Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-18
OLIVER, FINNIE & co
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

| Hot, hotter, hottest, is the way it in
creases daily.
Even the courts of record have sue
cumbed to the heated atmosphere.
The river at this point is declining rapid
| ly owing to the general drought up north and
out west.
| The heated atmosphere makes the polit-
| ical campaign a severe one to candidates and
| stump-speakers.
The Democrats of the sixth ward had a
! grand rally last night on the corner of Main
and Pontotoc streets.
On the bluff, tomorrow night, Hon.
Casey Young will address his fellow citizens
on national and local politics.
Yesterday, and up to one o'clock last
night, but one arrest was made by the police,
and that was for drunkenness.
Ice is now two cents pound. It sold at
one cent pound last season. The present
weather is the ice dealers harvest.
Old "Probs" does not offer any relief as
| yet. He still talks about clear weather, sta
tionary temperature or higher pressure.
The political canvass Is warming up
gradually as election day draws near It has
not kept pace with the weather, however.
Six thousand dollars of Charleston rail-
| road first mortgage bods were sold on Madi-
IL.
above par.
BY the time the first of August draws
near, but two tickets will be IN the field, the
| Democratic aud the combined National Re-
| publican ticket.
| The river excursion and concert on board
the steamer Vint Shinkle tonight, for the
benefit of Mrs. Rose P. Thompson, will be
most entertaining.
"A Democratic picnic and barbecue was
| given on Nonconnah creek, fernando road
| yesterday. 1t was well attended and the
| speakers were listened to with attention.
Vegetable gardens in this vicinity need
rain, but the big corn and cotton crops of the
country can do without it for some time The
hot weather p,eases the planters immensely.
-Milliner and Dressmaker. ReUieao de la
| Mode, DemOrest, Frank Leslie GOdey and
| Peterson. All the above ladies fashion mag
azines for August at Mansford's, corner of
Second and Monroe streets.
On Tuesday last two heavy thunder
| storms, with rains passed over the country
between here and Little Rock, Arkansas The
storms produced the little GOODNESS which
was felt here on Sunday night.
Owing to the intense heat, the trotting
races, advertised for to-day, had to be post
poned. Thursday next the great mule-race
and the trottlng races for the benefit of the
orphans of the city will come off.
The Sodallty dramatic association will
present the beautiful drama of Parted at
their hall on Washington street Friday night,
the twenty-sixth instant, for the benefit of
the sisters of st. Agnes academy.
Captain S. S. Garrett, the nominee of
the Republican and National combination for
county trustee, has Withdrawn from the can
vass. This leaves the field open for square
race between Fleece and Rawlings.
AT seven o'clock yesterday evening a
| burning fiue liz a tenement house occupied by
colored people, at s. Third street, near the
Louisville depot, created fire alarm. The
fire was extinguished before any damage
! was done.
Tonight a Democratic rally will take
| place In the seventh ward, at Solari's corner
corner of Beale street and Memphis and
Charleston railroad cruising. Good speakers
| will be In attendance to address the people
upon the issues of the day.
The temperance movement in this city
| has about suspended for the present, hut
when cool weather shall have come in the
autumn season the Murphyites promise to
hobble to the front and renew the war on
King Alcohol, Prince Gambrinus and their
followers.
The Big Hatchie Baptist association meets
with the church at Big Creek, two miles from
| Lucy station on Saturday. July 9th. This is
the association of the sixty churces in West
| Tennessee, and the next session is the Jubilee
meeting, fifty years having elapsed since its
| organization.
Yesterday the recorder sent Thos Cowan,
youth of eleven years of age, to Jail for at
| tempting to break into the candy mauufactory
of j. T. Frost & Co., on Shelby street. This
| youthful burglar has committed several rob-
berries of late, and there was no other alter
native but TO punish him.
Last night at lodge No. 4, |. o. w. NJ,
the following officers were installed by Ben
K. Pullen, who oficiated as installing officer:
John D. Adams, president; D. A. M'Omber,
vice-president; z. B. Jones, secretary; J. w.
Brush, treasurer; ID. C. Trader, chaplain; j.
c. Thrall, conductors w. R. Sims, inner
guardian.
There will be basket picnic on Friday,
July 18Th, at Magee's springs, which is easily
accessible to the second, third, fourth, sixth
and seventeenth civil districts. A large
crowd of the friends of the candidates. as
we'll as ladies, are expected. Willis Neal
will furnish a splendid barbecued dinner for
thirty five cents.
The intense heat is the only thing that
Is talked about. 1t has taken possession of
the city, and interferes materially with bust
ness. People are afraid to remain long out
in the sunshine, the coup de soleH beng on
the war path unting victims. Citizens
should take the utmost care of themselves
until the hot spell of weather Is over and all
danger Is removed.
AT the sixth ward Democratic meeting
held last night, on the corner of Main and
and Pontotoc streets, about four hundred cit
liens were present Fine speeches were
made by Colonel Luke W. Finlay, Major
George b. Winchester, Elk Mayor John John
SOD, and others. The speeches were able,
ana had good effect. The sixth ward is SOL
id for the Democratic ticket in August.
Our reporter learned late last night that
Mr.. Ed Oliver, son-in-law of Mr.. A. J.
White, and employer at the carriage factory
warehouse OF Woodruff & Co., was Frustrated
by the heat yesterday afternoon. Medical
aid was at once summoned and proper stimu-
lants were administered. Last night he
was asleep and resting easy at the store of
Woodruff d Co., and viii be removed to his
home to-day. He will recover.
The Nationalist and Republicans held
fandango meeting last night at the corner of
Second and Adams. About two hundred |
white and colored citizens were in attendance |
Charles Kortrecht, Mr.. Harris, of German
town; Frank Cassels, colored, and a colored !
man named Porter made speeches. Mr.. |
Kortrecht labored nard to convince everybody |
that he had never affiliated with the corrupt |
and vile Radical party Of Memphis and Shell |
by county.
The Memphis library is indebted to the
liberalIty of Captain James Cleary, of the fire
department, for splendid octagonal center