Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-25
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The Nashville races come off next week.
The circuit court has adjourned until
Saturday.
-LOce's Sacrifice, by the Bluff City Grays
| and lady friends, at the Memphis Theater to-
night.
The anxiety to see and hear Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher Is noticed throughout the Tax
| InG-District.
The Southern express company continues
to place the APPEAL Office under obligations
for the latest New York papers in advance
| of the regular mails.
Pierre LorillGrd, who is now winning
money on the English turf, has in his stable
| the following crack American horses: Parole,
Duke OF Magenta, Uncas, Friar, Papoose,
Neriad and Geraldine.
The drawings of the Louisiana State
| lottery company are never postponed, and
| the hcket-holders generally hear who draws
| the prizes. Another drawing occurs on May
| 18Th Tickets. two dollars.
| An amateur chicken ght between cocks
| without steel spurs interested a score OF
| Front Row merchants, for an hour yesterday,
between Court and Jefferson streets. A
| fight OF any kind always interests Memphi-
| ans.
| When our exchange reporter strikes q
| patent outside or inside journal, 1t gen.
orally takes whirl to the floor, but when he
handles an honest, solid printed weekly from
the country, he scans it closely in. search OF
local news.
Rev. D. SamReld, rabbi of the Reformed
| Hebrew congregation, will deliver tonight a
| lecture on Sunday Laws, or the Union Of
| Church and State" Services commence at
eight o'clock.
The ladies and gentlemen who are in the
ca st Of II. N. s. Pindfore are excused from
the rehearsal tonight, so that they can at
tend the Theater, if they so desire, on the
presentation of LOUe's Sacrifice by the Bluff
! City Grays and their lady friends.
Sunday next the Riversides and the
| Nashvilles of Nashville, will play game OF
base ball in the city. An additional attrac-
ton will be trot between the black mare
| Lizzie Clark and the horse Charles 7. They
are good horses and will make good time.
This afternoon, at Olympic park. the fol-
| lowing races will take place: First race, best
three in FIVE to harness and rule. Second, a
running race, weights barred. The entries
| closed yesterday. Trains leave every fifteen
minutes, via the Louisville railroad. The
| 6rst race will commence at three o'clock,
sharp.
Since the erection and the announced
| opening of the medical college, on Union
avenue, opposite the city hospital, number
| Of colored people who resided in that vicinity
had superstitious and curious ideas as to the
doinRs Of medical students with dead bodies.
and dreaded that live subjects might be in
demand occasionally.
The April weather has suggested the
| following stanZas 10 poet Of the period:
Here's warm sunbeam, Daisy, - IIsy;
April sent II 70 waken you. deaTl
| How can you be so ley, lazTP
Haven't you heard that spring is here2"
Daisy murmuTed sleepy and surly:
springs too young yst--ths air Is cool:
] don't believe ia a early
He is Just playing at April fooli'
The members Of the Freight and Pas
senger association Of Memphis have com
bined to resist the payment Of the privilege
tax OF twenty five dollars per anngm imposed
| by the Taxing District government. 4 test
case was made over the shoulders Of Captain
! Dick Eghtburne yesterday, who was fined
/ fifty dollars by President Porter, for doing
steamboat basiness as agent. The case was
at once appealed, so that the association ca n
make a contest before the supreme court
On the first day Of May new regulation
in regard TO government whisky licenses
goes into effect. Heretofore ths law has
been where one Of firm, engaged in the
sale of spirits, retired, their licenses had ex-
PRED, and the remaining partners. or mem