Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-23
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The Bluff City Grays contested for the
prlEe-plume at their armory last night.
The mercury in the standard thermo-
metars frolics among the eighties at present.
The art exhibitions at the Greenlaw
| Operahouse nightly attracts crowds of visit
| ors.
Nearly four hundred thousand bales of
cotton will be received in this city this sea-
son.
The planters are not in the city in force
this week. They are busy blowing and
planting.
Money is now loaned by the banks and
| insurance companies at six per cent. interest
on good paper.
a-Remember Lore's Sacrifice by the Bluff
| City Grays and their friends, at the Theater,
| on Friday evening next.
Bluff City Grays matinee Saturday after
| noon, twenty sixth instant. Reserved seats
on sale at Hollenberg's, Friday, twenty-ffth
instant.
The Chickasaw Guards will look pretty
in pinatores. Webster says pinafore is IAN
apron for child, to cover the front part OF
the body
Our courts present slim attendance of
lawyers at present, the members of the bar
being at jackson III attendance on the su-
prenle court.
"A likeness of Rev. Fl. w. Beecher is
wanted. Any person having one will please
leave same at the APPEAL Office It will be
returned in few days.
AT the custom house grounds prepare
tons are being made for laying or setting
the fret course of marble on the building for
the first or ground story.
The sun poured down its heated rays
yesterday, forcing pedestrians to hunt the
shade and seek cooling beVerag es, OF which
there is a wonderful number.
Secure your reserved seats at Hollen-
berg.s at once, as al the tickets for Friday
night are In the Lands of purchasers. The
Grays desire their friends to be comfortably
seated.
The pcremptory call of the law docket of
oheloy County Is progressing at the supreme
court, In session at Jackson. Tomorrow
l1hrrsday( 1t Is expected that the Memphis
chHncery docket will be called.
The net proceeds OF the poloem ems ball
at the Exposition building are five hundred
and twenty three dollars and forty cents.
The amount will be expended for the benefit
OF the widows and orphans of the force
The unique, odd and suggestive Pima
fore programmes of the Chckasaw Guards.
which have been sought after by our society
people, were gotten up by Tracy, who never
tails to have " something new" when
required.
But little is doing in chancery at pres
ent, though the chancellor sits daily for the
transaction of any business that may be pre-
sented. The majority of the practitioners in
this court are in attendance at the bar of the
supreme court.
AT the chancery court yesterday divorce
decree was entered by order of the chancellor
IN the case of Jonathan Joyner cS Fannie
Joyner. The presence of step children in
the household was the main cause of disa-
greement between the ill-mated and unlucky
pair
-Darkies fare now being indicted by the
criminal court grand jury, on the charge of
carrying concealed razors, which, by an act
of the late legislature, Is made an offense
punighable by fine and Imprisonment, like
the carrying of other deadly eapons, as
specified
Thirteen arrests were made by the police
yesterday up to twelve o'clock last night. The
arrests were principally ON charges of doing
business without license. An unknown white