Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-09
OLIVER, FINNIE & CO
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The general council will meet at the city
hall at the usual hour this afternoon.
Lime was scattered along the street gut
ters by the board of health early yesterday
morning.
-Sixty-nine prisoners are spending the
summer months at the county jail. The jail
is kept thoroughly disinfected.
-Yellow-fever makes no difference in the
Louisiana State lottery drawing, which will
come off on Tuesday next, the thirteenth IN
slant.
One of the first open bolls of cotton ar
rived in the city yesterday from the farm Of
T.. A. Hanson, who resides near Bartlett, IN
this county.
The Republicans will hold a mass con-
vention IN this city next Saturday week, for
the purpose of selecting delegates to the GU
bernatorial and congressional conventions.
Coroner Caldwell is er o6fcio sheriff OF
Shelby county at present. and will remain sc
until the sheriff elect, J. w. Anderson, quail
ifes, gives bond and takes his seat, in Sep
TENDER.
The remains Of the late Sheriff C. l..
Anderson will be taken to Elmwood, from the
Memphis and Charleston depot, at four
O'Clock this afternoon, on the arrival OF the
special train.
-Yellow-fever makes no difference with
the Louisiana State lottery drawing, which
will come off on Tuesday next, the thirteenth
instant. Monday is the last day on which
tickets can be purchased.
"A special train will leave the Memphis
and Charleston railroad depot at one O'Clock,
this afternoon for the remains of c. l. An
derson, returning at four o'clock this evening.
Friends are invited to attend.
The coolest place in the city in the fore
noon is Front street, but IN the afternoon
when the sun is sinking in the west, and the
heat Is reflected from the surface of the bright
river, it Is about the hottest locality IN the
village.
The National central club, composed Of
thirty delegates from the city. and eighteen
from the county, met in secret session last
night, and, by the light of a dark-lantern,
selected delegates TO their State convention Of
the twenty-nlnth instant
Several star-gazing citizens took rides on
watermelon rnds which adorned the side
walks yesterday, the rinds having been
thrown there by white and black mackerels
Riding on a watermelon rind would be pleas.
ant enough provided you could regulate the
direction and the velocity.
Sunday next, at eight o'clock in the
evening, the bell of st. Josepb's Catholic
church, on Georgia street South Memphis
will be consecrated. The bell calls the faith
full to prayer around the altar, and it is GUS
tomary to cOnsecrate the bell to God by
amounting it amid imposing ceremonies.
Wat Vecton, colored, left New Orlean:
Wednesday last, and got of the train of the
Mississippi and Tennessee railroad at
Whitehaven and walked into Memphis. He
was arrested here by Officer Cullen. He says
he lives out at the fact, ry lot, in Chelsea, and
works at old man Fulk's, on Poplar street
The quarantine breaker was stripped of 6
new suit of clothing, which was burned. he
was given an old suit, and was sent out Of
town, oy order of the chief of police.
Last evening a white woman, named
Mrs. Wolf, died in her room in the Webster
block, on Main street, in rather q suspicion:
and sudden manner. Esquire Spelman held
an inquest on The body, when the following
facts were elected: The woman had been II
the habit of taking morphine for some seven
years past. Yesterday she became sick and