Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-17

matinee will also be given Saturday; admis-
sion TO all parts of the house, twenty-five
cents.
The devotees of the skating-rink have
but to-day, tonight and tomorrow matinee
in which to enjoy their favorite and most
night is attractive, and the matinee to-mor-
row afternoon will, of course, be attended by
an immense crowd of the old and young Of
both sexes. Messrs. Levy & Ferguson deserve
a rousinR attendance at these final events.
Says the Paris CTenn. Tnteliigencer, 18th
instant: "On last Friday night Andrew
Harris, the very polite and efficient deputy
collector of revenue IN this district, captured
two stills in the northeastern part of this
county, of the capacity of one hundred gall
Ions each. Neither of the stills were regis
tered, and when found were in a swamp on
the lands of Mr.. Lee Haws, where an illicit
distillery had previously been destroyed"
Brownsville TENN States, 18th: eve
regret to learn that Ernest Taliaferro. son OF
Charles Taliaferro, ESQ, was accidentally
shot yesterday, while carelessly handling a
pistol. Drs. Willie Ware and j. h. Howell
were called IN to attend the case. The ball en-
tered near the groin, and has not yet been
extracted. Tie wound is not regarded as
dangerous, though quite severe.
THE Porter Rifles" says the Nashville
Banner, "have been invited to participate in
grand competitive drill, which will occur IN
st. Louis, next October. Three prizes Will
be awarded to the victors, in battalion and
company drills, the FIRST amounting to seven
hundred and fifty dollars, the second to three
hundred dollars, and the third to two hum
dred dollars"
-Senatobia Miss Tidal Ware, 18th
1--WE learn that terrible accident happened
to the little daughter of Mr.. w. H. May, liv-
c.. IL. n
tie boy, while playing in trunk, picked up
a pistol, and pointing il at his little sister
pulled the trigger. The pistol went of, and
the ball passed through the little girls tenn
pie, from which she died on the following
night"
AT the chancery court Lethe Gilmore has
filed bill for divorce against John Gilmore,
alleging that they intermarr1ed in 1875, but
had to leave said Gilmore in 1875, owing to
his cruel and inhuman treatment, He beat
her two weeks after marriage, and spanked
her as he would a child, and with a rattan
cane, until she nearly tainted. After that he
whipped her with bundles of switches many
times. The parties are colored people. Lethe
prays for divorce, and that she be restored
to her maiden name, Lethe Andrews.
The drill in the manual of arms, which
will come off at the Fair grounds on the
twenty-fourth instant, next Friday, between
the Chickasaw Guards and Bluff City Grays,
is already creating some excitement and in
terest. Several hundred dollars have already
been put up by sporting men on the result,
with odds in favor of the Chicks" Yester-
day the hackers of the Chicks were hedg-
ing little, the result of the contest being
somewhat doubtful. The contest will be very
close, and no man can now tell what the re-
suit will be. The Bluff City Gray's stock is
going up rapidly.
There has been some internal troubles in
the Murphy camp between the lecturers,
singers, and their respective followers. The
Murphyites divided on the issue and steady
fight was made on the Prosser-Llncoln i'm
broglIo, but the row was settled by getting
rid of all the parties, and peace, sweet, gentle
peace, which recognizes no backbiting,
reigns once again in cold-water temperance
circles. The brethren should dwell in unity
and harmony, and leave the slandering and
lighting to whisky drinking circles. The
Murphyites should beware, or else they will
either get wrecked on the rocks of Scylla or
engulfed in the whirlpool of Charybdis,
should they allow themselves to enter local
politics in behalf of office-seeking Murphy
ties who have axes to grind under the red
ribbon.
In the suit of w. L. Duff rs. the city of
Memphis, an action seeking the aid of the
chancery court to compel the city to transfer
on its books certain Indebtedness known as
ledger balances, amounting to about twenty
five hundred dollars, sold to the Manhattan
bank and by the bank transferred to w. L.
Duff, the city interposed its demurrer en-
bodying various defenses, and claiming set
off in the shape of taxes due it from said
Duff. The chancellor overruled the demur-
rer, holding the paper to be an Indebtedness
of the city, put on the market as commercial
paper by custom and the organic law of the
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and cannot disturb the title. and must show
notice to the party of It's claim, and is now
estopped by its acts and declarations. Decree
accordingly. The city declines to answer or
make further defense. The transfer will be
made and costs adjudged against the city.