Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-08
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

| The Masonic Temple will soon be COM
pleted.
bouquets Of rare spring flowers are ali
the rage now.
Friday rext trotting races will be in
| dulged in at Olympic park.
But few arrests were made by the police
force yesterday or last night.
The Louisiana State lottery drawing
| comes off TO day at New Orleans.
| This week the Lenten season will come
| to a close, and then; well, what then?
April has weather in which sunshine
| and shadow a'e chasing each other"
| AT Nashville, on Wednesday next, the
| Grand lodge Of the Knights of Honor will
meet.
The back and side doors are great in
| verti0ns, which are put into practical use on
Sundays.
The Chickasaw Guards and their friends
will give H. ". S. PinGJore at the Theater
| early 10 May.
--Warde q Barrymore Diplomacy dra-
matte company will appear again at the The
| Jter tonight.
5, veral tramps, or houseess wanderers,
applied tor aud secured lodging at the station
roHse last night.
THIS is holy week in TIE christion world,
iur.ng which the passion Of our Savior
Jesus Christ will be commemorated.
The Easter egg, both white and colored,
vii! appear on Sunday morning next In the
E4xiug District Of Memphis.
Sam BIizze j, colored, is on trial at the
criminal court on the charge of numbering
Christopher Columbus Stewart, in August,
1876.
Several excellent specimens of petrifed
wood found in Lauderdale county, were yes
terduy presented TO the museum by Mr. F. H. |
Long.
Captain Paul Boynton will be floating in
Iadia-rubber suit in front of the city by
the last of this week. He left Cairo yester- |
DAY 10y river.
Last evening the Jewish feast known as
the Passover commenced at SIX o'clock. Our |
telow-citiz7n of Hebrew faith are cele-
brating the feast at their synagogues.
This forenoon, at half-pas nine o'clock,
services will be held at the Hebrew Reformed
synagogue, and a sermon will be delivered
oy RabhI VI. Sam6eld on the subject, The
Feast Of Pesach."
Il. was rumored yes erday afternoon that
the unknown negro burglar who was sho; by
DIR. Bettes in Chelsea last week, died of his
wounds on Sunday night at his residence on
Winchester avenue.
-Monsiewr LecOq, the French Defective,
from the French OF Emile Gaboriau is now
complete. in large type. Mansford, No 298
Main street. can supply the demand, having
1t IN the cheap series.5
Esquire E. w. Caldwell, late coroner of
Shelby county, died of dropsy and erysipelas
at his residence near Bartlett, last Saturday
evening. Esquire Caldwell had been afflicted
for some time with dropsy.
The cooking main between representa-
tlves OF Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee,
for one thousand dollars, will take place at
Correll's garden TO day and tomorrow, COM
menciag at one o'clock, sharp.
= The suburban places of resort-Elm-
wood cemetery, Estival park. and the Poplar
street beer gardens-were largely attended
on Sunday last; better attended than all the
churches OF the city put together.
In memorIam services were held last
Sunday at the grave of the late Charles {
hortrecht, at EImwood cemetery. Rev. DR.. t
White, OF Calvary (Episcopa) church, pre- q
SIDED at the services, which were largely at |
ended. c
The rate Of taxation on property in the C
district known as Memphis, is one dollar and
fifteen cents on the hundred dollars On and
Tier the fifteenth of May all taxes unpaid
7ill be put in the hands of an officer tor col
ection.
The Sunday ordinances, or orders of the E
axIug- District government, are no better OBJ %
arved than were the old laws of the extinct
0rporation of Memphis. We cannot strictly l.
atorce such laws upon people in a city as Q
as Memphis
AT the circuit court yesterday contested :,
vii case was on hearing. 1t was the will of q
ne late Johns Harbert, OF this county. The -
is Daniel Harbert, son of the de-
aassd, and the contest is resisted by c.. w. al
larbert, an older son Of deceased. p
Those who have been wearing sack /"
9th and ashes, and who hav3 been fasting
nd starving during the Lenten season, can v
o letter next week. The forty DAYS and A
'ghts of penitental work will be over about
lat time, and gladstone Easter will have B
,me.
5. NJ. Gardiner, a confidence man, who V
as been raising money by pretending that mt
was agent OF Appleton d Co., publishers, N
eW York, was arrested at Oxford, Missis. W
ppl, teR days since, and was brought OF
'ck to Memphis yesterday, and will be in te
cted on charges OF obtaining money under IT,
Use pretense3 from many Memphiaus. n
Sunday last a well-known Mississippi ~ ~
I'd tennessee railroad conductor was OBJ -
rived out on the fernando road, near Elm IL ~
oGd Cemetery, with rall on his shoulder an
deavorIng to prise street-car back on the ~
lck. The conductor said the run-off was n na
used by "hot boxes" This was good Joke "a "a
tue slow speed Of the palace cars of the tel
rect railroad company. n IN
Many parties who have an interest there Err
would ike To know what IS dong about IN
e losses" in the society of Independent m,
der of Workingmen?" 1t is asserted that Ia
o rata amounts have been paid to certain
rites to the detriment of others. The local
icers should make some erpose of their Rr
addition, chances of payment, etc, The A.
crested public waits. Is 1t a square thing. -
what? -
Nature, like history, often repeats itself. the
nday last, the sixth instant, was the anniyer-
" of the battle of Shiloh, 1862, in which fight
ne OF the best blood of Memphis was sty
lred out as libation to liberty. On the
,ht OF the sixth thunder and rain storm
ept over the blood-stained field of Shiloh. res
4 on last Sunday night, the sixth, like ges
run swept over Memphis 1t was an ami !
sary celebration by the heavens, amid
lnder. lightning, wind and rain.
AT the annual election held by the How. To
association last night the following Off be
S were elected: A. d. Langstaff, presi- salt
1t; w. J. Smith, first vice. president; ] tine
Edmondson, second vice president; John
lnson, treasurer; J. Ii. Smith, secretary: n
cutive committee: A. M. Stoddard, F. f. IA