Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-05-30
| Ia, been made bv the sheriff 5 officers for the

has been made by the sheriff s officers for the
commission of the terrible murder.
Seven arrests were made by the police
Yesterday and up to twelve o'clock last night.
The arrests were for fighting, drunkenness,
disorderly conduct and carrying concealed
weapons.
This evening a musicale and outdoor
festival will be given On the grounds of Mrs.
J. G.. Johnson, Poplar street boulevard, for
the benefit of the Alabama street Presbyte-
rian church.
-Workmen are engaged in setting the
marble blocks on the customheuse building
preparatory to the laying of the corner stone,
which will be duly celebrated on the twenty
fourth proximo.
The annual basket picnic Of the Phoenix
club takes place next Sunday, June LIST, at
FitzgibpoD's grove. Train leaves Memphis
and Louisville railroad depot at eight o'clock
In the morning.
Quite number of citizens are examining
and purchasing trunks, and having old
trunks, vallses, grip-sacks, etc., repaired
preparatory to summer-touring IN the cooler
chimes up north.
The postofice will close to-day at ten
o'clock. Carriers will make one delivery
and one collection. This is a national holi
day, when the decoration of the Federal
graves takes place.
The commencement exercises of DR..
Wards seminary, Nashville, Tennessee, will
be a great literary occasion, the second, third
and fourth of June, when forty-fve young
ladies will graduate.
Remember the musicale and festival on
the grounds of ]. C. Johnson this evening.
! Prof. Handwerker's orchestra will be In at
| tendance; also several of our most entertain
ing amateur vocalists.
The boys have commenced going swim
ming in the bayou, Wolf and Mississippi
rivers, and we may soou look for cases of
| accidental drowning. Keep yaur boys away
| from the rivers and bayou.
AT the meeting of the auxiliary sanitary
ASSOCIATION this forenoon at ten clock, the
| matter as to garbage carts, flushing street
| and alley cutters, and disinfecting premises
| will be discussed and acted upon.
"A few nights since the residence of w.
| w. Etter, at the Kelly place, five miles out
on the Horn Lake road, was entered and
robbed of a lot of clothing by negro named
Steve Smith. The police are on the lookout
for the thief.
Citizens should subscribe literally to the
auxiliary sanitary ASSOCIATION fund Some
seven thousand five hundred dollars are need
| ed to keep the city IN good sanitary condition
| for four months. One-haif of this amount
has already been collected by the committees
President Porter will pay off the police
| and fremen tomorrow morning, for the
month of May, in advance of any decision by
the supreme court of the State in the Tax
ing-District cases. The boys will get what
is due them, no matter what the decision of
| the court may be.
AT the chancery court Jesse Scott, col
| ored, has fled a bill praying for divorce
from his wife, Sarah Scott, on the grounds
OF cruel and inhuman treatment, violence of
| temper, vulgarity of language and actions,
throwing scalding bot-water on HIM, and
other indignities TOO numerous to mention.
The Liverpool markets will be closed to-
morrow, Monday and Tuesday. 1t will be
Whitsuntide. 1t Is festival of the church
! In commemoration of the the descent of the
Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost-so
called, it is said, because. In primitive
! church, those W no had been newly baptized
appeared at church between Easter and Pen
tecost In white garments.
The entries for the races at Olympic
| park to day are as follows: First race, trot-
ting, best three in fve-C. Damron enters
| Maud, from Helena; j. s. Campbell enters
Charley I. Second race, trotting. best two in
three-Charley Galena enters Mamie G.; L
| ID. Grant enters Jessie. Third race, running,
| half-mile heats-J. S. Campbell enters Day
light; w. Taylor enters Wild Bill; C. Bur
ton enters Frank; Kennedy enters Idewid.
The N Marry Sun pays us this compli-
ment: This staunch and true Democratic
organ comes to US as regular as the hands of
the clook point to four every evening. and is
always freiRhted with the latest news from
all quarters of the globe. No more reliable
newspaper is published in the United States
than this staunch old Journal, very Hercules
in politics, and faithful and true to the time
honored principles of Democracy. We could
better spare any of our exchanges than the
APPEAL"
Owing to an unavoidable delay on The
| part Of railroad officials, the tickets for
Charles Nelson's barbecue at Greenbrier dis
| tillery. Robertson county, did not arrive until
| after dark last evening. Quite large party
of invited guests LETT for Nashville last night
to attend, and all those having invitations
| can obtain tickets for this mornings train by
presenting their cards OF invitation at the de-
| pot ticket office. Those who prefer to wait
until the night train can call on James Speed
for their tickets. Grecnbrier barbecue on
the thirty-frst will be big thing.
| "A drunken man was carried to his room
| at a hotel a few nights since, aud, of course,
| became sick at the stomach in a short time
A nervous man from the country, who occu-
pied the adjoining room, awoke, heard the
| trouble, got out of bed, hastily dressed him
self. seized his Prip-sack, and, appearing at
the Office, wanted to pay his bill and leave
the city. When asked the reason, he said
| that man In the adjoining room was sick
| with the fever. The matter was explained to
| him, and he returned to his room to rest, but
he did not recover from his fright until next
morning when the man who had been sick
and drunk was introduced to him.
in the matter of County Court Clerk
Owen Dwyer and General Peter Tracy,
wherein the county court clerk seeks by a
distress warrant to compel Mr.. Tracy to pay
| twelve dollars and fifty cents license on the
| Henry Ward Beecher lecture, Judge Ray, of
| the criminal court, on yesterday on petition
issued 4 writ of certiorGri and Snpercedeas
which takes the matter out of the hands and
| out of the head of the clerk for the present.
| The opinion of the bar of this city, the
| attorney general and the county attorney,
is that MIR. Beecher's lecture was not subject
to a license-taI. The county court clerk is
| not a lawyer, and he misconstrued the law
In the case.
| In defense of history cur literary man
has to notice the following grave error made
| by an evening contemporary as to the poet,
| Tom Moore. Our cotemporary says: "He
| among other productions Of a peculiarly Irish
type, wrote his Irish melodies, which at once
| appealed to the heart of every son of Erin
who once heard them, and gave him the
name of National Poet he was executed
at last for his adherence to papacy, and so
| did his people love him that, even now, they
| can hear the blood of the sweetest poet cry
ing out from the ground, and going to swell
the vast tumult of wrong that calls for ven
| geance on tyrannical England Moore, the
| Irish poet, died in 1852 In a state of idiocy,
his mind having given way for some time
prior to his death. The gentleman who was
executed for MS adherence to papacy and for
| other reasons, was the great and good chan
cellor, Sir Thomas More, an Euglishman,
| who lived during the reign of Henry VIII
He was the author of Utopia, philosophical
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