Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-10

was engaged In passing upon accounts.
Thomas Rawlings was elected superintendent
of the county workhouse on President
island on the ninth ballot, at a salary OF
thirty dollars month and board.
The transfer steamer General Pearson
has been rendered for the Paul Boyton ex-
cursion Friday afternoon. She will be
handsomely decorated by her enterprising
commander, Captain Maingault.
Yesterday Esquire J. S. Galloway held
an inquest on the body of Martha Green,
aged fifty years, near the corner of Vance
and fernando streets. The jury returned a
verdict of death from heart disease.
Captain Paul Boytons will go Through
the jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi
river and show the Memphis opponents of
the Eads jetty system how the thing can
be accomplished without the aid of the Mem
phis outlet, or crevasse ring.
The monthly drawing of the Louisiana
lottery took place Tuesday last, at New Or
leans, and the following were the lucky num-
bers drawing the chief prizes: No. 65,923
drew thirty thousand dollars; No. sc, 1893, ten
thousand dollars, and No. 1913, five thousand
dollars.
Destruction and Reconstruction, person
al experiences of the late war, by Richard
Taylor, of tho Confederate States army, was
received by Mansford, 29S Main street, late
last night. The work is well written, and
will have large sale in the southern States.
Price, two dollars a copy
The Countess BCzenta presented Captain
Boyton with his colors at Cincinnati, and the
ceremony has been repeated at several points.
Miss Ida Cragg did the honors for Louisville,
Miss Matte Morgan for Evansville, Miss Mil
lie Fowler for Paducah and Miss Fannie
Pitcher for Cairo. Now for Memphis.
The Bluff City Grays, one of our crack
oil lilo not m ba habinI Col
lows, are getting up a budget of recreative
and pleasure programmes An exhibition
drill at the Exposition building on the eight
zenith instant,a river excursion on the steamer
Calf FIVE days after, LOUe'S Sacrifice by thei,
dramatic force couple of days after that,
will keep the boys busy all of their spare
| time to the end of the present month.
The horse-races at Olympic park to.
| morrow afternoon, will be as follows: First
race-Purse twenty-five dollars, mile heats
| three in FIVE, to harness and to rule, fol-
hores that never beat three minutes; en-.
| trance fee, ten per cent goes to second horse
Second race-Purse twenty-five dollars; mile
heats, three in five, to harness and to rule
for horses that never beat two minutes and
| fifty seconds. Entrance fee, ten per cent
goes to second horse.
Captain Paul Boyton, who is to be here
on Friday next, had a way up on the Ohio of
lodging what he calls Pirate" ships-thai
! is, excursion boats charging price and vel
not sharing with him-that was very anus.
ing. To the deadhead thousands on shore
he has no objection, but makes the strong
| point that 1t is dIshonorable to attempt tc
realize on his labor without requital. At Cairo
he found the steamboatmen Sin honor" or
this head, and will doubtless have no trouble
at all in the Mississippi.
The chicken fight yesterday resulted in {
victory for the Arkansas party. they having
won eight Of the thirteen fights in the main
The first days. battles resulted in five victorie.
| for the Tennessees and two for the Arkansas
representatives. Yesterday, after three
hacks, resulting in favor of the Tennessee
birds, the Arkansas travellers seemed de.
| spondent; but they had the remarkably gooC
luck of winning six consecutive matches II
| the main. Both parties produced splendid
specimens of fighters, and they were we'll
| handled; but victory perched on the banner
| of the strangers by handsome majority.
Under an appointment by the chancel-
lor. and in accordance with the statutes
making it the duty of the court, Messrs. R. c.
Malone, jr., M. F. Embrey and E. B. M'Hen-
~, yesterday presented to the court their re-
port of the examination of the books and &C
counts, collections and disbursements. and
receipts and vouchers of Clerk and Master
r. j. Black, stating in their report that the
result of their labor showed an accurate state
of accounts, proper showing of all collec-
tons and disbursements, and q correct ex-
hiblt of balances deposited in bank. The re-
port was received, approved and spread upon
the minutes.