Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-21
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The vernal equinox brought mist, fogs
and rain yesterday.
The commissioners will make another
effort to enforcs the Sunday law the day alter
ro-mCrrOw.
Petit ttleving continues to prevail in the
city in sporadic form. 1t mas not as yet be-
come epidemic.
Rev. J. N. Gill will preach at the Cum
berland Presbyterian church, at seven forty
five tonight.
The Danites Will be presented at the
Theater again tonight by the NJ Kee- Rankin
dramatic company.
Yesterday Saeriff MCGOWAN left for Nash
vile with Goily Bond, who will be confined at
the State lunatlc asylum.
The poet says: MAN being reasonable,
must get drunk" yet the drunken man is
the most unreasonable animal ca earth.
NORTH i nserican Review and Leslie s
Popular Monthly Tor April, The Mystery Of
EliOstOn BtldaOT, price ten cents, at Mans
ford s, 1913 Main street.
Ga Easter Monday night a public ball
will be given by the police department for
the benefit OF the widows and orphans Of the
police relief association.
The Bartlett circuit court is moving along
slowly. All cases that can be are continued,
with a view 10 adjourn court as soon as pos
corn.
Quite a number of country merchants are
in town daily making purchases OF stock.
Tdey fnd Memphis a cheap market, quite as
cheap as those Of northern cities, with freight
added.
Men are always sentenced to be hanged
on some Friday by judges Of criminal courts,
aaa criminal court juries usually bring In
verdicts on Saturdays, the jnries not desiring
TO be locked up over Sunday.
Billy Lieben's news depot has received a
new supply of Rerue de Ia Mode, for April.
He also has Leslie's Popular Monthly and
North american ReOietO, for April. No.
23615 Main street Is his number.
The arguments in the P 4yne-Oiver self
rising -four case closed yesterday at the
United States court. Judge Hammond took
the case under advisement, aad will an
| nounce his opinion in few days.
"A gang of bad and unruly boys haunt
| the Theater doors nightly. to the great an
police compel these boys 10 90 home, where
| they ought to be at late hours?
The Haverly minstrel company left for
| New Orleans, pia the Mississippi and Tennes-
| see railroad, yesterday, ard over the same
route the III kee Rankin dramatic company
| arrived from New Orleans yesterday alter
| noon.
AT the criminal court, yesterday, the fol-
| lowing business was transacted: Sam Harris,
| larceny, forfeitures taken against the wit
nesses; Winzy Wlggins, murder, jury and
verdict not guilty; james Morris, larceny,
| jury and verdict not guilty.
"Wednesday next Colville's burlesque
opera company will commence an engage
| ment at the Theater, and Will present Robin
son CrtSOe and Babes ia the Woods. In the
| former buresque the incidents and music of
II. N. S. Pinqfore will be introduced.
Paul Boynton, in his india-rnbber suit, is
| floating down the river above Louisville, en-
| route for New Orleans. He will sooh arrive
| at the port of Memphis, and will be tackled
by Wharlmaster Kalaher for wharfage, ac-
cording to the usual rates for watercratts.
The Ledgel' man yesterday bewailed the
loss of a pocket. knife, which he valued at
two dollars, and which he stated was stolen
| from him at the courthouse. The knife can
be found where he left II, at the sheriff s
| Office, and its value has been estimated by
| competent Judges at thirty cents.
The Diplomacy company, consisting OF
| the Warde & Barrymore troupe, had an en-.
| gaS&ment to appear at the Theater next
| Monday and Tuesday evenings. but owing to
the murder of Mr.. B. G. Porter and the
| Wounding Of Mr.. Barrymore, at Marshall,
| Texas, yesterday, the company Will not be
| able to appear as advertised.
On Wednes day night Sam Ellison, press
| feeder at the APPEAL office, accidentally fell
| into the cellar of the Masonic Temple, IN the
alley in the rear of the building, and received
severe Injuries He was sent out to the hos
| pltai yesterday. The cellar in the rear or the
building has been uncovered for some time,
| forming dangerous llte-trap. Several per
| sons have fallen into this hole within the last
| two months. The hole should be covered up
| Immediately.
The following strange story comes from
| Mississippi: A man named SeagraVes, living
] ia Marshall county, Mississippi, dreamed
| several times that there was some gold buried
on the place on which he lived, and his
dreams having b5en so vivid aud the exact
| place so distinctly impressed on his mind,
| that he searched for the gold, and discovered
eleven hundred dollars. Il IS supposed the
money vas buried by former resident OF
the place, now dead.
At hait-past four O'Clock yesterday even
! ing fire broke out in the one-storY cottage
| frame residence Of Mike Sullivan "a
| wel!-krown haCk-driver), situated on VIM
| chester street near Bradford The house
| was destroyed, but the furniture was
! saved in . damaged condition. The house.
| stable and furniture were insured for sixteen
I hundred dollars III the companies represented
by Marx q SeHsdorf,s agency. The stable
| was not damaged. The adj Jlning cottage
occupied by r g. Tucker, had the roof aad
end 6adly burned and damaged. The cause
of the fire was detective hue.
"A day Or two since a young man, said
/ to be ratified IN the upper story or Mansard
/ roof, obtained license to marry from the
| county court clerk and gave the name of his
| intended, but yet the lady knew him not,
| never spoke to him in her life, aud of course
! knew nothing Of the affair. This is the sec
! Ond otfense Of the kind committed by the
/ young man, and 1t Is q great outrage He,
1 in explanation OF his strange conduct, SAYS
| he never spoke to the lady, was never INTRO
| duced to he, but he spoke to her with his
| eyes and addressed her, and he believes she
| responded favorably to bis ocular demon
| STATIONS, or love at sight, but it was all in
| his eye, after alt. Some kind OF check should
| be put upon this business.
! The Morristown Gazette has the follow
| ing to say, which We heartily indorse, and
submit to our readers for their consideration:
J mo nation or country ever existed without
! the public highways. and The condition in
| which they are kept Is as unlaIl ng a sign of
/ their prosperity or poverty as that water will
! seek its level. II the roads are bad, progress
and permanent improvement ia forever
! blasted IN that country. They demorahze
and dishearten the people, and no stranger
| is ever attached 10 that country. The tourist
! and traveller looks back add remembers The
| scenes over which he has passed at the I'M
mjnent risk of his life and limb. and has no
desire ever again to revisit that section, and
highways OF that county. Good roads invite
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