Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-21
OLIVER, FINNIE & CO
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

- w edlner WARM, yeU PHEASANT
Spurious nickels are afoat in large num-
bers.
To-day the chancery court will entertain
motions.
The general council will meet again this
afternoon.
This is ambrosial June-the time for
June-bugs.
Fourth of July orators are in demand
once again.
The retail trade of Memphis is exceed
ingly large.
Church school river excursions are the
rage at present.
The 'hy cops" have had an easy time of
1t for several weeks.
-Buttermilk is favorite beverage at pres
ent-the buttermilk.
The semi-annual meeting of the DeSoto
lodge takes place tonight.
When will Leadmine and Dexter make
that much talked of race?
Madame lima De Murska and her pet
birds left last night for Nashville.
The big races this afternoon at Olympic
park will attract large number from among
our best citizens.
Baseball is game wherein ambition is
pitted against psrspiration-but the latter
always makes the home-run.
AT the Shelby circuit court yesterday the
following divorce petitions were hled+ Geor-
gia Wood as. William Wood, and Mary J..
Baker Us. George Baker.
The long days are drawing to close
The twenty-ftth Will be the longest day in
the year; after that the shadow will grow
less on this earth of ours.
AT Atlanta, Georgia, among the colored
folks, there is so much interest taken IN the
pie can get no washing done.
The ''beerytore'' singers who wake up
the gutter echoes near the APPEAL Office,
nightly, are requested to let up, go out
10 the country, or hire hall.
Fair Luna and Jupiter have been IN con-
junction of late. Jupiter can now be seen at
midnight skipping away from Luna In
southwesterly direction, bound for Texas prob
ably.
Those who have subscribed to assist Mr..
Tracy to get up the coming grand Fourth of
July display of fireworks, can obtain pro-
grammes from him to send to their country
cousins.
The June number of the Masonic Jetcel,
A. J. Wheeler, editor and publisher, has
been placed on our table. 1t is full of inter-
esting matter, which will be eagerly read by
the craft.
Station, comes specimen of red-top clover
five feet in length. The land will produce
three tons Of clover to the acre if properly
cultivated.
There will be an excursion on the steam
er Hattie Rowland on Monday evening, June
oath, under the direction of the ladies of the
st. Mary's aid society. Admission, twenty
five cents.
In North Mississippi the crops are look
ing very well; the continued showers during
last week, however, have given the farmers
something to do. No cotton-blooms yet, but
plenty of 'roasting-ears."
Memphis has a greater number of fine
singing mockingblrds than any city in the
Union. The birds mock all other birds, call
up dogs, police, ETC., and occasionally create
a fire alarm by sounding tour long and shrill
whistles.
Just received, atlantic Monthly and
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for July;
Hdrper'S Weekly and Clipper; also No. AZ
BeadIe's Half Dime Library Nightingale
Nat, at Dickens Curiosity Shop, No. 2S5
Second street.
On the third of July next will expire the
time for the redemption of lands sold for
State and county taxes for 1875. If not re-
deemed, Mr.. Weatherford, the agent of the
State, will take possession of said property,
and the owners will lose all title to the same.
There will be temperance meeting at
St. Johns Methodist Episcopal church, cor
ner of Lauderdale and Vance streets, to-
night at eight o'clock. DIR. Sim will read an
essay upon inebuety from a medical stand
point. DR.. Slater will also deliver an ad-
dress. Good music will be presented.
Yesterday afternoon negro aged nine
teen years, named John Askew, while wash
ing 10 Wolf river, near the saw-mills, acct
dentally got into deep water and was drowned.
A white man, by diving, recovered the body
in ten feet of water, but life was extinct.
Esquire q. B. Askew held an inquest on the
body, and the jury returned verdict of death
by drowning.
Nashville has its dose of politics In pros
pective. The Banner says: There are more
candidates for delegates to the county con-
vention than ever was known in this county. |
1t seems that the friends of every candidate
are trying to fix ticket in every ward and
district in the interest of their man. The
contests promise to be red-hot on the after
noon and night of the third of July"
Galveston Neics: Galveston is simply
dong nothing. She is just about as inert as
a wet rag. ANY stranger passing over the
city would be apt to ask the question, how do
all these people live? The city does not even
produce an ax-handle. There was broom
factory some years, ago, but that gave out.
There Is net tan yard in the place, nor a
wagon shop, nor a cotton or a woolen-mill,
nor an olI-seed factory, nor the vestige of a
place where pound of bone-dust or oi-cake
could be produced; in fact, the city is destitute
of all pretensions to either wealth or progress
IN the domain of manufacture.
Among sporting men the race between
Molie Mccarthy and Tenbroeck, which will
come off on the Fourth of July, at Louisville,
is the great sensation. Mr.. Theo. Winters,
of California, the owner of Mollie Mccarthy,
is boldly throwing down the gauntlet to the
Tenbroeck, and meeting him to
do battle upon his own ground. The match
will attract thousands to Louisville. Many
from the golden gates of California, from the