Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-30
oliver. FINNlE & co
l.DCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The yelow-fever scare is about over in
Memphis.
-Cnllls and fever, with congestion, prevail
at present.
The banks are receiving kegs Of new sill
yer dollars.
All the courts Of record stand adjourned
for the present.
Light clouds occasionally interfered with
eclipse observers yesterday.
The bomd Of health held two meetings
yesterday. The board is actively at work.
"A few showers of rain yesterday did not
cool persons or things to any perceptible de-
gree.
MIR. 10 Bruce, j., leaves this morning
for brief soiourn in north and Middle Ten
nessee.
in the eastern and southern portions Of
the city very heavy rain fell yesterday at
ternOon.
If the Democracy stands firm the Demo-
cratic ticket will sweep the city and county
like tornado.
Thousands turned their eyes and thoughts
heavenward yesterday. and YET it was not
religious holiday.
Scores of citizens are leaving daily for
cooler clImes at watering places, mountain
tops, and sea shores.
DR.. d. D. Saunders has been elected
president of the board Of health, rice DIR. Il.
w. Mitchell resigned.
"A midsummer hop will be given at the
jackson house. Blount Springs, Alabama, on
the fifteenth of August.
Many citizens have sent their families
away for the summer, while they intend to
remain here themselves.
The Driving association are requested to
n 10 mark q CIY n
on business concerning all.
The boats lying opposite the batture will
be removed to-day, aud hereafter boats will
not be allowed to tie up there.
The Democracy meets at Hoegel's store,
in the thirteenth district, to-day, and in the
second and niuth wards tonight.
In st. Louis and Cincinnati they refuse
to pay more than five cents for a shOo-Hy OF
bscr. Why should we pay more here?
The criminal court was not IN session
yesterday. Saturday next court will convene,
with Special Judge OrvIlle lerger presiding.
Quarantine will be rigidly enforced from
to-day, and communication with New Or
leans entirely cut off. The board mean busi-
ness.
The usual weekly temperance meeting
tonight at the Congregational church on
Union street. Good speakers and good music
as usual.
It is satirical and almost insulting to ad-
wise people to keep cool during the present
heated term, even though election day is APP
preaching.
The Democrats of the city and county
should march up shoulder to shoulder to the
polls on Thursday and vote the straight Dem
OCratic ticket.
DR.. A. A. Lawrence has been appointed
by the board of health resident physician at
the quarantine grounds, at the foot of Presi-
dents Island.
One more dav, and then the county cleo
ton, when the National Republican party
will go TO the wall and the Democracy will
come out ahead.
"A greater number of Memphians looked
through glasses, greater number Of times,
Yesterday than ever before. The glasses con-
tanned nothing but smoke.
The sun was eclipsed yesterday. At this
point 1t was observed closely by hundreds of
observers, who attempted the business with
the aid of opera glasses, smoked-glass, etc.
1t is said that twenty-five negro men
have been selected in the several country dis
tlicts to prevent Democratic negroes from
voting. Will the executive committee at
tead to this?
-Chief-of Police Athy and Dr. Brown,
secretary of the board of health, were around
yesterday, as a committee, interviewing the
merchants as to quara9tining freight coming
from New Orleans.
Last Sunday Lewis Maraldi, a barber,
died suddenly of heart disease at his bard
lughouse on Union street. Esquire Spelman
inquesied the body, and the jury returned a
verdict in accordance with the above cause Of
death.
"A great deal depends on the business
men in the coming election. They should
close their business houses and give their en-
ployes q chance to vote and work for the DEM
ocratic ticket, and they should do so them
| selves.
Few people are indulging in matrimony
at present. The times are hard, the weather
is warm money is scarce, there was a solar
eclipse yesterday, there Will be an election
Thursday, and there was yellow-fever scare
few days ago.
The police are now acting as aids to the
! health board in ferretipg out bad-smellIne
nuisances throughout the city. At night many
! a vile smell, offensive to the nose and most
| injurious to health, can be discovered coming
| up through gratiDgs from sinks.
1t was rumored in the city yesterday
! that Sam Evans, treasurer of Coahoma couu-
! ty, Mississippi, had been shot and fatally
| wounded by a negro, last Friday evening, al
! Browns plantation, in that county. The
| negro escaped after the shooting.
The Quarantine and the ''eciipse" are
new summer-drinks just brought out. The
! were, for the time being from all Other
! drinks, while the ''eclipse" shuts you out from