Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-11
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

To-day is Good Friday, tomorrow the
last day of Lent.
Captain Boyton will float ashore at the
landing at three o'clock this afternoon.
Eighteen draymen were arrested yester-
day on the charge of dong business without
license.
At the criminal court the jury in the
BrlzzelI murder case has not yet agreed on a
verdict.
Services were held last night at a num-
Der of our churches, this being holy week of
the Lenten season.
The Diplomacy troupe left last night for
the nortn. Holy week very much interfered
with their receipts.
Vocal acrobatic performances in the
shape of operas will be the attraction at the
Theater next week.
George Hughes and Charles Thomas
were arrested by the police last evening, on
the charge of larceny.
Judge Baxter, of the United States cir
cult court, has decided that Memphis can
have two receivers if she wants to.
The county quarterly court will be in
session again next Tuesday. The country
'squires are at home planting corn, etc.
This week is crowded with holy days,
days of feasts, fasts and observances, not
only IN the christian but the Jewish world.
Next Sunday week, the twentieth in
slant, the Rlversldes will play a baseball
game at Olympic park with the Nashville
club.
The Barrymore dramatic COM
pany presented Diplomacy at the Theater last
night, closed the engagement and left for
Nashville.
Thursday evening next, at the Exposition
building, ball will be given for the benefit
OF the widows and orphans OF members of
the police force.
Spring bonnets and dresses are being ex-
hlblted daily on Main street 10y the ladies'
The men OF Memphis have as yet not donned
their spring uniforms.
Saturday week, April 10Th, an election
viii be held IN the seventeenth district of
THIS county to I'LL the vacancy caused by the
death of Esquire E. w. Caldwell.
"A twentieth and fortieth of the capital
ticket IN the Havana lottery were held in
this city The coupons are worth respectively
about forty and twenty thousand dollars IN
gold.
We call attention to our rent column to
the rare chance offered to get new, elegant
brick hotel, situated at Bolivar, Tennessee, a
place so well known for its many attractions
as summer resort.
The case of the State against Wilson,
involving the question of the State receiver
ship Tor Memphis, has been advanced on the
calendar of the supreme court, and will be
heard about next Wednesday.
See in the advertising column the notice
of the excursion Of the steamer General Pier
son from the landing this afternoon to meet
Captain Paul BoytOn, up the river. The
Pierson will leave the foot Of Jefferson street
at one o'clock.
Last night on Desoto street police Off
Ger shot and wounded a negro named Gabe
Price, whom he had arrested on the charge
OF Alternating to carve a colored woman with
a hatchlt and who attempted to escape from
arrest. The negro's wound was slight.
The next musical sensation will be the
presentation by the Memphis opera club, at
the Theater, OF the operas Daughter Of the
Regiment and Fra DidUOlO, on next Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday nights. The sale
OF reserved seats Is progressing at Hollen-
berg's.
The transfer steamer General Pierson
will leave the landing at half-past one o'clock
TINS afternoon on an excursion to meet Cap
tain Boyton. A well-known young lady will
present Captain Boyton with his colors. Ex-
curslon tickets, fifty cents; children half
price.
Last night Esquire Elliott held an in
quest upon the dead body of a white man
found at the clearinghouse OF Charley Ber-
ton, corner of Beale and Shelby streets. The
man was stranger and was called "Brocky"
because he was badly pitted with smallpox.
he died of disease Of the heart, as testified to
by a physician.
JEFF Davis, an escaped negro convict, |
mas been recaptured, and Will be returned to |
the penlteutiary. He escaped from the Ems |
ley farm, below this city, some few weeks /
alter he had been sent to the penitentiary for !