Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-17
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

City tax-paying continues to flourish.
Tomorrow will be motion day at the
chancery court.
ton at the Theater matinee on Saturday next.
Judge Green P. Foute will lecture to the
law class at the courthouse this evening.
Memphis has fewer "fakirs'' or sporting
confdence-men in her midst now than ever
before.
The directors of the Shelby county grange
association will elect officers to- day and make
preparations for the fall county fair.
To-day at the Theater the Memphis
opera club will give matinee, when the
Daughter Of the Regiment will be repro
duced.
This evening the Easter celebration of
Calvary church Sunday school will be re-
peated at the church. The celebration will
commence at eight o'clock.
AT Olympic park, on Sunday week, the
twenty-seventh instant, the Riversides of
this city and the Nashville CLUB, of Nashville,
will play game of base ball. Game called
at three O'Clock.
The two young white men, Thomas
Johnson and Ed Cruett, who were arrested on
Tuesday evening by the police, on the charge
of forgery, were tried yesterday before
Esquire Quigley, who committed both men
to Jail to answer the charge before the GRIM
inal court.
The citizens of Buntyn Station have a
rich treat in store, as a number of our young
amateurs are preparing to visit that town
tomorrow night and give an entertainment
in The beautiful Clio hall recently completed
there. The known talent embraced in the
party is assurance of pleasant evening g
entertainment.
On the tenth instant a white man was
drowned in the Mississippi river, above the
coal-heet, by falling overheard from skiff.
Yesterday Chief Police Athy received a
telegram from Robert Watson, of Augusta,
Kentucky. stating that the drowned man was
his son, Thomas Watson.
The chancery divorce mill was in work
ing order yesterday, and ground out the
proper document under seal of separation be-
tween Isabella and Gabriel Ware. colored,
under the plaintiff lament of cruel and in
human treatment and abandonment, all of
which was sustained and verified by the
solemn declarations and uplifted hands of
witnesses.
AT the customhouse there are more der
ricks than building, and it bids fair to re-
main so for some time. Tuesday evening
the stone cutters and laborers struck for back
pay, but yesterday they went to work again,
one of the contractors, Mr.. Burns, settling
up with the men. Affairs are becoming COM
phcated on the customhouse grounds, and
everything seems to be in quite an unsatis-
factory state.
AT the criminal court the following busl-
ness was transacted yesterday: Chas. Griffin,
larceny, mistrial entered; +. B. Willard,
falsely assuming to be Justice of the peace,
verdict not guilty; James j. Gibson, attempt
to commit abortion, verdict not guilty; Tom
Brown, larceny, verdict not guilty; Charles
Moore, assault with intent to murder, verdict
not guilty; Charles Moore, larceny, verdict
not guilty; L. c. Carter, fraudulent appro-
priatlon, case on trial.
TO night the masquerade ball for the
benefit of the widows and orphans of mem
bers of the police force who died during the
epidemic OF 1878, will be given at the Expo
sition building, corner of Jefferson and Fourth
streets, the whole beng under the manage
ment of the following COMMITTEES: Chief P.
r. Athy, chairman; Captain DAVIS, Captain
Arata, Sergeant O'hara and Sergeant Kun
hoz. The galleries will be reserved for per-
sons not in masquerading attire.
After several days consumed in the pre-
sentation and argument, the case of Polk as.
Bayliss was closed last evening and submit
ted to the chancellor. This is an important
suit. Besides the large amount of money in
volved, it possesses many intricate questions
of law, embracing the construction of con-
tracts, mortgages, suretyshlp and advances
for furnishing supplies and means to run
planters, and commissions properly charge
able and allowable under the law, the de-
cision of which will be looked for with iu-
terest, both by planters and merchants.
Says an evening journal: "a petition
was this morning presented by the pencil
singers of the daily pre- IS to his honor Presi-
dent Porter, praying that table of some
kind be put in the police courtroom for their
accommodation. The petition was received
and promptly granted" The APPEAL re-
porters did not sign any such petition, they
believing that snch a request was silly and
unnecessary. Our reporters can secure all the
news without having special table to lounge
over. There is no style or nonsense about us.