Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-22
OLIVER, FlNNlE & CO
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

| The marriage market is improving some
what.
DE Murska and troupe are at Louisville,
| Kentucky.
| AT the chancery court motions were
| heard on yesterday.
| Memphis is about the healthiest city on
the continent at present.
The Fourth of July will be celebrated
here in right royal manner.
| The general council will meet again on
| the first Wednesday of next month.
| Local politics have cooled down some
| what since the convention adjourned.
| The trotting races yesterday, out at
| Olympic park, were largely attended.
Instead of wasting your coffee grounds,
pour them On your box-plants to enrich the
| SOIL
The National party of Memphis and
| Shelby county did not hatch out ticket last
night.
Don't have Madeira vines about your
verandahs. They attract fly which breeds
mosquitoes.
The Good Templars' picnic, at Horn
Lake, Mississippi, on Thursday next, will be
AN attractive affair.
| -Unmuzzled dogs on and after the twenty
| fourth instant will be killed by the police, if
found running at large.
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and other light had to be brought into requi
sition in many instances.
! AT Estival park to morrow night, fine
instrumental concert will be given by Ar
nold's band and Handwerkers orchestra.
"A select basket picnic will be given at
Horn Lake, Mississippi on Thursday next,
the twenty-seventh instant, by the Good
Templars.
And now cometh the gentle and sweet
nice candidate, who whispers in your ear
some words that leave their trace upon your
soul forever-perhaps.
On and after Monday next the policeman
will exclaim, in the language of Orchard,
| Duke of Gloster," "Unmuzzled dogs, stand
thou when l commando"
There will be an excursion on the steam
err Hattie Rowland on Monday evening, June
oath, under the direction of the ladies of the
| st. Mary's AID society. Admission, twenty
FIVE cents.
| AT st. Johns church last night big
| temperance meeting was held, and several
good addresses were delivered. Meetings
| will be held at the same place each night
during the week.
The Memphis Theater was crowded last
night, 1t being the occasion of the commence
ment exercises of the Christian Brothers col
| lege. The exercises were of most interest
ing and attractive character.
Quite a number of leading and influential
Irish American citizens held significant po-
litical meeting last night. Great unanimity
of sentiment prevailed, and measures were
taken looking toward the August election.
The following named gentlemen have
been elected officers of Gayoso Encampment,
No. =, l. o. 0. F., for the ensuing term: D.
81. Hassig, chief patriarch; j. c. Trainor,
| high priest; - Walton, senior warden;
Thos. Bacon, scribe; Marcus Jones, treasurer
The great fireworks have been shipped
| from Philadelphia for our grand display on
the Fourth. We learn that Mr.. Tracy is still
several hundred dollars behind in subscrip-
tons toward paying for the grand exhibition,
and yet the names of many of our wealthy
and most influential citizens do not appear
on the subscription lists.
The second alarm of fire yesterday morn
! ing was caused by the burning of the kitchen
I of a residence at No. 81 Jackson street,
owned by Mr.. S. Besthoff, and occupied by
| Mr.. Thomas Neal. The building and kitchen
were insured for five hundred dollars in the
| Queen, of Liverpool and London. Loss about
one hundred and fifty dollars.
The Nationals had stormy meeting in
| secret session last night at their hall on Front
street, near West Court. They were unable
to agree upon ticket, on account of the num-
Der of old political hacks or dead beat poll
| ticlaus who wanted nominations Another
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ticket may possibly be announced tomorrow
morning.
| Quite large crowd appeared at Olympic
| park yesterday and witnessed several good
| trotting races. Mr.. Grants horse Jesse, Mr..
! Chase's Rowdy, and Mr.. Lehman's mare, en-
| gagged in race, mile heats, best three in
| FIVE. Mr.. Lehman's mare won the three
heats. The amusement closed with a race
between Mr.. Fairess Leadmine and Mr..
Streets Dexter. The latter won the race.
The Mcclellan Guards last night elected
the following officers: Captain, James E.
| Glass; first lieutenant, T. D. jackson; sec
ond lieutenant, Lorenzo Dow; brevet-second
lieutenant, Philip Dickinson; ensigns, J. w.
| Gadson and Richard Lane No. 2; orderly
Smith; first duty sergeants, Ben Eyke and
| Gilbert Gill; second sergeants, Charles Cobb
| and Charles Hart; third sergeants, Ben
Dickinson and V. B. Pirtle.
! The Austin (Texas) Gazette, of the
eighteenth, says: "The obscene publication
called The Varieties published at New York,
than which there Is not dirtier sheet uttered
at the great Sodom of America, has in its Is
sue OF the twentieth instant an illustration of
a suggestions murder, which the publishers
were pleased to locate at Austin, Texas. The
picture represents boy stabbing little girl.
The boys name is given as Giovanni Orcesco.
| NO date ID given In the account of the picture,
except that the murder was committed re-
! Gently. The murdered child is stated to have
been the daughter of a widow Jones. The
picture and the statement are as false as the
black-hearted wretch who thus attempts to
Willy people with his infamous publication,
too filthy to be named to ears polite. No
such occurrence has ever taken place in Aus
tin"
Pamela Miss Star, 22d: Colonel Pros
| ser, the Murphy man with the flowing mus
taehe, nobby dress and dazzling medals. de-
| llvered three temperance lectures in town
this week-Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day nights. We only heard the first one
chiefly remarkable Tor great length, slang
expressions, irrelevant matter, and the highly
| dramatic alr OF the speaker. Clearly the
feeling of the audience was disappointment.
| If not disapproval. Though the colonel OBJ
! tained some half dozen si0ners To the nledne