Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-13

and. fifteen cents on the hundred dollars, in
stead of three dollars and ten cents, which
was the rate under the old city government.
This is an improvement that will strike all
Taxpayers.
At the criminal court, yesterday, the
court and jury were engaged in hearing the
testimony IN the case OF the State rs. Tony
Casseretta, on indictment charging him with
the murder of Stephen Lane, colored, over
one year ago, some few miles from the city
Cd the Pigeon Roost road The case will
probably be concluded to-day.
1t is authoritativey announced that any
policeman who permits saloons to be open
and do business on his beat on Sunday next
will Immediately be dismissed from the force
by the commissioners Gentlemen. don't get
the boys Into trouble. If policeman IS dis
charged for not doing his duty, those who
caused his dismissal will not support him or
his family.
Memphis will soon have two receivers,
Judge Baxter's and the States. 1t is not
every bankrupt corporation that can indulge
IN so great luxury. Between the two the
back-tax delinquents and other city debtors
will not know whom to pay. As "Mercutio"
said Of the Capulets and Montagues, so can
the delinquents: "a plague o both your
houses. They have made worms meat of
me-"
AT the chancery court Martha Twill
liams has filed a bill asking for divorce
from Robert NJ Williams, on the grounds OF
cruel and inhuman treatment, indecent
language, melting one Kate Malloney to
shoot her with a pistol, etc. The plaintiff IL
termarried with the defendant in 1872, and
lived with him until 1877. At the time OF
her marriage and since, she practiced medi-
cine and surgery as a female doctress or GC-
coucheuse.
An APPEAL reporter visited the old city
hall Yesterday. He found it In the posses
sion of the receiver and his clerks. Dust Is
settling down upon everything IN the old
council and aldermanic chambers, and not
even the trail OF rat could be discovered on
the floor. The time was when the old
rookery was crowded with politicians of the
ward caliber, contractors, men who wanted
of others who were interested IN something,
How has The mighty fallen! The occupa-
tons of many have gone forever.
Yes erday Sheriff Haskins, of Mississip-
pi county, Arkansas, passed through Mem
phis, en- route for home, having in charge a
negro named George Watson, alias Loudon,
who was arrested at Riepzi, Tennessee, at the
instigatior OF Sheriff Haskins. The charges
against the negro are numerous. Stealing
two mules and a wagon; four bales OF cotton,
the property of w. L. Quinley, and forging
a bill of sale for one bale of cotton and re-
ceIving the money for the bale from DR..
Davis, of Frenchman' s bayou. Watson is
notorious character, AMI his arrest will re-
lIeve the minds of the people residing near
Osceola, Arkansas.
In another column appears the order of
the board of health as TO owners or occupants
of property having to sweep to the centers of
the streets and alleys near their premises.
Next Saturday morning carts will be sent
around to gather up the piles OF DIRT on Mai3,
Second aud Front streets, between Market
and Beate streets, aud to other streets when
30 announced. The sanitary laws will be
enforced by the commissioners and board of
health. On the streets occupied by the street
car company, the company will have to sweep
between Its tracks and for two feet outside
Of each track. Read the order.
An APPEAL law commissioner has dis
covered that the man who reads newspaper
account of crime, and forms or expresses an
opinion from that reading as to the guilt or
innocence Of the accused, cannot sit as a
Juror In the case at the criminal court. Such
is the law in Tennessee. But the man Who
reads a newspaper, yet who forms no opinion,
or who never reads newspaper, or who cannot
read at all, or who never forms or expresses
any opinion about anything, can be criml-
nal court juror. Such Is the law IN Tennes-
see. Intelligence takes a back seat and ig
norance goes to the front il criminal law.
And then it is iunocently asked, why do
murderers escape punishment?'
The soothsayer said to Caesar, Beware
the ides of March," and Caesar was killed
during the ''ides. Now for curious coin
cidence: Last night at the Theater Mr..
NJ Culough appeared as 'Brutus" and
stabbed Cesar" and he d d it during the
''ldes" of March The true tides" of March
occur on the fifteenth Saturday next, but
the best authority states that the eight days
before the fifteenth are also called the ''ldes,
and Caesar, on the day of his death, sa'd TO
come" To which the soothsayer replied, |
GAY, Caesar, but not gone" So it is not |
clear that Caesar was killed on the fifteenth.
SO great is the number of marriages be- |
ing celebrated in this city, that the following |
advice to brides may not be out of place: |
'' Hope not for perfect happiness" said |
Madame Maintenon to the Pnrcess Of Savoy, |
On the eve of her marriage with the Duke of |
Burgundy; There Is no such thing on ear b.
and though there were, it would not be found |
1t court. Greatness is exposed to et1iCti0ns |
often more severe than those Of private sta |
ion. Be neither vexed nor ashamed to de-
pend on your husband. Let him be your
learest friend, your only confdant. Hope |
not for constant harmony in the married |
tate. The best husbands and wives are those
who bear occasionally from each other sallies
If ilI-humor with patient mildness. Be
,biging, without putting great value on your
avors. Hope not for full return of tender
less. Men are tyrants, who would be free
themselves, and have US confined. You
iced not be at the pains to examine whether
heir rights be well founded; it is enough if
hey are established. Pray to God to keep
-ou from jealousy The affections of hus-
and are never to be gained by complaints,
eproaches, or sullen behavior"