Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-14
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

South Memphis Masonic lodge met last
evening.
The board of equalization was in session
at the courthouse yesterday.
Remember the French glee club picnic.
at Estival park, on Monday next.
The archery business continues to -four
ism among the young folk In the suburbs.
-Seventy-two degrees was the point
reached by the mercury yesterday afternoon.
The hot weather is troubling many peo-
ME. Don't think about it, and you will not
feel it.
The concert and hop of the Memphis
Light Guards at Estival park last night was
largely attended.
"Street-howlers" is the name given to
bacchaDalian vocalists who roam around at
midnight and after, and fill the air with I'M
musical sounds.
The exercises at the Shelby county teach
ers' institute will close at LeMoyne normal
school this evening. The interesting exer-
cises of yesterday will be found elsewhere.
Those who raised and sold potatoes this
year made money. An acre potato patch
brought in more money to the planter than a
three acre cotton patch would have done.
Yesterday Judge Rsy, of the criminal
court, appointed G. P. Nj. Turner, John T.
Moss and r. B. Miller, committee to draft
5uitable resolutions with regard to the death
of Judge P. T. Scruggs.
The evidence in the charges of adultery
was fully sustained by the proof adduced be-
fore the chancery court yesterday in the case
of Moses Strong as. Catherine Strong, and
divorce granted. The parties are colored.
Chancellor Mcdowell yesterday over
ruled the demurrer III the case of Monahan
as. Jamison, holding that the bill Is rather
iBsrtifieially drawn, but considered it suffi-
Gent to MAINTAIN the attachment.
Yesterday morning, in the case of the
Taxing District rs. Thomas Coffee, carrying
concealed weapons and resisting an officer,
President Porter fined the defendant fifty dol
lars. from which judgment an appeal was
taken.
Many of those who object to the work of
the auxiliary sanitary ASSOCIATION have not
subscribed cent to the sanitary fund. 1t
would be better to subscribe and then object,
for then the objection would arise from disin-
terested motives.
Next Tuesday is the day fixed for the
drawing of the Louisiana State lottery,
when a few hundred thousand dollars will be
drawn. People who wish to place money in
lottery tickets have as good chance in this as
in any lottery in existence.
1t makes a citizen rather angry, when
his premises are in a bad sanitary condition,
to have them examined and reported by the
officers, and, on the contrary, the man whose
premises are all right is pleased at being SO
reported. This is human nature in chur ks.
1t has been suggested that the German
NRunercnor should be invited to participate
in the curtomhouse corner-stone-laying cele-
bratoa on the twenty-fourth instant. Their
| fine caoruses are worth hearing, and would
add to the Orilliancy of the occasion.
Though spoken of frequently, no definite
action has been taken by the Memphis bar
concerning the decease of a large number Of
| their brethren during the epidemic of 1878
| In the words:of RIP Van Wrinkle" The
| dead, how soon they are forgotten.
The officers of the Mississippi and Ten
| aessee railroad seem determined to bring II
| an immense crowd of people on the Fourth Of
| July. Applications for seats to witness the
| great fireworks display are daily becoming
| more numerous. Such an assemblage was
never seen IN Memphis.
| The publisher, James A. Mcclure, o.
| Nashville, has placed two new music produc
| tions on our table-Sdy You tc0Rt Forge
| Me. Darling, song and chorus, and Wander
| bit University Grand March-the latter by
| Harry L. b. Sheetz, and dedicated to the
faculty and students of that Institution, a
| Nashville.
Many people are making arrangements
to send their families northward by the hrs
of July. A few have already gone. Tht