Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-10
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.


Tomorrow will be Good Friday.
-Menken Brothers opening to-day.
Tomorrow horse trots at Olympic park.
Business in wholesale circles continues
good.
Cotton continues to seek an upward
place IN price.
--Maifests and other picnics will be in
order next month.
Lent will be over the day after to-mor-
row. Holy Saturday.
Home amateur opera troupes will gives
US music this month.
The city has become disgustingly quiet
from news standpoint.
The Grand lodge of the knights of Honor
is in session at Nashville.
All home talent in Fra Diarolo and the
Daughter Of the Regiment.
Taxpayers are walking up and settling
with the new city goyern71enC.
Bed Boyton. the floating monster, will
arrive in port tomorrow afternoon.
The knights of Pythias are recognizing
lodges on the insurance relief plan.
Yesterday raln-showers, sunshine and
clouds followed each other in rapid success
sion.
Next week fashionable marriages will be
in order. The Lenten season will be over
then.
The wind from all points of the compass
raised clouds of dust throughout the city yes
terday.
Chicken. fighting is the suburban amuse-
mept at present. This is a check on the
Easter egg business.
The Warde- Barrymore Diplomacy dra-
matte company will conclude their engage
| ment at the Theater tonight
The stationhouse failed to furnish an
| item Of solid news last night; only three ar
rests for the twenty four hours preceding.
The Mississippi continues to swing up
| toward high-water mark. 1t is nearly a
mile in width in front of the city at present.
AT the circuit court yesterday, the con-
| tested will case of Harbert as. Harbert was
decided IN favor of the validity of the will by
| the jury.
-Blustry March has to take back seat
| since last evening, when April got on the
path and sat upon its hind legs and
| howled.
H. ". S. Pinqfore by the Chickasaw
Guards and their lady friends will be one of
the great musical attractions at the Theater
| ere long.
Confederate dead decoration day will
| probably be celebrated in May. The graves
| of the dead of the epidemic of 1873 will also
| be decorated.
Thunder, lightning and rain Yesterday
afternoon. As the first witch in Macbeth
said:
when shall we three meet again,
In thunder lightning or 10 rain?"
One twentieth of the capital prize of the
Havana lottery lone million dollars) was held
IA this city; that Is, fifty thousand dollars.
This IS the prevailing rumor.
Memphis is in as good a sanitary condi-
ton as any city north or east at present. The
board Of health is working TO place the city
IN condition to keep out any epidemic this
year.
The argument Of the counsel IN the case
! of the State %. Sam Brizzell, murder, COM
menced at the criminal court yesterday.
ElOquence awoke the echoes OF the court
room and the jury absorbed it.
AT the Theater next Monday night the
Memphis Opera club will give the Daughter
Of the Regiment; Tuesday night Fra
DiarOlO, and Wednesday night Daughter OF
the Regiment will be repeated.
The Howard association intends to in
augurate some movement looking toward the
relief Of the widows and orphans of deceased
members ere long. This is a good and
charitable work-one worthy of the famous
organization.
The Kansas emigration fever has broken
out among the colored people in this vicinity.
When in Kansas they will want to return
home. If Kansas Is such a land of prom
Use, the white people of the north would have
| found it out long ago.
No. CIT drew the capital prize, one mil
hon dollars, in the Havana lottery, on Tues
| day last. The tickets were worth one hum
| dred and forty dollars in gold. 1t is rumored
that part OF the capital prize ticket is held
by parties in this city.
The Catholic Knights of America, branch
| No. %, of Memphis, have selected DIR. L.
| Miles Wilett and Mr.. John Lilly as delegates
| to the supreme council of the order, which
will assemble at Indianapolis, Indiana, on
the eighth of July next.
The justices of the peace, who are sitting
AS quarterly court, did not adjourn for
week Us was announced they would do in the
APPEAL Of yesterday. The court yesterday