Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-20
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The frost continues to put in an appear
ance every morning.
The Danites will be the attraction at the
Tueater at the matinee on Saturday.
-Wharfmaster Kalaher Is collecting
wharfage as usual for the new regime.
Jupiter is now the morning star. The
evening stars are Mercury and Venus.
The church bells toll out the hours of
prayer daily during the Lenten season.
The school board is about ready to pay
the teachers their salaries for the month of
February.
AT the Theater tonight the Danites will
be presented by the M'Kee Rankin dramatic
combination.
-"Patty," by Catherine Macquoid. Price
twenty cents. English Young Ladies Jour
nal for April, at Mansford's, 29S Main street.
To-day is the opening of spring, accord
ing to the almanac. The sun enters Aries
to-day. The season is called the Vernal
equinox.
The Memphis law library, at the court
house, is a big institution. Nearly FIVE thou
sand volumes of law books are contained
therein.
But one arrest was made by the police
yesterday, and that was a negro who was
charged with cutting fellow-man of color
with a razor.
AT the circuit court Francis Lee has fled
petition for divorce against Jack Lee, on
the grounds Of adultery, cruel and nhuman
trea5me en-, abandonment etc.
The year 1879 comprises the latter part
of the one hundred and third and the begin
ming Of the one hundred aud fourth year of
the independence of the United States.
Next week, for two nights, we will have
at the Theater Warde and Barrymore COM
paDy in Diplomacy, and during the re-
mainder of the week, including the Satur
day matinee, Colville's opera burlesque COM
pany IN round of amusing aRd musical
burlesques, including IL. u. S. P&gfOre.
United States Receiver Latham will soon
be able to inform delinquent Taxpayers how
much each one Is indebted to the extinct cor
poration of Memphis, and they will be in
vited to settle. The statement of this in
debtedness will be a part of the receiver s
report to the court IN May next.
Mr.. Adams, who shot and killed F. NJ.
Cash at New Orleans last week, had an ex-
animation before the coroner on Monday last,
but the case was turned over to Recorder
Sheehan, before whom the warrant charging
Adams with the murder of Cash was sworn
out. The investigation will be made in a
or two.
AT the tail end of next week we will
have the COliville comic opera troupe, who
will give US II. II. S. Pingfore. musical
satire on the red tapeism of the British navy
The author of the comic opera, Mr.. Sullivan,
is the author of the amusing and musical
Trial by Jury, which was presented here by
the Soldene kickers.
The cases of the liquor selling Oh Sun
day were heard by President Porter yester-
day. The fines Of fifty dollars in each case
were RENTED IN promise to keep closed next
Sunday. One case was dismissed, there be-
ing no proof presented to sustain the prose-
cution, and one case was appealed to the cir
cunt court, in order to test the Sunday law.
On Tuesday evening last little negro
boy, aged seven years, and whose parents re-
side On Elliott street, near Causey, ran into
the street and struck at dray mule. The
vicious animal kicked the boy on the back of
the head, fractured and broke the skull, and
from the wound the brain oozed tout. The
attending physician had no hopes of the
boys recovery, but the child was alive yes
terday morning.
The board of health, in its war on cab
bage, prohibits for sixty days the sale of
cabbages sent here from New Orleans, Mo-
bile, and other southern coast points, because
the cabbage arrives here in a half decayed
state, and is unfit for food. Cabbage-heads
raised within q radius Of q hundred miles or
so Of Memphis arrive here fresh, and are not
interdicted. Fresh cabbage Is all right, but
At the criminal court, yesterday, the fol-
lowing business was transacted: James
Jones, larceny, jury and verdict guilty of
grand larceny, aud penalty fixed at five years
imprisonment in the penitentiary. Abe
Brinkiey, larceny; jury and verdict lot
guilty. Louisa Balch, larceny; Jury and YER
dict not guilty. Jim Jones, larceny; Jury
and verdict guilty of petit larceny, and pen
atty liked at enc years imprisonment in the
penitentIary.
AT the Bartlett circuit court. before
Judge E!drldge aad jury, on Monday last,
the case of the State Us. Golly Bond came up
for trial, not on the indictment charging him
with the murder Of l.. S. Hill but on an iu-
quest Of luuacy. A number of witnesses
were examined, besides medical experts, and
all testified that Golly Bond was then in a
condition Of hopeless Idiocy The jury, on
Tuesday last, returned a verdict Of luBacy,
and the prisoner was ordered by Judge e.
bridge to be sent to the Nashville lunatic
asylum.
Tuesday last resident of Lebanon, Ten
nessee. named John B. Patton, while under
the influence of liquor, proposed marriage to
woman named KITTY Thompson, nymphe
de- pare, known as Matte Williams, and an
inmate of an uptown bagnio, kept by Lizzie
Robinson. The girl accepted the proposal OF
marriage, alicsnse was secured and they,were
udLEitO ny E.qulIC L leullDg yesterday. Inc
groom intended taking his bride home to
Middle Tennessee, but last evening he came
to the stahonhouse and complained that his
wife had robbed him of seventy dollars, and
he wanted her arrested. The police would
not interfere, a they had no right to arrest a
wife because she had her husbands money in
her possession. The girl had, Of course. let
him, and he received but little sympathy.
He Is a sadder but much wiser man, but yet
he has no good grounds for fling a petition
for divorce.
Yesterday the case of the State rs. Jake
Levy and William Miller was called for hear
ing before Justice Quigley, on a warrant
sworn out by man named Dunlap, who al
legged that he had been robbed of a pocket
book containing two hundred and ninety dol
lars. Dunlap yesterday withdrew the war
rant and refused to prosecute, and the pris-
oners were discharged from custody. In yes
terday's APPEAL 1t was stated, by mistake,
that the row aud alleged robbery occurred at
Bohan'5 saloon, on Main street, when in fact
the row and alleged robbery occurred at
another saloon. on the other side OF the street;
but 1t turns out that no robbery was COM
mitted, Dunlap being drunk at the time of
the row, and having but little recollection of
the etfalr. Oar reporter was misinformed as
to the location of the fight, hence the name
of Bohan's saloon got into the paragraphs
enormously; but mistakes occur in the best
Of families.