Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-15
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
.Beeoher is coming.

This is Easter holiday week.
Pneumonia continues to prevail through
out the city.
Business men were complainingEof dull
times yesterday.
The Hebrew feast, known as the Pass
over, ends to-day.
Farewell to Easter eggs for year; it is
no longer czTHe rGte.
Many citizens have not as yet recovered
from their Easter dinners.
The school board met last evening. See
proceedings IN another column.
-HUper's MagdSine, for May to be had
at Billy Lieben's news depot, 23619 Main
street.
AT the Tneater tonight Fra DiarolO
will be the operate attraction presented by
the Memphis opera club.
Another little lightning, thunder and
raln-storm broke over the city yesterday
afternoon. 1t was spring affair.
Memphis will be kept cool this summer.
Ten thousand tons of ice are en route for this
point by river, and will arrive here this week.
And now come dancing. rry-making,
marrying, picnicking and other things hber-
ally INDUCED in during the post-lenten
season.
The policemen's ball at the Exposition
building, on Thursday night next, for the
benefit of the widows and orphans OF the
force, should not be forgotten.
"A pool of staanant water on Jmes's
avenue, between Robson and Bra 1ford
streets, in Scotland" calls for the imme-
date attention of the proper authorities.
"A new and very pretty song and chorus
entitled Golden Years dfe Passing By, writ
ten by Will l.. Thompson, has been placed On
our table by the publishers, w. L. Thomp-
soa x Co., OF East Liverpool, Ohio.
The storm and Captain Paul Boyton had
q tussle twenty miles below here at dark last
evening; but we'll bet a picayune against
street-car ticket that the gallant sailor went
on his lonely and watery way rejoicing all the
same.
The annual convention of the B mai B 'rith
Hebrew organization will be held in this city
on the eleventh of May next. The Milan
club Will, on the night of the twelfth, enter
tain the delegates with a performance, con-
cert and hop.
On and after the first of May, New Or
leans will enforce a twenty-days quarantine
against all vessels from or touching at the
West Indies, gulf of Mexico (south of Texas,
or South American ports as far south as
Buenos Ayres.
The diver OF Mr.. Dempster's milk
wagon had his head very badly cut we ster-
day evening, at about haf-past six clock,
occasloned by the horse running away and
turning the wagon over, smashing 1t into
pieces, on Main, near tie corner of Mill
street.
From the scholastic census taken by Mr..
Eugene Moore, for the school board for 1879,
IL appears that there is a falling off of eleven
hundred and twenty-thrce children as COM
pared with the number In the year 1873 The
yellow-tever carried off the little ones during
the terrible months of August, September,
October and November of last year.
The Garfield (colored) orphan asylum is
indebted to Albert White, of st. Louis, for
donation of twenty-five dollars and coop of
chickens, and to Robert Church, of this CITY.
for donation Of ten dollars. The directors OF |
the orphan asylum, through S. A. Armour.
matron OF the asylum, return their thanks to |
the donors.
The violent rain and hail-storm at dark |
last evening caused the flowers to close and |
hide their heads. As an old English poet |
sang scores of years ago
% The winds that erst were ,chist,
Beginne to rOare.
Each tree, your songes being mist. /
Each sprOutinge pauncIe in the meade,
For GRIEF begins TO hang "A head"
Quite number OF prisoners were ar |
ralgned ut the criminal court yesterday, and |
pleas OF not guilty were entered. James |
Jones, charged with HOUSEKEEPING and lar |
ceny, was acquitted; Anna NJ Williams,
charged with the same offenses, was also ac- |
quilted; John Green. colored, charged with |
disturbing public worship at a church, was |
placed on trial, and the testimony of wit |
ness IS on hearing.
The four-story building No. AZ Madison
street, near Second, occupied 10y the Memphis
gasieht company, was sold at bankruptcy |
sale on an order OF the circuit court of the |
United States, by Assignee Woodbridge, yes
terday, at and for the sum of nine thousand |
one hundred dollars, to J. S. Menken. Terms |
Of sale: one fourth cash. balance in equal |
payments in six and twelve months. 1t is |
known as the "Desoto Building"
The Granger association of Shelby |
county has elected officers who will manage |
the agricultural fair to be gwen at the old |
fairgrounds, on the Charleston railroad,
sometime this coming fall. The managers
elected are as follows: Thomas Holman,
VIM. ii. Walker, j. II. Thompson, r. M |
Mason, George b. Fleece, II. d. Greer, +. S.
Elan, b. +. Ball, b. Bayliss, r. D. Good
wyn, II. L. Bedford, B. Ellis, G. I. Farrow,
j. M. Crews, W. A. J. Slaughter and G.
Weatherford.
"A few days SINCE a jury was impaneled
At the criminal court for q case wherein Q