Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-28
OLIVER, FINNIE & co
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Attend church services to-iay.
Bartlett pears are being shipped In great
numbers north.
The chancery court adjourned yesterday
to court in course.
The mortuary list for the week registers
thirty-nine deaths.
When the dog-days are gone it will not
be SO dog-goue warm, SO to speak.
Policemen during vacation hours read the
| APPEAL, Scientific american and the bible.
For bargains in boots and shoes go to
Zellner & Co. s, 3S9 Main. They are selling
| out.
The coal and wood merchants are sup
| plying their yards with fresh stocks for win
ter use.
The country people were. in the city yes
terday in large numbers, disposIng of their
/ country products.
The Beale and Poplar streets markets
were well patronized yesterday evening, and
| many square meals will be had by hearty
| eaters.
to-day is the anniversary of the second
battle of Atlanta, Georgia, in which a large
number of soldiers on both sides were killed
| and wounded.
Get ready for the eclipse to- morrow, inter
view the event with smoked glass, and on
forth by the Democracy.
Up to date one million seven hundred
and seventy nine thousand FIVE hundred and
thirty-nine dollars and sixty six cents have
been funded by Mayor Fhppin.
Two negroes had fight on the corner
of Jackson and Third streets last night, In
which one retired with bruised cheek, and
the other with ''staved-up" ribs.
Tomorrow will be the last day on which
tickets can De purchased for the next draw
| ing of the Commonwealth distribution COM
pany, which will take place Wednesday,
The dirt being thrown out by the sewer
company, In the alley south of Monroe street,
near Front, emlts a strong odor of malaria.
| Get through early, and ''close her up"
The case of William Bagby, colored, who
was arrested Friday for forging orders on
Andrew Harris, was continued until Tuesday.
The offender in the meantime rests In the
county jail.
An ice-ring has been formed in New Or
leans since the yellow fever has made its ap-
pearance Such men should be bounced"
into that bourne whence no robber or blood
sucker ever returns.
Fruits of every description are plentiful
in our market. The wholesale dealer retails
peaches and pears at reasonable figures, but
when you strike a fruit-shop it takes a for
tune to get mouthful of each.
please do me the kindness not to pub
lisn my name, - is the billet dOur left for re-
portsrs at the stationhouse. Be correct in
your habits, gentlemen, and your name will
not only be kept out of the papers, but off
the police docket
Sunday reading of all descriptions; pa
pers, magazines, reviews, new novels, in
cloth and paper binding. Two new novels in
cheap series, ten cents each: GiCendOline'S
Harvest, by James Payne, and CleUeclue,
by Stephen Yorke. Call at Mansford's.
Compliant is made of the drain al 229
Madison street, which has for a long time
been regarded as an eye-sore to sight and
very Objectionable to the nasal organs. 4 lit
lie filling by the right officials will do much
for the good people of that neighborhood.
Three assault and battery, one disorderly
one disturbing meeting Ia dozen more could
have been arrested at the fifth ward last
night, and five trespass and vagrancy were
the charges entered opposite names at the
public docket this morning at one O'Clock.
Our Contemporary, the Audldnche, is hav-
ing the building on the southwest corner of
the alley, between Front and Main streets,
on Monroe, entirely overhauled and fitted for
use. According to the plan shown us, it will
be well ventilated, roomy, and comfortable.
"A curiosity is always admired by a re-
porter, for it gives food for an item; but
when a note is sent that such thing can be
seen seven or eight squares from his post,
and he searches for it and finds only brick
bat with hole IN the center, rage takes the
place of complacency.
Colonel r. Dudley Frayser is out in
card denying the stone-throwing of the
Nationals at the seventh ward meeting
Thursday night. Messrs. William Epperson
end J. Blackstone have left a brick at this
Office which was thrown by the vandals, and
which struck the former on the leg.
Dickens curiosity shop, No. 285 Second
street, is the cheapest place in the city to buy
trated newspaper, SIX cents per copy; Irish
World, Irish Democrat and Detroit Free
Press, al FIVE cents per copy; and all the
latest in the Franklin Square Library.
The only way to pass off time this hot
weather is to have something good to read
and sit under the shade and read. By calling
at X. II. Spangler's, 1856 Nam street, you can
get anything you want IN the line OF daIlies,
weeklles, monthlies, or Seaside Libraries, as
he has the largest assortment in the city.
For Sunday reading matter go to Billy
L;cScc's news depot. He has all the maga-
zines for August and latest pictoriais for the
week; also has eastern dailies of Thursday,
and at nine o'clock this morning he will have
western daiies of Saturday. Give Billy your
Sunday csll-23615 Main street, corner OF
Jefferson.
says that John Melton, lad twenty years of
age, attempted to rape the person OF his
cousin, a girl only thirteen years old. He
was caught in the act by the girls father,
who caused the young villains arrest and
imprisonment, to await the action OF the
COURTS of Gibson county.
The eclipse on Thursday next, which will
be visible throughout the day, will be the
greatest event that has occurred for this year.
To make the grandeur of the occasion more
effective it will be necessary to 60 to the polls
''earlv and often and all the time In other
words, compare the two tickets, scratch no
names, and vote solid Democrats.
Among the heaviest purchasers at the
recent great trade sales OF tiannels and
Ilankets. in New York, we notice the name
of Messrs. b. Lowenstein & Bros. as buyers
of a round lot of four hundred and ninety
one packages. Country and city merchants
will do well to make mole OF this, as the
goods we're sold at extraordinarily low prices.
A. F. bod q Co. 279 Main street, have
CoyoyeI DuHscoddie Millionaire, a story of
today. and one, the scenes being laid in the
souib. that is well told The characters are
well drawn, and our section of the country Is
na,nted and our people depicted with fidelity,
tempered with Justice. 1t Is novel that
oncbt to have a widespread sale throughout
the south.
The city marshal of Grenade, Missis-
sjppi, tele0rsphed police headquarters here
to look out and arrest one j. Z. Bailey, ALIAS
Morrison, who committed a forgery at that
pace He is described as being SIX feet high,
dark hair and eyes, side-whiskers, slow In
speech, and is about twenty-five or thirty