Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-21
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-Sultry moonlight nights are not uncom-
mon at present.
st. Patrick's school picnic at Estival park
to-day and night.
The mercury in the thermometers sport
ed up among the nineties yesterday.
To morrow week, the twenty ninth in
slant, the State Democratic judicial conven-
ton will convene at Nashville.
BY all means let US have the fireworks on
the glorious Fourth. The exhibition will
draw crowds of people to our city.
Don't forget that St. Patricks grand an
nual Sunday school picnic takes place at Es-
tlval park to-day. All Memphis will be there.
The United States courts, and the chan
Gerry, criminal and Shelby county circuit
courts are in session at the courthouse at
present.
-Greenlaw Operahouse temperance meet
ings continue with undated interest and
large audiences. Good singing and speaking
tonight.
The APPEAL agent at Little Rock, Ar
kansas, has made encouraging reports as to
the rapid increase of numbers of his SUBJ
scribers within the past week.
Quite large number of colored persons
were baptised in the Mississippi river, at the
foot of Union street, last Sunday. The mud
dy waters washed them clean, in spiritual
sense.
The Fra Diavoloans left for Little Rock,
Arkansas, on special train yesterday morn
ing. The opera company was accompanied
by Handwerker's orchestra and Arnold's
brass band.
The Roanoke (Virginia) college quarto-
centennial anniversary commencement and
students reunion will be held on the ninth
proximo, and will continue until the thir-
teenth, inclusive.
Two negroes engaged in difficulty some
four miles south of Horn Lake, Mississippi,
depot, on Wednesday last. During the row
one of the combatants received severe cuts
with knife in the region of the stomach and
bowels.
Captain Edgington, at the school board
last night, puzzled his brethren by talking
about the tellurian of one of the schools
He had to explain the instrument to his
brethren so as to prevent them from con-
founding 1t with the Slurian period of his
tory.
Ladies, read what Mansfold offers in the
lire Of fashions Leslie's Magazine, Eng
Hsh Young Lady's Journal, Rerue de la
Mode, Peterson, DemOreSt Milliney and
DreSSndker, Cooley and Hdrper's Bdzdr
For general reading: Scribner, atlantic,
Eclectic, appleton, Leslie's Popular Monthly
and others.
The call of the equity docket of the
day, and will be continued during this week,
subject, however, to the trial of the Upton
county bond cases. In the case of Smith rs.
Bohlen, demurrer overtuled. The case of
Orne rs. M'Dowell ct al was argued and
taken under Amusement.
Little Rock Gazette, 18th: Fatty M'Gin-
mis- and Christ Burney, alias Ben Gaz$Way,
were again taken to Argenta yesterday, and
have probably arrived in Memphis ere this
On the promise that they would visit Little
Rock no more forever, they were released,
and were among the passengers on the Mem
phis train yesterday afternoon"
-Spaugler's last nights arrivals were
Leslie's Lddy's Magazine, Popular Monthly; !
price, twenty-five cents. ScTibner, atlantic, |
81. Nicholas and W'ide-A tcake. all for June. |
Victor Hugo's History of a Crime, complete, |
Tor ten cents. Somebody's Luggage, by |
harles Dickens, and Less Black Than We're |
PIiHted, by James Payne. $50 Main street |
is the place.
Tomorrow night another grand concert |
will be given to the public at EstvaI park. |
The entertainment will be most artistic, the |
programme selected being of the very high |
est character. The Estival park musical at |
fractions presented every Wednesday and