Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-05
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LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The absentees continue to return.
An the courts of record are IN session at
present.
Judge Eldridge is holding circuit court
at Bartlett.
The gasliQht all over town last night was
| dim and horrible.
Uncle Toms Cabin will be the theatre
cal attraction tonight.
Members of the Grocers' union, read
the notice in another column.
-Forepaugh's great circus ard menagerie
will camp on the bluff next Monday.
The Amos variety operahouse on WASH
ington street continues to be crowded nightly.
The cotton exchange committee on flax
bagging, ETC., will meet and investigate to-
day.
Cool, bracing days and nights are en-
ioyed at present by residents and strangers
in Memphis.
If any circulation is increasing more
rapidly than that of the APPEAL it is yet to
be heard from.
There's another good man gone
wrong" Is the latest imported slang intro
duced into this city.
"A large list of chancery cases was dis
posed of esterday-renewing referenc es, sales
and dismissals of old cases.
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clouds of binding dust on the streets, to the
great annoyance of pedestrians.
The report of the New Orleans Peabody
subsistence association, for the yellow fever
months, has been received at this Office.
Sale of seats for the Celebrated Case,
which occupies the boards of the Memphis
Theater next week, begins at the usual place
Saturday morning.
Yesterday the police made the following
arrests: Lizzie Moor, colored, assisting con-
Wet to escape; Robert Avant, colored, cruelty
to animals and disorderly conduct.
Sandy Kirkland, negro charged with
housebreakirg, is wanted by the police.
Sandy is heavy-set, with side whiskers, and
is about twenty-five years of age.9
The extraordinary drawing of the Lou
isiaua lottery will come off ON the twelfth in
stant-to-day week Tickets for the drawing
can be had on application at No. North
Court street.
The George App case, on kGbeae corpus,
to fix the question of bail, did not come up
at the criminal court, as was expected, on
yesterday. The matter Will be heard on
some future day.
The admiralty cases of the old Cheek
line of steamers were up before Judge Ham
mond, of the United States court, for hear
ing, yesterday. The cases will be further
heard on argument to-day.
Special term of the chancery court con-
vsned Yesterday, Judge III DOwell inviting
the cooperation of the bar in the dispatch of
business, assuring them Of his purpose and
intention TO give all causes speedy hearing.
"A lawyer exposed file of court papers
on the street yesterday. 1t was file of
bankruptcy papers, and was held together
and clasped by a garter Of the blue pattern,
which recently belonged to the bankruptS
wife.
The general council met at seven o'clock
last evening st the city hall, the hour of
meeting being changed from the afternoon to
night by tine city charter. They will at all
future meetings sit under the gaslight and
deliberate.
Nearly two hundred cases of bankruptcy
have been fled in the United States court,
during the past few months, from Gibson
county. The last petition fled from that
county was that Of the United States regis
ter of bankruptcy.
The Benner bale of cotton belonging to
the cotton exchange, was shipped ria the
Mississippi and Tennessee RAJ! way, yester-
day, to the New Orleans cotton exchange for
the purpose of securing additional subscrip-
tions to the Bsnner relief-fund.
The cotton. sheds and adjoining streets
and alleys are packed with cotton bales
awaiting sale and shipment. The low price
Of the staple at present keeps the stock on
hand, much to the annoyance of planters,
merchants, cotton-shed clerks, shippers, etc.
Just received: A pamphlet containing
an account of the services held in ST. Georges
Episcopal church, Fredericksburg, Virginia,
on Sunday. October 9th, in memory of
William Willis, Of Memphis, late worshipful
master of Fredericksburg lodge, No. 4, An
cient Free and Accepted Masons.
The general council, in joint session as
sembled, last night elected Major Michael
Burke as police and FIRE commissioner to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of the late
Police and Fire Commissioner James I.
Leath. The selection IS a good one, and
will give general satisfaction to the public.
Miss Maggie Rodgers, of Collierville,
died with the yellow-fever on Monday last.
Mr.. Charley Parish, the only person in that
town now sick with the fever, is reported as
ia a critical condition. The cases mentioned
we're exposed during the epidemic. The
town never presented a more business like
appearance.
"A young gentleman of this city, who is
engaged to be married to belle OF an adj
coming State. some time since sent by mail
to his intended diamond engagement ring
valued at two hundred dollars. He has not
as yet heard Of its reception, consequently
he, like all male bipeds, Is down on the
United States mails.
Captain R. + Arata, of the police force,
was presented with a gold badge last night.
On the front side the following inscription
80 Captain r. F. Arata, Mem
phis police force of the yellow fever cpl
demic." On the reverse side the following
appeared: Presented by Howard: Inc
was well deserved. Captain Arata
having performed his whole duty faithfully |
during the terrible epidemic.
Our court reporter was threatened with |
a suit for damages by Attorney-GeneralT ur- |
ner, a few days since, because the APPEAL