Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-18

held last night, the following elections were
had: For honorary members-L b. Horri-
gan, 81. FursteDheim, Thomas 81. Chiffon,
Oscar Woodbridge, w. W. Currie. For &C.
tive member-James p. Day.
The man who keeps a nuisance around
his premises ia generally the very last man to
discover or acknowledge it.. His nose has
been trained so we'll to foul stenches that he
smells them not, but his near and distant
nelghbors get the full benefit of his nasti-
ness.
Friday evening next a musical enter
tainment will be given at the residence OF
| Mrs Monsarrat, 107 Mill street, Chelsea. The
| entertainment will be given by her pupils,
who will be assisted by many of our leading
amateurs, and among these Miss Lizzie Win
ters.
| ( The DesoEO block, on Madison street, be-
tween Nam and Second, is undergoing sub
stantial repairs. The street awning has been
torn down, the block is to be reprinted, and
/ THE Internal arrangements will be modified
and improved. This building was recently
purchased by Mr.. Menken.
Supreme Dictator J. A. Cummings, of
the Knights of Honor. reports the death
losses from yellow-fever in 1878 as follows
Tennessee, 13l; Mississippi, II; Kentucky,
IT; Arkansas, 3, Alabama, l. Total losses,
1913. Deaths from other causes, 27S. The
total amount of benefits is $942, 900.
Attention is called to the notice given
by Major G. V. Rambaut, chief marshal of
the customhouse corner stone laying cele-
brAtion. The senior officers of the civic and
military organizations are requested to meet
Major Rambaut this afternoon at four o clock,
| at the fernando insurance cUmpany's oth3e,
% Madison street.
Last evening Peter Donaldson, colored,
aged fourteen years, was drowned while bath
ing in the Mississippi river, between South
and Webster streets, not far from the place
where Willie Jones was drowned few days
since. Up to late last night the body had
not been recovered. The boys parents re-
side on Webster street
Calvary Sunday school picnic tomorrow
| Thursday, at Fitzgibbon's grove, On the
| Louisville railroad. The children and their
invited friends must be on hand, at the
depot, head of Main street. at half-past eight
o'clock sharp, as the train will leave
promptly. Remember to bring your baskets
and mark name on them.
| Yesterday afternoon MIR. William For.
rest and a tonsorial artist of South Court
street shaving saloon engaged in rough
andtumble fight in the saloon. Both were
arrested and conducted to the Adams street
statIonhouse. MIR. Forrest put up ten dollars
| forfeit and was released from custody. The
row will be investi gated by President Porter
| this morning.
| AT the criminal court yesterday the fol
| lowing cases were heard and disposed OF
Amos M'Cauley, petit larceny, two cases
| Jury and We, dict guilty and defendant sem
| fenced to six months imprisonment in the
| county jail, IN each case; Rufus Williams
larceny, Jury and verdict guilty and sentenced
| ty three months Imprisonment In the count
Jail.
The Pontotoc, Mississippi, Democrat, o
the 14th, says: Memphis is making Egrea
preparations for a grand display Of frework
to come off on the Fourth OF July. Accom-
modations are being made to seat ten thou
| sand spectators. War, cholera, yellow feve
nor anything else can crush out the fires o
patr1otisme which ever burn brightly IN the
bosom of the Whole-souled and generous
| Memphians.
AT meeting last night of the Knight
| of Honor, Fountain lodge, No. 296, the fol
lowing officers ware elected for the ensuing
term, to-wit: John B. Galloway, dictator
L. h. Estes. jr., vice dictator; W. d. Groves
assistant dictator; Barney Hughes, chaplain
| Howell Sigler, reporter; Charles A. Castor
| financial reporter; Peter J. Murray, treas
urer; d. B. Morford, guide; Peter Owens
guardian; John +. Elliott, sentinel.
We. have received FROM the author, c
| F. Wilmans, OF Augusta, Georgia, a cory Of
his Cotton Export Calculations, Almost usefu
| book to every cotton man. 1t shows the cos
| Tree on DOdIu WHEN laUu6U al blF'
| erpool; rules of cotton Cellverage and broker
age at the same place; cost of Insurance, ETC..
In francs and pfennige; Havre and Bremen
! cotton $50 arrive" rLles. rates of exehssage
| in United States and English money, anC
other information. Printed by the Augusti
Chronicle company.
The publishers, Messrs. W. c. Wood
ward & Co., $685. Main street, Memphis
| have favored us with copies of their frs
music publications, just issued. They arr
compositions by our friend John I. Rutledge
| who is rapidly rising to d high place as
music composer. The two before Us are the
lend song and chorus" EU'Ty Day GtOiae Il
be Sunday, dedicated to Barney Hughes, anC
1 Wouldn't BelieUe Him, You'd You? a
sung by Lolita, Aimee, and Emele Rosau
! Woodward & Co.'S publications are for salt
by all music dealers.
The driver of city slop- cart, yesterday
on finding scarcity of garbage IN a slush'
| barrel deliberately climbed over the back
fence into the kitchen-yard of a residence il
South Memphis and demanded Of the ser
| want Why there was no garbage In the barrel
The servant told him that she was ordered b,
her employer to burn everything but th,
slops, and she had done so. She called his
attention at the same time to the cleanliness
of the premises. The driver, not satisfied
with the explanation, ordered her not to burr
/ the garbage hereafter, but throw It IN tn
! slush-barrel, as he was paid to haul 1t oil
The driver in this exceeded his Instructions
/ Any householder who chooses can destroy by
fire every particle of garbage, filth or sweep
ings that he can accumulate. By so dolnl
| he lessons the labors of the city employees a1C
sets a good example in favor of cremation
the only really effective system of sanitation
| AT the French Giee club picnic at EST
val park Monday night, a row occurred in tn
bar-room of the pavilion, during which Dep
/ uty Sheriff Peter Bradley and Charles Mar
shall, Poplar street butcher, engaged il
hot words, resulting in Bradley being strucl
by Marshall. The combattants were sepa
rated, but Immediately some one fred
plstol-shot at Marshall, the ball tearing hi
clothing across his stomach and grazing tn
skin, but not doing any injury. Tue bal
sped onward and passed through the foot 0
small boy named Becker, whose parents re
side ON Beale street. The ball entered the
upper portion of the foot near the joint OF tn
| big toe, and passed out through the sole q
the foot, iRhcting a painful and sever
wound. Bradley was arrested and will hav
| a hearing before Esquire Spelmau to-day
| Bradley denies doing the shooting, but sew
eral witnesses assert that he fred the shot.
"A correspondent objects to the way tn
nlortuary reports are published. There ar
too many Latin names Tor diseases used t
| suit the unlearned mind. Every person i
board to write English and give the disease
their English names. When he reads tn
APPEAL to his wife, and when she asks hin
the meaning of such words-dndSGrcG, hy
drOcephalus cirrh0siS, nephrites, taryHgitis
enterites-he has to make a display or hi
ignorance most humiliatIng, and that, too
before his oldest child, who mas heretofor
believed that her papa was very great an
learned man. This being considered a
English-speaking community, and the NOR
tuary reports being published for the infor
nation of the public, he insists that tn
English language should only be used Il
these reports He can stand the wor
zymotic, but even that creates fermentation
in his household when he has to admit tina
he has failed to catch the meaning of tht
word, and has no unabridged dictionary a
hand.
"A girl named Smith, and aged som
nineteen years, was arrested yesterday by tn
chief Of police at Kate E1wards's Desot
street bagnio, and was locked up at the sta