Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-27
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

| business is rather dull throughout the
| city just now.
The Babes in the Woods tonight, and a
| hearty laugh at the Theater.
The Phenlx club gave an anniversary
| ball at MRnnerchor hall last evening.
Taxpayers for 1879, the Taxing District
| tax-collectors are waiting for you!
-Desoto Masonic lodge worked in the
entered apprentices degree last night.
The vernal equinoctial storm is about
over, and fair weather has come again.
The Hackett- Loewenstein case continues
to occupy the attention of the chancery court.
Preparations are making to put up the
first course Of marble on the customhouse
building.
Next Thursday evening Emmerson s
miustrels will open up an engagement at the
Theater.
After Henry Ward Beecher, we should
| have Bob Ingersoll to deliver a lecture in
Memphis.
Leaves are breaking forth on the trees in
Court square. in the suburbs, and over in the
forests of Arkansas.
did you ever see a better company than
that OF Colville's?" "Neyer" "What,
never?" ''Well, hardly ev-air.'
If you go to the Theater tomorrow night
you Will see 'your sisters, your cousins and
your aunts'' in II. ". S. Pinqfore.
-Messrs. Young & Co., booksellers, have
presented the Odd Fellows library with two
hundred volumes of miscellaneous works.
The account CT the sinking and loss Of
the Arkansas river steamer, Hattie Rowland,
at Little Rock, appears in the river column.
Several negro men have been playing the
garrotlng and robbing game around town in
a small way. They will come to grief ere
long.
At twelve o'clock last night heavy and
dense fog hung over the city and the river.
The steamboats, and tugs kept their fog whis-
ties going, fearing collisions.
There will be a requiem high mass at St.
Joseph S church, Georgia street, this morning
at nine o'clock, Tor the repose Of the soul of
Miss Mary Dorfna.
At the Theater tonight the Colville
company Will appear IN the Babes IA the
Woods. Tomorrow evening Robinson CRU
soc will be presented.
The all night whisky saloons throughout
the city need the attention of the police
authorities. 1t is in such places that crime
finds its haunt and wee its nest.
The first strawberries arrived in town On
Tuesday last from New Orleans, and were
received by Castor. Only fifty cents box
for the deicacies in advance Of the season.
Miss Marie Williams, as Robinson
acting, good singing, good taste and gener-
ally correct buriesque portraiture OF the exile.
The Babes IN the Woods will be the
amusing attraction presented 10y the Colville
opera burlesque company at the Tneater to-
night. Tomorrow night Robinson CruSOe
will be given.
1t is bad enough to have a lot of drunken,
rowdy men prowliDg around the streets at
night, but when a lot Of drunken women.
F4.1 q z-p|1 hoa
tOlerabe from a moral outlook.
Next Monday will be a day to be reulem-
bered by the holders Of the lucky numbers in
the Commonwealth distribution company's
eighth drawing, which dispJses of one hun
dred and twelve thousand dollars.
The crop Of boys growing up in Mem
phis, and wfO are frequenters of saloons and
places of ill-repute, Is fearfully large. Many
OF these boys have respectable parents, who
do not know that their boys are out.
The stationhouse docket last night con-
tanned but three cases, and these were plain
DRINKS, without any attachment of disorderly
conduct. The drunken people were orderly,
IN fact they we've too drunk to be otherwise.
Already the festive wanderers known as
tramps are on their summer pilgrimage and
have arrived Ia town. They are at their
usual business. tapping empty beer kegs IN
alleys, and indulge III a small amount Of stale
beer on the sly.
The Colville opera bouffe company will
close their engagement after the matinee on
Saturday, on which occasion the Babes in the
Woods will be presented. The Theater doors
viii open at twelveIo' clock and the perform
ance will commence at halt. past twelve.
Little Carrie Elberts, aged some four
years, and one of the members Of the Col
vile opera burlesque troupe, attracted atten
ton and received applause last night at the
I've ala kaVy
recognized by the audience. She is destined
to be star in the boutfe business.
AT the criminal court, yesterday, the fol- !
lowing business was transacted: John Green, |
larceny, jury and verdict guilty, and SEN
teuced to twenty days Imprisonment in the |
county Jail; John Logan, attempt to murder, |
idry and verdict guilty, and sentenced to five |
years Imprisonment in the State penitentiary. |
After dark and up to twelve o'clock at |
night the streets running from Second to |
Front streets, In the center OF the city, are in
tested with prostitutes, both white and black, |
who solicit men wherever they meet them. |
The attention of the police is called to this |
growing evil.
Mr.. James A. Newsom. late city comp
troler, left for Washington City last night to |
accept the position OF reading clerk IN the /
United States senate, which position was Of
fered him by Colonel John G. Burcb, secre-
tlry of the senate. Mr.. Newsom is well |
qualified for the position, which ne will hold
for six years to come.
The cldguers at the Theater are gener-
liY too fast IN starting applause; they should
wait the pleasure aud Judgment OF the audi
snce The ushers and other employees at the
Theater should not .aka-4he initiative in the
applause business: they generally start 1t at
he wrong tim. 1t is a custom more hon
bred in the breach than in the observance.
Major John ID. Adams has purchased
rom n. NJ. Jones * Co., the steamers Hi