Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-02-26

many drunken people seen in Memphis on
Sunday as on the last.
-Cayni pale-''farewell to fiesh''-is the
| motto for christians for forty days after to-
day, but vet they will find some substitute,
( If they have the money to purchase red
snappers, oysters, pompaus, and other dellca-
Cies of the salt sea, unless they are strict
ascetics, and practice self-denial In religious
things.
The wild westerly wind raised clouds OF
dust on the streets yesterday afternoon. The
district government yesterday had a force
scraping and sweeping the streets, and pill
ing up the dusty dirt in heaps and carrying
it off IN carts The dust heaps were carried
on the wings of the wind and blown in every
direction, to the annoyance Of all people who
had to walk the streets.
General Peter Tracy and Major Eugene
Leidy were selected as committee to get up
a sufficient amount of money to secure brass
band to play for the dress parade and drill OF
the Chickasaw Guards and Bluff City Grays
on the bluff yesterday. The gentlemen Sc
cured a sufficient amount of money and about
FIVE dollars over. The surplus will be turned
over to the Chicks and Bluffs.
AT the Exposition masquerade ball last
night-"of course he did
He put his arm around her waist
And swOre an awful sw0re,
And as he jerked 1t of again
I've felt that pin-afore,"
To-day Lent commences. The word
Lent is from the Anglo Saxon, because 1t
means to enQthen, as at this season OF the
year the days lengthen. In ecclesiastical
history it means the commencement OF last
for forty days, continuing tlll Easter, which
is observed by many christian churches as
commemorative of the fast of our Savior,
Jesus Christ
"A letter from Henderson, Tennessee, of
date the twenty-fourth instant, states that
Henderson county has voted tax of sixty
thousand dollars to the Nashville, Lexington
ana Henderson railroad, on Saturday last,
the twenty-second instant, by a large ma
jority. This line leaves the Nashville, Chat
tauooga and st. Louis railroad and runs via
Lexington to Henderson, where 1t connects
with the Memphis and Knoxville line.
The commissioners or legislative council,
at the meeting held Saturday last, elected
the following persons to office: Niles Meri-
wether, District engineer; &. Barlnds, North
Memphis narketmaster. The District en-
gineer's pay Is two thousand dollars per an
nun, and the marketmaster' pay Is forty
dollars per month An order was passed in
structing President Porter TO have the bridge
at the crossing of Second and Mill streets re-
paired The dump" in the tenth ward was
declared a nuisance, and the chain-gang was
ordered to abate It and clean up the premises.
Mrs. J. C. johnson, president of the
Ladies christian association, desires to an
nounce that the members of the association
cordially invite the ladies of Memphis to aid
in the lunches to follow the book reception.
These lunches are for the benefit OF their
ISOLATION, which comprises almost every vari-
ETY. Of missionary and charitable work. The
good to be accomplished is only limited by
the amount of means to carry forward the
different enterprises. This association has
never called on the ladies of Memphis for
assistance of this kind VIII they not cor
daily respond to the call for help? There
will be meeting of the Ladies' christian as
ISOLATION this afternoon at two o'clock, at the
First Baptist church. All who are interested
in charitable work are earnestly invited to be
present.