Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-30
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Summer has set in again in torrd style.
-Wilted shirt-collars are conspicuous just
To morrow the city schools will close for
the term.
Memphis is rapidly becoming Murphy
headquarters.
The chancery court will be in session, as
usual, on next Monday.
Ascension day. Calvary church open
this morning at ten o'clock for divine service.
On Wednesday afternoon, the fifth in
slant, the general council will assemble at the
city hall.
The exercises of the pupils of room No.
s. Market street school, will be held to- NOR
row forenoon, at half-past nine o'clock.
-Barbecues are popular in this section of
country this season. They are known also
by the name OF picnic, .fete champtre, woods
frolic, etc.
The Humes Rifles organized last night
with twenty members. They will meet again
on Friday evening next, at their armory, 351
Second street.
Chicago, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati
pyrotechnic artists are competing for the
Memphis Fourth of July display OF free fire.
works on the bluff.
Quite a large number of Memphians, pol
tendance as delegates or lobbyists on the State
judicial convention.
The German Lutheran school picnic at
Estival park yesterday was largely attended.
Those participating had day of enjoyment,
especially the little folks.
Tomorrow Judge Ray, of the probate
court, will hear the habeas corpus case of w.
II. Zenor, the defaulting treasurer and tax
collector Of Putnam county, Illinois.
Twelve hundred convicts, of all shades
of color, pine away behind the bars of the
State penitentiary at Nashville, or work
down In the coal mines, or follow pillow on
plantations.
The Confederate monument will be un-
yelled at Elmwood next Wednesday An
Grafton will be delivered by General Humes,
and the graves of the dead soldiers who wore
the gray will be decorated with flowers.
-Mansford has the Philadelphia Weekly
Times, containing the "History of the Black
Horse Cavalry, and other interesting Confed-
crate sketches. Price, five cents a copy or
two dollars year. Subscribe of Mansford.
Just received: Detroit Free Press, five
cents per copy; Irish Democrat, five cents per
copy; Boys and Girls Weekly, five cents
per copy; and all the late papers and maya
zines, ETC., at S. B. Dickens's, No. 285 Second
street.
The circuit court jury was discharged
by Judge Baxter yesterday, who adjourned
court and left for home. Judge Trigg con-
tinues to hold court as usual, and will preside
over both the United States circuit and dis
trict courts.
The commencement exercises of the
Market street high school will be held to-
morrow night, the thirty first. No one but
persons holding stamped tickets will he adj
mitted. The Phicmathean society viii con-
tribute to the interest of the occasion.
If much more is said on the subject of
the competitive drill and the score of the
Chicks and Bluffs, the soldiers will be we'll
drilled and the public will be well bored, the
parlor guerrilla or carpet knight of the Led
ger, to the contrary Notwithstanding.
festival park Is to be the scene of much
merriment to-day and tonight. st. Bridget's
picnic is the attraction. The joyous school
children are to be conveyed at half-past ten
" Pinch" picnic-always most attractive.
The Emperor Murphy has an army of
some five thousand five hundred In this city
at present. 1t Is composed of men, women,
youths and children III arms. Their battle
cry is water" The opposing forces, under
King Alcohol and Kaiser Gambrinus, are
large in numbers and are well armed.
In the United States district court, yes
terday, Judge Trigg was presiding and hear
ing internal revenue cases. Judge baxter
presided in the circuit court, and called the
appeal docket. Nearly all the cases were
acted upon, and the court was then ad
journed. One of the panels of the petit jury
was discharged.
AT the Lanier place, in Bend No. 81, on
Monday last, J. b. Conley shot Charles Dem
Piles with a shotgun, and placed twelve buck
shot in his head. Demples died instantly.
Conley was tried before magistrate and dis
charged from custody on the plea of justifa
bic homicide. The particulars as to the hon.
icide have not been given.
To-day is Decoration day, so designated
by congress, for the decoration of the
graves at the Federal cemeteries. 1t
is a national holiday, and will be so observed
here by the government offices. The post
Office will be open from eight to eleven
o'clock in the morning, and the carriers will
make one delivery and one collection.
is it accident or design? An English
man made the new silver dollar, and some OBJ
serving person with good deal of time on
his hands says of that curious coin: by
turning the coin top side down and covering
the base of neck with the fingers, allowing
the chin and lips to show, it makes COM
plete old English king, crown and all. The
Jewish nose is to be noticed plainly. Also,
the HAIR at back of neck forms lions head