Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-02

and don't touch strong drink, and you will
be happy.
Billy Ljeben will have at half-past nine
o'clock the Courier Journal with the official
ist OF the Commonwealth drawing.
The question "Well, what's the news
Of the elecJion?" will oe laid aside to-day,
| aud the matter OF .'yellOw-fever' taken up
and discussed.
The police docket ike a we'll filed
pocket-book, swells out largely. The re-
corder will reap a harvest and sigh for many
more such elections.
"A sleeping coach from this city was en-
gagged last night by telegraph for persons
| passing over the New Orleans and Jackson
| road toward Virginia.
The officers and members of the police
| force, as well as the deputy-coroners, did
| their duty faithfully yesterday, In promptly
| putting down disturbances.
You ought to have seen that local iend
riding on q white horse yesterday. He used
I the whip so piIantly that he went home sick
| from the effects OF a sun-burnt hand.
"A canoe containing two men was capsized
above the mouth of Wolf river yesterday af-
| ternoon by the waves of the transfer boat
| General PIerson. The men were rescued.
The next session of the general confer
ence of the cOlored Methodist Episcopal
! church of America will meet at Jackson,
! Tennessee, the first Wednesday in August.
People should be careful and not eat too
many green fruits aud water melons. In
| these unhealthy days 1t is wise to act care
| fully, that you may escape biliousness, indi-
gestion and congestion.
"Wednesday night, while Mr.. Esch was
| enjoying a genuine Havana on the back porch
! OF his residence No. 225 Madison street. some
| thief entered the front door and robbed his
room Of a valuable gold watch, locket and
| shotgun.
Alexander Perry, of the Bluff City boat
| ing club has challenged Charles Hunter, of
| the Excelsior club, or any member of the club,
| to pull against him in a race on the river in
| front of the city, Sunday week. The chal-
lenge has been accepted, and the forteitures
| are up.
Whisky was not freely imbibed during
| the hours of election yesterday, but when the
polls closed it seemed that the hood-g gates of
the alcoholic lake had been turned on, so that
the thirsty, hard worker of the tongue could
sleep drunken night over the victory gained
for ofhce-seekers.
The recorder yesterday morning disposed
of the following cases: Joseph Massa, doing
business without license; Peter Callahan,
abusive language; u. b. Egley, carrying con-
cealed weapons and shooting in the corpora
ton, case continued; Henry Williams, for
gerry, State bail, one thousand dollars.
About seven o'clock last evening fire
was seen issuing from a negro shanty on
the Louisville railroad near the Raleigh road,
and occupied by Pope Williams aud his wife,
Indiana, both colored. The fire was extin-
guished by Engineer Davis, of the switch
engine. Bedding, clothing, ETC., were lost.
The recorder yesterday committed Hen
ry Williams to jail in default of one thousand
dollars bail Williams is charged with forg-
ing his fathers name to an order for board to
| the amount of four dollars, which was pre-
sented to the proprietor of the Commercial
hotel. The young man is citizen of Mason s
Depot, where his father resides.
Information has been received that four
| companies of United States troops, recently
| quartered at the barracks below New Orleans,
| arrived at Holly Springs, Mississippi, yester-
| day, and went into camp there. But eight
men were left at New Orleans to care for the
| government property. The presence of yell
| low-fever caused the soldiers TO move.
The police docket of yesterday makes
! the following exhibit of offenses committed,
which will be disposed of by the recorder s
| court Frank Mathis and H. Clark, illegal
voting; Henry Hadle and Jake Thomas,
fighting; Robert Patrick, drunk and fighting;
Richard Weathers and Miles Parker, fighting;
Mike Mansfield, drunk and disorderly; Rich
ard Dougherty. shooting with intent to kill,
on bail of one thousand dollars; John Brooks
and Ed Jones, drunk and disorderly; John
Peas and Matt Johnson, fighting; Richard
Dougherty, murder; Thomas Flood. drunk
and disorderly; w. r. Bait, assault with a
dirk; Alice Westbrook and Mary Lucis, fight
ing; Lula Moore, disorderly. The arrests
were made II the order IN which they follow.
The citizens finance committee were
vigorously at work yesterday securing sub
| scriptions for the purpose of improving the
sanitary condition of the city, and it is now
reasonably certain that the energetic efforts
| of the committee and board of health will
| prove successful in warding off all infectious
| disease from our city. The committee con-
sists of Messrs. Isaac Schwab, G. P. Hunt, Ben
Eiseman, J. J. Murphy and J. W. billiard,
who being unable to call upon all our citizens,
request that those who may not be reached
in this way will come forward and leave their
names at the cotton exchange. The COM
mittee propose rendering a detailed account
of all moneys received and expended under
their orders. Over five thousand dollars
were auhscrihe6