Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-28
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Summer clothing is in demand.

Summer clothing is in demand.
The spring Is jumping into summer
rapidly.
But little business was transacted at the
courthouse yesterday.
Fewer fires occur IN Memphis than in
any city OF its size on the continent.
The improved sanitary condition of the
streets and alleys is clearly apparent.
The Colvilie opera burlesque company
will appear in Robinson Cru Oe tonight.
The upward tendency in the price Of
cotton has somewhat enlivened the market
here.
The police and FIRE commissioners will
meet at the courthouse at three o'clock this
afternoon.
The ColvIlle opera burlesque compan y
will leave for New Orleans after the matinee
tomorrow.
-Poetical illusions of spring character
are coming into market, but are not much In
demand as yet.
The Babes IN the Woods Will be wit
messed by the babes OF Memphis at the Thea
ter matinee tomorrow.
Little Carrie Elberts, who is the dimlnu-
tive star in the Colville opera burlesque COM
pany, receives twenty-five dollars per week as
salary.
INT lIlsA lllcldEI hsSOCldllOn VIII ESNE-
gsnize ere long. The yellow-fever epidemic
of 1875 affected this society as it did all
others.
The erection of the customhouse and
the Masonic Temple gives employment to
quite a large number Of mechanics and
laborers.
Monday next the tax-books for the year
1879 will be opened, and the district tax-col-
lector will be ready to receive taxes for the
current year.
II. u. S. PinGfore, words and music
complete-sheet music size-eighty page
book only thirty cents copy-at Mansford' 8,
29S Main street.
The Mississippi is on the upward move
ment at present 1t Is within about eleven
feet of high-water mark; yet there is no dam
ger Of an overflow this season.
The relief ball given by the Memphis
police force, for the benefit of the widows and
orphans of the force, will come off on the
fourteenth of April, at Cochran hall
But four arrests were made by the police
OF the District yesterday and up to twelve
o'clock last evening. The arrests were made
fer drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
If the weather is pleasant on Sunday,
there will be another concert st Estival park
by Handwerker's band. Abundance, ten
cents. Open from three till nine O'Clock.
Chief of-Police Athy was medaled on
yesterday by the members of the police force
who were on duty during the yellow-f fever
epidemic last year and survived the great
plague.
The Theater dramatic season will close
on Saturday next. and after that we will
probably occasionally have some company
stop over night or two. The latter part
Of next week Emerson's Ministries will give
entertainments at the Theater.
The Bartlett circuit court is IN session
and business drags slowly along. The farm
ers who are jurors, witnesses, parties to suits,
etc, all want to go home and plant corn and
1t Is probable that this bucolic court will soon
adjourn for the planting season.
The banana crop has made its appear
ance In Memphis, judging from the number
landing, and carrying q pole on their shout
ders, and on each end of the pole big
bunch of bananas swings freely,
"A street vendor of patent medicine was
arrested by the police yesterday, on Madi-
son street, on the charge of giving away
lewd photographs or card pictures of the
transparent character. By holding them up
between you and the light, the vileness of
the cards was apparent.
Mint juleps are now in fashion with a
large number of citizens. Those who during
the winter months grew tired of drinking
uuadorned whisky now take to the old bever-
age with renewed pleasure, where they can
poke their noses into punches of fragrant
mint which tower above the glasses.
during the entertainments given at the
Iheater nightly by the opera burlesque COM
pany, the majority of the men composing the
audience discuss among themselves as to the
prettlest boutfe artist IN face and figure,
while only few men comment on the comic,
dramatic and lyrical talents of the performers.
The first count of cotton bales on hand
since the yellow fever was reported at the
cotton exchange yesterday. The actual count
was forty-eight thousand one hundred and
fifty three bales. There were two thousand
six hundred and fifty bales sold yesterday,
the spinners taking some four hundred more
bales than the exporters.
-Opera-glasses have been in demand since
the advent of tho burlesque troupe at the
Theater. The near-siGhted want to get toe
worth of the money they paid for admission
tickets, and those not near-sighted desire to
study the anatomy of the female form divine,
hence the increased call for lorgnettes by
those who occupy the dress circle and par
quette.
The delegates selected by the chamber
of commerce to attend the rivermen's con-
vention, at Cincinnati, on the thirty first
instant, held a nesting yesterday for the
purpose of effecting an organization. 1t is
likely that several OF the delegates selected
will not be able to attend the Cincinnati
convention, but such vacancies will be filled
during the present week.
The German Casino will, on Wednesday
evening, April I'd, present the Belle Of Sara
tOga, the first entertainment given by the