Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-23
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

To-day is the police commissioners Sun
day" Shut up"
The PnnnIx club will give their ann
versary dress bali on next Wednesday night
The usual Lenteu sermon will be deliver ed
at st. Josephs church, at four o'clock this
afternoon.
Lent will soon be over, and then vast
majority of the people of Memphis will do
exactly as they did during the Lenten season
The first green peas of the season made
their appearance on Front street yesterday,
and sold at two dollars and a-half per bushel.
"A State-credit party is IN course of for
nation in Middle Tennessee, with which, at
the next election, it is expected to sweep the
State.
The State medical society meets at Nash
vile on be first OF April, and the State med
ical society of Mississippi meets at Jackson
on the second.
There will be requiem high mass Il, xt
Monday morning at zine o'c'ock, at st. Jo-
eeh's church, for the reposs OF the soul of
Mrs. Captain James Rice.
Yesterday the circuit court jury in the
damage suit of Joseph Farrell US. Samuel
Jackson, returned a verdict In iavcr Of the
defend mt Jackson, and against the plaintiff
Farrell for costs.
Several old shanties, Occu pied by colored
people, in the suburbs Of the city, went down
before the fierce wind yesterday morning,
and left the occupants to weather the storm
as best they could.
The sale of reserved seats for the IL
vile burlesque opera troupe engagement will
commeLcs tomorrow. The troupe Is billed
to commence an engagement at the Theater
on tuesday night next.
Many cotton spectators enjoyed the i'd
vance IN the price OF cotton last week, while
1tnsrs did not seem 10 indulge as literally N
such Ell 1yuent | w.s dItf.re-c c. between
the butts and the bears.
The people ot Mississippi are laughing at
the GeOnes>ee vdnvrs who dab Judge Clapp
IAN old Missl,sp pl Iepudia,i,nisi. They
know better, dld think that well mi, rm ID
Journalists ought TO know SO, too.
The passage Of the forty-cent proposition
by the State senate Is to that extent q trium oh
over the repudlationlsts; ana yet it is nothing
hort OF reputation itself, because the bond
holders declare they will not accept it.
Yesterday morning a colored child got
uLder loaded cotton dray on Jefferson street
near Third, and WAS dragged by the dray-
wheel severAl feet Def re being extricated. |
The child received several bruises, but no Sc
we're or dangerous injuries.
The following were the literary exercises
at the last meeting of the Bluff City literary |
association: L. Grouauer delivered a speech !
entile After the Battie;" Charles H. Cheek |
read an excellent composition on "ReadIng;''
J. w. c. Wright recited " Parrhasius "
"A friend wri.e to the Columbia Herald
as follows: This legislature is a godseud to
the people Of Tennessee. The condition Of
public sentiment Is so far corrupted, that an
emetlc was required and their conduct Is
affecting the public belly like ipecac upon
the patients stomach"
The Columbia Hrald gives Memph cred
1t for some good. 1t says: at is a little re-
markable that several of the abest and
soundest men 10 the legislature on the STATE
debt are from Memphis, the hotbed of rem
dlatlon. Something good can come ont of
Nazareth, even in these days"
- ScJibHer, ST. Nicholas and Eclectic
Magazines for April; Her Face loas her
oTtnne, CICreH Foot, and COicard Con-
science, three new novels in cheap series:
u smorest's " hat to Year ReUue de Ia Mode.
together with the cream OF fashion literature. |
at Manstord's 27S Main street.
The New York Tribune. Of late date
says the National association of general pas,
senger and ticket agents held a session in
New York, and will hold another meeting at
Louisville IN September next Rates have
been changed, but the changes will not be
until about the first OF May
notwithstanding the efforts of counsel
for the complainant IN a certain case tried
in the circuit court during the past week TO
prove the existence of base plot to deprive
The eagle bird and the American flag of
heir just rights on the fourth of July last,
he jury yesterday brought in a verdict for
ne defendant. The case proved one of the