Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-30

| park. HandweTk er : band VIII furnish the
music for the visitors and dancers. 1t will
be most pleasant affair, and will be largely
attended.
| On the Fourth, Thursday next, three
trotting races will be had over the Olympic
parkstrack under the supervision of the Gen
tlemen's trottin0 club. The horses have
been graded and matched as TO time, so as to
have exciting sport.
81 did not know they were making such
extensive preparations for the fireworks" re-
marked an innocent on Madison street yes
| terday, as he gazed al those two huge posts
planted in the street as derrick guy or stay
posts for customhouse purposes.
On Linden street, yesterday, horse at
| tached to a vegetable market wagon slipped,
| fell and rolled over several times. The wagon
| rolled over likewise, and splendid and varied
crop of vegetables was sown far and wide, to
the great disgust Of the owner.
| The county court clerk during the past
week issued fourteen marriage licenses, of
which number ten wereissued to colored peo-
| pie. In a matrimonial way, the colored peo
| pie spend more half-dollars for marriage
licenses than the whites, by four to one.
Equity lodge No. 20, A. o. q. W., has
elected the following officers: S. G. DePass,
| NJ. w w. q. Mitchell, F.; n. G. Dukes, O.;
J. II. Lawrence, recorder; F. L. Davis, guide;
Ad Storm, receiver: N. L. Avery, Nv; Sam
Schneider, o. W.; w. A. Tucker, trustee.
The tall, gloomy form of Edward Shaw
is now seen daily In the street In happy con-
junction with many of the nominees of the
opposition ticket. When Edward clasps
the hand of the white candidate and says,
my brother" the candidate becomes in
eclipse, as it were.
The heavy rain yesterday afternoon
flooded streets and alleys, washed out gar
dens and sidewalks, and made Bayou Gayoso
q roaring torrent In half an hour. 1t per-
formed valuable amount of sanitary work
for the city, for which the clerk of the wealth
er deserves full credit.
Billy Lieben's news depot, on Main
street, corner of Jefferson, has all the late
reading matter you want, and all the maya
zines for July. He also received fresh lot I
of Sedsides. Friendship, by Ouida, only
twenty cents. Give Billy your Sunday call. |
He will try to please you.
Yesterday James Cleary, a blacksmith, |
engaged In difficulty with another black !
smith on Second street, near Union. During |
the row Cleary received a severe and danger |
Gus blow on the head with a monkey wrench |
at the hands of his opponent, who at once got |
away and escaped arrest.
-Andre,cs' Bazaar. for July; Internation-
al Reuie,c, July-August; new novel in
Harper's Franklin Square Library; maya
zines, reviews, periodicals, dailies, Seaside,
Lakeside, Standard and Riverside Libraries.
Cheap reading for the million at Mansford's,
corner Second and Moroe.
"A great many complaints are being
made in reference to officers annoying and
suing citizens for poll-tax, when in fact the
citizens had paid their poll-tax. 1t looks as
if no books were kept as to poll-tax receipts.
The mistakes are becoming a nuisance, but
the fees are what the boys are after, and not
,he tax.
Frank LeSlie's Illustrated Newspaper,
u Gees Weekly and Illustrated Weekly,
Zach six cents per copy; Detroit Free Press
and Irish Democrat, FIVE cents each; Chris
inc BrOtonlees Ordeal, No. Franklin
Square Library, and all the late northern
lailiee, at Dickens's Curiosity Shop, 285
second street.
Yesterday, about eight o'clock, George
Jarr, an old shoemaker, residing at No. 654
Main street, was found dead in his bed. DR..
Campbell was called in, and an examination
proved that he had taken morphine
n sufficient quantity to have killed dozen
men. Esquire Fleming Leld the inquest
The deceased was sixty-two years of age.
Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock,
patrick Doyle, aged thirty-fve years, fell ,
'oplar street Doyle was employed on the
little Rock railroad. He was a stranger in
his city. Esquire Spelman held the inquest.
he jury returned a verdict of death from !
poplexy.
Judge Hammond, of the United States /
district court OF West Tennessee, received his
as judge, from the President, I
0 him by Chancellor Morgan. While the
djourned term of the United States court '
oes not meet until September, Judge Ham
nond will attend to such business as he can c
t chambers.
The different wings of the new party are G
lasping hands and getting acquainted with I
aeh other. Nationalist, Radical, Man-of- :
ogether. and quaff the foamy lager, as they C
ak over the prospect of the August cam
algn. Politics make strange bedfellows. 5" I
is pleasant TO see the brethren together in s
nifty around the table of beer-saloon. b
On the north side of Auction street, east u
Second, stands a row of shantles occupied e
y colored people. The shantles are situated y y
n lower grade than the street. Yesterday, =
uring the heavy rain, a little food of waters y
lshed through the houses, sweeping every
ling In its passage. The occupants had to | e
o to work sweeping and bailing out for sew II II
raj hours. Whenever it rains these shanties 7
re overfiowed. l
The following officers were elected by h
lodge, No. 1863, knights of Honor, 9
lne 25th: VIM. Souhr, dictator; VIM. /
Vesike, vice-dictator; L. Biermann, assist q .
Mt dictator; VIM. Glantzer, chaplain; John f
J. Kleiner, reporter; Fritz Aehle, financial h
,porter; Phil Maurer, treasurer; August 4
Veslke, guide; Conrad Rasp, guardian; q
acob Braun, sentinel. 4
DIR. Womack, pastor Of the First Baptist L
hurch, will show, in his morning sermon v
',day, the superiority of christianity to inf
city, from the one single fact that the for I
Ter furnishes man with q permanent and
orthy object of faith. The power of the d
1ristlans faith will be philosophically and d
considered, in which it will be Il
lown that faith is an element of success, and v
the mother of song. ii
List of undelivered kilograms remaining IL
the Western Union telegraph office, No. e
Madison street: n
aior Benyaud, J. T. Washington. g
p. Glenn, B. Lowenstein d Bros, II
rey d Scarborough, Major Sam p Armstrong. q
rgill Bros Co., ID. A. Reid. il
iss Ellen Judge, Mrs. Ida May Levy,
F. Hicks. Mr.. L. C. Loeb, a
Schwab & Co., Bohlen. Huse L Co., u
. A Goodman, James Roosa Co., G.
B. Gardner, Powell M'pougal Co. a
The four boat clubs will engage in fine \
)wlng contest to-day near Mound City. o
ach boat has picked crew, and each crew v
determined to win, if possible. The fol- n
wing named gentlemen will have charge of O
lie race: Judges-Sid Cook, Nick Malatesta v
nd John Donovan. Referees-Captain a
tack Lee and Captain Morris McNeely. n
John M. Peters and A. D. p
ibson. Parties can leave the landing at one
nd three o'clock this afternoon for the race
purse.
Yesterday a strange German, or Swede, f
'de a horse into Joe NJ 'CuIlers's livery stable G
nd offered to sell the animal, stating that it n
as the last one of drove. M'Cullers s
ought the horse at very reasonable price, Il
nd the horse dIover walked off In a few s
Iinutes a man appeared and claimed that s
lie horse had been stolen from him an hour v
efore, he having left his horse hitched in an a
icy. The police searched the city for the s
bnt he could not oe found The 8,
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