Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-26
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

-Cotton-blooms are arriving in the city
daily.
The scholastic commandments are over
for the season.
Some local poet should write the LAY of
the Customhouse Cornerstone.
The Mississippi river is subsiding again
and is hunting the low-water mark.
Who will read the obsolete Declaration
of Independence on the fourth of July?
The old Memphis Theater will open up
next season, and be called Leubrie Theater.
1t is time another sensation was coming
to the front in this city. What and who
next2
-Arkansas mosquitoes are engaged in
skirmishing nightly with the sleepy residents
of our city.
The health and quarantine ordinances of
the Taxing District have been published in
pamphlet form.
Memphis is the only city in the world
where a cast-iron lamp-post blows up and en-
deavors to kill people.
The moonlight picnic at Buntyn's Sta
ton has been postponed on account OF the
lnclemency of the weather to July 10th.
Nearly one-half the city taxes for 1879
have been collected. The amount already
collected is about ninety thousand dollars.
Quite number of citizens have sent,
and are sending, their families away to the
East Tennessee mountains for the summer.
The police docket yesterday contained
nothing but number of arrests OF persons
charged with doing business without license.
Yesterday, on Third street, in Chelsea,
John Sommers, aged twelve years, fell from
a wagon and broke his arm. The cause was
accidental
EARLY yesterday morning burglars en-
tered the residence of Colonel w. T. Avery,
on Poplar street, and carried off basket full
of undertaking.
Every tram coming into the city on the
third and Fourth of July bids fair to be
crowded with people who are coming to see
the great fireworks display.
In the procession on Tuesday last, on the
| occasion of laying the customhouse corner
| stone, the American, Italian and French flags,
foated lovingly on the same breeze.
Yesterday beng wet, and drizzly rain
| falling occasionally, AT air of dullness pre-
| vailed around town. The citizens had too
much cornerstone laying the day before.
"A witty Memphian yesterday stated that
in the forthcoming Fourth OF July celebra-
| ton on the bluff the people can take the
seats, but Peter Tracy will take the receipts.
Yesterday was the anniversary Of the
defeat and death of General Custer in 1876
| To-day is the anniversary of the commence
the year 1862.
"A flterer for Wolf river water, theElr-
| vention of Rev. DR.. Boggs, Of the Presby-
terrain church, has been placed In the office
of the auxiliary sanitary association, No. IL
| Madison street.
Tuesday last everything in the city was
| military; yesterday everything was civil. We
| do not mean that the military was uncivil,
except in the legitimate meaning of the
word in that connection.
Pure water, fresh air, sunlight, cleanli-
ness of person and premises, and houses kept
| free from dampness will, If INDUCED IN, keep
you healthy and vigorous, two things which
money cannot purchase.
Big Hatchle is TO be inspected by Major
Benyaurd, of the United States engineer
corps, to me ke a report of its condition, and
| make an estimate of the cost Of removing
the obstructions in the river.
Taxpayers are walkngssup and paying
their city taxes, even when they are not able
to pay State and county taxes. They know
the city taxes go to improving the streets and
for other good sanitary purposes.
Cotton blooms are becoming so common
that we cannot make paragraph for each
place on which they are discovered. What
we want to hear of next is the first bale.
ERerYbody's cotton is doing well.
The young boys, both black aud white,
of the city, have gone daft over the military
business. A hundred companies have been
organized, and with sticks for guns, they 90
| through the most complicated evolutlons
known in Upton's tactics.
| Several bogus sulphur springs have been
discovered while digging down into an old
ravine in North Memphis. The water is the
spe from closets and privies, and is, of
| course, deadly poison. Beware of the North
Memphis sulphur springs.
Unity lodge, No. 2I7 knights of Honor,
last night elected the following officers for
the ensuing SIX months: Thomas Ii. Arnold
dictator j. D. Pierce, vice-dictator; w. T..
Arlington, assistant dictator; Rev. George
White, chaplain; A. S. M'Near, treasurer;
Charles l.. Pullen, financial reporter; A. b.
Hill, reporter; j. II. Wright, guide; l..
levin, guardian; L. Seligman, sentinel.
Since the PihdJore opera broke loose.
| Memphis boys have been given to vocalism at
night, but alas, too often the yocalists at two
O'Clock in the morning are too drunk to give