Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-01
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Arrests by the police were few and far
| between yesterday and last night.
The twenty-6rst of the present month
will be the longest day of the year.
The school-children of the city public
schools are enjoying summer vacation until
October once again.
The mercury in the thermometer at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon stood at eighty
eight degrees in the shade.
w. G. Crank, of Dyer Station, Gibson
county, West Tennessee, fled a petition in
the bankruptcy court yesterday.
Everything has been made ready for the
unwilling of the Confederate monument at
Elmwood, on Wednesday next.
The ladies of Teutonia lodge, No. %,
knights and Ladies of Honor, will picnic at
James park tomorrow, Sunday.
The Upton County Record says: "Wheat
is beginning to ripen and will be ready to cut
before many days. Corn is in the silk on
many farms"
We understand that the Helping Hand,
of the First Baptist church, expect to give
grand excursion on the thirteenth of June,
on board the James w. Calf.
The lady who made such a creditable
score at the shooting-stand at st. Bridget's
picnic yesterday, shows what little practice
of this sort can do for the fair sex.
The jurors summoned to appear at the
Shelby county circuit court on Monday next
will not be required to report in court until
the Monday following, the tenth instant.
Everybody transpIred and perspired on
Yesterday The word ''transpiration" means
lnsensible perspiration passing off like fluid
Or vapor through the excretories Of the skin.
AT the criminal court the trial of the case
of the State rs. Annie Raverly, colored, in
dictment for infantjcide, occupied the at
kap of no far.1o ha
further heard to-day.
On Tuesday night the residence of Mr..
NJ. Thompson, "a Monroe street, was entered
| by burglars and plundered of lot of table
ware, etc. The thief or thieves escaped with
| their booty undetected.
The Italian picnic at Estival park on
| Tuesday next will attract large attendance
| of citizens. Every arrangement has been
made to entertain all who attend and in a
most hospitable manner.
Whatever opinions may be held on the
| question, it is too late now to change Deco
| ration day at Elmwood, which will be duly
celebrated next W ednesday, as announced by
the committee of arrangements.
The Memphis and Shelby county delega-
ton to the Nashville judicial convention has
returned home, and Is explaining how the
convention turned out in nominations and
left Shelby county out in the cold.
III is lnIlmaI6u IDaJ WeIl-KnOWn 'SUrO0G
parties are getting hold of ''the property
meaning hog products at Chicago-in the
belief that the increased cost of manufacture,
| on account of the scarcity and high price of
ice, will in sixty days con6ne the business to
| Chicago.
THE Russians of To- Day is the title of
Harper Brothers Library No. 3-price ten
cents. Ralph WiltOns Weird, by Mrs. Alex
ander Christie johnson, by Charles Reade,
=, l.
copy, at Mansford's, corner Second and Mon
roe streets.
L. II. Harris was convicted yesterday, at
the United States court, on the charge of
passing counterfeit money. He was fined
one thousand dollars and costs, and the mar
shall was ordered to convey the prisoner to
the Crockett county Jail for imprisonment
until the fine and costs are paid.
Man is an animal of much curiosity. If
you stop for FIVE minutes in front of a store
| window, gaze up at the heavens or down
at your elbow looking as you do. He cannot
resist the temptation of endeavoring to see
or to lind out what you are looking at.
| "A reformed strawberry, says an ex-
| change, is wanted-ls necessary. Why don {
our fruit culturists grow variety of berry
| that will act fair and honest ?-not have all
the big ones crawl on top of the basket and
/ Tue llJIlc OucS nceOlc III lHc uOtlOIu. L VI tue
strong to rule over the weak is quite natural,
| however.
The case of the United States rs. Evans,
indicted for passing counterfeit money, was
heard yesterday before Judge Trigg, of the
United States court. The jury could not
agree, standing eleven to one, and had to be
discharged and mlstrial was entered 1t is
stated that the jury stood eleven for convic-
ton and one for acquittal.
The temperance meeting at the Green
law Operahouse last night was well attended.
A number of good speeches were made and
! about twenty were induced to sign the pledge.