Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-10
OLIVER, FlNNIE & CO
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

| Tomorrow three weeks will be county
| election day.
| The general council did but little bust
/ ness yesterday.
| Now is the time to repair the streets, al
/ eys and sidewalks
| The poisoned and dead dog continues tt
| smell and rot on the streets.
Turner is well named. Webster define,
| the word as lone who tuIns."
Judge Logwood, of the criminal court
| discharged the petit jury yesterday morning
An effort is making to get up another
big regatta, to come off at Mound City bend
The Shelby County medical society meets
at eight o'clock tonight. Important bust
ness.
The next grand sensation will be mule
| race at Olympic park for the benefit of all the
| orphans.
Every Democrat should attend the big
| rally on the bluff tonight, and listen to the
| speakers.
The late warm rains have turned loose
| nyriads of mosquitoes and swarms of cin.ea
| iecfulariuS.
More talk about scratching tickets i;
| heard at present than was ever heard at any
! prior election.
The ferryboat John Overton was flying
around the river on one wheel yesterday, the
other having been taken off for repairs.
Are you Democrat, Nationalist, ar
Independent, or a Republican? is the ques-
ton of the day often heard on the streets.
The last of the Memphiaus from Louis.
| vile is yet detailing to gaping crowds how
| Mollie III earthly was beaten by Tenbroeck.
AT the fifth ward, last night, the Ma.
hoA n
at which their heavy speakers haran9ued the
| crowd.
An air of desolation pervades the city
hall every afternoo on. "Its echoes and its
| empty tread, but sound like voices from the
dead"
The "Chicks" and the ''Bluffs" were out
drilling on the streets last night, stepping to
the music of ''left-left-ief-le," etc, as
enumerated by the orderly sergeant.
The general council met yesterday after
noon and, after transacting some business,
adjourned over to the next regular meeting
the first Wednesday IN August next.
Eight tramps were arrested by the police
early yesterday morning on the charge of
sleeping out. They were fined five dollars
each yesterday morning by the recorder.
1t is rumored that Judge Scruggs and Mr..
George B. Fleece, who were nominees on the
National ticket before the sell-out to the Rad
lcals, will now run as independent candi-
dates.
Many Memphians who witnessed the big
horse-race at Louisville took In the Mammoth
cave, of Kentucky, on their way home. The
cave, they say, was bigger thing than was
the race.
The Radical National party men are hard
at work in the different wards, and the can
didates of that party ate electoneerinc with
vim and energy. The Democratic candidates
should wake up.
The men of color are taking a lively IN
terest In the approaching county election.
Wherever or whenever two or three of them
meet, the subject of the August election is
the theme up for discussion.
"A mule locomotive of the street car broke
loose on Poplar, near Oileans street, yesterday
afternoon, and ran up Poplar and out Main
at pace never experienced by that ere mule
during its street-car experience.
Tonight on the bluff grand rally by
the Democracy will be held. The speakers
will be Judge L. W. Brown, Attorney Cen
eral Wright, Hon. Casey Young. Judge Ell
lett. Colonel CAN'T and Hon. J. w. Clapp.
Memphis is one of the quetest cities on
Occasionally midsummer fight takes place,
which usually winds up after the first round,
with no material damage done on either side
The Memphis driving association takes
this method OF returning thanks to Mr.. Her.
bert Landrum, of the ADalanche, for furnish
ing the association with the first news of
the result of the Louisville races on the fourth.
The temperance meetings will be con-
tnued every Tuesday night, at the building
on Union street, between Third and DaSoto,
rendered by the Congregationalists All are
cordially invited. Good singing and speak
ing.
-GOdey's and PeterSOn'S Fashion Maqa-
zines, for August North american Rerieto,
fer July and August; new novels, new Sea-
SIDES, and class of cheap reading for the
summer, at Mansford's, corner Second and
Monroe.
Ed Shaw has become the skeleton in the
closet of the AralaHche. Shaw is too indie
pendent for the so-called independent Jour-
nal. Yesterday Shaw received many COM
pilments on his exposure of the AUGIdHchidH
style of wire-pulling IN Republican and Ma
tonal party politics.
The amalgamation of the Grads" with
the Nationalist was the subject of conversa-
! m On the streets yesterday 1t was gener-
al asserted that the union had DESTROYED the
tlonal party IN this portion of the world,
~ professions of purity and independence be-
ing discovered to be bogus and fraudulent
The recorder had Will Gardner, colored.
before him yesterday on the charge of as
partner OF his joys and sorrows. The re-
corder, who does not approve of wlfe-whip-
ping, lined Gardner twenty-five dollars, and
put him under a bond of FIVE hundred dol
lars.
DETECTION in the National ranks is de-
yeloping daily among the white workingmen.
They deDounce the central committee for
selling them out to the coored Radicals for
the sake of Office, and threaten to vote the
Democratic ticket and repudiate Jim H. An
dersoD, who took care of himself in the
scramble after nominations.
AT the county registers Office, yesterday.
h. Carver, John d Milburn, Charles H. !
NJ Donegal, Ben Richmond, Thos H. Milburn |
and w. L. Cole for the purpose of organizing |
the Carver gin and machine company, for |
the purpose of manufacturing cotton gins, /
ton-presses, cotton seed linters, etc.
On Saturday last at Bartlett, meeting !
was held for the purpose of selecting a cam |
dldate for constable on the Democratic ticket. |
The candidates were r. S. Oglesby, William |
Ward and X. c. Bartlett After fortv-fve |
ballots were had r. c. Bartlett was nominated J
under the wO-thirds rule, and the nomiua-
ton was made unanimous, after which the |
meeting adjourned.
We suggest to the Democratic executive
that at the rally on the bluff. to
night. proper provision in the shape of a ia
bic, chairs and light for reporters should be
made, so that the proceedings can be report
ed accurately. This Is too often neglected
by the gentlemen having charge of such