Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-12
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

"A Celebrated Case at the Theater again
tonight.
Warm weather aud moist atmosphere
prevailed yesterday,
The cotton bales are coming into the
city by the thousands.
"A considerable number of deer and wild
! turkeys arrive In market daily.
The general council will meet again on
10 morrow evening at the city hall.
Yesterday afternoon some person carried
of tslma overcOat from the Office Of T. A. Ryan,
No. FOB Main street.
e w. Bartlett. white, and John Tenn
pleton, white were arrested By the police yesterday
on the charge of larceny.
-Deputy-Shenff Pete Bradley, of the re-
corders court served several warrants of arrest and
search warrants yesterday.
Half dozen cases of drunks and disor-
dees appeared recorded in the stationhouse docket
at twelve O'clock last night.
"A Heart Tsoice WOH." by a Memphis
lady, IS creating considerable excitement among the
! reading class. Mansford Low has his third supply
Main and the principal streets are
b'ockaded daily with cotton ana other wagons, and
II often requires some time to unrayel the entaDsle-
ment.
"A little coiored bov, Lost from his pa
rents in the vicinity of Lauderdale ard Vance Streets
was found yesterday afternoon and Is at the resi-
| dence OF Frsd Z. Hunt, No 6l2 Humphreys street.
Last night the weather turned cool and
| suggested frost Overcoats were In demand. and a
general bracing up internally was INDUCED in by the
! midst.
The lady managers of the Church or
phans home and other friends OF the institution,
| place at the home on Thursday the twelfth in
slant, at eleven O'Clock.
Oysters are cooked in better style in
Memphis than In Chicago. Fish Is also cooked In
better style here than there In this respect our
restaurants are ahead OF the city situation the
| southern end OF Lake Michigan.
Shopping on Main street is one of the
~ of ias
log wells and are dressed in the deepest mnuTHing
This is one of the melancholy relicts of the great
plague OF 1873.
The alleged robbery by a porter, which
place the Lee wharfbOat o. which the Weii-known
Billy Dukes s Is porter ana has been so for some
all packages placed In his charge.
There are numbers OF worthy and Door
people In our city who absolutely need relief, yet
they have never made any applications therefor
those who need 1t least, and who make effort to
secure living beyond the domain of charity.
Squads of unruly and noisy bows, both
white and colored, and OF the age Of fourteen and
under, can be found in the streets nightly. They
should be compelled to seek their homes at early
matter These boys are graduating IN the school of
drunkenness ana other kindred vices.
Every house in the city should be pro-
perry ventilsted Windows and doors should be left
OPEN so that the sunlight and frosty air could pene-
trae and dsinfect the rooms cellars. etc. 1t IS ab-
winter months. that next spring there Will be no
danger Of reVsitaIicn OF the plague.
Just received at So7nglar's, news Gea Ter
containing biographical sketch and excel ent like
ness of the late Butler P. Anderson. Orders from
singly. Single copies mailed, postage free, six
CENTS Special terms to news dealers.
Colonel Sease, who ha9 charge OF the
erection of our customhOuse is at present at Wash
ingtOn. but will be back In a few days Tue maj bic
Is being quasred ana portion OF It VIII reach Mem
vii be resumed. This IS coed news for I iaborine
men and mechanics employed in such work.
In Chicago the tall aad burly policeman
OF the period stanGs In the middle OF the street
and directs street carts and wagons bIockaded
how to move on. The policeman also escorts ladies
over tbs dangerous crossings and raises MS cane in
warning TO those driving wagons, &c. The police
drive horses.
The elegant residence of Or. J. Carter,
near SardiS Missi sslppi, totally destroyed by
Gre last Sunday night. The furniture and a large
stock OF supplies consumed with the building.
Or carriers losses amount to several thousand DOL
lars and, unfortunately, he had no insurance. DR..
Carter is one Of the leading physicians most
specified citizens or Pamela county, Mississippi.
Mr.. Joe Mancini, who has been sick
with the yelOwfever for some two weeks at his resi-
dence on tie corner of Main and HulDg Streets IS
recovering rapidly and will be- out the streets In
lev days II wife, who nursed him through his
Illness was taken sick Tuesday, and it is feared
that she has also been attacked with the fever, but
two. '--'-'''' ''''''1 ''' " u"' VI
1t will be remembered that a MAI named
j. w. Ran, hailing from st. Louis, Missouri, was
arrested In this city on the charge OF issuing bogus
and fraudulent Insurance 20 icies. On the heaFirg
OF the case Ryan was discharged for want OF proof.
Yesterday he was again committed 10 Jail on a
warrant charging that he had frauduently blamed
twenty-five dollars from j. W. Rhodes. IL IS also
stated that dispatch as received here yesterday
from ST. Louis, asking that Ryan be detained in
custody.
The famous steamer john D. Porter. of
yeilOwfeyer record on the Mississippi and Ohio
q landing Tuesd Az afternoon
last Our local was out Oh the bluff at the time, and
saw the Porter making landing. He saw her also
IN the eYll days or August when she passed up tbs
river with her yellow-fsver patients On Tuesday
she looked as gay and trim as II she never passed
through the yelowfeYeT belt dufing the plague. An
accurate history Of the yelOTfever trip of the Por
ter, giving all the thrilling incidents, would be