Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-22

north of the city. Reports from all quarters
are very favorable to the growing crop.
The cornerstone of the customhouse is
white Tennessee marble. 1t is three by five
feet on the surface, and fifteen inches in
depth.
"Wednesday mornings APPEAL will be
enforced by an extra edition on account of
the customhouse cornerstone laying of Tues
day next.
Last night, after the gaslights were
turned off, it was so pitchy dark that even
the very cats on the house-tops ran against
each other and engaged In a Zulu skirmish.
--Grasshoppers from Arkansas have inva-
ded Memphis. These lively insects hy from
over the river at night and make for every
light in sight, especially those IN newspaper
offices.
The committee Of the Butler P. Anderson
fund makes report as follows: Receipts for
the week ending June 21st-R. j., one dol
lar; C. L. P, two dollars. Total, three dol
lars.
The Memphis Light Guards, Captain
Woodbridge commanding, were out drilling
last night. They went through the manual
in good style while in front of the APPEAL
office.
The garbage-cart sy2tssr pans out most
satisfactorily. i istne only proper, system
to be enforced It's work so far has been ad-
mirable, and it is undergoing improvements
| toward peril elton weekly.
-Elmwood cemetery and Estival park will
be open to visitors to-day free of charge. No
charge is ever made for admission to the
cemetery unless you present yourself as a
dead head. This is paradox or something
else.
Lord RilgObbia, by Charles Lever, John
CaldigGte, by Anthony. Trollope- both OF
these splendid novels In cheap series at
Mansford's book and news depot, 298 Main
street. Call early as we close at one O'CLOCK
| sharp.
On Wednesday morning an extra edition
| of the APPEAL will be issued on account oi
the publication of the report OF the custom.
house corner stone laying. Advertisers will
| find this issue a fine medium for advertising
their business. Send in your advertisement;
in time.
: In response to a request, extra stands fol
| the colored people will be erected on the
bluff for the fireworks celebration on the
Fourth of July. Each stand will seat one
including the old Mississippi Central road,
will sell tickets at very low rates.
Billy Lieben's book and news depot is
the place to go this morning and get your
| Sunday reading matter. He has Leslie s
Lady'S Magazine, Popular Monthly, Harp
eT'S Monthly, DentOTeSt'S S, Atlantic, North
american ReDie,c, all for July. He also has
all the pictorials for the week, and daiiles OF
the latest date. Billy will close at one
o'clock, sharp.
The Helena ARK Rifles will arrive in our
city on Monday next, and will participate in
| laying the cornerstone of the customhouse
| on Tuesday next. The Rifles will be met at
the landing by the Bluff City Grays, and will
be escorted to the armory on the corner OF
Union and Second streets. The Rifles will
be the guests Of the Bluff City Grays during
| their sCjourn Ia our city.
The old Memphis Theater will be known
next season as Leubrie's Theater. There
| will be separate entrance made to the Sec
ond tier; the entrance to the dress-circle and
parquet will be independent. The offices
| will be on the ground floor. Above will be
| toilet rooms for ladies and gentlemen; these
rooms will have all necessary conveniences.
| Iron folding chairs, the same as are now used
| in the best theaters, will replace the seats
| now in use. New heaters, new drop-curtain
| and scenery will be produced. The windows
will be cut down to the floor, so as to make
| them doors of exit In case OF FIRE. The stage,
| in fact the entire theater, will be renovated,
refurnished and re6tted, so as to make IT
one of the most comfortable theaters IN the
land, both for actors and the audience.
The following marriage licenses were
| issued by the county clerk during the past
week: Whites-Wm. B. Phillips and Miss
Mary Whitemore, John Cheek and Mrs.
| Martha Mack, John Genochio and Mrs. Rosa
Panace, William Bennett and Miss Ellen
Mccormick. COlOred-MartIn Somers and
Lizzie Saunders. Robert Benson and Rosa
Evens, Harry Mullins and Katie Block, Car
Farrell and Katie Anderson. Green Wade
aud Jane Fields, Henry Taliafero and Matte
Davis, Andrew Jackson and Henrietta Ross,
q -,
| johnson and Mrs. Lizzie Taylor, Jim Hunt
and Fannie Baltic, John H. Williams and
Martha Smith, G. w. Ferguson and Nancy
| Robinson, Louis Douglass and n. Vann
George Scott and Eliza Patton. John Ander
SON and Ellen Young. Mired-Manue
| Duck (Chinaman) and Addie Rates (colored)
The following is the mortuary report fol
| the week ending at six o'clock Saturday
evening. June 81, 1879: