Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-19
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
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ne county quarterly court auJourneu
yesterday to court In course, the first Monday
in July next.
Privilege Taxpayers are coming forward
promptly and are paying up their taxes to
the new city government.
The fancy exhibition drill of the Bluff
City Grays at their armory last night was
largely attended by the ladies.
In another column will be found the ad-
vertisement of A. Z. FARMLAND, who will
sell at public auction a large stock of cigars
on Monday next.
the police department masquerade ball
at the Exposition building, Thursday night
last, realized about three hundred dollars for
the widows and orphans of the force.
The strike among the stone-cutterS at
the custorlhouse has ended, they and the
contractor having settled their troubles. The
stone-cutters will resume work Monday.
The SUNDAY APPEAL, a mammoth
sheet, will present rare inducements to adver-
users. Send IN your orders early to-day, so
that you can secure good places in the paper.
Rev. DR.. Boggs, of the Second Presby-
terrain church, will repeat his lecture to-mor-
row Sunday afternoon at four o'clock.
Subject: Perpetual Obligation of the Sab
bath"
american ReDieto and Rerue de la Mode, for
May; a new novel by the author of Molly
Baion and PhilHs, in Seaside Library, at
Mansford's, 298 Main street.
BY decree in chancery yesterday, Alice
and Sam G.. Smith were divorced. The proof
sustained the allegations of abandonment
aud bad conduct on the part of the defend
ant. The parties are colored.
-TheIcoming of Rev. Henry Ward Beech
err to Memphis on the thirteenth of next
month has already become one Of the princi-
pal topics OF conversation throughout this
section of country. He will draw tremen-
dous audience.
"A lunch and bazaar will, next week, be
offered to public patronage, at S25 Main
street, for tho benefit OF st. Mary's cathedral.
The names of the ladies having charge of it
are sufficient guarantee, as well for the deli
cacy of their eatables as for the beauty Of
their handiwork.
Yesterday one of the wardens of the
Mississippi penitentiary arrived in the city,
and took charge of the escaped penitentiary
convict Ben Ellis, alias George Lamar, col
Cred, who recently enlisted as a soldier at the
recrui ing Office in this city. The warden left
the city last evening with his prisoner.
"A memorial chapel Is being constructed
at ST. Bridget's Catholic church, North
Memphis, in memory of the late Rev. Father
Walsh and Rev. Father Meagher, who died
during the yellow fever epidemic. The me-
mortal chapel will be dedicated with appro-
pirate religious ceremonies on Sunday next.
Yesterday the remains of TIE late Daniel
Casey, captain of the hook and ladder COM
pany, were conveyed fIom ST. Peters (Catho-
lic) cathedral to Calvary cemetery. The
funeral was largely attended by the friends
Of the deceased. The members of the Fire
mems relief association escorted the remains
to the grave.
"A convention to elect delegates to the
colored convention, 10 be held at Nashville on
the twenty eighth instant, will be held at
Estival park on Friday next, the twenty
fifth, at two o'clock Ia the evening. Dele
gates will also be sent to, the convention of
white and colored people, to be held at
VIcksburg, May 9th,
The supreme court, which is session at
Jackson, will take up the Shelby county law
docket first. and close it out Il to the thirteenth
of June, 1877. The chancery docket will next
be taken up and closed up to the same date.
After that the court will take up the other
dockets of West Tennessee. Attorneys should
have their briefs filed in the court in due time.
Yesterday, af the foot of Beale street,
the dead body of a colored man was found
floating in the Mississippi. The body was
very much decomposed, but was recognized
as that of a colored man who feel overheard
from a boat near the mouth of Wolf river
some time since. An inquest was held over
the body when the above facts we're elected.
IN the Sunday edition of the APPEAL has be-
come apparent to scores of business men.
The SUNDAY APPEAL is largely circulated
and is generally read throughout this and
other States. As an advertising medium it
possesses many advantages. Orders for ad-
vertisiEg should be sent in at an early hour
to-day.
While we are the advocates Of retrench-
ment we at the same time are in favor of
paying fair price for services. We under
stand that the commissioners are only paying
the statioahouse- keeper fifty dollars per
month. 1t does seem to us that is not
enough, and we suggest that you should at
least pay him sixty dollars.
Last Thursday morning the old Stanton
residence, near Stanton depot, Haywood
county, was destroyed by fire. The Stanton
residence was formerly occupied by Colonel
Nathan Adams, of our city. but at the time
of the fire it was occupied by Mr.. Joseph
Wear. Stanton depor 10 on the Louisville
railroad, some forty miles from this city. The
cause of the FIRE is believed to have been ac-
cidentsl.
AT the criminal court, yesterday, the fol-
lowing business was transacted: Jack Bohan, |
larceny, jury and verdict guilty of petit lar |
cehy, sentenced to one years imprisonment |
in the penitentiary; William Damn, assault |
with intent to commit murder, case retired |
on docket; w. J. Kennedy. larceny of a SOW !