Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-02-25

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We've Rogers appeared as maud Muller. -,
The play tonight will be The Iteket-0t
Ledre Nan
DIR. Porter sat on the recorders bench
| Yesterday morning and dispensed justice with
| an even hand. BY invitation and courtesy
| ESQUIRE Quigley sat on the bench with him
| and aided him in the consideration Of causes
How to enforce the Sunday laws of the
| State in the Taxing District, is one of those
/ complicated questions which puzzles the
| commissioners.
! Five men were arrested yesterday and
| last night on charges of being drunk and
! disorderly. They will interview the District
| recorder this morning.
Another drawing will De had by the
| Louisiana State lottery company on March
| llth, when one hundred and ten thousand
| dollars will be distributed.
H. w. B., who Is to lecture here in a pril
| next, will draw we'll Everybody is rather
anxious to see and hear the great Brooklyn
| sensationalIst Of the pulpit.
The App Hackett murder case, yet on
| trial at the criminal court, continues to at
| tract large number of spectators. The case
will be given to the jury to-day.
Rupert G0d,cin, TireH, Last Of Her
| Line, Leah. a WOmon Of F'GshiOn-all IN
| cheap seres, and Popular Science Monthly
| for March, at Manstord's, 29S Main street.
The Chickasaw Guards and the Bluff
| City Grays will drill or the bluff this after
| noon A fine band Of music will be IN at
| tendance for the entertainment of all visitors.
The members Of the Tennessee club will
| entertain their lady visitors at the club-rooms
! to-day. Tonight the club will give their
| friends Mardi Gras musical entertainment.
Who is to be city hospital physician? is
| one of the problems Of the Taxing District.
| Numerous applicants for the responsible
! office have appeared in petitions and other
| wise.
| Commodore Rolling Pin one of the
humcrists OF the st. Louis press, will deliver
| a lecture 10 Memphis next Friday night. The
place of lecture and the subject Will be duly
| announced 10 time
Merchants on Front, Main, Union and
other streets were busy yesterday shipping
goods by order and personal purchase. The
merchants anticipate a good business during
the month of March
At the criminal court OF Shelby county
the case 0! Georgia A. Smith rs. Anderson
Dancy, seduction, was on hearing yesterday.
Both parties are colOred. The testimony
gwen Ia court IS unfit for publication.
The uarujy wind from The southwest
whirled dust Ia every dir, cj'on yesterday.
The sun-dred mud was blown INTO people S
clothing, faces and eyes in quite lively
manner, producing disBgrteabie results.
At the cdaucery court yesterday Anna
Freeman Fled petition Tor divorce against
Miles Freeman on the grounds CT lnhuman
treatment, personal abuse, attempt to kill,
etc. The parties are cClorcd residents OF the
District.
The publis er, H. A. SaslG=}d, SO Union
Square, New York, fas placed ou cur music
poltfoho H. " S. P;hqf0re Pot, O,uri, Little
t., n.y T..
Era Gone ?-the latter from a collection of
Marie Roze s favorite songs
President Dr.. Thornton, Of the board of
health, visited the Old city dump" IN South
Memphis vest. rday, and reports it a NUS
aucp. 4 dump for garbage and filth of
all KINDS will have to be established on the
river IL some locality.
Considerable public interest is felt in the
completion Of the new Masonic Temple, on
the corner Of Madison and second streets.
The work IS progressing rapidly, the brick
work IS going up, and erdA0ng the building
will be placed under roof. When completed
It will be an ornament to the city.
Judge, what will you wear as a Mardi-
Gras suit tomorrow p asked citizen Of
learned lawyer yesterday. Nothing, sir;
nothing. vas the lagOnic ans yer. TIE
nudge heard e neral laugh, and began to
understand that masqUeradiug had not
reached that point IS yet outside OF the South
Sea islands.
But few people attend the meetings of
the FIRE aad police commissioners. Poll
ticians of the ward stripe have no business
there, and wire pulling has played out. 1t
is not as Il U.s. ii 10 be IL the ha!cyOn days OF
the old corpora tlon, when the visitors and
lobbyists were tar more numerous than the
aldermen ami cJuEci!men.
The attempt made OIL Sunday last to
close drinking shops, cigar and other stores,
was not by any means succ IS. Those who
kept their back doors open, and sold whisky
and beer, reapad q rich harvest, while those
Who observed The police order and closed
their places OF business lost money aud Gus
toners.
Mr.. S. c. Slaughter has been elected
magistrate ii the sixteenth civil dis
trict, TO Fill the vacancy caused by the death
OF Esquire Sam II. Jones. Mr.. Slaughter re-
ceived 1l5 votes. MIR. N 'Keuna p, Mr..
Willis, q, and Mr.. Goodett 3, but the latter
withdrew early in the evening 10 favor of
MIR. Slaughter.
|-Messrs. Eugene Leidy and Peter Tracy
have been appointed a committee to wait on
our citizens and solicit subscriptions to defray
the expense OF the music required for the
military parade to-day. 1t IS hoped those
who are called upon will respond literally
and assist our public spirited young men,
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a martial spirit in the city.
As darby sang on Second street last
night:
''Do'an yer heah me row. ehilleD,
Heah me story sfrOO,
Pm gWyin to Mardi-GTas,
And you'S gWyin too.
Eyes, VEIN hearin you, and VEIN llstnin',
And Ge shells am Dustin high,
And de cOrnbread's in de oben,
And de chickens lynn nigh"
Last Sunday a Buddhist missionary
preacher discoursed on the peculiar tenets OF
MS sect before large and mixed audience on
the bluff. He is a good taker. a man of
learning, and uttered his views in an i'm
pressive manner. He was very satirical ON
the christian religion and the christian
churches of the present day. Attempting TO
convert people IN this country to the Buddhist |
faith is a harmless wea kress, and all attacks |
on christianity serve only to produce and !
spread infdelity as to all systems of religion. |
Yesterday afternoon thief. or a pair of |
thieves, not having the fear Of the attorney |
general Of the criminal court, q. Z. NJ. T., |
before their eyes, and lnstigated by the devil, |
probably, or some other power, did take, |
steal and carry away wilfully, feloniously, |
and with malice aiorethought, two fancy |
overcoats from an office near the criminal |
courtroom, the property OF O. Z. III. Turner |
and II. O. Turner, the said overcoats being |
of the value of some ten dollars each, in |
lawful currency of the United States, and |
against the peace and dignity of the State
and the statutes made and provided, etc. !
When the larceny occurred, elcquence from
lawyers engaged in the trial of the App |
Hackett murder case filed the criminal court
room and adjoining halls. The only antidote
to the larceny anecdote is that spring has
some, and overcoats are passing out of sight.
-Breaking glass balls with rifle Is a new
thing in sporting circles since DR.. Carver
managed to brsak niuety-seven out of a hun
Iced with rife balls, IN test with Captain
8ogardus, who broke balls with his shotgun.
Last Sunday afternoon, In South Memphis, |