Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-02-22
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The street cars will be permitted to run
on Sundays.
At the chancery court Monday next will
be motion day.
To-day is motion day at the United
States circuit court
To-day will be motion day at the circuit
court OF Shelby county,
In March merchants expect a big I'M
pTOvement in business.
The streets are being improved and re-
paired in many localities.
The new District government IS flourish
Ing and giving satisfaction generally.
The District legislative council will be in
session this afternoon at the courthouse.
-WIhelmi Carreno and James were the
musical attractions at the Theater last night.
The temperance folks will assemble to-
morrow afternoon at the Union street Congregation
al church.
To-day Is the anniversary of the birth of
cali order
The police commissioners are consider
ing the social evil question: and what 10 do with it is
the question.
The health board @dvertjses for bids for
thirty carts and fifty men TO clean UP and carry Oh
The garbage CT the District.
There will be a matinee at the Thsater
to-day, at the usual hour, when Carfeno and WI
helmj viii be the attractions.
To-day at ten o'clock the sale Of seats
VIII commence at HOllenDerg's for the GeueyieVe
Rogers engagement, TO commence on next Monday
The Masonic Temple, on the corner of
Second and Madison streets, is rapidly approaching
completion. Already the second story Is rapidly 60
Ing up.
To-day a Wilhelmj matines viii be
given at the Theater. The sale OF reserved seats
will commence this morning, at ten O'Clock sharp,
at Hohenberg's.
Yesterday Chancellor M'Dowell passed
the decree In the case of BOwden g. Tate as. Jesse
will lBirf f.
aud appointing trustee.
The retail liquor dealers held meeting
at the county courtroom yesterday to cons der
matters retaining to their business, such local
day. ~ '''N'' W
The State Of Tennessee will have a. re-
ceTer for Memphis, as well as Judge Baxter. EX
Mayor John K. flippin IS spoken Of in connection
with the office. II is not every city that can have two
receivers.
The history Of the yellow fever epidemic
in Memphis in 1878 viii soon be published. 1t
viii be most Interesting publications. literary and
statistical WORK of merit-and will be published
under the auspices Of the Howard association.
The Sunday laws are to be enforced
strictly by the new government Of the Taxing. Dis
trlct All places of business, Saloons beer gardens,
billiard halls. gaming houses groceries; meat stores
and barber shops will be sealed up by the police to-
morrow.
Amateur Dramas Operas and ParI0r
Entertainments. embracing over two hundred new
plays, written for amateur clubs. can be had at
MansfO Td's, 29S Main street. These plays and
the south.
AT the Taxing District stationhouse on
Adams street, several names appeared on record to
answer the charges OF drunk and dsoTderly yestsr-
man named Gardiner was arrested as being an
escaped convict.
The App-Hackett murder case is still on
trial at the criminal courtroom. The case will be
concluded and given to the iUry to-day. the court
is daily crowded by white and colOred people.
who seem to take the greatest interest IN the trial
Quite amount of feeling has been excited ana
created as 10 the case.
in another column appears the notice Of
the chief Of police, stating that all persons found
violating the Sabbath By keeping their places OF
business open will be arrested, and all saloons
wherein liquors are sold have TO close at midnight
punctually. The police force is instructed to en-
force this order from and after to-day.
The chancery court yesterday reconsid-
cred It's action 2, recently granting divorce in the
ruling on the petition Of defendant. who sets up
conformation. The complainant at the trial obtained
the decree b. a strong array OF witnesses in open
court before the chancellor.
Mr. J. w. MOores, ex-city baCz-tax col
lectOr, has received the following dispatch from
NASHVILLE, February 20.
Have had a long talk with Governor Marks, who
says he viii hold every one having State property 10
a strict account in the State courts without regard
TO orders from any source The receiver bill has GOt
been introduced yet. j. K. GOODWIN
Chancellor Mcdowell yesterday an
nOunced his opinion In the case OF Allen rs. Nj Cel-
Ian, heretofore argued az length and submitted
a suit involving many Intricate and interesting que5
lions of law, embracing those OF dOmicll, martial
rights, and rights OF foreign creditors to enforce
claims in this State, estOpp-l and suryyOTship The
court held the dcmi IL OF wife to be in Mississippi.
Hedges, tGe husband, cannot maintain cross action.
Claim 10 uote denied. Allen Co, ana Coe q Bur
ger entitled 10 certain relief Mcclellan Archibald
no right to TecOupment. Relief denied.
An APPEAL commissioner visited the
customhouse grounds yesterday, and found some
thirty men at work dressing the Tennessee marble
furnished By the contractors for the completion Of
the building. The marble is white, with peculiar
hesh-cOIOr tuge in It. The contractors are, and
have been, slow in shipping The marble 10 the
grounds, but they promise 10 have II arrive here