Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-17
OLIVER, FINNIE & CO
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

| The Bartlett circuit court is engaged in
| trying the felony docket.
The Chickasaw Guards were out indulg-
ing in street drill last evening.
Hunting cool shades is the especial BUSH
ness of many Memphians at present.
The thermometer ranged from ninety
two to ninety-tive degrees yesterday.
The canvass back ducks" is what a wit
calls the candidates for county Offices.
None but the rich deserve the watering
places" remarked a communist yesterday.
Charles Smith, butcher, become over
heated yesterday and received slight sun
stroke.
in business circles but little is doing
| The heat seems to have caused a stagnation
in trade.
Thomas Stack, who died from sunstroke
Monday last, was buried yesterday at Calvary
cemetery.
How pleasant it would be if we could
only get up a GOODNESS between US and the
| clerk of the weather.
| Front street is the great mart for eggs
| ami chickens, which come in large censign-
ments to the merchants.
over one thousand citizens attended the
political barbecue held at Kerrvie, on the
| Paducah railroad, yesterday.
The Republicans and Nationalist held a
political meeting last night. at the Beale
street Market house, fifth ward.
After the first of August the National
and Republican nominees will hobble to the
rear, and seek the shores of Salt river.
"A large number of the colored people of
the city went out to Raleigh yesterday, and
enjoyed barbecue and political rally.
1t was rumored last night that Charles
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to his room from an attack of sunstroke.
Never were there as many fans in active
| use In this city as now. Every citizen is try
ing to RAISE the wind in an independent
manner.
Sleeping out-cf- doors at night would be
just the thing were it not for the pesGiterous
moequitoes, that murder sleep as etfectually
as did Macbeth.
The lowering clouds obscured the sun
! during portion of yesterday. Is the back
bone OF the heated term broken, or what
Probably the latter.
The street-car company mules now wear
| green boughs on Their heads as a proven tive
against sunstroke. Great BIrnam woods have
come to Dunsinane.
-Mansford received last night full line
of new novels In large print-just the thing
for travellers. Go there and make a selection.
| You can be pleased
John Owens, colored, residing on Beale
! street, near DeSoto, was sunstruck yesterday.
Last evening he had spasnls and fits, and was
In dangerous condition.
Owing to the intense heat the trotting
races, which have been advertised tn take
| place at Olympic park tomorrow CThurs-
| day., have been postponed.
In the sixth ward tonight, at the corner
of Main and Pontotoc streets, grand Demo-
cratic rally will be held. A number of able
speakers will be in attendance.
Angel Raggio, youth. fell PROSTATE on
the street, from heat, yesterday forenoon. He
was conveyed home and proper restoratives
were administered. He will recover.
AT the Office of the clerk of the chancery
court Celestine Cronin has fled bill for di-
vorce against Michael Cronin, on the ground
of inhuman treatment, abandonment, etc.
The sun sank gloriously in the west yes
terday afternoon. 1t was gorgeous sunset,
equal to those of Italy which we read about
In the correspondence of European tourists.
The Democrats, Nationalist and Rad
icals are holding stump meetings all over
town nightly. The speakers overflow with
eloquence and perspiration, and the crowds
enjoy the scene.
"A gentleman who arrived here from
Chicago yesterday says that on Monday at
Nation and other points in central Illinois
lQQlCdIeu
grees in the shade.
The recorders docket contained but two
cases for trial yesterday morning, and these
were light misdemeanors. The weather is
too hot for people to engage in difficulties
with their neighbors.
The canvass is being conducted in an
earnest andspolite manner 10y the Democracy.
The same cannot be said of many of those
who are conducting the canvass on the side
of the neutrality-suspicious..
Yesterday a wood wagon driver, named
Allen, received a sunstroke on the street He
was conveyed to his home, on Ruth street,
near Vance, and is recovering.
Many man had a tbbage-leaf, or other
leaves. in his hat yesterday. People who had
to walk abroad in the sun poured ice-cold
water on their heads before they ventured to
beard old Sol in his bright domain.
The only people who seemingly do not
suffer from heat are the little folks. They
romp and play as usual, regardless of sun
shade, and are sunstroke proof. Tney do not
drink fiery draughts to excite the blood and
render them liable to sunstroke.
That thirty thousand dollar prize in the
New Orleans lottery was not won by two
Memphians, as published a few days since.
A forged ticket, upon which the figures had
been changed, caused the sensation.
The courthouse was deserted and echo
haunted building yesterday. The officials
and candidates went out either to the white
barbecue at Kerrvile, on the Paducah rail-
road, or to the colored picnic at Raleigh.
The minutes of the chancery court will
be signed on next Saturday, and court will
adjourn TO court in course, the first Monday
IN October, when the chancellor to be elected
In August will take his seat on the bench.
Late yesterday afternoon an Italian bar
keeper named Charley who works at Parodi's
saloon, on the corner of Beale and DeSoto,
received a sunstroke and soon became uncon-
scious. Last night 1t was believed that ne
would recover.
In the Shelby circuit court William Ray
has petitoned for divorce from Ellen Ray,
on the grounds of adultery, abandonment,
etc. In the court the divorce case of Dora
Walker against Edward Walker was on
hearing before Judge Heiskell.
The board of health, the improvement
committee and the city engineer have made
arrangements to work up the streets and al
leys, and place the city in good sanitary
condition Immediately. Now is the time to
go to work earnestly and faithfully.
Yesterday Esquire Egnew held an in.
quest on the body of colored boy, aged
about seventeen years, name unknown. The
body wa found In Wolf river, near the
waterworks. The jury was unable to identify
the BODY but he Is believed 10 be the son of a