Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-19

the purpose OF recognizing the club.
The Bluff City artillery company, Cap
tain Reudelhuber commanding, has disband-
ed. for the purpose OF reorganizing on more
solid basis "a to rules and regulations
In another column appears an article on
sunstroke which will command attention,
because it develops philosophical and prac-
teal theory As TO the cause CT the disease.
The board o, health street force, with
fre-plug aud hose. washed out several sec
tons Of alleys and street cutters yesterday.
Give the streets and alleys plenty OF water
Quite a pleasure exclusion trip was en-
ioyed by a number of citizens on board the
steamer VInt Shinklc last night. There was
vocal music, dancing, etc, and enjoyment
prevailed.
The maximum point reached in the sig
nal service yesterday afternoon was ninety
FIVE degrees, a shade lower than on the day
before. Even Tor that little We owe 'Oid
Probs." thanks.
The six thousand dollars of Charleston
railroad frst-mortgage bonds, mentioned IN
the APPEAL OF yesterday morning, sold for
one-half per cent. above par, and not one
fourth per cent. as published.
-Poney Saunders, one OF the roughs who
assaulted Captain Reudeihuber at the picnic,
was yesterday brought to this city from Sena,
tobia, Mississippi, hy Sheriff Matthews, OF
Tate county, and lodged IN jail.
Yesterday afternoon. Charley Weber,
driver of a saltwater factory, received a
sunstroke, and was carried to his home, on
Beale street. Proper restOrahves were APP
piled in time. He will recover.
Front street is pleasant place to loaf In
the forenoon, when the western breeZes blow,
but In the afternoon, when the horizontal
rays of the sun strike the buildings, other
loatng places are more pleasant.
The Aualanchian, in his account OF the
Greenaw 0perahOuse National meeting,
wrote as follows: General Vaughan came
forward on his crutch, amid great applause.
This is not as complimentary as "hobbllng to
the front.
Hon. Casey Young will address his fellow
citizens tonight, on the bluff, or the subject
of national and local politics. The bluff will
be crowded on this occasion, because all are
anxious to hear Colonel Young on the ques-
tons OF the day.
Tomorrow evening Democratic meetings
will be held at Collierville and on the corner
of Jackson and Main streets, first ward: Hon.
J. r.. Chalmers, Colonel CAN'T, Hon. George
B Peters and General Horrigan will address
the first warders.
Quite a number of citizens became
slightly overheated yesterday, and had to
retire from the street and seek their homes
fox rest They had sun-headaches and dlzzl-
ness, and wisely retired from business IN time
to prevent sunstroke.
Yesterday Messrs. Jones & Baldwin
architects, closed the contract for the compile
ton of the Masonic Temple, corner OF Second
aGd Madison streets. The building will be
three stories, and will be completed by the
FIRST of November. The building will cos
twenty-five thousand dollars.
n A. l1,,R Hon Cacav Ycnuc
| will deliver a brilliant speech. Colonel Roo
ert Haywood, of Haywood county. and the
original greenback theory man OF tennessee
will deliver a short speech especially ad
| dressed to the Nationallsts of the city, wh(
are invited to attend and hear him.
! Our misunderstanding reporte., being
/ informed tnat a German had received sun
| stroke Yesterday afternoon, and was dying a
Jake Stoltz's, on Main street, near Adams
repaired TO that place for information. HI
discovered that. instead of a sunstroke. the
man had been bucked down by KING Gam
brinuss favorIte beverage, lager-beer. III
will recover, but will have a headache thi
morning.
| No Judge has been selected by the law
yers as vet to preside on the criminal cour
| bench during the absence of Judge Logwood
| who has gone to Minnesota on a summer anC
/ health tour; consequently no court has beer
/ IN session Tor several Gays, J1e COuTJ DeIDs
adjourned daily by the clerk from day to day
! On the first of August next General Horrigai
will be elected judge Of the court, and viii
! take his seat on the first of September next
as provided by law.
Anew four story building is to he erected
/ at No. l6 Union street, between Main ant
| Front, by Napoleon Hill and E. c. M0sby
The building will be seventy by fifty feet deep
| four stories high, and, in addition, thir'
/ 10 ha oAI hT1Il5
ing, now occupied by John Lilly, Gquo
dealer. The new building, when completed
will be occupied by G. A. Eckerly & Brothers
wholesale grocers, cotton factors, etc. Ih
new building will be quite au improvement
on that side of Union street.
In 1873 w. H. Nesbitt, while ridInl
! along Madison street, received serious lpJu
| lies, being thrown from his horse, which hat
I become frightened at some cotton bales tba
/ blockaded the street in that locality. HI
brought suit against the city, claiming twent,
| thousand dollars damages, and when the trla
of the case came off, the jury in the circui
court gave him a verdict for five Thousand
dollars, but new trial was granted. Th'
city then fled as plea the statute of Inn
itations, claiming that the suit was barred
| Yesterday the hearing of the case came Oh
| this plea in the Shelby county circuit court
| and a verdict was found for the city. An ap
!
| Nesbltt's attorneys.
The ague, or old-fashioned shaking chill
prevails to considerable extent in the cit
| at present. At a certain railroad ticket office
not far from Main and Madison street, yes
! terday, st. Louis man walked In and sa
| down in a chair. In few seconds he began
| twisting, jerking and Wringing his hands
| He shook all over and his teeth chartered
! The railroad man looked at him, thought b
/ had a fit or a sunstroke, and was about t
seize the pitcher of ice water and apply 1T a
! remedy in a summary manner, bat he hes
| ltatcd, and excitedly asked: 'What, unde
| heaven, is the matter with you?" The mai
rolled his eyes, shook worse than ever, an
stammered out: OIL ha-ha-have "a
chi-chi-chill" my God," exclaimed tn
railroad man, ~ thought you had sun
stroke. A chill, you say? Why chill is
luxury in such weather as this
The contract 10 build the Carver gin an
machine company shops was given to the fol
lowing parties yesterday morning, and tn
work was commenced yesterday afternoon
Messrs. Bosnian & Rich have the contract 70
the carpenter work, painting and roofing, an
Mr. Isaiah Stevenson the brick work. TIL
main building is to be forty feet, fronting o.
Shelby street, and eighty feet deep frontin
on M'Call street, two stories high; the ofic
on Shelby street, adjoining the building
twenty-five feet square, with an engine an,
boiler room twenty by thirty feet. They hav
also contracted with the Atlas Corliss works
located at Indianapolis, Indiana, for one {
their fine engines of thirty-horse power. A
the buildings are to be of brick, with iro
roof and shutters, ire-proof in all Particular
The building will be complete, and the ma
chinery in running order, and occupied with