Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-15
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The educational board of the city will
meet on Monday night next.
Boat racing and base ball are now popu-
ular Sunday afternoon amusements.
Remember the grand roller-skating tour
nament and entertainment at the rink to-
night.
The May term of the Shelby circuit court
will commence on Monday next, the TWEEN
tieth instant.
The anniversary of Voltaire's death will
be celebrated Ia France and in this country
on the thirtieth instant.
The APPEAL, at fifteen cents week, is
taking the city by storm, and everybody in
| the city is taking the APPEAL.
Who will be United States marshal of
West Tennessee? is one of those things that
no fellow can find out-as yet.
The general assembly of the Presbyterian
church in the United States will meet at
Knoxville, Tennessee, tomorrow.
Tomorrow the picnic and concert given
for the benefit of St. Joseph church. in South
Memphis, will be held at Estival park.
The aggregate attendance at the public
schools of the city, white and colored, for
April, was three thousand two hundred and
seventeen.
The Shelby county circuit court has ad-
journed to Saturday next, when Judge Heis-
kell will sign the minutes and adjourn to
court In course.
The regular concert at Estival park, to
have taken place tonight Wednesday,, will
be postponed to Sunday on account of the un-
favorable weather.
There will be a meeting of the committee
of arrangements for unveIling the Confede-
rate monument held at Smith & Golfers
Office at noon to-day.
Heavy clothing and overcoats were seen
envelopiDg the chilly citizens yesterday. The
late sudden cold snap was anything but
healthy change of weather.
Those who steal flowers and plants at
Estival park, during the holding of plcnics,
had better desist or an example will be made
of them before a magistrate.
AT the chancery court Ida Washington
has filed bill for divorce against VIM. Wash
Ington, on the grounds of failure to support,
well and inhuman treatment.
The Odd Fellows Dramatic Association
will present the drama, Ten Nights in a Bar
Room, and the farce of Perfection, at the
Memphis Theater Friday night.
Owing to the bad and disagreeable
weather, the usual concert at Estival park,
which was advertised for tonight, has been
postponed to Sunday night next.
Many of the counties of West Tennessee,
and especially Shelby county, have become
shipped to all points north and east.
Fanny Oates has fled bill against
Harry Oates, in the chancery court, asking
for divorce on the ground of cruel and in
human treatment, abandonment, failure to
support, adultery, etc.
There will be thirteen offices to fill in
August next, and the census taker has taken
down the names of one hundred and thirteen
candidates, or eight and nine thirteenths can
didates to everv Office.
The committee of the German Lutheran
school picnic have resolved to repeat their en-
tertainment at Estival park some time early
in June. Tickets sold for Monday last will,
lie good on this occasion.
The Nashville american states: 1.-The
charter of the Bluff City insurance company
was registered by the secretary of state yes
terday. J. C. Nicely, NJ. Gavin, Jerome Hill,
J. F. Frank, David P. Hadden, w. A. Gage,