Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-09
OLIVER, FINNIE & CO
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The school board viii meet again on
Monday evening.
The st. Patrick's church river excursion
will tak3 place tomorrow night.
The general council meets at the city
hall at three o'clock this afternoon.
The rain yesterday afternoon postponed
the chamber of commerce meeting one hour.
The different courts of record did light
business yesterday, nothing of public impor-
lance transporting therein.
Last Sunday night John Garner, an
escaped penitentiary convict, seVenty-eight
years old, was arrested in this city by the
police.
The damage suit of Welsh us. Snyder
was called up yesterday in the Shelby county
circuit court, but was continued for trial to
the next term of court.
The condition of the streets is bad enough,
but the condition of the sidewalks is perfectly
horrible, and in hundreds of localities dam
gerous to life and limb.
The new and beautiful club hall at Bun
tyn station will be opened on Wednesday
night for the presentation of the drama,
Miriams Crime, which will be followed by
hop.
"A lamp explosion last Sunday morning
caused the street-car companys stables on
Main street, near Beale, to catch fire. The
FIRE was extinguished before any damage re-
suited.
The Sunday night concerts at Estival
park have been discontinued for the season,
but the Wednesday night concerts will take
place as usual. The new arrangement will
be inaugurated on to morrow, Wednesday.
The Roane baseball club of Chatta
nooga won the Fourth of July premium of
one hundred dollars, defeating clubs from
Nashville, Knoxville, Cleveland and Hunts
vile. They are now talking about visiting
this city to defeat the Riyersides.
-Rumor has it that large number of
workingmen VINO had been induced to join the
Nationals, now that the National party has
been sold out by its leaders to the Republicans
and Radicals, will hold mass meeting and
put out a workingman's party ticket for
county Offices.
The heavy squat, thunder and rain
storm from the west by south, yesterday af-
ternoon at three o'clock, was very refreshing
to humanity as we'll as to other animals. The
parched and thirsty earth drank up the rain
rapidly, and felt correspondingy more life
like and fruitful.
Last Saturday eight arrests were made
by the police, and on Sunday but two arrests
were made. Yesterday, up to dark, three
arrests were made. All these arrests were for
offenses of a minor character. Up to one
meanors were made.
The moonlight excursion on the steamer
City of Augusta, under the auspices of a
number of ladies and gentlemen of st. Pat
rick church, comes off Wednesday night, the
tenth instant The boat leaves the foot of
Monroe street at eight clock. Tickets, fifty
cents; for sale at Mansford's.
AT the rooms of the Bluff City rowing
association, at Tom 0'Sulliyan's, 189 Main
street, a meeting of the boat boys viii be held
tonight for the purpose of making arrange
ments to give a regatta for the benefit of the
Bluff City club whose boat, the Katie Podes-
ia. was destroyed by the burning of the ele-
vator and Capitol City last week.
Last Sunday afternoon the funeral SER
vices over the remains of the late Major VIII
o. Woodson were conducted at st. Lazarus
Episcopal church, Madison street, Rev. DR..
Charles Parsons being assisted by Rev. DR..
George L. Stainback, of the Court street
Cumberland Presbyterian church. There was
large attendance of ex-Confederates and
friends OF the lamented dead. whose life and
services will not be soon forgotten. At Elm
wood cemetery large crowd witnessed the
closing ceremonies, and the remains of viii
o. Woodson were laid to rest beneath the
sods of the valley. May he rest in peace.
Last week school-teacheF named John
Pierce, from Dyersburg, Tennessee, who was
teaching school near Llntwood, Missouri, on
the Mississippi river, was assassinated by a
man named Holm, notorious character,
under the following circumstances: Holm
rode mule to the schoolhouse, and carried
off little girl mile, and frightened her
almost out of her wits Pierce took the child
from Holm, and drove him away. Later in
the day Holm came back, and made an
assault ON Pierce. who whipped him severely.
Next day, as Pierce was returning from
s'nool, he was shot and killed from the
bushes by some one in ambush. Holm was
arrested, and made partial confession. AS
the steamer John B. Maude passed down on
Saturday, the citizens threatened to take
Holm out of the Jail and lynch him.