Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-01
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Long live Jue L aAlu& -DlsIrlCG'
To-day is Whit-Sunday-th first OF
June.
This is baptising day at many of our
churches.
The subscription list to the auxiliary
sanitary association is increasing rapidly.
The legislative council of Memphis will
meet at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
The Taxing District of Memphis is all
right and will go ahead. Step up and pay
your taxes for 1879.
Five arrests were made by the police on
yesterday, up to twelve o'clock last night,
all fer drunkenness.
The Third street German Protestant
church Sunday-school picnic will be held to-
morrow at Estival park.
Thunder, lightning and rain prevailed
yesterday, and thersby improved the health
of the inhabitants of our city.
Everybody, except few soreheads, is
pleased with the supreme court decision on
the Taxing District question.
The authorities can now go to work ana
make contracts for paving streets and at
tend to the sanitary affairs.
The Memphis M9nnerchor will give a
grand basket picnic, next Sunday, the eighth
Of June, at Fitzgibbon's grove.
The Phoenix club basket picnic will posi-
tively take place to-day. The train leaves
for Fitzgibbon's grove at eight o'clock this
morning.
Those who intend going to the national
saengerfest at Cincinnati, on the eleventh of
June, are invited to meeting at Cochran
hall to-day at four O'Clock.
The mission at st. Peters (Catholic)
church, conducted by Rev. Fathers M Feely
and O'Dwyer, will close at vespers this even
ing, with papal benediction.
There was general rejoicing throughout
The city last night over the Taxing District
decision of the supreme court. The Baxter
stock cell rapidly in the market, and had but
few takers.
"A pinto will be given at Barrett's garden,
Fort Pickering, on Thursday, June 5, for the
benefit of Mrs. E. Loeffel, worthy lady,
whose family suffered severely during the
yellow-fever.
General Peter Tracy fred one hundred
guns on the bluff yesterday IN honor of the
Taxing-DIstrict, and The decision of the SUI
preme court sustaining the legislative act
creating our new government.
The heavy rains yesterday morning
cooled the atmosphere and settled the disa,
greeable dust. In a sanitary way the rains
did an immense amount of good work in
cleansing the streets, cutters and alleys.
AT the criminal court, yesterday, Chi
naman named Lu Wing was placed on trial
on the charge of the larceny of several shirts
and a tobacco pipe. The Jury acquitted the
Celestial, there being nothing in the case.
If yeu wish Sunday reading matter go
to Billy Lieben's, 2361S Main street, corner
Jefferson. He has all the piHtorials for the
week, and dailes Of the latest date to be had.
Popular Science Monthly, BOlo- Bells, an
drei0's BGSaar, all Tor June. Billy will cloee
up at one o'clock. sharp.
--Just received, the Empress josephine,
Price and 1, Wit and Humor, and the latest
SeaSides Always On hand, the standard
authors, prose and poetry, In cheap and
handsome bindings. Fine envelopes at FIVE
cents q package, at n. Williams & Co.'S, 279
Main street, headquarters in the trade.
Tomorrow the day and night police
patrol forces change time of duty. Captain
Atata and Sergeant O'Haver will command
the force from twelve o'clock at noon to
twelve o'clock at night, while Captain Davis
and Sergeant Kunholst will take charge of
the force from twelve o'clock at night until
noon next day.
The following Memphis trotting horses
left last evening on board the steamer Andy
Baum, e.. route for the Pittsburg and oil re-
gIon meetings: Rafting Jim, owned by
Charles Gallena; Charles T., owned by A. c..
Treadwell, aud Belle Grant, owned by Levin
Grant. The horses will return in the fall in
tune for the Shelby county fair meeting.
Now that we have a city government
that evsry good citizen can stand by, let US
assist Tracy in giving the grandest display
or the fourth of July that was ever seen in
the Mississippi valley. 1t will draw theu-
sands of strangers to our midst, who can do
more to prove to the country that we have a
clean and healthy city than can all other in
huences combined.
Orange Lily, a new novel in Franklin
Square Library, Harper's new series.
English Men Of LetterS-embracing the lives
of Gibbon, Spencer, Burns. and others, by
eminent authors. A complete line of new
reviews, scientific magazines, periodicals, and
found at Mansford's book and news depot,
29S Main street.
The retail liquor dealers association,
which has been fighting the Taxing District
government on all points, will have to sub
side for time. The association is not gov
erned by the wisest men In the world They
made the fight and lost it, because they made
it IN a wrong and crooked manner. Too
many great men IN the association is what s
the matter with it.
"A bar, keeper struck out from the shout
der, knocked down a drunken man on the
sidewalk opposite the APPEAL Office last
evening, and walked off as if nothing had
happened. The drunken man was lifted up
by a friend, and then staggered off in search
of home. The knocking down of drunken
man is not very brave act but the athletic
bar-keeper was equal to the task.
A dispatch received here, yesterday,
from Jackson, Tennessee, with reference to
the decision of the supreme court of the
State in the county officers salary cases,
heard on the test case of r. J. Black, clerk
and master of the chancery court, says:
The decision is against you, but not on the
merits" The judges decided that the suit
was prematurely brought, and dismissed the
bill. When the county trustee makes a de-
Iuand upon the chancery clerk and master
for funds, and is refused, then the case can
he gotten up in shape to be considered on
Its merits by the supreme court.
A well-known citizen was seen late
yesterday afternoon digging industriously
around the roots of his flower plants. A
neIghbor noticing the unusual event, with
surprise and curiosity, asked: "What in the
world has inspired such an outbreak of in
dustry in your householdP" The citizen re-
piled, between the stabs he was giving the
bosom of mother earth: Didn't you hear
about the decision to-day? The Taxing Dis
trict is all right; / know now that my prop
erty belongs to me, and want to try to re-
deem it from the wreck and dilapldation it
was rapidly going into during the chaotic
condition of our municipal government"
The auxiliary sanitary association has
ordered its officers to make dom.ciliary visits
r.