Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-24
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

-YesterIsy was disagreeably hot.
There will be a gay party in Bartlett
tonight.
The Republican State convention
meets at n Ashville to day.
H. Llnderman was arrested yester-
day for keeping vicious dog.
See the call for meeting OF st. Pc
ter's society, printed elsewhere.
Memphis citizens are afflicted with
the heat, which 10 more aggravated than
ever known here, and seems to be a
local epidemic.
Hugh Faulkner, driver Of Main
street car No. s, was arrested last night
for using obscene language, and insult
ing lazy passenger.
The Athletic club, OF CoiiierVille,
yesterday played the Memphis Reds the
best game OF any visiting club OF the
season except the st. Louis Reds.
Jim Jones, colored, com mitted an
unmentionsble crime yesterday on the
bluff, for which he YVES arrested and put
in the Adams street stationhOuse.
Late yesterday afternoon John Cal.
shan, Martin Mccormick and James
Schsles were arrested for the alleged lar
ceny of barrel of mixed paint belong
ing to Hook & LaGrill.
B. K. Plains house, on Walnut
street, south of Tate, caught fire from q
defective fiue about ten o'clock last
night. Toe fire was extinguished,
though some damage resulted.
-Four negro prisoners escaped from
the Presidents island workhouse, Tues
day. They are named, respectively,
Bonner Bailey, Henry Jones, William
DeBerry and William Carter.
Louis LsGrilI, jr., who was married
at st. Louis in 1872, yesterday filed a
bill of divorce in the chaDcery court, al
leging that his wife, Mary Ellen La
Grill, had abandoned his bed and board
in 1873.
Barney Hughes Informs Mr.. John
s. Toof, $ acretaty OF the cotton exchanges,
that he yesterday shipped two of the
new bales of cotton over the Virginia
and Tennessee Airline, furnished with
an elegant sleeping-car and sample
holes securely covered.
About ten O'Clock last night mos.
quito bar in Mr.. Bakers house on Beale
street, east OF DeSoto, caught fire, and it
Yss feared the residence would be de-
stroyed by the flames. The DeSoto-
street firemen extipguished the flames
before material damage was done.
Captain Robert w. Wise's new
Memphis and Cincinnati steamer James
w. Gaff will arrive at two O'Clock this
afternoon. Countless man, women and
children will visit the steamer, which is
said to be the finest boat ever built for
the Memphis and Cincinnati trade.
The excellent advertising medium
| offered by the APPEAL in its first oil
September isius shCu'd be enjoyed by
every merchant and business man in
Memphis Those who wish local notices
or advertiser in the APPEAL OF
September l, 1876, should not delay in
making arrangements for that purpose.
Citizens residing In the locality of
Pontotoc street ard the river complain
of the nuisance created by the dump.
carts. The refuse dumped at the foot of
Pontotoc street does not go directly into
the river, but is scattered on the ground,
and produces sickeniDg odor. Let this
nuisance be abated by the health-ofiicer
at once.
Mrs. Keiser, of Kerr street, Chelsea,
| possesses two curiosities. A centennial
hen yesterday Matched from one eggtwo
| chickens, one having four legs al q three
bills. One If the chickens died soon
after coming out OF the shell, but the
other lived several hours. Toe egg was
small and had single vitsllus. This
freak of nature reminds US OF the follow.
ing from the Clarke county (Va.) Cou.
Tier: "LAst week Major ]. d. Richard
son left at DR.. Pages drug store a pig
having q head and face like that OF q
child. The forehead, chin and mouth
are Enthusiastically human in appearance,
but the nose is represented by fieshy,
beak-like shape about half az inch in
length. The eyes are wide apart, and
set somewhat up in the forehead. The
ears, body, legs and feet are those of a
pig. This singular def0rmity lived TWEEN.
ty-four hours after the SOW gave birth to
it. DR.. Page is preserving it in alco.
hol."