Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-05

afternoon.
The interstate military drill, to come of
at st. Louis during the State fair IN October
next, viii attract g large nImber of military
| companies to compete for the prize. 1t Is
| sid that Tire famous bayonet exercise will be
ruled out.
At the annual meeting of Angerona
lodge, No. 168, f. A. NJ, the following Off
| GERS were elected: r. Galloway, w. NJ; w
r. Kendall, S. w; L. P Smith. J. W.; John
Gent, Tr.; John Beanish, sec'y; VIM. NJ Ell
| roy. S. D.; John Young, J. d.
The Odd-Fellows library dramatic asso-
citation, some twenty members, will leave to-
morrow morning for jackson, Tennessee, and
will give dramatic entertainment to-mor-
row night in that city. The drama to be
presented is Ten Nights in a Bar-ROom.
Last night, on Vance street, two street.
car drivers engaged In a fight about a car,
much to the annoyance of number OF pas
sengers, VINO had to remain until the.drlvers
wound up their fight and settled the question
as to who would act as driver of the incoming
mule-box.
The city has been thoroughly canvassed by
the Confederate monumental subcommittee,
and numbers of business men have agreed to
close their stores at noon to-day, In order to
give their employees an opportunity to attend
the ceremonies at Elmwood cemetery this
afternoon.
Last night the Bluff City Grays elected
the following as active members of the COM
pany: ]. A. Pierce, Thomas NJ. Moffatt, A.
B. Carter, j. B. Hart, Dan +. Dunscomb,
Edward A. Goyer and P. c. Clark. The
company is composed of seventy active men,
bers at present.
Next Saturday the primary election in
the city wards and country districts, for the
purpose of electing delegates to the county
Democratic convention OF the thirteenth in =
slant, will be held. In many wards quite a
good natured but lively contest Is progressing
over delegates.
AT one o'clock yesterday fire broke out
In an old two-story frame building In Center
alley, between Jackson and Commerce streets.
The tire department turned out and cx-
tlngulshed the fire In few minutes. The old
rookery was unoccupied, and the fire was the
work of an incendiary.
Mr.. Sease, the government architect in
charge of the new customhouse building, yes
terday rendered the use of the grounds to Mr..
Tracy on which to give the big fireworks dis
play on the Fourth of July. No citizen
should refuse to give something, let the
amount be ever so little, to make this exhibit
ton what every citizen of Memphis desires it
should be.
The total receipts of the Milan club en-
tertainment, given for the benefit of the or
phans, at Estival park, on the twenty third
of May, were $40 80; the total expenditures
were $206 80; the net profits were $134 10.
The net profits will be distributed among the
following orphan asylums: Church home,
st. Peters, Leath and Cleveland which will
receive $33 So each.
Major Penn's revival meetings are in
creasng in interest from day to day. He
made one of his best efforts last night in the
Central Baptist church. To-day he holds
| 81. - - II
this morning; at the Central Baptist church
at ten o'clock this morning and half-past
o'clock this evening, and at the First church
at five o'clock this evening.
John N Perkins, deputy sheriff of Madi-
son county, yesterday delivered to Sheriff An
delson the following named prisoners, re-
manded by the supreme court for new trial:
Sam Brazzell, Geo. Houston, John Adkins,
Ben DeGrafenried, Henry Smith. Jim James,
Dock Goss, Henry Kelly, W. II. Cline, VIM.
Barton and Chris Johnson.
jeff Logan, a colored convict who has
been particularly troublesome to Sheriff An
dersor and his deputies. and who was not
long since wounded by Deputy-Sherif Mac
Mahon, and, recovering flom which. was de-
livered into the hands Of the convict con-
tractors, has again escaped, and was yester-
day seen and recognized on the Mississippi
Central railway, near Bolivar.
terday, the following divorce decree was en-
tered of record: Mary M'Millan as. Martin
M'Miilan. Judge Heiskell ordered decree
of divorce entered of record, and that the
plaintiff be fully restored to all her rights and
powers as a femme sole. The causes or
ground for divorce proven were cruel and in
human conduct, abandonment, failure to
support or provide for plaintiff, and habitual
drunkenness.
70 ~ no tr Inv
cemetery to-day is as follows: At three
o'clock in the afternoon the procession will
start from the corner of North Court street
and Second, down Second to Union, up Union
to Main, up Main to Adams, out Adams to
the Memphis and Charleston railroad depot,
where the infantry will take the cars for the
cemetery. The mounted men and artillery
will proceed by the road.
The ceremonies at Elmwood cemetery
this afternoon will commence at four o'clock,
and will be as follows: Music; prayer by Rev.
d. d. Kelly, of Nashville; ode by the choir;
report of monumental committee, by Mr.. l..
B. M'Farland, chairman; reception of mon
ument by MIR. w. A. Goodman, president of
the Confederate relief and historical assocIa-
ton; music; ode by the choir, and salute by
the Bluff City artillery.
The Quentel-R udelhuber imbroglio was
wound up at the recorders court yesterday,
by the discharge of F. P. Griffiths and plac-
ing James Cassaday under bonds to keep the
peace and answer before the criminal court
The entire affair is ridiculous, aud is mere
tempest Ia teapot. When all parties get
cool the row should be dropped as suddenly
as it commenced. The public feel no special
interest in the affair, as far as heard from.
The mounted men who intend engaging
in the procession to-day will report to Colo
mel w. L. Duff, on North Court street. at
two o'clock; the dismounted men will report
to General G. W. Gordon, on South Court
street, and the colored men who were at
tached to the Confederate army during the
war will report to Mr.. Wade Hampton, col
ored, on South Court street, at two o'clock
All other organized companies or bodies will
be assigned positions by the grand marshal,
Colonel w. F. Taylor and aides.
There is time enough yet, it is true, for
the Democratic executive committee to begin
work in the various wards and districts TO-
ward the perfection of arrangements for the
primary election. There is time enough also
for designing persons to put up most damag-
ing Jobs on the committee, therefore it is
necessary that every member of the commit
tee should consider the emergency at hand,
AID begin work at once, so that the people
shall have an honest expression at the ballot
box.
Last evening white woman, crazed
with drink, turned persons and things upside
down in North Memphis. Near Overton, on
Main, she appeared In a shameless condition,
SO far as her clothing was concerned She
cursed everybody, seized a lot of washboards
in front of a grocery, and smashed things
generally. She made a raid on fruit stand,
and demolished it in a few seconds; then
chased and rushed into street-car, drove out
all the passengers and chased the driver, and
then the fight was between the drunken wo-
man and the mule. About this time Officer
Carmichael came up and had a lively fight
" lille trying to arrest the woman. She was
at last overpowered and taken to the station
hotlse.
Business disposed of yesterday by the
crir1in al court and juries: State IS. Anne
Raverly', murder; jury and verdict of muir
der in the second degree, and penalty Fixed
at five years imprisonment in the peniten-
tiarye the jury recommended the governor to
commute SIX months OF the sentence. Annie
Ravery is a oolored woman who committed
irfanticlde IN South Memphis some months
since by strangling to death her newborn
babe. In the case of the State Us. N. Mic
colletti, rape, etc, nOlle prOSequi was en-
tzed. W. 5. Brown, Monroe street sport,