Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-14
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Next week we will have Haverlys min
| strelS.
-Stone-cutting is progressing on the GUS
| tomhouse grounds.
The third story of the Masonic Temple
| approaches completion.
The army of street sprinkleTs succeeds in
| laying the dust on Main street.
-Fogs have been hanging around town
during the past few nights.
#-Base. ball will make it Interesting and
lively for suburban residents on Sunday next.
The commissioners and executive council
will hold meeting to-day at the court
house.
No one in Memphis drew big prize in
last Thursdays drawing of the Louisiana
lottery.
-What to Wear and How to Make It, for
spring and summer, at Mansford's, 298 Main
street.
The delightful weather induced hum
dreds OF ladies to go on shopping excurions
yesterday.
The case of Blackburn u.s. the Selma
railroad, Is still on hearing at the United
States court.
An effort is making to get up Shelby
county agricultural fair next3fall at the old
fair grounds.
At the Theater matinee tomorrow Ju-
iiuS Caesar will be presented, and at night
Richard III.
At the Theate, tonight Mr.. Mccullough
and company will appear IN Brttus, or the
Fail Of TGrQ4iis and Tanning Of the Shre,0.
Billy Lieben's book and news depot, No.
1851 Main street, has received What to
Wear, also portfolios, twenty cents per copy.
The Buddhist preacher who was hare
week ago and detained against christianity,
did not succeed In securing a single convert.
The sale of lager beer, soda cocktails,
lemonade and all other drinks is increasing
rapidly, now that the warm weather has set
in.
The spring-fghts have commenced. Sew
eral occurred yesterday around town. All
animal and vegetable life warns up in the
spring.
Next week. commencing on Thursday
night, Joaquin Miller's DdHiteS will be pre-
santed at the Theater by the Rankin dramat-
ic company.
Sunday next those who cannot get
dunk or get shaved on the bluff, will walk
down to the landing and get both on board
some steamboat.
The Chickasaw Guards engaged in a
competitive drill in the manual of arms last
night, also dress-parade, and hop with
their LADY friends.
The Ladies christian association will
close their series of dIaDers with an ice-cream
festival this friday evening. They will be
glad to see all their friends.
Several sporting men here had put I'D
their money on y Leary, the tramp, but their
champion broke down in the New York con-
test, and retired from the field.
During the Easter HOLIDAYS a number of
fashionable weddings will be celebrated in
Memphis. The arrangements are now beng
perfected for these seAal unions
The divorce mania continues in Mem
pins. Not day passes but some unfortu-
nate man or woman files a petition for d.
vorce IN one of our courts of justice.
Bouquets Of violets are fashionable these
"a violet by nOssy stone,
Half hidden from the eye,
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky"
AT the circuit court SalIie R. Lyon has
filed a petition for divorce against Stephen
Lyon, on the grounds of desertIon. The
parties lntermarned In 1873. and in August
OF the same year Lyon deserted her, hence
the petition for divorce.
81 have been contributing TO the relief
of the orphans" SAID pompous citizen yes
terday. He had visited the Ladies' christian
association dining-room and had paid fftv
cents for a dollar dinner. He goes there
daily.
quite a number citizens intend visit.
ing Arkansas Sunday next on fishing ex-
cursions. They will take their TASKS with
them, because bayou and lake water by itself
Is thin potation and is unhealthy for Mem
phians.
The sanitary carts will be around to- |
morrow after piles of dirt on Nam, Second |
and Front streets, which the owners or occu-
pants of buildings will have scraped and |
swept into the center of the streets under |
the order promulgated by the commissioners. |
The trial of the case of the State ps. Tony
Jasserretta, on indictment for the murder OF
Joe Davis, colored, came to dead stop yes
-erday owing TO the sudden illness of one of |