Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-26
OLIVER. FINNlE & CO
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

To-day is race day at Olympic park.
Wigs, in the language of flowers, are
lie locks.
Numbering for love is as common as kill
log for hate.
Only two arrests were made up to one
o'clock this morning.
The Light Guards exercised themselves
an hour or two last night
Not a breeze of an item could be had at
the courthouse yesterday.
The ''self- made ieud has made his APP
pearance in the National ranks.
What of the filth and mud along the
| wharf? Gentlemen, none of this.
The papers of the States are just now
generally filed with speeches of aspiring
| candidates.
Bets continue to be made on the coming
| election, and two to one are offered on the
Democratic party.
-Oleomargarine is good for fuel; at least
| thirty thousand dollars of 1t burned well In
| Boston the other day.
Madison street was scarce of local poll
| ticians, they having made move on the chess
board toward Bartlett.
-Cotton-seed meal is shipped from Mem
phis to Boston, Ella the Ohio river, at thirty
FIVE cents per hundred.
Reports of the cotton crop place it in
flourlshing condition. Bolls of the f1eecy sta
pie are coming IN freely.
The City railway company yesterday had
| aborers engaged IN repairing defect places
on their Main street route.
Everybody went to Bartlett yesterday,
barbecued mutton and dance with the coun-
try girls being the chief attractions.
The temperance picnic at the Leath or
phan asylum was broken up yesterday even
ing by the rain that passed over the city.
In hearing the argument of attorneys in
an insurance case In the chahcery court, Col
onel Josiah Patterson is sitting as special
chancellor.
For particulars of the great races to-day
at Olympic park, see advertisement in an
| other column. There will be big crowd In
attendance.
The Memphis and Louisville railroad will
carry people to the races free to-day If tick
cts to the park are purchased of Mr.. James
Speed, or at the depot. before starting.
The next drawing of the Commonwealth
distribution company will be for one hundred
and fifteen thousand four hundred dollars,
and will occur on July 3lst. See card.
The recorder yesterday dismissed the
continued cases of disorderly conduct,
assault and battery" and neglect of clean
ing vault, and fined a case of drunkenness.
Next Thursday will be election day The
weather clerk prophesies for that day clear
and warm weather. Go to the polls in your
shirt-sleeves, provided the prediction proves
true.
Captain Fred Brennan, local editor of the
APPEAL, was on the streets yesterday inter-
viewing the doctors. He has not fully re-
covered from the effects of sunstroke on Sat-
urday last.
The rain yesterday made the giant oaks
and the shrubbery in Court square appear
fresh and green; also had the effect of making
The muscles and lungs of man move in more
active manner.
The workingmen of Memphis object to
being called National-Repuhlicans by the
Democrats, but it is all lovely when Turner
calls them 'gutter- sDipes, ''rih-raffs, and
common laborers.
Business men at the foot of Washington
street cry aloud againgst the stencil arising
from the sewer main employing into the river
at that point. 1t appears that section near
the mouth has been broken, causing the
above evil.
Our citizens should bear In mind that to-
night at the New Memphis Theater, Captain
John Cowdon will address them on the i'm
provement of the Mississippi river. Major
Minor Merwether will also be among the
number of speakers.
Tonight the Sodality dramatic associa-
ton will present the beautiful play OF Parted,
at their hall, for the benefit of the Sisters of
st. Agnes academy The object is a worthy
one, In view of the losses sustained by these
religious ladies in the destruction of their
beautiful location on Vance street.
Citizens living in the immediate neigh
borhood of the dump, in south Memphis,
complain bitterly of the offensive odor emit
ting from the offal and refuse matter carried
to it. This nuisance should be abated to a
point further down the river, and we trust
the authorities in charge of this matter will
remedy the evil.
-"Fiasco!" "FiascO!" The Democratic
guns at Bartlett having done such effective
work yesterday that neither National head.
body or flank were visible at the corner of
Adams and Second street last night, where a
grand rally of the National Republican
Workingmen party was advertised to take
place. "FidScO!' "FiaScO!"
Popular Science, Eclectic, Scyi6ner's,
st. Nicholas, appleton, and North american
ReUiet0, for August; all the latest fashion
magazines. including Rerue de la Mode, MI
liner and DreSSmdker, Leslie, DemOreSt. BOi0
Bells, Putnam and Cooley. The largest sup
ply of Seaside, Lakeside and Franklin Square
libraries in the south, at Mansford's, corner
Second and Monroe.
Mr.. Charles F. Aaron, the vice president
of the National central committee, referred
to by correspondent in Wednesdays APP
PEAL, requests us to say that he has never
affiliated with the Radical party, and that lie
never cast a vote in Shelby county previous to
the recent mayoralty election. We make this
statement in justice to Mr.. Aaron, who feels
aggrieved at the charge of having once been
Radical.
The National Re publican W orkingmen
party have adopted the course of pre-
senting pictorials to their followers as the
! only means of enlightening them on issues
that they cannot comprehend in stern facts
and sound reason. They have painted a
''greenback bill and an eagle" on a piece of
canvass and stretched it across Second street.
Yesterday they autographed a ghost criminal
court bill, and we are promised next a
Chinese ''tea-label," the latter proving the
most interesting OF the series yet presented.
An important sale of city property took
place yesterday, 10 which that valuable prop
erty on the south side OF Beale street, be-
tween st. Martin and Mulberry streets,
changed hands on a cash transaction. The
lot fronts one hundred and eighty-three feet
on Beale, running back one hundred and
sixty-seven feet on both the other streets, and
was sold by DIR. Hobson to Stephen Fransloi
for nineteen thousand dollars in cash. This
was not "bad transaction considering how
the croakers are attempting to cry deprt cia
ton of property.
-Rowdyism is much to be regretted in any
community and when any SET of men so far