Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-02
OLIVER, FINNIE & co
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The Fourth of July APPEAL will offer
great attractions for advertisers.
To-day is the last motion-day of the
present term of the chancery court.
The sneak. thief continues to get in his
work occasionally in the suburbs of the city.
The heavy rain-showers, yesterday,
cooled the intensely atmosphere some
what.
Mr.. Matt Goodwin and Mr.. A. w. Hart,
of the st. Louis Journal Of Commerce, are in
the city.
The city fathers will assemble in month
ly session at the city hall tomorrow at three
o'clock in the afternoon.
The police commissioners inspected the
police patrol force yesterday. The force was
comphmented by the commiss oners.
up to twelve o'clock last night but two
arrests appeared recorded on the stationhouse
docket, and these were for drunkenness.
The Nationalist, and others, arc blow
ing all over town, predicting the success of
their ticket in August. They are blowing off
steam.
The new invitation to talking politicians,
who button-hole and bore you on street cor
ners, is: ''Oh, go and talk into the phono-
graph"
Quite a number of Memphians leave to-
day for Louisville In order to be present at
the great Tenbroeck-M earthly race on next
Thursday.
After Sunday next, the seventh instant,
services will be held at Grace (EpiscopaD
church until it is determined when the new
church will be built
stand on the bluff for the orphans of st. Pc
ter's and Leath asylums, so that the little ones
can witness the fireworks on the Fourth.
"A mammoth edition of the APPEAL will
be circulated on Thursday next, the fourth
instant. Advertisers will govern themselves
accordingly, in view of the fact that the city
will be filed with strangers.
-"Shall we have quarantine or not?" is
the medical question of the day. Take time
by the forelock. is a good motto. There
is no use in locking the door after the horse
has been stolen, " is another equally wise.
The Bluff City Grays, Captain Cameron
commanding, were out on sidewalk drilling
excursion last night on Adams and Main
streets. The boys are improving rapidly In
the school of the company-the manual of
arms, etc.
1t has been found difficult to secure a
Fourth of-July orator for the Memphis cele-
bration. Has the Caucasian played out? Is
the race of Fourth of-July orators becoming
extinct? That were contamination devout-
ly to be wished.
read the APPEAL on Fourth of July morning.
Ii you want to sell your goods, or call the at
tention of the public to your business, send
your favors to the APPEAL Office at an early
hour tomorrow.
The rains of yesterday and last night
cleansed the streets and alleys in quite sat-
isfactory manner. Providence or the clerk
of the weather is often one of the most valu-
able aids to boards of health and the sanitary
condition of a city.
Colonel Barney Hughes's Rail,oay Re
cord for July is just out. 1t contains strong
article in favor OF celebrating the &c Fourth y
on the Fifth" Many Memphians will be
found celebrating it on the fifth, and even
during the remainder of the week.
Last Sunday afternoon little boy, son of
Martin Shea, draylnan, approached horse
grazing on the commons In Chelsea, and
struck the animal with a switch. The beast
kicked the boy on the head, inficting injuries
which caused his death within two hours.
General Barney Hughes having charge
the amusements at the orphans picnic on
% ice regulations Will be strictly enforced,
BY select corps, under the personal charge
OF Captain Arata. This is a guarantee of
good order.
Twelve arrests were made by our police
within the tweniy-four hours OF Saturday,
and ten arrests were made on Sunday. The
twenty-five unfortunates attended the re-
corder's matinee yesterday morning, and
were enrolled as debtors to the city in vari-
Gus amounts.
"A grand picnic for the benefit of the or
phans Of st. Peters asylum will be given at
Estival park next Thursday. The occasion
will be unusually interesting, as the Chicka-
saw Guards and Bluff City Grays have vol
unteered to give a dress parade. For partlc-
| ulars see advertisement.
Yesterday, at noon, the police day and
night patrols changed time, Captain Arata,
| Sergeant NJ 'Elroy and squad doing duty be-
| tween noon and twelve o'clock at night, and
Captain Weatherford, Sergeant Holman and
| squad doing duty between twelve o'clock al
| night and noon next day.
| On tomorrow night, at Estival park, In
addition to the usual instrumental concert by
Arnold's brass band and Handwerker's Or
chestra, social hop will be INDUCED in by
visitors between the hours of ten and twelve
| o'clock. Strangers in the city will find Esti-
| val park well worth visiting on this occasion
"A fine bell for St. Joseph's catholic
church, Georgia street, South Memphis, has
been received from the Buckeye bell foundry
Vanderzeer & Tiff, proprietors, Cincinnati
Ohio. The bell was the gift of the Italian
residents of Cincinnati. 1t is of elegant
workmanship, fine tone, and heavy weight
| Last Sunday morning, in the alley neal
the corner of DeSoto and Gayoso streets. /
desperate negro named Walter Hatch cut
and stabbed q colored girl named Ellen In
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