Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-05
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The public schools will close this week.
June fruits are appearing at the various
markets.
-Tax-paying to the District government
for 1873 Is improving.
"A mission for the Italians exclusively
will commence next Friday evening at eight
o'clock.
Thousands of people are coming to Mem
phis to see the grand fireworks on the Fourth
of July.
The commissioners and the legislative
council viii hold a meeting at four o'clock
this afternoon.
The auxiliary sanitary association meets
daily, at four o cock in the afternoon, to con-
sider sanitary measures.
Quite number of Memphiaus left for
Cincinnati and other points north, on the
steamer Vint Shlnkle, last evening.
The conference between the legislative
council and the auxiliary sanitary association
will be held at the Courthouse this forenoon
at ten o'clock.
All complaints as to. alleged nuisances
affecting health should be made in writing to
Secretary Langstaff, of the auxiliary associa-
ton, No. IL Union street.
1t was rumored last evening that death
by suicide. from taking an overdose of NOR
phine, had occurred in the city, but our man
could not secure the particulars.
George Washington, on horseback,
double life size, is among the great fe atures
of the proposed fireworks display on the
Fourth. This will be a novel sight for the
little ones.
The auxiliary sanitary association has or
dered nine hundred and fifty dollars to be
turned over to the city government to be ex-
pended Tor sanitary purposes for the month
of June.
The total amount of collections up to
date made by the finance committee of the
auxiliary sanitary association is three thou
sand nine hundred and ffty-seven dollars
and eightg-six cents.
In another part Of the paper will be
found the full text Of the recent decision of
ing District cases, OF which decision we
published Geographic abstract on Sunday
last.
-Long-winded legal orations by The shy
sterean school of attorneys are considered
out of order in President POrter's high court
of chaneery, where both law and equity is
dispensed with liberal hand among the I'M
ioltunates.
The commencement exercises of the
Memphis high school will be held tomorrow
evening, the sixth instant, at the Memphis
Iheater. No tickets of invitation have been
issued; all are invited. See announcement
in another column.
The annual scholastic exercises Of rooms
Nos. 2 and 3, Market street schools, will
commence Saturday next, the seventh IN
slant, at ten o'clock IN the morning, under
the supervision of the teachers, Mss Fannie
May and Miss Cora II. Ashe.
w. L. Dunlap, who died suddenly at
his residence on the Louisville railroad, be-
tween Third street and the machine shops,
died of heart disease. Coroner Crockett held
the inquest, and DIR. Morrison, who made a
careful examination, gave it as his opinion
that the above disease was the cause of his
death.
The report of the committee appointed
by the various lodges in tnis city of the An
Gent Order of United Workmen to examine
the bills and vouchers Of the yellow-fever
committee of 1878 has been published. The
vouchers were IN the hands of d. F. Good
year, D. D. G.. M, and Samuel A. Taylor,
chairman of the relief committee.
AT the criminal court yesterday, the LOT
lowing business was transacted: w. II. Fur
bush, carrying concealed weapons, jury and
verdict not guilty; r. I. Brown, nuisance,
jury and verdict aot guilty; w. B. Phillips,
assault and battery, fine ten dollars; James
Schultz, carrying deadly weapons, jury and
verdict not guilty; Henry Schultz, carrying
deadly weapons, jury and verdict not guilty.
A number Of minor cases were disposed Of on
verdicts of not guilty.
slant, the Memphis Light Guards will give
concert and hop at Estival park, assisted by
their young lady and gentleman friends
The object of this entertainment is to pay for
their new uniforms. which have already been
ordered. Captain Woodbridge, of the Guards,
is dong everything in his power to make his
company a credit to our city. We predict
for the Guards concert and hop large and
fashionable attendance; the young gentlemen
deserve such a recognition and support.
AT the chancery clerks Office a divorce
bill has been fled by Emma Korlng against
John Koring. She alleges that they inter-
married In this county in August, 1875, and
lived together for about one year; that her
husband treated her in brutal manner and
she was forced to leave him. Since that
time he has committed an assault and battery
upon her; has been guilty of repeated acts of
adultry with Gertie Herzog and other inmates
of houses of ill-fame. Whereupon she prays
for divorce from the bonds of matrimony.
The county trustee says, with regard to
Memphis city taxes for 1873, that the order
OF Judge Baxter touching the same has been
modified, and now it is not peremptory, but
simply gives him authority to collect, or,