Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-12
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street.
"A social basket picnic will be given 10y a
number OF gentlemen, at FitZgibbon' s grove,
| on Sunday next The train will start from
the Louisville depot at half-past seven O'Clock
in the morning.
Thursday and Friday nights Eext the
! ladies of the Baptist church at Bartlett will
entertain their friends at the courthouse with
an ice cream and strawberry festival. 1t will
be an elegant social affair.
in another column will be found notice
| as to the proposed excursion from this city to
Paris, France. All applications must be
made before the sixteenth instant to the sec
rotary of the cotton exchange.
The repeal of the bankrupt law of the
| United States will take effect on the first Of
September next, providing the house of rep
| resentatives agrees to the senate amendment
as to the date of its taking effect.
| Leslie illustrated Newspaper, with pic
ture of the Paris Exposition, SIX cents pei
copy; Detroit Free Press, FIVE cents per copy,
| and all the late papers and magazines at ).
B. Dickens's, No. 285 Second street.
-Postmaster-G General Key thinks he may
be abb iiver an Grafton here on the
| Fourtg J y. Should he come, he will
| probaba.,., q. his statement as 10 the fraud
uleDt election Oi Hayes as President.
AS the time approaches for the perform
| ance-hop and concert-giVen by the Milan
club for the various orphan asylums in the
city, the sale of tickets increases to such an
extent that the managers feel confident Of
| success.
The Memphis Lac Journal Mr.. NJ. B.
Irrelevant, editor and proprietor, is winning
| favor among the lawyers of this and adjoin-
ing States. 1t is ably edited and conducted,
and has as contributors the best legal minds
of the State.
The Fenian brotherhood, of Memphis,
| intend holding grand picnic at Estlval park,
on June 9Th. Judging from the we'll known
| characteristics of the gentlemen who have it
| in charge, there is no doubt that It will be an
/ immense success
| Subscribe for the great fireworks display.
| Already some OF our most liberal citizens
have contributed in a manner to insure sue
cess. Let everybody make up his mind what
he can afford, and giUe it. Don't say !" Call
again, | haven't made up my mind.
The Lexington, Kentucky, races COM
menced yesterday On Monday the great
mile-and- "a half dash with Ten Brock, King
Faro, Aristides, and other good ones, will be
| run, and one of the finest contests that ever
took place on the turf will be witnessed.
| Cooley and Peterson, for June; also,
| Frank Leslie'S Illustrated, containing large
steel engraving of the Paris Exposition; price
ten cents; The Great IhirstLand, by Parker
Gilmore, and The Story Of Elisabeth, by
| Thackeray; ten cents each, at r. Ii. Spang-
ler's, 1856 Main street.
"A Cairo, Illinois, telegram to the st.
Louis Republican says: Sam Blue, an es-
capped convict from the penitentiary at Nash
vile, Tennessee, was captured at Paducah by
| Chief Police C.. d. AFTER, of this city, and
sent to Memphis, il char &c of Officer Shee-
| han. He is confidence man and thief
| for hi A.
| ing line? If so, go to Mansford's, corner
Second and Monroe streets. There can be
| found everything In the way of novels, re-
views, magazines, periodicals and dailies-
| in fact, the largest selection of reading mate
rial in the southern States. Go there and be
convinced.
Yesterday, at chancery sale. the foundry
establishment of A j Risk & Co., formerly
Johnson & Risk, was sold at public auction
at and for the sum of six thousand dollars.
1t cost some sixty thousand dollars. The
purchasers were J. F. Frank & Co. We
| have not been advised as to what disposition
is to be made of The foundry works.
For the accommodation of visitors to the
competitive drill between the Chickasaw
Guards and the Bluff City Grays on May
oath, the Memphis and Charleston railroad
| will run special trains between Memphis and
| the Fair grounds at regular intervals on that
| day. Fare for the round trip, twenty-five
| cents.
Charles Wilkins, colored, some eight
months ago, cut with knife negro woman
named "Horse- Head-Lou," alias Lucinda
Taylor, resident of Hell's Half Acre, and
managed to escape arrest. Last evening he
returned to the city, and meeting up with
Lucinda ON fernando street, cut her with a
knife second time. He has not as yet been
arrested
Yesterday afternoon two white and two
colored boys were playing on a raft in the
| bayou Gayoso, between Vance and Elliott
streets and one of the colored boys fell over
board and was drowned in four feet of water.
His body was recovered in a few minutes, but
life was extinct. Esquire Elliott held the in
| quest and the jury returned verdict of death
from accidental drowning.
Now that the dog days are near, the
usual cry of hydrophobia will soon be started
by the press, which sometimes needlessly
| alarms the public on this matter, and scares
persons into believing they have the rabies
by causing them to brood over the subject.
The old couplet should be recollected-
The man recovered from the bite,
AT the circuit court of Shelby county a
divorce petition has been filed by r. M. Car
roll as. John L. Carroll, alleging that they
lntermarried in Lee county, Arkansas, in
| 1863 and removed to Shelby county during
the same year. She charges the defendant
with drunkenness, failure to support, cruel
and inhuman treatment, etc. She prays for
divorce, and to be restored to her former
name, Mrs. R. M. Gibson.
The attention of our readers is called to
the change of the schedule on the Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad, which takes effect
to-day. New Orleans mail train leaves daily
at 2:30 pm and arrives at 1910 pm. Sar-
dis accommodation leaves daily Sundays ex-
cepted) at $40 pm, arriving at Memphis
$50 am. Passengers leaving on 2:30 pm.
| train arrive at New Orleans at GALS the fol-
lowing morning.
Mr.. A. G. Harris, in another column,
announces himself as a candidate for the Of
fee of clerk of the criminal court. Mr.. Har-
ris is so well known In our city that it is un-
necessary to introduce him to the public. He
possesses all the elements and capacity neces-
sary to make good public officer, and should
he be elected he will serve the people faith
fully and well, and will fill the efice in a
most creditable manner.
| Last week gentleman obtained mar
rage license of the clerk of the county court
but he stated that he was not exactly certain
that the girl would marry him, and he re-
quested that the publication of the names be
| kept out of the papers. The good-natured
reporters granted the request. The girl did
refuse to marry him, and left the marriage
license on his hands as a S0NrentT or Inc past,
and now he can sing, Thou art so near, and
yet so far"
The supreme court for the western dis
trict of Tennessee yesterday granted a
new trial to Henry Smith, colored, and re-
manded the case to the criminal court. Some
time since Smith was convicted of the MUIR
der of CLANCY Long, colored, whom he
slaughtered with an ak while she was lying
asleep in bed in South Memphis. The case
will now have 10 be tried over again
Messrs. John T. Moss and Frank Bras, his
counsel, argued the case on motion for a new
trial before the supreme court.
| Mr.. Penn holds three of the gospel meet.
ings to-day in the First Baptist church, al
eleven o'clock In the morning, and at foul
and FIVE o'clock in the evening, and the fourth
tonight in the Greenlaw operahouse, by
special invitation extended the church
through him. Great good has been accom-
plished during the'past week by these meet
ings, and doubtless they will be continued
till their influence is felt throughout the com
munity. The meeting at four in the evening
is for unregenerate men and boys, and at five
for ladies and girls. No others are invited
to these special meetings.
Mr.. Sidney S. Dare, who was arrested or
the charge of committing grave offense a
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