Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-25
OLIVER, FINNIE & co
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Weather very agreeable.

Inc races come OH tomorrow.
Soda water and mead in strong demand.
The river is getting down to hard-pan,
as it were.
"A gentle breeze was felt throughout the
whole of yesterday.
Usual Wednesday night church services
were held last night.
up to twelve o'clock last night only four
arrests had been made.
The Chickasaws entertained visitors at
their new armory last night.
The alarm of FIRE sounded at six o CLOCK
last evening proved 10 be false.
Educational institutions are advertising
their advantages for fall sessions.
One drunk was registered on the police
docket at one o'clock this morning.
The occupants of the courthouse at this
time are kept busy tanning away flies.
To man full of questions make no an
swer, especially interferers of meetings.
Quite number of country friends were
in the city yesterday, buying and trading.
Steamboats, have trouble at Caseyville
bar, the worst place known in the Ohio river.
-Housekeepers are dealing heavily in
fruit for the purpose of preserving for winter
use.
What men are deficient in reason they
make up in rage-Uide the National-Repub
hcan.
Pug dogs, in enamel and gold, with
jewels for eyes, have appeared for sleeve
buttons.
Crops IN the country are reported in a
furnishing condition; all that is needed is a
little rain.
-The body of Policeman M'Graths son
was inferred in Calvary cemetery yesterday
morning.
Lucy Bryles and M. L. Taylor, both col
ored, were arrested Tuesday night for illegal
cohabiting.
-Lamp-lghters were engaged in cleaning
lamps yesterday from the dust that frequently
covers them.
Peaches are plentiful, and choice and
fresh picked are selling at forty to forty-tive
cents per box.
The case of Dennis MFarlin, the as
saulter of the chain-0ang, was continued till
the twenty-f fifth.
-"Gone to the country" are the cheering
words a sunstruck local editor has left on his
door for bill collectors.
1t is stated that at least two hundred and
fifty visitors to The springs and watering
places have left our city.
The big races at the park tomorrow
must draw multitude Of people. See adj
vertlsement for particulars.
Keep your head cool, have patience with
warm weather, and at the coming election
vote the straight Democratic ticket.
-Freights from st. Louis to New Orleans
rule at ten cents per one hundred pounds,
and twenty cents per barrel on flour.
The colored people will have an excur-
sion next Saturday to Grenada, the occasion
being that of grand church meeting.
The great third ward meeting of the
Democrats on Tuesday night was the chief
topic among the politicians yesterday.
The first bale of new cotton shipped from
Texas was received at st. Louis on Saturday
last and sold at thirty one cents per pound.
-Malarial fever is the chief sickness
among our citizens. Captain Hardwick ID
quite i'll at his residence on Pontotoc street.
Dissatisfied parties endeavored to get up
a fight last night on Monroe street. but the
stiff breeze blowing at the time cooled them
off.
Our acknowledgements and visitors play
chess, boys play marbles, and the girls engage
in mumble-peg during the cool hours of the
day.
AT one time on Madison street yesterday
seven wagons were arranged alongside of
the pavement, peddli0g cantaloupes and
peaches.
The alarm of fire at twelve o'clock last
night was occasioned by a small blaze in the
machine shops of the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad.
Only few days more are left in which
tickets can be bought in the next drawing Of
the Commonwealth distribution company.
See their card
by invitation, Colonel John G.. Burch,
who is candidate for governor of Tennes-
see, will speak to-day at the Democratic bar
becue at Bartlett.
Last evening three cases were recorded
on the police docket. They were for sus-
piclon of larceny, keeping vicious dog, and
disorderly conduct.
Tomorrow night the people of Memphis
will be addressed at the Memphis Theater
by Captain John Cowdon, on the i'm prove
ment of the Mississippi river.
Aver d Son S Manual contains much in
formation of value to advertisers. Sent free.
Address n. w. Aver & Son, advertising
agents, Times building, Philadel phia
An excursion train, with a number of
calored people, for Grenada, Mississippi, will
ave Memphis at ten o'clock Saturday night.
Ihey go to take part in the religious meeting.
S. B. Dickens. No. 255 Second street,
sells the weekly story papers cheaper than
any one In the city; also the Irish World and
Detroit Free Press at five cents per copy.
Give him a call.
The sport of the month can be enjoyed
at olympic park tomorrow. by reference
to the advertisement in another column it
will be seen that we are to have three fast
races, in which some of our best horses will
be entered.
The Democratic club Of the eighth ward
know how to treat public In attendance on
speaking. Cooling the grounds off with
water, providing benches for the audience
and brilliant lights, that the speakers may be
seen, are good works.
The fire alarm last evening proved to be
the burning of sawdust and light wood in the
boiler-room of WilliaEpss saw mill, above the
county jail. The fire was discovered in time
tO prevent much damage. Twenty-Five or
thirty dollars will cover the loss.
Yesterday the library of Memphis, ia
Odd-Fellows hall, received per express, free
of charge, thirty-seven handsomely bound
volumes, the same being Rratuitous contri-
button from the American Unitarian associ-
alton, of Boston, Massachusetts. The public
are invited to call and see.
The National Greenback party has ex-
tended a canvas banner from the Jefferson
block to a residence opposite, on Second
street, with the names of the Radical candi-
dates painted on one side aud picture of
greenback on the opposite. What reason
won't accomplish paint may.
The Touring mill on Short Third street,
near the bayou, and just north of Beale