Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-16
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The Easter religious festivals are over.
To-day is the anniversary of the capture
of MIR. Jefferson Davis in 1865.
Lightning seems to be the principal in
cendiary IN Memphis at present.
The county quarterly court is in session
daily, working away passing on accounts.
The Daughter Of The Regiment, by the
Memphis opera club, at the Theater tonight.
The street force was engaged yesterday
in scraping and sweeping Main street near
Union.
There is no danger of an overflow of the
Mississippi this spring, so far as present in
dications are concerned.
Insurance men say that an icehouse is a
very dangerous risk to take, the buildings
being tall and of an inHamabe nature.
The Shelby county medical society will
meet tonight, at eight o'clock. Election OF
officers and other very important business.
BE prompt.
During the fire at Bohlen, Huse & Co. s
icehouse on Monday night. a darby who was
| present remarked: "Well hab baked ice in
| de mornin'.''
City taxpayers are stepping up more
rapidly than heretofore, and are paying priv
llege and other taxes to the new government
of Memphis.
Last Monday was a gala day in marriage
circles. Eight couples secured license to wed
from the county court clerk, and they were
widows and widowers.
On Thursday evening, the twenty-secoDd
instant, the Bluff City Grays will engage in
competitive drill for the prize plume, lat their
armory, on the corner of Sc cond and Union
streets.
BY urgent request. the Memphis opera
club will give the Daughter Of the Regiment
at Theater matinee ON Tomorrow (Thurs-
day., and Fra DiovoIO at the Saturday
matinee.
"A milk-lemonade is the latest summer
drink. 1t is made ike the old-fashioned
lemonade, except that milk, instead of water
or settler, Is used. 1t Is Il cooling and pal
atable beverage.
Golden Years are Passing By, song and
chorus; words and music by Will l..
Thompson. Published 10y w. L. Thompson
u Co., East Liverpool Ohio. The above is
one OF the Latest musical publications.
"A little youth, son of John CASTOR, said
to Captain BoySon, while here, 81 know why
you are swimmin'; you re too mean to pay
on steamboat" 1t never struck Boyton In
that hight before. It was a new revelation.
-Boyton is stiD padding and floating away
down tde Mississippi river. Boats that ar
rived IN port yesterday spoke to him on Mon
day night Boyoon WIS as lively as fish,
and was working his passage to New Orleans
-TweIIty-nine arrests were made by the
police yesterday and up to twelve o'clock last
night, principally on the charge of doing
business without license. Nearly all the ar.
| rested parties took out licenses and were dis
| charged.
Colonel Henry Ward Beecher will lee
ture at the Exposition building on the night
of the thirteenth of May, under the auspices
! OF General Peter Tracy, who will try tt
manage. H. w. B. during his sojourn il
| Memphis.
| H. II. S. P,Hqtore, with an entire an;
| superb crew, under the command of the
1 Chlckasaw Guards, will Arrive at this point
1 during next month, and show US how the5
managed the "navee'' in ''Hold Hengland'
years ago, you know.
| The lightning seems to have some spite
| at Memphis this season. The clerk of the
| weather up IN the clouds should turn his CUR
/ IN some other direction for while at least
l He ought to cool down after successfully
| tackling an icehouse.
| Complaint is made that the street force
| carries off the dirt and muck from Main anC
| other streets only to dump it on the bluff
| near the corner of Front and West Court
streets. The residents IN the latter locality
seriously object to all this.
| The store awning nuisance is becoming
| an epidemic now that hot weather has set in
| A man FIVE feet in hight is in danger of nav
| ing his head knocked off, on Main street, by
the Hopping awnings. Has q six-foot man
no rights in the air that the awning-6end is
bound to respect?
Steam fire engine No. 2, South Mem
phis enginehouse, which engine turned over
| in the gutter on the corner of Shelby and
Irrelevant streets, on Monday night, during
| the icehouse FIRE, was turned back on the
| track Yesterday and it was discovered that no
damage had resulted to the machinery.
-Brorson's comet is now visible with the
aid of = small telescope. AT present it is not
visible to the naked eye, which can discern
no stars below the sixth magnitude. The
comet assumes the form of hazy star of the
seventh magnitude. and is throwing off a
short tail. 1t can be seen among the stars Of