Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-02-26
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

To-day is a day Of fasting and prayer.
Next year W. will have q sure enough
Mardi-Gras.
| o'clock last evening.
| At the Theater tonight Miss GenevIevt
Rogers viii appear n Cousin Rory.
The skies were cloudy yesterday, bu
| Dame Nature smiled on Mardi-Gr as usual
The commissioners and the Legislative
council viii meet at the courtroom this after
noon,
The customhouse slone-cqtters are on
! strike for higher wages against the con.
| tractors.
The girl on horseback riding astride like
a man, appeared on Main street yesterday en-
costume.
The Lent regulations in the Catholic
church as to fasting are the same as for the
past two years.
TIN horns were vigorously footed by the
small boys and girls Of the period on yester-
day, all over Memphis.
The Eagle baseball club has challenged
the RlveIsides to q game 10 be played next
Sunday, weather permitting.
New Orleans, Mobile and Galveston in
duge1 in a Mardl-Gras carnival yesterday,
ana business was generally suspended.
The drill Of the Chickasaw Guards and
Bluff City Grays, on the bluff yesterday after
noon, was Witnessed by FIVE thousand peo-
pie.
The German Casino club will soon give
to the public the well-kuown attractions
Daughter If the Regiment and Belle Of Sara
togg.
Several rnasquaradiug females applied
Tor admission at the Iheater last night, but
were not admitted because they raSlsed TO
uDmask on entering the Theater.
At the Theater matinee yesterday fair
audience was present TO witness Genevieve
Rogers as Maud Muller. Last night she ap-
Dearad n the Ticket Of LeaUe Nan.
Had there been a general celebration Of
MareI-Gras IN Memphis, ten thousand
strangers would have visited US and would
have enjoyed the amusements presented.
Yesterday Court Square was crowded by
people, and Main street was packed, by those
VINO wanted 20 witness what little Mardi-
Gras celebration WAS on the carpet or the
streets.
The sale of seats for the Milton Mobiles
engagement at the Theater, which engage
ment Will commence tomorrow night, will
open out at HOilenberg's at ten o'clock this
morning.
There will be a delightful musicale at the
residence Of Mayor Beard, 36I Linden street,
for the benefit Of DR.. Boggs, on Friday even
ing next, under the auspices of the ladies of
the Second Presbyterian church.
The children masqueraded in numbers
on the streets yesterday, as did also a num-
Der OF oder people, principally young girls
and women. But few men appeared on the
streets IN masquarading attire.
To-day IS Ash Wednesday, the frst day
Of Lent. It is so called from a castom of the |
Roman Catholic church Of sprinklIng ashes |
that day on the heads, or rather foreheads, of |
Penltents then admitted to penance.
The legislative council will probably |
elect a hospital physician at their meeting |
this afternoon. DR.. Thornton, ex-hospitgI |
and now president OF the board of |
health, recommends Or. Tyner for that posi-
lion.
The App-Hackett murder case, on trial |
1t the criminal court, will be concluded to- |
lay. The lawyers engaged in trying the case
axe all loug-wlnded and will take their time
% express their ideas on one side or the
lther.
Yesterday evening the Tennessee club
DOM, as usual. was thrown open to ladies,
members and strangers. The reception was
8TEeiy attended, and the musical selections
we're sJperby rendered. Il was a most en-
lyaJle entertainment, and will long be re-
rendered with pleasure by those who were
resent.
The Sunday Order" suppressing whisky
hops, cigar stores, confectionery stores, etc,
s now laughed at by all sensible people, after
he farce OF Sunday last. Never were so