Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-01
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
To-day is the first of March.

To-day is the first of March.
The blustery winds of March have come.
The last month was sold 8hort-it had
only twenty-eight days in it.
Tomorrow the Sunday orders will be
strictly enforced, as it were.
Thursday next in the Jewish calendar
will be the Fast of Esther"
From and after this morning the public
market hour will be at ten O'Clock, instead of
four as formerly.
The NEW government was not in ses-
sion yesterday. 1t will meet this afternoon
at the usual hour.
Next Monday night George C. Boniface
and company will appear at the Theater IN
the Soldiers Trust.
The county court investigating commit
tee is still hammerlng away at the President
island workhouse troubles.
The cnancery court stands adjourned
until Monday, when the call Of the special
docket will be proceeded with.
-AHdretOS' Bazar for March and d new
supply of Popular Science Supplement, new
series, at Mansford's, 29S Main street.
"A well-known liquor merchant of Mem
phIs will soon be welded to Nashville
belle. So say those who are in the secret.
The gentle but lively breeze on yesterday
raised clouds of dust along the streets. Dust
is but dirt found floating in the atmosphere.
Our sportsmen and citizens generally
should take notice that the game-law goes
INTO effect the first Of March and lasts until
the first OF September.
AT the matinee to-day at the Theater,
Milton Mobiles and company will appear In
A Man Of the People, Tonight the PheniC
will be the attraction.
The following rulings were made in the
rh Ia lac 70 N
Demurrer-overruled; Wilson rs. Miller
reference as to value Of stoves.
The "Taxing-District" street-ceaning
force was at work on Madison street yester-
day, doing good work, scraping and brushing
the dirt into heaps and carting it away.
The criminal court jury in the App
Hackett murder case is still locked up being
so far unable to agree upon a verdict. 1t
looks as If the jury was hung" as It IS
called.
Tomorrow another effort will be made
by the commissioners to strictly enforce the
Sunday law. We predict for it failure, and
our reporter will be around to itemize the
failure.
The pulpit of the Cumberland Presbyte-
rian church, Court street, will be occupied by
Rev. H. A. Jones, OF M 'Minnville, the first
and second Sabbaths Of March. The public
are invited. Pews free.
The librarian Of the law library at the
courthouse, requests that lawyers having
law books not their own will return the same
to the lbrary-rooGl, SC that they may be re-
turned 10 their owners.
The criminal court Jury in the case of the
State rs. John H. Stratton, indictmentfrr the
killing of Emanuel Cohen, colOred, has re-
turned a verdict of not guilty, and the pris-
oner was discharged from custody.
The man who will compile the original
law, and other witticisms and Jokes of the
late John F. Sale and other dead members of
the Memphis bar, will reap rich harvest
by the editing and publication of the same.
AT the criminal court, yesterday, the
hdbeas corpus case Of A. Wright, Gus Hurt
and J. Hurt, citizens Of Germantown, arrested
for the murder of the late Dewitt Rhodes,
was on hearing and viii be further hears, to-
day.
Chief Athy announces IN another column
that all goats and hogs found loose on the
streets will be impounded and sold. Horses |
mules and geese must not be allowed to run
loose.on the streets, as their owners will be |
fined for misdemeanor.
In a short time a young school visitor |
will be welded to a charming school teacher. |
The invitations have already been extended |
in quiet way to friends, but the school Wis |
itor continues to deny the soft Impeachment, |
just as If everybody IN town didn't know Of |
the atfair-on the carpet.
Yesterday, at one OF our courts . case
was on hearing concerning the ownership of |
a pile driUer. One of the lawyers engaged |
10 the cause persisted in calling it Spile- |
driver, and said it was an instrument. The |
Judge corrected him, saying: ''It is pile
1rirer, and is a machine, not an instrument"
-Strayed from his parents, on the evening
Of the twenty eighth uitimo, little Louis Blk
bee. He Is about eight years; had on yell
ow jeans coat, with brass tips on his shoes,
and no hat. His parents, John w. Bixbee
aud wife, are now at the ststionhouse await
ng the return of the little fellow Anyone
giving them information viii confer a favor
Among the pleasantries INDUCED In dur
ing the animated debate at the bar meeting
after much had been said upon
he constitutionaIity of the proposed Judiciary
oill, it was suggested that the constitution be
read. also the declaration of independence,
md that they both &c embodied in and made
part of the resolutions of the meeting, it
being doubtless considered that the statute |
# limitations had barred their usefulness
Even the Lenten season has its rhyme
furnished
''lf any course, URfeeling Teller
ASKS the loan of your umbreller.
Tell him it's Lent.
"If any tramp presumes to foller
And beg the loan of half a dollar,
Tell him it's Lent.