Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-01

and Gayoso street, was the first man who
took out license from the Taxing District
government for the privilege of selling
liquors by retail. He paid the Taxing-Dis-
trict government thirty dollars and
fifty cents for the privilege. Let all other
privilege Taxpayers now walk up and Sc
cure licenses.
AT the criminal court yesterday the fol-
lowing business was transacted A number
of persons were arraigned and entered pleas
of not guilty, preparatory to trials OF their
cases by iuries. Joseph Bernstein, rape, mo
ton for new trial overruled; sentence of
death pronounced by Judge Ray, to take
place on Friday, June sixth, next. Ed Ray
mond, larceny, jury and verdict pot guilty.
John B. Person, murder, n0tle prOseqUi en-
tered. John Allen, larceny, fine of thirty-six
dollars imposed; sent to workhouse until fine
is paid.
"A fire occurred in Chelsea, near the Brick
church, at three O'Clock on Sunday morning,
destroying a frame cottage belonging to Mr.
A. j. Knapp. a policy of one thousand dol
lars in the Queens of London will about re-
imburse Mr.. Knapps loss. The Knapp house
was occupied by Mr.. Charles Nelmeyer,
whose furniture was totally lost, save sew
ing machine and one or two unimportant
pieces. The fire is believed to have been the
work of some incendiaIy, as it first caught in
the rear of the building where there was
nothing that could have caused it.
As the circuit court yesterday Samuel La
dell fled a bill for divorce against Sarah
Ladell, and stated that they intermarried in
1869 in Carroll county, Mississippi, where
they resided for some ten years, and that
during that time the defendant committed
adultery with divers persons, and in conse-
quence the petitioner was forced to leave her
at that time. Complainant adds that defend
ant has had two illegitlmate children born to
her within the last six years, and that she
still continues to live in open and notorious
adultery. Complainant prays for a divorce
a UincHlO.
Last evening a Notwithstanding news
paper package, addressed '"To the Editor of
the Appeal" and marked ''On Her Maiesty's
Service, - was received through the postofice.
Our Fenian editor was suspicious of the pack
age, fearing that it contained nitro glycerine,
or some other explosive compound. On open
ing the package, fear gave way to pleasure
when our FenIan discovered that the dOeu
ment was signed Thomas B. Hill, Acting
Secretary" and that it was a copy of the
programme and regulations of the Melbourne
international exhibition of 1880, which will
open in October of said year.
Yesterday morning about five o'clock
FIRE was discovered in the one-story frame
cottage belonging to Calvin Vance, and stu
ated on the south side of Poplar boulevard
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totally destroyed. A policy of twenty FIVE
hundred dollars in the Bluff City insurance
company of this city covers the loss to MIR.
Vance. A defective hue is said to have been
the cause of the conflagrAtion. Mr.. J. J.
Slower occupied the premises, having moved
into the same only few days since. About
i've hundred dollars worth of his furniture
was burned and no insurance covered the
same, Mr.. Slower having failed to transfer his
policy from the house he formerly lived In.
"A medical man called the attention of an
APPEAL commissioner on yesterday to n Gu
rIous case. 1t was that of confirmed opium
eater aged but thirteen months. The facts of
the case are these: The child, when a few
months old, suffered from what is commonly
known in household words as ''belly-aehe -
In order to relieve the child from its suffering
those IN charge commenced giving him pare
goric, then a stronger preparation, lauda-
mum; and, this falling IN time to relieve his
sufferings, morphine was resorted to, until
now tue child has to take half grain of
morphine at a dose in order to secure rest and
relief from suffering. Medical men know,
but the world does not, that morphine is a
vegetable alkaloId extracted from OPIUM, of
which it constitutes one of the narcotic princi-
pies. There is nothing III DeQuincy's book
on opium-eating that equals the above.
Mayor J. D. Norman, of Baldwin, Mis-
sissippi, offers q reward Of one hundred dol
lars Tor the arrest OF -. Letter, VINO, On tAe
night of the twenty eighth of Marcn, muir
dered William Googe, at that place, by stab
bling him to death. Teter is a man about
forty or forty.fve years of age; about six
feet high, weighs about one hundred and fifty
pounds, rather slender, thin visage, long
nose, blue eyes, fair Complexion, but was
tanned by the sun; beard light sandy brown
color and rather thin, especially on the sides
of the face; has swaggering sort of gait;
speaks some het quickfyt hes more than "a
ordinary share of intelligence; seems 10 have
a fair English education, but is profane and
repulsive in his conversation, especially when
drinking; loves to deal in Understanding
terms when intoxicated. but usually uses
them correctly; he has an ulcer ted sore leg.