Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-08
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
p.,s,.ao, for Julv. AT MausGord's.

-Sunday-school picnics are in order to-
day.
Green corn is one of the luxuies of the
present.
The educational board will meet to-mor-
row night.
The street sprinkling carts and fends are
on the war path at present.
The Riversides and Haymakers will play
a game of baseball at Olympic park this
afternoon.
The vacation, which causes the hearts of
good little girls and boys to thump with JOY,
has come.
On the third page of to-day's APPEAL
will be found several columns OF interesting
local matter.
Friday evening next, the Memphis Light
Guards and lady friends will give an operate
concert at EstIval park.
The commencement exercises Of the uni
versity of Tennessee. at Knoxville, will begin
to-day week, June 18th.
Over on the Hopefeld, Arkansas, sand
bar, a small forest of cottonwood has COM
menced growing rapidly.
Fishing parties returning fiom the Ar
kansas and Mississippi bayOus and lakes re-
port biting good by both fish and mosquitoes.
To-day is Trinity Sunday. 1t is also the
anniversary of the death of the great Ten
nessean, Andrew Jackson, which historical
event occurred In 1845.
The Wachusett is the name of the war
vessel which will be at the port Of Memphis
next month, and upon which boys will be
enlisted for the naval service.
The great event of the season will be the
excursion by the Helping Hand, on the steam
er James W. Gatf, Tuesday night, starting at
eight clock. Let everybody attend.
Have the city authorities looked after the
peripatetic and stationary green grocers,
who keep for sale old and decaying vege-
tables, which, when eaten, produce cholera
morbus and kindred diseases?
Mother Can GO Ottt to S,Oins, pas
toral and aquatic melody. is now sung into
the ears of fond maternal parents by the boy
of the period. The maternal ancestor usually
informs her water struck scion to wait until
his father comes home.
There are certain things which the city
authorities are convinced they cannot abate
or abolish, consequently they regulate and
control them. Indeed, the law makes the
necessary distinction as to regulating, con-
trolling or abolishipg necessary evils.
The State and county assessors meet at
the courthouse daily. from three to five
o'clock, to receive complaints as to assess
ments, except on Fridays and Saturdays,
when the board of assessors meets to act upon
all complaints received during the week.
The explosion of the fireworks on the last
Fourth of July lasted an hour and quarter.
This year it will take two hours for the grand
display now in preparation. 1t will be 2
gorgeous exhibition, and thousands from the
country will crowd the city on the occasion.
"A new novel by George Eliot; 4 Star
and A Heart, by Florence Marryat; both in
cheap series. A large supply of Seaside and
Franklin Square Libraries, new reviews,
magazines, plctorials and dailies for Sunday
reading at Mansford's book and news depot,
29S Main street.
Last Friday evening some person slipped
into the baseme at Of building on Madison
street, near Second, and turned off the gas,
to the great alarm and discontinue of the
guests. Nothing was stolen from the premi-
ses, and the thief escaped amid the confusion
which prevailed.
There will be musicale given on Mon
day evening next, at eight o'clock, at the res
idence of Captain G. B. Church, corner of
Shelby and Vance streets, for the benefit of
the parsonage fund of the Second Presbyte
RAN church. The musicale will be conducted
By Prof. Emile Levy.
"A surveying party, under orders from
Major Benyaurd, of the United States en-
gineers, has gone to survey and report upon
the topography and other scientific structure
of a strip OF country lying between Plaque
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hundred miles above New Orleans.
Quite a sensation was caused on Madison
street, between Main and Second, yesterday
afternoon. by the firing Of pistol. Hun
dreds of people ran to the spot, but it
turned out that the trouble was caused by
pistol accidentally dropping to the pavement
from the pocket Of deputy-sherih. Nobody
was hurt.
The Boston Post is responsible for the
statement that "a Memphis woman who
wished to vote was escorted to the polls by
three colonies, and now all the other strong
minded women demand the same thing.
But the trouble Is, the country doesn't sport
three colonies to every woman, except In the
region of Memphis
Anecdotes Of Napoleon, Py'ue and I,
Mother ShiptOn' P1OpheSieS, Just received,
with the most exquisite pateries In the city.
Persons leaving the city or remaining can
find the latest Seasides and everything new
to read at Williams & Co.'S, headquarters in
| the trade, 279 Main street.
AT the Hebrew synagogue, corner Main
| and Exchange streets, yesterday, Miss Kate
| Shower became a convert to Judaism, and re-
nounced christianity. The ceremonies were
quite impressive, and were witnessed by a
large concouTse Of people. It is announced
that ere long Miss Shower will be married to
MIR. Jake Heliiger, OF Little Rock.
"A few days since boring bug bored its
way into the left auricular of a Memphis
lawyer, and placed the life of the lawyer in
jeopardy for time. Physicians were called
In, and the boringbug was drawn out after
much difficulty, and the patient was relieved
from torture. An APPEAL commissioner
would ike to interview the bug, and discover
what it saw and heard while raiding around
| in lawyers brain.
DR.. Laurence, hospital physician, reports
his monthly statement for May as follows
Remaining Nav Ist, 60: admitted, II: dis
during the month, 134; daily average, Ga;
remaining June 1st, 81. Total expenditures
for May, $649 so. Amount due from the
United States for maintenance and treatment
of marines, 1878. Cost OF hospital to Taxing
District, $276.6 go.
1t will be seen from an advertisement in
another column that Miss Banks will open a
private school tomorrow morning 10 the
| Court street building. Miss Banks is one Of
the most popular teachers in the public
schools, and parents should avail themselves
of the opportunity OF sending their children
to such an efficient teacher. The vacation
will be long, too long for children to be kept
from school.
The Shelby county fair association pro-
pose to have grand barbecue on the fourth
of July. at their fair grounds, near the city.
OF three races, one three minute, one two
fifty, one free for all. Also a premium of
twenty-five dollars for the fastest half-mile
horse, running two IL three. A committee
are in correspondence with Hon. Daniel w.
Voorhees,, and hope to have him deliver an
GRAFTON on the occasion.
The pubic schools have closed, and the
school children are free again. As Shenstone
sang:
Yet nursed with skill, what dazzling fruits appear!
Ev'n now sagaciouS foresight points TO show.
little bench Of needless bishops here,
And there chancellor in embryo
Or bard sublime, If bard may e'er be so,
As Milton. Shakespeare names that ne'er shall die,
Tho now he GRAIL along the ground so low,
Nor weeting how the muse should so high,
Wlsheth, poor starving elf! his paper kite to fly.
Cremation is the word now with people
who desire to observe the laws of sanitation
Every cook can burn up all the sweepings and
other trash found around the house while
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