Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-23
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The Milahs will render a slde-splitting
play for the benefit of the orphans tonight.
Candidates for office can be found nu-
merous at picnlcs during the present season.
The crop of squirrels in the woods of the
surrounding country is quite large this sea-
son.
The Bluff City Grays sleep at their armo-
ry every night. The Chicks" sleep at their
homes.
The circulation of the APPEAL has in
creased wonderfully since the price was put
down to fifteen cents week.
Up to twelve o'clock last night the sta
tionhouse docket failed to furnish an item of
interest to the press reporters.
The police docket, thanks to the Murphy
movement continues to furnish but few
drunken items to the press reporters.
-Procs. Arnold's and Handwerker's bands
will discourse beautiful music at the Milan
entertainment tonight, at Estival park.
Fishing is quite good at present in the
lakes and bayous of Arkansas and Missis-
slppi. The fish bite well, SO do the mos
quitoes.
Ladies and gentlemen having tickets for
sale to the Milan entertainment will please
report at once to Mr.. Morris Samuels, No. 1873
Main street.
Captain T. B. Edgington will act as
special chancellor of the chancery court to-
day, rice Chancellor Morgan, who is absent
from the city.
DO not hesitate about giving what you
are able toward the great Fourth of July
exhibition. Our city will be crowded with
people on that day.
There will be picnic given by the la
dies of Teutonia lodge, No. Is, Knights and
Ladies of Honor, at James park on Sunday,
the second proximo.
You could not spend your money in a
worthier cause than attending the Mllah en-
tertainment tonight, at Estival park, for the
benefit of the orphans.
The State judicial convention will be
held at Nashville on Wednesday next, the
twenty ninth instant. Delegates had better
make their arrangements to attend.
A few drops of rain fell yesterd ay fore
noon, out not sufficient to cool the heated at
mosphere, which was Indicated as up among
the eighties and approaching the ninety
point.
To-day the police and iremen receive a
month pay, sixty-Ive dollars, from the city.
Their creditors are on the lookout fer dl-
vision. Four months pay Is still due these
employees.
Augusta (Ark.) Bulletin, 18th: "The
cool nights Of the past week have done great
injury to cotton and young corn. The wheat
crop is almost failure in some portions of
the county"
A VGgabond Heroine, by Mrs. Annie
Edwards, and Windsor Castle, by Harrison
Ainsworth, ten cents each. Mansford can
sell you, for ten cents, Victor Hugo's History
Of a Crime.
The National party, erected on the ruins
of the Workingmen's party of this city, will
soon put county ticket in the field, Matched
forth, cut and dried, from the secret conclave
of the central committee.
The APPEAL is indebted to Senator Isham
G. Harris for volume six of the Congressional
Record. containing the proceedings of the spe-
clal session of the senate and the first session
of the forty-6fth congress in 1877.
Last night two white women engaged in
free fight on the corner of Jackson and
Third streets. After scratching and pounding
each other for some time they were sepafa-
ted. No arrests were made at the time.
-Vicksburg Commercial, Doth: "Dr. Por-
ter, who killed Isaac Domy, of Utica, about
two weeks ago, and for which he was tried
and acquitted, has suddenly disappeared with