Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-04
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Uncle Toms Cabin matinee at the
| theater to-day.
Tin a lawyer. and my name is Marks,
at the matinee to-day.
CHRISTMAS goods are being exposed
literally in store-wind0ws.
There will he no Mardi- Gras celebration
held hext year in Memphis.
E.-The pavements and crossin IS throughout
the city need repairing badly.
The cow-stealers are still on the war
path In the suburbs of the city.
The courthouse surrendered but few items
Of news to reporters yesterday.
The delightful weather creates bright,
smiling faces in business circles.
The membership rules of the cotton ex-
change are being enforced strictly.
Many elegant street dresses are exhibited
daily by the wearers on Main street.
The Shelby county medical society meets
at half past seven o'clock this evening.
"A peremptory call of the United States
court docket will be had on next Monday.
The usual Wednesday matinee, with
Uncle Toms Cabin and the charming Little
Eva.
Yesterday afternoon the police arrested
Arthur Doba, colored, on the charge of lar
ceny.
-DeSoto Masoic lodge met last night for
the purpose of preparing for the holding of
a lodge of sorrow.
AT the Theater matinee to-day and the
performance tonight Uncle TOMS Cabin
will be reproduced.
will be taken up on Monday next at the
United States court.
The colored young mems christian asso-
citation of Avery chapel gave pleasing en-
tertainment last night.
The case of the State rS J. Dawson, in
dictment for the murder of NJ. Griffin, is on
hearing at the criminal court.
On the sixteenth instant, Monday next,
Judge Baxter or Judge Brown, of Michigan
will preside at the United States court.
Next week, at the Theater, we will have
Il Celebrated Case, which will be produced
under the auspices of Shook & Palmer, of
New York,
The cotton exchange Committee on fax
baggiDg will meet this afternoon at three
o'clock. The committee will Investigate and
make report.
This morning, at st. Peters (Cathoiic)
church, requiem high mass will be celebrated
for the repose of the souls of the late Mr.. and
Mrs. !. j. Sullivan.
The daily proceedings of congress will
be read with interest by ali Memphians, es-
pecially since the quarantine report ana law
came up for action.
Police business is quite dull at present;
but little crime being committed in the city.
There is little petty stealing going on in
the suburbs.
The annual meeting Of the stockholders
of the Memphis and Charleston railway
takes place at ten o'clock to-day. See adj
yertisement elsewhere.
1t is estimated that not one man or
woman in Memphis read the Presidents
message from end to end. Life is too short
for so dull and dreary task.
The street carpenters forceS of the city
engineers Office was busy yesterday repairing
that dangerous crossing on the corner Of
West Court and Main streets.
The time-honored WAGNER of years ago
continues to appear daily on the bluff with
his wagon, mules and cotton bales. The
bluff now presents lively appearance.
The admiralty cases Of the steamers
Cheek, Illinois, and others, were heard by
Judge Hammond. of the United States court,
yesterday, and will be further heard to- day
"A tho of widows and widowers, from
near Shelby depot, appeared in town yester-
day morning and were united in matrimony.
The weeds were discarded for orange bios
SONS.
business streets yesterday. Merchants were
busy all the day long. A very large amount
of goods were sold. Trade was never as
brisk as at present.
The shipments of cotton yesterday ag-
gregated 1872 bales, against 1887 bales last
year at the same time. Total shipments
since September 1st, 1854 baies. Stock on
hand, II ,624 bales.
Joe Brucio, Waterman on the Lee
wharf boat, was arrested yesterday by tie |
police on the charge Of larceny, stealing
was found in his possession.
The receipts Of cotton yesterday, as re- |
ported to the cotton exchange, were 4l80 |
bales; at the same time last year, 22l4 bales |
aud the year before, 1851 bales. Receipts |
since September LIST, ia, 1874 bales; in 1877 |
1t the same time, las, ITO bales-a decrease |
If 1925 bales.
Early Tuesday morning the residence of |
pa George Cole, near Bartlett, in this county. |
vas totally destroyed by fire. DR.. Cole had |
10 insurance on the building or furnitures
The total loss is estimated at about three
thousand dollars.
Mr.. Schoolfield, representing a Chicago
eTelry house, recently lost a trunk full of
-aluables on the Mississippi Central railroad.
t was either misplaced or stolen. The con-
ents of the trunk are valued at some twenty
thousand dollars,
George App, who surrendered himself
sy or two ago, and who was committed to
all on a warrant charging him with the MUIR
er of John Hackett, had been secreted rear
.ucy, on the Paducah railroad, for time,
nd afterward over the river in Arkansas.
Drunkenness continues to be on the in
rease in this city. Some local philosopher
lsists that this state Of morality was caused
y the late epidemic, which made many peo-
lie somewhat reckless. But, then, scores of
eople who get drunk were not in Memphis
uring the plague.
Chief of Police Atby has received a
leck for three hundred dollars from Chief of {
Of &c Walling, of New York, to be distribu- /
d among those of the Memphis police force
no have suffered from yellow-feVer. Chief
tiny is distributing the fund among the
idows and orphans of the force. Z
Last neighbour reporter came across sew !
ral gentlemen who we're holding on to lamp l
osts on street corners, and were disposing of
IA n0nkania of their etomachs in ouifA n lih-