Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-07

LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The city cOunil met not last night at the
city hall.
The city continues to be crowded with
strangers.
Motions will be heard at the United
States court to- day.
Send in your advertisements early to-day
for the Sunday APPEAL.
Uncle Toms Cabin matinee at the Mem
phis Theater, to-day, at the usual hour.
-Forepaugh's great circus and big men
agerie will camp on the bluff on Monday.
City Comptroller James A. Newsom has
to wear a slipper, owing TO slight attack of
govt.
On Sunday next, at Park avenue Meth
odist church, Rev. n. Park will hold memo
mai services.
The drinking men will no doubt rejoice
to lean that drinks are tumbling down In
price in this city.
The election of directors of the bar library
is to be held to day at the law library rooms
at the courthouse.
The next drawing of the Louisiana State
lottery will occur on the tenth instant. For
particulars, see card.
The little folks crowd around Nam
street store windows and stare at the Christ
mas holiday goods on exhibition.
The cid wagon of our fathers can be
seen daily on the bluffs. 1t generally has a
bale or two of cotton on the inside.
Sale of seats for A Celebrated Case at
the Theater next week, begins at Hollen-
berg's at nine o'clock this morning.
Ladies, the best thing you can do when
out shopping is to take notes; the next best
thing is to have everything charged.
Yesterday was motion day at the chan.
Flha cot,rf will nrt ho ms
to-day, but will meet again on Monday.
The American Public Health association,
which recently met at Richmond, Virginia,
will hold its next meeting at Nashville.
Next Monday night 4 Celebrated Case
will be presented at the Memphis Theater,
by the Shook & Palmer dramatic troupe.
The policemen are putting on style, yet
their back pay comes in slowly. Chief Athy
furnished the force with new belts, whis-
ties, etc.
There will be a meeting of the members
of the cotton exchange, at three o'clock, to
receive the report of the fax-bagging COM
mittee.
Memphis is but 298. "a feet above the
level of the sea. 1t is in g degrees minutes
north latitude, and 80 degrees and z minutes
west longitude.
Advertisers who desire to place their
favors in Sundays APPEAL should send In
their advertisements and notices to-day as
early as possible.
Cotton bales face you on every street in
the city. Where to put the cotton Is the
thing troubling the minds of merchants aud
shed-men at present.
Several lost dogs are wanted by their
owners. In these times about the last thin g
a man ought to want is a wandering dog Of
the tramp species.
Mr.. William II. Rroa6us has been APP
pointed deputy-sheriff by Sheriff M'Gowan.
The appointment is a good one, and will give
satisfaction to the public.
The mortuary report of the board of
health for the month Of September was
placed on the desk of the members of the
general council last night.
AT the chancery court on yesterday Har-
riet Coffin, scolored, flied a petition for di-
vorce against York Coffin, on the ground of
cruel and inhuElan treatment.
The man Ewho gets drunk and who re-
mains drunk, can be seen on the streets daily
and nightly. Drunkenness seems to be on
the increase in Memphis of late.
-Robberies which were committed during
the epidemic are now beng discovered by alb
sentees, who have returned home to find many
articles of household furniture and valuables
missing.
Recently, at Gainesville, Missouri, river
thieves broke into the store of w. t. Price
and carried off a large quantity of goods.
The police of this city are on the lookout for
the CRIMINALS.
To-day 40 weeks, the twenty-frst in,
stant. SPECIAL election will be held in this
and Fayette counties, to fill the vacancy Of
floater, caused by the resignation OF DIR. Ii.
b. Ramsey, hoater elect.
One of our most prominent Front street
merchants informs US that, even at this, the
busiest season of the year, there has not been
for five years such an irhux of country people
to the city as at present.
Indian summer, hszy atmosphere ard
threatening clouds made up the weather
Yesterday. The northwestern breeze was
refreshiDgly cool, and suggested heavy I'M
derclothing as a necessity.
The mortality of Memphis for the month
of September was as followsi Whites, 1856;
colored, $50; total, 1916. of this number
the following died of yellow-tever: Whites,
1920; colored, $40; total, 1910.
-"Old Man" Nichols, of the AUaldHche,
has returned from health and pleasure trip
up north. He looks like young man now.
May he live long AID prosper, and survive
all the epidemics that may be trotted out IN
the future.
The Memphis dogs are cutting quite a
figure - the Sportsman 8 State tournament.
now holding at Nashville. The fine blooded
dogs of Messrs. Nicolson, Rryson and Wheat
ley, of our city, are on exhibition in the con-
tests or field trials.
The toy pistol in the hands of boy of
the period set a bale of cotton on fire at the
cotton shed of Brooks d Nicely, on Main
street. Before the fire could be extinguished
several bales were damaged to the extent of
one hundred dollars.
The friends of the late Butler P. Ander-
son are requested to meet at the law Office of
CAN'T & Patterson, over the German national
bank to-day, Saturday, at three o'clock in the
evening, TO take suitable measures touching
relief as to his children.
Sam Raines was convicted of larceny by
a criminal court jury yesterday, and his PEN
atty was fixed at three years imprisonment
in the penitentiary. The jury, however, rec
commended that the governor commute the
period of imprisonment to one year.
There are few aldermen and council
men who are always on time at general coun-