Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-07
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Spring bouquets are fashionable at pre-
Fruit trees are blooming, or rather arr
budding, already.
The Hopefeld sandbar begins to appear
above the water line.
The App-Hackett murder case jury still
| hangs on the outer edge of a verdict.
Pete Ewing, colored, charged with lar
eeny, was arrested by the police on yesterday
The RIversides and Joe Ellick picked
nine will play at Central park next Sunday
| afternoon.
The mud in the city and country has
| turned into dust, and Is carried by the wind:
Ia every direction.
The health officer and assistants are al
work inspecting the premises of all cti-
zens. This is all right.
The sale of seats for the Mccullough en-
gagement will take place at Holenberg's to-
day at ten O'Clock, as usual.
Warm winds from the south bring warm
| weather The temperature becomes lowered,
| as the signal service man would say.
| AT the criminal court on yesterday Jury
was being impaneled in the Holeman case OF
obtaining money under false pretenses.
Says an exchange: ''The leading papers
OF Mississippi are discussing the propriety of
sending Mr.. Jefferson Davis to the United
States senate to succeed Bruce"
The giving of-minors drinks IN saloons
is a subject worthy Of consideration by our
Taxing District authorities, and we might
add, the admission OF SAID minors into gam
bling dens and houses Of ill-repute.
After long and. troublesome settlement.
Ex-County Trustee Rawlings has arranged
everything with the old city authorities, and
has finally closed all accounts with the State,
county and city,, and has paid over the last
cent collected by HIM as trustee.
There are several people In this city who
imagine that the name they bear, made
famous not by them, but by some other mem
Der of the family during the late ksr, have
more rights and privileges than other people.
This is big mistake on their part.
Yesterday, in the chancery proceedings
of Buchanan rs. Walker and others, trustees
Of Harmony lodge, |. o. o. F., the defend
ants having purged themselves Of contempt
by replacing the fixtures, etc, removed from
their hall, were allowed to file their answer.
The amount collected by Receiver La
than, of Bakers United States court, is
some seventy thousand FIVE hundred and
twelve dollars and SIX cents. The money is
deposited IN bark to The credit Of the United
States circuit court, but neither the receiver
nor the clerk has the right to pay out single
cent of the funds.
u Il.
Moore, defendant IN divorce proceeding
was allowed to be brought out of Jail for the
purpose of swearing to his plea and answer
pending IN chancery. Divorce was granted
TO the wife In this controversy some weeks
ago, but was subsequently, annulied and set
aside for sufficient reasons to the court.
The COW boys who drive drovos of wild
mules along Second street must stop. The
cow boys who do these things and then abuse
n ~ no
rested and punished as wage" There is no
Texas business permitted IN this city. Let
the drunken and insulting cow boys be ar
rested and punished to the extent Of the law |
The new government proposes to pave |
the east side of Nam street from the Louis |
vile depot to the Mississippi and Tennessee |
Depot, with stone, as early as possible. The |
west side of the street is already paved with |
stone, and when the east side is put in the |
same condition the street railway company |
Will have to improve the street between their |
tracks and for two feet outside of the same. |
Our respected cotemporary, the WeStey7l |
Methodist, on the Sunday law, says: Our |
daily papers, all Of them, we believe, oppose |
as strongly as possible, the laws against Sun |
day traffic now being enforced in Memphis |
Inc strongest objection to these laws seems |
to be the alleged difficulty of enforcing them |
When one bears IN mind that there are al |
ways law breakers, some of whom escare |
punishment, the weakness Of this objection |
OF the city press Is nauiiest-it applies quite |
as well to criminal laws in general. Let the |
authorities be frm-they can enforce the
Sunday law as etiectually as other laws of the
same class"
The Somerville (Tenn.) Falcon. of the
third, says: "Chief Athy telegraphed yes
terday evening to c. w. Rives, sheriff CT
Fayette county, stating that Theodore
M'Coyle (c had just been arrested here and
asking if he wanted him. Last night tele-
gram was received from the sheriff stating
NJ 'Coyle was badly wanted, on a murder
charge, and he will be kept here until the
Fayette county authorities come after him.
AUalaEche. Sheriff Rive5 informs US that
the man spoken Of IN the above is Mac Nor
row, who murdered Steve Macon about two
months ago on DIR. CannOn's plantation. He
las sent for him and will have him in Somer-
vile to night. Since the above was written
he prisoner has been brought to Somerville
md lodged in Jail. They have the right
man this time, no mistake.
If tins Is not good poetry. and even
hOugh 1t does hit Memphis ''hard lick"
yet for all that we will transfer it from the