Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-21

| Sunday nights draw well, and the most in
| telligent and best cultured people of our city
attend these concerts.
| The reunion and bran dance of the
| Shelby county grangers, at the Fair grounds
next Friday will be unusually attractive.
The Chickasaw Guards and Bluff City GEays
| will engage IN a competitive drill. Tickets
| for the round trip and admission to the
grounds will be only seventy-fve cents.
Judge Logwood convened the May term
of the criminal court yesterday morning, and
delivered lengthy charge to the grand jury,
which is composed of the following citizens:
| H. B. Howell, foreman, R. II. Norris, Joseph
| Fader, w. H. Johnson, A. Z. Mills, L. Falk-
enberR, T. b. Haynes, James Richards, John
Hall, John Ingalls,, J. n. Stain, James Swee-.
ney and ]. A. Shane.
The Ladies' christian association will
hold a reunion for the benefit of the
| poor, at the southeast corner of Main and
Jefferson streets, from seven to eleven o clock
| tonight tuesday. There are at this time ur-
gent calls from several poor and suffering
families, TO which the society would gladly
respond, but from lack of the funds find it
impossible to do so. Hence this appeal to
the public. Admission free. Gentlemen
or ladies calling as early as seven o'clock will
be given a supper for twenty-five cents, or,
with extras, fifty cents.
Says Prof. Tice, In his predictions for
May weather: Twentieth to twenty second,
clear or fair; twenty-second to twenty nth,
ending in couding, threatening weather,
with heavy and severe storms in places about
the twenty fifth or twenty sixth; twenty-slxth
to twenty eighth, generally clear or far;
twenty eighth to thirty first, cloudy, threaten
ing weather, accompanied by local rains and
storms. The warmer days will be about the
twenty fifth and thirty-frst; the cooler days
about the twentieth and twenty sixth. Au-
roras, if any, will be seen about the twenty
first and twenty-seventh.
The May term of the circuit court COM
menced yesterday morning, Judge Heiskell
on the bench. The following named citizens
were regularly impaneled to serve as jurors
for the term: Jury No. ii. S. Drake, L. B.
Norment, G. c Holmes, r. G. Craig, ].
Frank Sellers, G.. A. Robertson, John G.
Cooper, Herman Cloth, E. L. Topp, c. c.
Helm, G. A. EckerIy and E. E. Meacham.
Jury No 2-H. T. Lennon, J. N. Falls, W.
F. Taylor, J. w. Goodbar, Henry Berry, r.
G. Graves, G. II. Judah, 0. B. Parker, J. G.
Barbour, J. NJ. Fowlkes, E. E. Tobey, G. A
Hessen and w. R. Moore.
Thursday night next, at Estival park,
the Milan club will give an entertainment
for the benefit of the orphans of the city.
Faust, Donizetti, Offenbach, Ping, Suppe
will be selected for the concert, in addition
to which a drama, entitled Lend Ne Fire
ShillingS, will be presented by the Milan
club. Prof. Handwerker will furnish the Or
chester for the entertainment, while Prof.
Arnold's brass band will provide the music.
The entertainment will conclude with a
grand hop. The admission is only fifty cents,
Tickets can be purchased at the gate.
Says the Helena (Ark.) World, of the
seventeenth: "On last Friday night, on the
Burke place, in this county, quarrel be-
tween Porter Slack and A. ]. Briscoe, both
colored, resulted in the killing of the latter
by the former. 1t seems from the testimony
of three or four witnesses that an anlmosity
had existed between the two men for some
time, and that Briscoe had been quite over
bearing. The occasion OF the shooting was
threat on the part of Briscoe to mash
Slack's mouth, while they, with one or two
others, were sitting at the supper table.
Slack stepped out at the door, returned with
a shotgun, and shot Briscoe in his attempt
to rise on seeing the gun: 1t does not appear
that Briscoe made, or attempted to make, an
actual assault. After preliminary exami-
nation by Squire Allen, Slack was commit
ted to Jail to await the circuit court"
Last Saturday night Mr.. Torian, who re-
sides near Horn Lake depot, twelve miles
from Memphis, on the Mississippi and Ten
nessee railroad, had valuable horse stolen |
under the following circumstances: Some |
weeks since Mr.. Torian hired German in |
this city to work on his farm. The man ex-
hibited Murphy badge and certificate of |
and he also claimed to belong |
to the Methodist church. While In the EN-
ploy of MIR. Torian he was regular attendant |
at the churches of the neighborhood, and |
took an active part in the proceedings. He |
was Jealous advocate of temperance and |
made efforts to spread the Murphy move
ment around him. Mr.. Torian had great |
confidence in the man. On Sunday night the |
so-caled Murphyite returned from church |
late, and instead of putting the horse which
he had ridden to church in the stable, he re-
and rode away. He stopped at
neighbours house and endeavored to induce a
fellow countryman to likewise steal horse
from his employer and 60 with him, but his
was rejected. Yesterday morn
Dg Mr.. Torian missed his man and horse,
and at once started in pursuit. He was seen
On tie road riding in the direction of this
,ity, but up to last night he had not been APP
The farmers in the vicinity of
Horn Lake have determined to stop horse
md mule stealing if possible, and even if 1T
axes sudden and summary measures to ac-
,omplish the object.