Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-06
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

This is motion day at the chancery court.
The Washington street variety theater
is IN full blast nightly.
Uncle Tom s Cabin at the Theater again
tonight, and at the matinee on tomorrow.
-ForepaugA's great circus and mena-
gerie will be on the bluff on Monday next.
The business streets are crowded now-a-
days by strangers and others making pur-
chases of goods for the Christmas holidays.
The wedding and party invitations daily
sent out from one of our most prominent
printing houses, ref Gets no little credit upon
Tracy.
In another column will be found the a1-
vertisement as to the sale or rent of the
Memphis cotton gin, with the champion and
Avery gins, engines, etc.
The Knights of Honor have arranged for
the payment of forty. eight thousand dollars,
assessments on the death-benefts : of the
members who fell in the great Memphis
plague of 1873.
The rays of the summer sun are cooled
by the winds from Omaha. Overcoats could
have been worn yesterday without lDconve-
nience, even though it might have looked a
little off from the season.
American AgyicuitlriSt, Southern Cul-
tiUdfOr, Country Gentleman, for December;
LeSlie's Sunday Magazine. for January;
Seaside, Lakeside and Franklin Square Ii
brGyies, at Mansford's, corner Second and
Monroe.
DIR. Gus Thornton, of the city hospital,
yesterday amputated the foot OF tramp who
attempted to steal ride on the Little Rock
railroad, near the depot. He slipped and
fell. the wheels Of one car running over and
crushing his foot IN terrible manner. The
patient is doing well.
"A man from Humboldt, Tennessee, and
who had his foot badly mashed by the wheels
of a railroad car, reached the city yesterday
and was conveyed to our city hospital. Dr.
ThorDtoD, hospital physician, dressed the
wound, not deeming it Necessary at the pres
ent time to amputate the foot.
Yesterday Bill Lattimer, colored, who
shot at several colored people at picnic in
May last, and who escaped from the station
house some time afterward, but who was re-
captured, was tried before Recorder Quigley
and was committed to Jail on two warrants
charging shooting with intent to commit
murder. The parties shot at were George
Brooks and Young Houston, both colored.
VIM. Quinn, constable Of the fifth civil
district, has commenced an Injunction suit IN
the chancery court, asking for an Injunction
to epiuin Recorder Quigley from turning over
officers fees to Special Deputy-She NJ.
Garvin, who is acting as officer of the record
er's court Constable Quinn claims that such
a duty and all fees should be his, ard he
seeks by bill of Injunction to secure what he
regards as his legal offi1lal rights.
AT the Shelby county circuit court,
Saturday, the case of Fleming as. the City
was on trial before Judge Pierce. The suit
is for 6ftecn hundred dollars damages, al
legged to have been suffered by Mr.. Fleming
from injury caused his property on Main
street, near the Mississippi and Tennessee
depot, by sewer built by the city across
Nam street at that point. Mr.. Edgington
and MIR. Charley Frayser appeared for the
plaintiff, and City-Attorney Heiskell for the
defendant.
"A few light cases occupied the attention
of Judge Ray. of the criminal court, yester-
day. Judge Ray is bringing order out Of
chaos in criminal court matters, and is get
ting everything in ship-shape for the coming
criminal campaign. The clerks office, pre-
sided over by General A. J. Vaughan and
his accomplished deputy-clerk, Dick Capers,
is being conducted Ia good business style.
With the aid of the judge and the clerk the
criminal court is moving along in a satisfac-
tory manner.
The first city paper that has met with a
customer in this market was sold yesterday.
1t was FIVE thousand dollars of "Memphis
compromise bonds" and sold at the rate of
ffty-three cents on the dollar. County scrip
is readily taken, but the gas stock that was
inquired after so eagerly last summer has
met with an Edison obstruction, a species of
electric shock, and Is terribly demorailzed,
more SO, in fact, than circumstances warrant,
and the probability is that the present
"weakness in gas" will pass by.
-EDITORs APPEAL-Probably more than
four-iitths of the county taxes are paid on
property in Memphis. We know that much
OF this money is expended in buildiL e bridges
and repairing roads in the county outside of
the city. The streets and bridges In the city
are badly IN need Of repairs. The property
holders IN the city are interested In seeing a
proper proportion of this revenue expended
in the city for the benefit of their property.
Will the financial agent OF the county state if
any of the county revenue is expended on
roads or bridges in the city; if so, how much
and in what proportion to the amount ex-
pended in the country? Respectfully, L.
Yesterday Recorder Quigley issued a
warrant sworn out by John Aste against Mrs.
Hovey, charging her with stealing a lot of
candy, tobacco, cigars, etc. The hearing OF
the case was continued until to-day, and the
witnesses were sent before the grand jury to
give testimony, etc. Mrs. Hovey was COM
mitted to jail. r. Bertschy also swore cut a |
warrant against Mrs. RoveY and her daugh- |
ter, Susan Hovey, charging them with house |
breaking. Two search-warrants were sworn |
,ut by Messrs. Aste and Bertscby, and lot |
Of the stolen property was recovered. The |
property was found at the residence of the |
% Avery street. 1t was stolen |
Turing the yellow fever months from the
Prosecutors, who reside on Main street, near
iayoso.
The following extract from the Bulletin
# the Public, issued by Surgeon General
ohm NJ. Woodwork, of the marine hospital
ervlce, for the week ending November 23d,
viii be read with interest: at is advised
hat during the coming winter all the rooms
n every dwelling in the cities and towns
which have suffered from yellow-feFer, should
70 opened to the outer air for sufficient
ength of time TO subject them to freezing
Carpets, bedding, clothing,
runks, etc., should be exposed to the open