Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-03
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Sunday next will be Palm Sunday.
A frost made its appearance yesterday
morning.
Petty thieving continues to flourish
around town and in the suburbs.
Tonight Emerson's minstrels will open
up an engagement at the Iheater.
Spring openings of millinery and dry
goods prevail in Memphis just now.
Wednesday next will be the anniversary
of the surrender OF Lee and the army OF
Virginia, in 1865.
No visitors admitted to the rehearsals of
the Memphis opera club-the escort of lady
members excepted.
If you are in favor of Porter az bever-
age, step up and be Fleeced. Pay your taxes
to the county trustee.
The street railway company is repairing
between their tracks on Maia street by put
ting down wooden blocks?
The legislative council of the District
will meet again on Thursday afternoon Ito
morrow week., the tenth instant.
Since the rain, mud holes have appeared
in the rotten Nicoson pavement on Main,
Second, Shelby, Madison, Poplar and other
streets.
Our lawmakers are on their way home
from Nashville, and will he interviewed on
their constituents.
Now is the time to engage in white
washing board fences, outhouses, trees,
walls, etc. 1t produces an appearance of
cleanliness and neatuess.
The drawing of the Louisiana State lot
terry will come off on the eighth instant,
Tuesday next. by investing two dollars you
may draw the capital prize.
Complaint has been made that the refuse
of the slaughterhouses Is poured into Wolf
river, near the water works, and that the
water is poisoned thereby. Is this factP
AT the German Casino club-room last
night a pleasant entertainment was given.
The Belle Of Saratoga was presented In good
style. The entertainment was highly en-
joyed by members OF the club and invited
guests.
H. NJ. S. Pinqfoy'e is to be presented by
the Chickasaw Guards. All ladies and gen
tlemen who will take part will please attend
first rehearsal tonight at eight O'Clock, at
Witzmann's piano-rooms, opposite Calvary
church.
News for the board of health: On the
south side of Commerce street, and west Of
Bayou Gayoso, there is a cess pool into which
twelve privies empty. In the rear of 81
Commerce street, the dirt is banked up to
keep privy from OVERLOOKING.
Among the prominent names mentioned
In connection with the Office of member of the
board of public works, which office has to be
| filed by the county court on Monday next, are
the following: Ex-Alderman W. n. Brown,
Colonel Hosea Townsend, Captain James Lee,
Mr. John J. Duffy and Ex-Alderman H. G..
Dent.
The Taxing-District government needs
money badly IN order to pay off the police
| and fire departments and keep at work at
| sanitary business. Unless Taxpayers step
up and settle the sanitary work on the streets
and alleys will come to a halt, and the work
| will stop until money is paid into the treasury
| by taxpayers.
| "A main of cocks between north and south
| Memphis, will come off at Correll's garden,
| Poplar street boulevard, Saturday, fifth in
| slant, at one o'clock in the afternoon, sharp.
| Also, on the eighth and ninth of April, an
| Interstate main of cocks between Misslssip-
| pi, Arkansas and Tennessee, for one thou
| sand dollars.
Yesterday, Judge Hammond, of the
United States court, presented the decree In
| the admiralty cases of the steamers Illinois,
White and Cheek, which decree was entered
of record. The decree was based on the
| opinion in the cases delivered byJudge Ham
mond few days since, a synopsis Of which
opinion appeared in the APPEAL of Sunday
| last.
Our theatrical commissioner furnished
1 1u6dI6E- TANK OEdy Will u large
| Autograph of the late b. G.. Porter, formerly
of the Furnish Fifth Avenue combination,
and lately of the Warde & Barrymore Di-
| plomacy troupe. The Autograph has been
| placed on exhibition In Wilkins's show-win-
| dow, en- the corner of Main and Madison
streets.
| The friends of Henry Voss, who com
| mitted suicide last Tuesday, say that he was
not in the habit of drinking to excess or be-
4 To- DEl AL,
| pleasure in making this correction, as our in
| formants spoke of HIM as being addicted to
| drink in consequence of the trouble of mind
caused by the knowledge of his daughter
seduction. The friends Of the deceased say
that he was Woodworking, steady man.
The Taxing-District government is not
responsible for the payment of licenses a
second time. Those who paid license to the
| old defunct corporation of Memphis can go
in as general creditors in the bill fled in the
United States court and secure their pro rata of
| the assets now in the hands of the receiver, but
| they will also have to pay license to the new
government, which is not responsible for any
payments made to the dead corporation.
The following "hmely notice." at the
cotton exchange, and which most OF our
prominent cotton buyers are signing, speaks
for itself: Gas the season for the purchase
of bagging approaches, the attention of
merchants and others is called to the follow
ing regulation of the cotton exchange: All
cotton bales covered with bagging composed
wholly or in part of material which, when
wet, stains the cotton, or is filed with unr0t-
ted shives or splinters, shall be considered
understandable and subject to rejection at
the option OF the purchaser.
Last evening, near the APPEAL Office,
lot of boys, armed with sections of cane. en-
gagged in the pleasing occupation of sucking
sour beer from empty beer-kegs which they
found piled up in pyramid form on the side
walk The boys 10y so doing placed them
selves IN either a sick or half drunken cond-
ton. The empty beer-keg temptation ought
10 be removed from the sidewalks. Indeed,
there is an ordinance against all such OBJ
ttructions to travel on sidewalks, to say
nothing of the iuducement held ont TO boys
to become intoxicated on the yilest of all
drinks, sour lager beer.
Mrs. Matte Brown made it lively for
her lord and master last evening at their
residence on Union street. Owing to some