Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-12
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The cotton season is about over.
-Look out for sunstrokes-beware of be-
coming overheated.
The Chickasaw Guards were out in the
streets drilling last night.
-Tax-payiug to the new city government
hourishes exceedingly.
The hook and ladder truck sported set
of new wheels yesterday.
PEACHES from Bartlett are In the market
selling for fifteen cents a box.
Soon we will have the dog-days, and dog
killing will be inaugurated by the police.
Quite a number of vacation schools have
been opened by the public school teachers.
Nearly every person you met yesterday
opened up conversation on the weather topic.
Farmers who have large crop of new
potatoes now lind ready sale for them, and
at good price.
AT noon yesterday the mercury in the
thermometer indicated ninety-four degrees of
heat in the shade.
"A burning chimney in North Memphis
yesterday morning brought out the fire bri-
g9de. No damage was done.
Sunday next, the fifteenth instant, will
commence the commencement exercises of the
University of Tennessee, at Knoxville.
AT the stationhouse nothing of interest
few arrests having been made during the day
OF night.
The board of police and fire commits
sioners met yesterday and passed upon a
number of bills and accounts. The legisla-
tive council will meet at two o'clock this af
ternoon.
All communications from citizens as to
nuisances can be addressed to the sanitary
association, No. IL Madison street. When
svalk bavr I,eaI ,,Ix- Id
proper officers.
Our friends, the Zulus, set US an exam
pie In dress which is worthy of being fol-
lowed during the present hot season. 1t Is
easier to describe what they don't wear than
what they do.
Quite a number of attorneys have had
themselves enrolled as practicing attorney
Ia the criminal court, under the new rules
adopted by the court to prevent the malprac-
tees of shysters.
There seems to be no doubt but that the
coming Fourth of July display of fireworks
will surpass that of last year. 1t is to last
two and half hours, and will be gorgeous
beyond description.
The disinfectants for yards and vaults
will be distributed by the sanitary association
IN a day or two, and circular will be given
to each applicant, with instructions how to
use the dislnfectants.
slop over two freely as they are moved along
the streets. The perfume from the swill-
barrels excel In strength the famous Otto of
roses, but people do not like it quite as well
as they do the latter.
Tomorrow evening at Estival park the
Memphis Light Guards will give a grand
concert under the leadership of Prof. Levy.
The programme Is well selected and will be
rendered by our lea 5ing amateur vocalIsts.
The concert will be followed by hop given
by the Guards to their young friends.
When it is ninety-four degrees in the
shade, what is it in the sun? is the latest
conundrum pitched at weather observers. 1t
matters not to the man who has to be out of
doors what the the heat is in the shade or in
an icehouse; he would ike to know what it is
in the sun daily, because he cannot afford to
keep SHADY.
The Masonic bodies Of the city, in gen
eral lodge meeting, decided, without debate
and by unanimous vote, not to make any
change in regard to the programme for st.
Johns day, the twenty-fourth of June, on
which day the cornerstone OF the custom