Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-02-27
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Tomorrow will be motion day at tn
| chancery court.
Bar meeting tomorrow morning at tn
chancery court-room-not the whisky bar
| but the other.
Yesterday Morris Thomas, colored
was arrested by Officer Jackson on the
| charge Of larceny.
The weather last night was damp anC
cool, making overco ats rather pleasant t
wear than otherwise.
On Mardl Gras hundreds of people VISITED
ElmwOod cemetery and spread flowers on toe
graves Of their friends.
At eleven o'clock last night the APPEAL
thermometer indicated twenty-nine degrees
or three degrees below freezing.
The police and FIRE commissioners and
the legislative council viii meet at the court
house to-day, at the usual hour.
Tonight Miss Gene7eive Rogers will
close her engagement at the Theater in her
new play entitled Cousin Rory
Frost and ice appeared yesterday mora
ing 10 the District. The same will DO dou (
be apparent early this morning.
-Mansford, 298 Main street, received las
night a new line of cheap reading. Call and
fEd the best assortment in TING city.
Next Monday night George C. Boniface
and company will commence an engagement
at the Theater IN the Soldiers Trust
Many q man and woman had headache
yesterday, IN consequence OF the designations
Of Mardi Gras night, INDUCED in by them.
The street-cleaning force was at work
yesterday on Main street, sCraping and sweep
hing up the mud and dirt and carting it away.
Yesterday afternoon g horse ran away
with a wagon on Main street, as the ire-en-
gine5 passed onward to North Memphis in
search Of q IRE.
The wanderers who went to New Or
leans from Memphis to witness the Mardi-
Gras entertainment will be back toward the
end Of the week.
The customhouse stoue.cutters still hold
out on q strike against the contractors. In
the meantime nothing is doing toward the
completion Of the building.
The squirrels at C0lrt square enjoyed
Mardi Gras, Tuesday last, because scores Of
people, old as well as young, fed the little
animals on cakes and nuts.
At the Catholic church yesterday ashes
were sprInkied on the religious people, as
usual on A-h-W Wednesday, the commence
ment Of the Lenten season.
The legislative council of the Taxing
District yesterday selected the following hos
pital commissioners: c. w. Cover, Robert
Galloway and John Overton, Jr.
Yesterday morning at ten o'clock the
the sale OF reserved seats commenced az Hol-
lenbGrg's for the Milton Mobiles engagement
at the iheater, which will commence to-
night.
The commissioners say the Sunday law
will be enforced or Sunday next. Another
trial VIII be given to the ordinance Of the
District. IC will result just as it did on Sun
day last, or worse.
Many Of the dresses worn by the bellies
at the Exposition Aardi- Gras ball, cost from
one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five
dollars each, and they were not nasauarddiug.
but pariOr costumes.
CAPTAIN Groome, chief Of police Of Vicks-
burg, Mississippi, IS IA the city for the pur-
pose OF carrying back with him to Vicksburg
two men arrested here on the charge of COM
uniting q felony at EiCksburg.
In New Orleans street corner Ioafers are
utilized by the authorities, who place on
their backs labels With the names of the
streets TREY Intest written thereon. Here is
a cheap way to direct strangers in Memphis
The commissioners should make a note of il.
At the circuit court of Shelby county yes
terday the jury in the bastardy case Of Smith
IS. darcy both Coloredj returned q verdict
in favor of the defendant, the jury believing
That the child IL controversy had not Dancy
for father.
"A number OF gentlemen have organized
themselves into a Business club" The
-lub-room IS over the Crystal-Palace saloon,
Z the alley off Nam street, opposite Odd
fellows ball. The club Is social, not politi-