Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-14
OLIVER. FINNIE & CO
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

School board meeting tomorrow night
| Monday, July 10Th, the great solar
eclipse will occur.
| festival park will be open to visitors free
of charge this afternoon
| The Thermometer at two o'clock yester-
day indicated ninety four degrees of heat.
| AT Central park, this afternoon, game
of baseball will be played by the Eckfords
and Riversides.
Keep cool, and you will not receive a
sun-stroke from the heavens or a son-stroke
from humanity.
| -Vespers at st. Joseph's church at four
o'clock. an Italian sermon will be delivered
immediately after.
| The Democrats OF the ninth ward, Che-
sea, rallied last night in force, and were adj
dressed by able speakers.
The State Democratic convention will as
semble at Nashville, on the fifteenth of Au-
gust, TO nominate aeandidate for governor.
| Rev. DR.. Slater, of the First Methodist
church, will deliver discourse tonight on
the evil OF intemperauce. All az, cordially
invited.
From the country comes the news that
many mules at work in the fields have been
FRUSTRATED by the intense heat, and several
mules died from the effects of sunstroke.
"A Memphian just returned from st.
Paul, Minnesota, says that 1t is by many de-
| grees hotter at st. Paul and St. Louis than at
| Memphis. The heat all over the north is ex-
cessige.
1t is rumored that one of the three citi-
| zens who compose, own and control the street.
L car corporation has offered his stock for SALE
with view of selling out and engaging In
/ some other business.
| Go to Dickens's curiosity shop, No. 2S5
| Second street and buy your Sunday reading.
/ You will find all the late papers, magazines,
I etc. Frank Leslie's Newspaper, six cents
| per copy; Irish World, FIVE cents per copy.
-"Othello," the Moor, smothered to dea'h
| his white wife, "Desdemona," at seaport
| town in the island of Cyprus, which island
| now belongs to England having been taken
| possession of by English troops a few days
| since.
The Memphis Light Guards held meet
| ing at their armory last night, at which ten
active members were added TO the company
roster. They hold another meeting next Sat-
u~day night, at which the election of officers
will be completed.
Two trotting races will come off at Olym-
| pic park Thursday afternoon next, under the
l auspices of the Memphis driving association.
| Trains will run over the Louisville railroad at
regular hours. For particulars see adver-
l tlsement IN another column.
North american ReUieio for July and
Il
| late pictorials and a general stock of good
reading. Also, very large and select stock
of novels for five, ten, fifteen, twenty and
twenty-five cents. at r. II. Spangler's, 1856
Main street.
AT seven o'clock last evening fire broke
out IN a kitchen In the rear of the residence
on the southwest corner of Third and Ex-
change streets. The Adams street hose-car-
rage boys ran out their machine sand extn-
gulshed the flames before any amount of
damage ensued.
Judge Baxter, United States circuit court
Judge, has so far dealt lenently with viola
tors of the internal revenue laws, but at
knoxville, recently, on opening court. he an
nounced that hereafter those convicted of
such violations would be punished by impris-
onment in the penitentiary.
The charter of the carver gin and ma
chine company, of Memphis. was registered
by the secretary of state, at Nashville on
Friday last. Joseph g. Carver, John ID. Mil
burn, Charles I'll. M 'Dougal, Ben Richmond,
Thomas ii. Milburn and William J. Cole are
the names OF the Incorporators.
Star gazers can now amuse themselves
hunting up Prof. Swift's new comet in the |
constellation Hercules. 1t is large, faint, and
is moving slowly toward the southwest. 1t
can be found in right ascension about II 40,
defamation north eighteen degrees.
Thirty deaths were reported for last
week, of which number ten were
whites. Many physicians state that chills and
feyers prevail to considerable extent, and
colds are without number. They also state
that large number of children have been
attacked with brain fevers during the heated
term.
Ticket No. 92.843 drew thirty thousand
dollars In the July drawing of the Louisiana
lottery. The ticket was purchased In New
Orleans and Is held Jointly by Theodore Kre-
kel, book-keeper, and George Il. Herbers,
clerk at Cloth a. Kettmann's, of this city.
The ticket was examined by several gentle |
men last evening.
The place to get your Sunday reading |
matter is at Billy Lieben's, No. 2361k Main |
street. he has all the pictorials for the week |
and dailies of latest date He also has Godey /
and Peterson, HarRe''s Monthly, all for Au- |
gust He also has received supply Sea-
sides and Franklin Square Library Give
Billy your Sunday call.
Last night, on the corner of fernando
and Beale streets, a clerk in dry goods store
ne II by struck colored woman on the head
with a pair OF brass knuckles, infiicting Sc |
we're but not necessarily fatal wounds The
clerk, Oscar Franklin, aged twenty-one years,
was arrested by Patrolman Cullen, and was
locked up at the stationhouse to answer the
charge of assault and battery.
The great mule race tor the benefit of
the orphans comes off at Olympic park next
Thursday week. The slowest mule wins, and
no owner will be permitted to ride his own
mule. Each mule must be fourteen and
half hands high. The race will be for a
purse of fifty dollars. Those desiring to en-
gage in the race should see Peter Tracy at
once.
Yesterday A. A Slaughter, the young
man who, on the twenty third of last June,
shot Harry Dockery, colored. in Chelsea, sur
rendered himself to Judge Quigley, and was
released on giving bond OF two thousand
dollars for his appearance at the criminal
court Dockery, who was expected to die
from the wound he received has entirely re-
covered.
AT three o'clock yesterday afternoon
Henry Noll, German shoemaker, received
slight sunstroke while on his way from home
TO L1tz s shoe shop, on Madison street, between
Main and Second. The timely application of
ice and cold water and some stimnlant pre-
vented dangerous result. Mr.. Noil recov-
cred sufficiently within an hour to be able to
&c home.
The following new postofhces have been
established in this State: Clarks-
town, White county; Oak Ridge, Macon
county; Jones Mills, DeKalb county; Rocky
Knoll, Wayne county; Redmond, Scott
county; Casequille, Macon county; Cundall's
county; Mills Gap, Hawkins county; Linn,
Wilson county.
1T is raslter toe TT...:=.. - ss.;a poiirlcs
sven with candidate wisely remarked a
citizen yesterday, and another said: at the
candidates would quit talking shop and
would talk on general subjects, like other !
people, | would take greater pleasure in
Meeting them socially" and third added:
You see, no fellow wants TO be bored by an
,ther- fellow about the other fellows bust
iess."
There are one hundred and fifteen saloon.
ceepers doing business in Memphis. or at ]
east this is the number registered and /
licensed on the books of the county clerk.
he last grand jury of the criminal court
ouni two indictments against each saloon
eeDer for selling iduor on Sunday making | 4