Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-12

of music will be in attendance. Refresh
meuts furnished on the trips and on the
grounds at city prices. Special officers have
been appointed who Will see that order and
decorum shall be observed. Judges: John
Donovan, Stack Lee and P J. Kelly. Re
ferees: j. K. Miller, Stack Lee, Joe Cook and
Joe Wetter.
How to be buried is a matter of grave
Importance to many people. Some prefer
cremation, others metallic case; many like
a wooden coffin, while few prefer soldier
grave In mother earth, with a martial shroud
around them. Piny states that the cothn IN
among the Romans was generally OF
stone. In some cases 1t was made OF GER
tain stone from district In Iroas, which had,
or was believed to have, the peculiar faculty
of destroying all the body, the teeth excepted,
in forty DAYS Hence the name 'sarco-
phagus, ;" which literally means f1esh-eater.
List Of undelivered kilograms remain
ing at the Western Union telegraph otfce,
No. SO Madison street:
NJ. B. Trezeyant. Mrs S. E. Crosby.
James GLIB, d. L. Love,
R. G. Dunn Co, Mrs. w: F. Bowder
z p Ieake David HeukiI,
Hon. Jacob Thompson. A. N. Scarborough Co..
b. Wetter L Co. V. s. B. Crowley,
n Schwartzenbetg A. N. Arzeno,
Gor m te & Irrelevant, Laeroix & schiilIng,
James IL Paine f. n. Ellis,
Chickasaw Iron Works, J: H. Wallace,
NJ. Gavin & Co., Battelle Co..
Genl Passenger Agent ID. and L. R. r. Co.
AT the criminal court yesterday the fol-
lowing business was transacted: John Null
Inns, larceny, jury and verdict of not guilty.
c. NJ Williams, malicious shooting, convicted
and sentenced to two years imprisonment IN
the penitentiary Bill Watkins, petit larce-
nv, convicted and sentenced to thirty days
imprisonment in the county jail Frank ID.
Frank, petit larceny, convicted and sentenced
to sixty days imprisonment In the county
Jail. Jake Bell, petit larceny, convicted and
sentenced. Bletcher Hardin, petit larceny,
plea of guilty entered, jury and verdict OF
guilty, and sentenced to six months impris-
onment, but sentence suspended during good
behavior, and defendant discharged. The
following convicted prisoners were sent down
to the county workhouse last evening: Belle
Watkins, Charles johnson, A. Stewart, Jake
Bell, Frank d. Frank and Henry Jones.
The supreme lodge of the Knights of
Honor, of the United States, will meet at
Nashville on Tuesday next. Says the Ame''i-
can: 1.-The committee on secret work have
been in the city several days, and are en-
gagged in preparing new ritual, which is to
be- submitted at this meeting. The lodge
will be called to order at ten o'clock Tues
day morning by its supreme dictator, J. A.
Eye, of Greenburg, Pennsylvania, and Its
session Will be held IN the hail on the third
floor of the Masonic temple. There will be
about one hundred and ten delegates in at
tendance, and every State except five will be
represented. The following compose the
committee of reception, appointed by the
grand lodge of Tennessee at its recent ses-
sion: James D. Porter, Thomas A. Kirche-
val, F. Smithson, John w. Childress, jr.,
John Frizzell, J. NJ. Barnes, S. A. Duling, R.
r. Caldwell and James l.. Gaines. Governor
Porter, on behalf of the committee, will de-
liver the address of welcome at the barbe
cue."
The following Is the mortuary report for
the week ending at SIX o'clock Saturday,
May 18th: