
happy.
Mike Conway, one of the negroes
| who robbed Aug ust Joerss's jewelEv store
in this city, has been arrested at Cairo,
| Illinois.
Mr.. John J. FlOurnoy, r., brother
| IF Mrs. G, J. Sslden, of this city, died
At his home in Paducah, Kentucky, last
Monday.
The Brooks matinee this afternoon
will be one Of the largest Of the season.
The beauty, fashion and intellect Of the
city will be there.
The Covington Record says that
Mr.. w. A. j. Slaughter has removed to
Memphis, where he goes to fill a posi-
lion ip the house OF T. B. Haynes.
"A little son Of Mr.. Charles N. Erich
fell and severely cut his face with bot
lie few days since We are pleased to
know that the little sufferer is fast le.
covering.
The indefatgable Memphis news
boys are so thick that an awkward gen.
tleman who stumbled In front Of the
Peabody hotel yesterday afternoon acct
dentally knocked down five Of the Jour.
nalistic peddleIs.
The Waddy Thompson hdbeas cor.
pus case is not yet finished. Judge
Brown, Of the United States court, yes.
terday, was engaged in hearing evidence
relative to the manner in which the re-
plevin bond was Issued.
The Savannah (Ga NeaOs saws: "a |
pair Of horses ran away with carriage |
in Augusta the other d ~, and seriously |
injured Miss Ella Boiling. TWo other |
young ladies who were in the carriage |
escaped without serious injury"
AN injunction was granted by the
chsncery court, yesterday, on the petit |
ton of P. G. Bethel against the city and |
county tax-cOllectors, restraining and |
epjoinipg them from collecting certain |
taxes on complainanPs property.
The following, it is said, will cure a
cold: First, eat nothing; second, go to
bed covered up in warm room; third,
drink as much cold water as you can, or
as you want; as much herb tea as Won
can, and in three cases out of four you
will be well in thirty six hours.
The LonOBe (Ark. J Democrat, in its
last issue, says: Momus, the mighty
king OF the carnival, has commanded
our presence and that of our coustly
DANES, to attend the Msrdi Gras festivi-
ties in the city of Memphis, on the
twenty-ninth instant. Long live the
king!"
We have received from Mr.. VIM.
w. Beasley the prospectus of a weekly
paper which will be published and ed
tied by him at Montgomery, Alabama.
The name Of the paper will be the Sun,
day Montgomery Hornet We hope the
enterprise will enjoy brilliant and USE
full career.
The Charleston NetDs of January
9th says: "'Colonel Sellers took in !
five hundred and forty-six dollars in one
night in Columbus. He visits the south
under the management of Mr.. Fold, of
Baltimore. Mr.. Ford takes three hun.
tfed dollars OF the gross proceeds, and
pays all the expenses. Mr. Raymond
and Mark Twain each get Thirty per
cent. Of the remainder"
The HernsndO (Miss.l Prefs and
Times Gays thst Sam Hood. recently
of horse-stealinga and sentenced
, ten years imprisonment by the Mem
lhis criminal court, is q hardened case,
having killed M'Auninch in that county s
iome years ago, and was guilty, it is {
bought, Of having been leader OF a
yang Of horse-thieves who piled their
7ooation in that section.
DO you believe in dreams? Owing
o the warm weather the musuuito's
winter OF discomfort" ia gone, aud In z
ONE sections buffalo guats nave already
ppeared. Up in New York a Buffalo b
1an dreamed that he was going over
Niagara Falls, and be had his wife by
be neck when he aWOke. Next night
ne Buffalo woman had q dream and
roke bis nose SIS she struck at an In
ian. So much then for dTeams. G
We learn that the West Tennessee v
OIoIed university, 81 Peabody nights, | b
ear this city, is in fiour.shing c0ndi-
Oh. This institution was opened the
lird OF last month with eighteen stu.
enis, and now has one hundred and y
Tenty within its halls. In fact, Colo. Z
iSl hall is so crowded that many stu
snts from abroad have been unable to
Otsin admission, and the trustees have
stermlned to add an industrial depart II
tent. IN order to afford bstteT facilities b
r educating the colored people who | "
ish to receive instruction. The princi- 81
II teacher is II. n. Rankin, who il as q
sted by Mis- Maggie Amy and Mr..
lmes Hollowell, of Tyro, Mississippi.