Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-19
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

-Cotton- blooms are appearing In market.
The legislative council will meet at two
o'clock this afternoon.
Did you draw prize In the louisiana
lottery drawing of Tuesday last?
AT Olympic park tomorrow afternoon
there will be trotting and running races.
The commencement ball of the Univer-
sity of Mississippi will come off tonight at
Oxford.
The annual commencement of the Chris
tan Bi others' college will be held tc- morrow
evening at the Memphis Theater.
The arguments OF counsel in the Voss-
O'Brien seduction case of damag es will be
resumed at the circuit court this morning.
The commencement exercises of Miss
Clara Conway's school will be held at ten
O'Clock this morning, at l96 Third street.
Sic eos non Uobis is good motto for the
present seduction case of Voss Us. O'Brien,
on trial at the Shelby county circuit court.
The cotton exchange has set good ex-
ample in early closing for the summer; up
to the first of September business there will
cease at four o'clock In the evening.
The commencement exercises of Mrs.
Wade's select school were held yesterday.
the parlors were gracefully decked with
flowers. The pupils displayed remarkable
thoroughness, and the auditors were pleas
antly entertained.
AT the criminal court yesterday the fol-
lowing cases were disposed of: State Uersus
John higgens, larceny. three cases, convicted
on each case and sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment on each; Jerry Blackwell, lar
ceny, convicted and sentenced to two years
| imprisonment in the penstentiary.
The young woman, Betty Smith, who
been 2journing at the stationhouse for
| several days because she would not reform
| her life Of shame, relented yesterday and
| agreed to return to the house of refuge on
| Promenade street. There is no hope for her,
however, and ere long she will be refugee
President Porter at his seance yesterday
morning disposed of several cases of DRINKS
In the line of FIGHTING, John Hawkins was
| discharged, but VIM. Forrest, his opponent,
who sported black eye, was fined ten dol
lars. Thomas Day, cotton-stealer, was placed
under one thousand dollars bonds. Several
cases were continued.
When the press bucks up against 9
| lawyer In a case the lawyer Rrowls in court
| but when the Blackstone retaliates back
against the press, the latter pays no atten-
ton to 1t, but lets it pass by as the idle wind
and regards it not. This Is the difference
| between the two professions. 1t is the broad
| gauge VS. the narrow gauge mind.
AT Knoxville, on Tuesday last, President
| Homes. of the board of trustees of the Uni
/ versity OF Tennessee, presented his report on
J the condition and prospects of the school
! Degrees were conferred, and to-day the board
wall elect a professor to the department OIL
! mathematics, to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Prot. Ludlow.
Yesterday afternoon the case of the
| State rs Deputy Sheriff Bradley, shooting al
| Charles Marshall with intent to kill, at Estlva
| park, on Monday night, was on hearing be,
| fore Esquire Spelman, and was continued
over for further hearing to this afternoon a
! two O'Clock. In the meantime the grand
jury will probably act in the matter.
The Mcclellan Guards, colored, Captain
| Jim Glass commanding, visited Bartlett yes
| terday and participated In an orphans picnic
| given by the colored citizens of Raleigh anC
vicinity. The colored people had pleasant
| be forgotten that the Mcclellan Guards
picnic will come eff on the twenty-fourth in
| slant at the Exposition building.
In every saloon in Paris, France, is post
| ed up in a conspicuous place copy of thu
Laws against dEdnkenness, which laws
/ make the seller of intoxicating drinks equally
responsible with the disorderly buyer for an!
disturbance in or about the premises. Fhii
excellent law should be the law in Memphis
| Every saloon-keeperHs thereby made an in
terested party In the preservation of order
] and temperance.
We would urge the property owners OF
| Madison street, from the Masonic Temple t.
the customhouse, to act on Colonel Meri
wether's advice, and pave that portion OF thu
street with a clean, good and substantial
/ pavement, Tor il is uset more by pede strian
| than all che balance of the streets in the city
| and it would be very unpleasant wadins
| through limestone dust and sand to and from
| the banks and insurance Offices.
| The first cotton-blooms of the season
were or exhibition at the cotton exchange
yesterday. The stalk contained four or 6vt