Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-23

man was arrested on the charge OF larceny
and resisting an officer. John Lahy, white,
was arrested for larceny.
Chancellor Mcdowell yesterday granted
a divorce in the case of Ann Williams as.
John Williams. The trouble was caused in
the domicile of the parties by the fondness OF
theIhusband for strange and wicked women,
which caused him to forget and abandon his
wife, whom he had vowed to love and sup
port through life.
The enforcement of rigorous Sunday
law seems impossible. The authorities
should not make flesh of one person and hsh
of the other. Either enforce the law justly
and equally, or let the law be repealed or ig-
nored. The law that is condemned by pub
lie opinion can never be enforced in this land
of republican liberty.
AT an election held for vestrymen OF the
Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopa)
the following gentlemen were elected Tor the
ensuing year: f. ]. Atwood, Fred Atwood,
George T. Bassett, John Cubbins, T. X: Fret
del, T. J. Graham. VIM. Hutton, w. K.
Kendall and DR.. S. j. Morrison.
"A party of "basket excursionists, by
special invitation, will go to Senatobia on
Thursday. April oath, leaving here promptly
at forty-fve minutes past seven O'Clock in
Rs
between three and four o'clock In the after
noon of the same day, via the Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad.
Rev. Henry Ward Beeche- delivered his
famous lecture, "Rlghts of the Common Peo-
ple," two nights In succession In Chicago last
fall. On the second night he spoke to over
six thousand people, and during week when
every other hall in that city presented great
attraction. Mr.. Beecher will deliver the
same lecture here next month.
Ice cream, lemonade, soda-water, iced
champagne, cool beer and scores of other
drinks are imbibed by the thirsty at present.
straight whisky, they asserting that the
drink is cooling in summer and has warm
ing-up effect in winter. The imagination
has great deal to do with this matter.
We have received copy of the published
lecture delivered by Rev. George A. Lof-
ton, formerly of this city, at the Third Bap-
fist church, st. Louis, Missouri, on the sixth
of April, on the subject of Essentials to
Cross Bearing" The lecture was delivered
to the young converts who joined the Third
Baptist church of st. Louis during the great
revival in January, February and March last.
The publication of sermons in the AP-
PEAL causes the preachers to have larger
congregations than they ever had In their
churches by many thousands. Here is where
the press comes to the aid of the pulpit, but
the pulpit hardly ever reciprocates and comes
to the aid of the press as generously. Well,
no matter; the press are liberal even 1t
they are put down as sinners ty the would
be saints.
AT LeMoyne institute, 234 Orleans street,
to-day, the care OF the Institution will be, In
all respects, given into the hands of the stu
dents, they electing from their own number,
on the previous day, an entire faculty to
take the places of the regular instructors
This is done to test the moral strength of the
school, and 10 infuse into the minds of the
students feeling of responsibility and earn.
estness in their work.
Never did any city government have SC
many cases appealed to the supreme court as
the present government of Memphis. The
object of the appeals is to test the constitu-
tionality of the act organizing the Taxing
District of Memphis. The enforcement of the
Sunday law is the cause of the entire trouble
between the government and the privilege
taxpayers. There is wisdom in moderation
occasionally, when great objects are sought
to be obtained by government.
The case of Henry Smith, darby, who
two years since killed Cnaney Long, in South
Memphis, by striking her with an ak and
leaving the weapon buried in her brain, wal
called for trial in the criminal court yester-
Qay AFTERNOON, anu d Special CSHI3e was lSSu6C
for jurors. AT a former trial Smith was con-
victed at the criminal court, and was sen
fenced to be hanged, but the supreme couri
set the verdict aside and remanded the cast
for new trial. The case will be called THU
morning.
In the cases of CALVIN S. Stephens against
the Tennessee railroads, in which Charlie,
O'Conor and other leading lawyers east have
given and published opinions, Judge Ham.
mond yesterday granted the defendants
counsel time to plead until the first Monday
In August next. The suits are on bonds is
sued by the roads and Endorsed by the State,
and the amounts of which bonds have been
paid the State by the roads. The bondhold-
ers cannot sue the State, hence they seek to
make the roads liable.
"A dispatch received here yesterday from
Little Rock, stated that the steamer Katie
Hooper, Captain Ed Rowland commanding,
struck a snag and sunk In seven feet OF
water, at the Fourde place, on the Arkansas
river, some twenty miles below Little Rock.
The vessel will be raised as soon as possible.
The boat is insured at Cincinnati and other
points up the river; the bar Is insured here
in the agency of G. B. Wexford & Co., on
Madison street. The dispatch received here
appears In our telegraphic column.
Last Monday night an unknown white
man was found in dying condition in an old
clubhouse some four miles from the city. He
was taken to the city hospital, where he
breathed his last IN few minutes. Esquire
Galloway held an inquest on the remains of
the deceased yesterday, and the jury returned
a verdict of death from unknown causes.
The man had evidently been sick, and no
doubt died of a congestive chill. He was
about thirty years, and had light hair and a
heavy light mustache. He was dressed in
a workingman's silt, but had on nice under
He had with him valise contain
ing change of clothing, and on his person
was found letter addressed to Frank Clay
ton, and signed Katie"
An APPEAL reporter visited a beer ga
loon last night, late, for the purpose of in
yesting some of the currency of the govern
ment in a glass OF lager, aud. while so pleas
antly engaged witnessed a picture which
Rembrandt would have immortalized
on canvas had he seen j.. A couple of Ger
man citizens seated at a table had talked
each other to sleep over their beer mugs,
which were half empty. The subject of dis
cussion had been one concerning German
unity from religious aspect, and over which
the friends had emptied several glasses of
beer. The arguments being exhausted, the
friends fell asleep, and were so found by our
MORTAR ohnva Aooar-iha1