Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-13

Daughter Of the Regiment Monday and
Wednesday nights.
Cotton continues to advance, to the Joy of
sellers and the sorrow of purchasers.
"A butterfly and humble-bee were among
the spring arrivals at Court square yesterday
The services at many of the churches to-
day will be imposing, and the music by the
choirs will be excellent.
Many courthouse officials, notwithstand-
ing the cut-down in salaries by the leglsla-
ture, are off on fishing excursions IN Ar
kansas.
Spring silks and other light wear were
exhibited by the ladies on the streets yester-
day. The spring bonnets and dresses VIII De
at the different churches to- day.
AT two o'clock tomorrow, Captain Paul
Bovton will don his india-rubber suit and
paddle from the landing at the foot OF Jetfer-
son street, on his voyage to the Crescent City.
He is positively coming. A telegram re-
ceiyed Yesterday from New York, says Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher will surely deliver
lecture in Memphis on May 18th. This is
official.
Tomorrow evening at the Theater the
Memphis opera club will present that pleas
ing opera entitled Daughter Of the Regiment.
The different roles will be filed By we'll
known amateurs.
Tomorrow holiday will be celebrated
at Liverpool and all over England. Banks
and exchanges will be closed, so no tele-
graphic reports need be expected from that
island tomorrow.
Lent has ceased to exist, and the happy
Easter season has arrived. Those who had
been wearing sackcloth and ashes, and who
had been furnishing the flesh by praying and
fasting during the past peniteDtial forty
days, can now smile again and return to the
giddy world and It's pomps, pleasures, frivol-
tiles, vanities and vexations of the spirit.
The temperature of the Mississippi be-
tween here and Cairo at present is from
thirty-eight to forty degrees, so says Captain
Boyton, who is good authority, he having
floated down the river from the mouth of the
Ohio.
The Easter anniversary of Calvary (Epis-
copal church Sunday school will be cele-
brated tomorrow at eight o'clock in the
evening. Right Rev. Bishop Quintard will
deliver an address upon this interesting &C.
casion.
Commodore AID Storm kindly rendered
Captain Boyton a magnificent model barge
last evening, to assist the steamer General
Pierson in transporting the crowd of people
who are gong to the great exhibition this
afternoon.
All outdoor games are giving away to
the coming amusement of archery. large
invoice, the first in our city, has been re-
ceived by Mansford, at 29S Main street
bows, arrows, targets, and everything wanted
by archery clubs.
The Paul Boyton excursion beat, General
PiersoD, will leave the foot of Jefferson street
this afternoon at one O'Clock to carry passen-
gers up 20 the rowboat raclng-course, above
Mound City, where Captain Boyton will give
a water exhibition in lifesaving suit.
The Brownsville (Tenn) Bee, of the
eleventh, says: "a lodge of b mai B 'rith, with
the name of West Tennessee, was organized
by our Jewish fellow citizens on Thursday
night. They will have a nice room fitted up
on East Main street. We wish the new or
der much success.
"A FIRE occurred at fifteen minutes of three
o'clock this morning in Mrs. Wupperman's
grocery store, corner of the alley, between
Main and Second streets and Poplar. We
were unable to learn the cause of the fire,
the owner of the building or the amount OF
the insurance, if any, upon it.
AT Calvary (Episcopal) church the choir
will consist of Mrs. Czapski, Mrs. Moyston.
Miss Mcclellan, Mr.. Gage, Mr.. Kirkland and
others. The opening hallalujah will be
Christ our Passover, by Willard. Other mu-
steal features are to be the FeStirGl TIE Deum,
by Dudley Buck; JubiIdte, by Hanks, and
Comfort the People, by Verdi, at the offertory.
Fifteen voices will assist in rendering
Mozart's Twelfth mass to-day at st. Peters
Catholic church. Among them will be the
accomplished tenor, Mr.. Martin, who will
sing the Teni Creator Come, Holy Spirit,
from II. Millard's mass. At the offertory MIR.
Martin will assist in the trio and chorus,
Grandeunus (Diabelli), with Mrs. Miles and
Mr.. Carey.
The ball to be given by the police force
is postponed, and will come off on Thursday,
the seventeenth, owing to the opera nights
interfering. Ladies going to this ball with
ont masks will be admitted free; others must
pay their way In and submit to committees
examination as they pass. The galleries will
be reserved for ladies not wearing masks, and
maskers will not be permitted In the galleries.
Billy Lieben's book and news depot,
23615 Main, corner of Jefferson, is the place
to get your Sunday reading matter. He has
a large supply of SeaSides and Franklin
Libraries, from ten cents up to forty cents,
the cheapest reading matter published. He
also has Cooley, Peterson, Pleasant Hours,
and Lsslie'S Sunday Magazine, all for May.
Give Billy Sunday call. He will close at
one o'clock sharp.
AT a meeting of Constantine lodge No.
% Knights of Pythias, April 10th, Grand
Vice Chancellor E. S. Mallory presiding, the
following officers were elected and installed
A. Creighton, ast-chancellor; J. W. Ward,
chancellor commander; w. Z. Mitchell, vice
chancellor; ]. A. Slaughter, prelate; c. z.
Barton, keeper of record and seals; A. d.
Langstaff, master of exchequer; A. G. Rodg-
ers, master of finance.
Yesterday, at olympic park, the match
trotting race, mile dash to harness and rule.
came off, resulting as follows: Dickerson's
black horse, Sommerville, driven by South
Harris, won the race in 3:20, beating the
spotted horse, Silver Cloud. The horses
were ruled to go any gait except a run. The
second race was an exhibition trot between
Clark 8 mare Sophia and Charles /, best two
in three. The race was won by Sophia in
two straight heats. The time was fast,
little under three minutes. The races were
well attended and the sport was good.
The marriage-lcenses issued during the
past week were as follows: Whites-Sam 3.
Williamson and Miss Katie Boylan, Joe Fran
siola and Mrs. Mary Stewart. COlOred-O. +.
Wilson and Eliza Jane Pope, Andy Dorsen
and Mary Calhoun, Smith Wellborn and
Harriet George, A. Cox and G. holland, Mar
tin Whitesde and Lally Semmes, Harrison
Harris and Mazda M 'Donald, VIM. Gaths
and Harriet Bcowder, Fred Langs on and
Fanny Boyle, VIM. Ray and Ann Bally, Ruff
lin Alternately and Jane Jackson, J. w. Adj
ans and w. Rawlings. Miced-Ju Lee Hang
and Patsy Freeman.
Work on the customhouse progresses
slowly. The marble contractors are finishing
the stone, but not In a manner to hurry up
the erection of the building. The stone-set-
ting contractors were here last week, but
would not go to work because a sufficient
amount of stone had not been cut. Yester-
day the government inspector of setting stone
was examing the stone cutting at the custom
house grounds and inquiring into the delay
of the work, The first course of marble for
the first story will not probably be laid before
the first of next month, yet the first story
ought to have been finished by the fifteenth
of that month.
the week ending six o'clock Saturday even
ING Apri ~ 1879,