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

H. NJ. James and g. A. Eckerly are the
names of the incorporators.
The case of the State rs. Henry Weaver
on a warrant charging the larceny of two
bales of cotton from the steamer Mark Twain,
has been continued for trial to next Monday
week before the recorder court.
The gospel meeting in the First Baptist
church last night was well attended, and the
results ell that the most sangUine could ex-
pect. There are three meetings to-day, and
baptism at the close of the night service.
The Memphis rifle club will assemble at
the range at Fort Pickering tomorrow after
noon, and will decide the contest for the Bal
lard mid-range rife, at four hundred yards
distance, off hand, at a regulation size target.
The case of the State rs. o. T. Jackson,
white, for malicious cutting, malicious tres
pass and assault and battery, was heard by
Recorder Quioley yesterday. The defendant
waived examination, and was committed to
jail.
Tomorrow night the complimentary
concert rendered to Mr.. w. 81. Gerstle will
take place at the Memphis club hall. num-
Der of our leading amateurs will appear In
the concert. A hop Will close the entertain
ment.
Friday next, at the Changers picnic and
barbecue, at the fair grounds, the Chicks and
the Grays will engage In a competitive drill
in the manual of arms. 1t will cost dollar
admission to witness the drill and participate
In the barbecue.
The Memphis law class intends holding
a jubilee at the close of the present session.
lecture will be delivered by Colonel CAN'T.
Members Of the bar are cordially invited to
attend the jubilee and closing exercises at
No. 8 Madison street.
The temperance meetings at the Green
law Operahouse continue to draw well. The
public interest in these meetings does not seem
to abate. Forty-six sieners to the pledge were
secured last night. At the meeting tonight
there will be concert given, and addresses
will be delivered. Everybody is invited.
Seats free.
On the Yazoo river, near Greenwood,
Mississippi, shooting alligators is now the
popular amusement. Says the Yazoo Valley
(Greenwood) Flag: "Sheriff Pillow killed
three alligators at his place below town last
week. The largest one was eleven feet long,
and was wont to while away its time by oc-
casionally carrying away two or three hun
dred pound hog. with as much ease as dog
would rabbit"
&C. M. (Mac) Williams, the escaping con-
vict, who fought the deputy sherifs out near
Olympic park few days since, has been in
dlcted by the grand jury of the criminal
court In four cases, charging assault with IN
tent to commit murder In the first degree.
1t will be recollected that he shot at and at
tempted to kill Deputy-Sheriffs Broadus,
Cannon, M 'Mahon and Powell.
Yesterday, at the county register office,
petition was filed for charter of the San
lgnatio mining and manufacturing compa-
ny. The incorporators are B. F. Fly, +. r.
Lanier, Isaac Saffarans, w. B. Waldran, J.
G.. Griffng. The charter is for the purpose
of working gold and silver mines in the Uni
ted States and the States of Mexico. The
capital stock shall be fifty thousand shares or
five million dollars; shares of fifty dollars
each.
Mike White, who was lynched at Hunts
vile not long ago, had on his life an insurance
policy of ten thousand dollars at the time of
his death. The insurance company has en-
tered suit against Madison county, in which
the tragedy was enacted, for the full amount
of bis policy. Whatever the result may be,
it will involve the county in an expensive
lawsuit, which may last for years, as the in
suranee company will, no doubt, make des-
perate fight to gain its point.
The following business was transacted at
the criminal court yesterday: Abby Childress
and Dick Taylor, colored. were placed on
trial on an Indictment charging assault with
intent to kill. The jury was impaneled, and
the case will be further heard to-day. The
petit and grand Jurors were discharged yes
terday for the term, except the jurors en-
present term of court will probably close on
Friday next. The May term of court will
commence On Monday next, the twentieth in
slant.
At the Shelby county circuit court on
Saturday, in the case of Fl. E. Jackson as. the
city of Memphis, judgment for six hundred and
ninety-two dollars and ninety cents and costs,
petition was filed by plaintiffs attorney
asking that the city be required to show what
it has done toward obeying writ of peremp-
tory mandamus ordering to levy a tax and
collect the judgment in said case, or the bal
ance thereof-four hundred and fifteen dollars
and twenty-four cents; and why it has not
obeyed the same fully, and that rule issue
requiring it to appear in court on the first
day of next term, and show cause, if any it
has, why an alias writ of mandamus should
not issue under the said Judgment, and why
an additional tax sufficient to pay the said
judgment should not be levied forthwith, COL
lected and paid over as required by the said
writ