Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-16
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Clear weather once again. So says the
| slgnal-servlce observer.
st. Joseph's church picnic will be held at
Estival park to-day and tonight
| The May terms of the criminal and Shell
| by county circuit courts will commence next
Monday.
| Among the patents recently granted to
| 1ennesseans was one to j. Flaherty, % Mem
phls, for corpse cooler.
| The city sanitary force. under the direc-
ton of the health officer, DR.. Erskine, Is en-
gagged In cleansing the alleys of the city.
The Memphis opera club, Prof Wink
Ter director, will appear at Little Rock, Ar
kansas, next Monday and Tuesday nights.
The belief is increasing that there will
be an average yield OF wheat in this State this
year, notwithstanding the rust and the cold
| rams.
The Zouaves, colored military organi-
ton, paraded on Main street yesterday, and
marched out to Humboldt park to indulge in
| picnic.
Clio festival at Buntyn station tonight
will be the most recherche affair of the sea-
son. The public are cordially invited TO at
tend. Admission free.
Nearly all the Memphians who have left
Tor Europe this spring have taken passage on
the lnman line steamers, purchasing tickets
from Mr.. Thomas Fisher, at the Emmet
bank.
The Press association of Mississippi will
hold its annual convention, at Vicksburg, on
the fifth OF June. By invitation of the last
convention, Mrs. Lide Meriwether, of Mem
phis, will read poem.
The Louisville C0m-ie1-Journal, of the
fourteenth instant, says: Memphis is dis
posed to recognize Miss Kate Hartman in the
light of another Mary Anderson" The Louis
vile scribbler is correct.
Tomorrow night the Odd-Fellows dra-
matte association will give a perfol nance at
the Memphis Theater, on which occasion
Ten Nights IN q BdrR0OBl and Perfection
will be presented with strong casts.
C. w. Burrows commenced damage
suit for ten thousand dollars in the Shelby
county circuit court, yesterday, against the
city of Memphis, mayor and aldermen, gen
eral council and John X. Fippin, mayor.
The exchange-hunting and reading iend
continues to haunt the APPEAL editorial
rooms. He requires more waiting upon than
a pair of twin babies of tender age. Some
people can never see themselves as others see
them.
Wherever an excavation or the building
oil cellar Is progressing, you can;always dis
cover dozen or more idle and curious men
and boys standing around watching the
laborers at work, but they never catch the
working disease
r rom CofeeVllle, Mississippi, subscriber
TO the APPEAL comes the news that in that
section of country corn is looking well, the
stands OF cotton are good, and a good deal of
cotton is chopped out, but that the wheat
crop Is not good.
back Iax-Co Schaper collected
eight thousand dollars from a welI-known
citizen, on Tuesday last, on property which |
had become delinquent under a former owner.
II would he good thing for the city if more |
transfers Of the kind were made.
The benefit rendered 10 Mr.. Gerstle by a |
number OF his musical friends and admirers |
Will come OIL To- night at the Memphis club |
hall. dance will follow the concert, and a |
pleasant time may be- expected by those who |
intend participating IN the amusements.
-Estival park is open every afternoon and |
night free, except concert nights and when
rented TO other parties. On concert nights
the gates will be closed al seven o'clock in
the evening TO free visitors. In going to the
park take yellow or green car. The price of