Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-06
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Yesterday was a spring day, warm and
pleasant.
The wheat crop in the country looks
we'll at present.
The county court will meet on the first
Monday in April next.
The recorders court yesterday failed to
furnish an item OF interest worth reading.
"A few sneak-thieves continue to prowl
around town and commit petty depredations.
Back taxes, and paying the same, are
matters of interest just now with many
people.
The knights of Innisfail will give an an
niversary ball on the night OF the seventeenth
dustanG.
The relief-fund depot is closed tor the
present, and no free rations will be issued for
many days to come.
AT the Theater, tonight, Boniface and
company will appear in S10eetheartS and
DaUid Garrick
Rev. Hugh Magevney Ieclured last night
at the Casino club hall for the benefit of the
orphans of Memphis.
Numbers of cotton-wagons were on the
bluff yesterday. Il looked like old times,
before railroads were built.
The Ladies' christian association will
give lunch at 302 Main street to-day. The
room will be open from noon to five o'clock.
The App-Hackett murder case is yet I'M
decided by the criminal court jury. The
rumors are that the jury Will never agree
upon a verdict.
AT the United States court, Judge Ham
mond presiding, the case of the United States
rs: the Memphis and Charleston railroad, is
still on hearing.
The iquor-dealers' association is holding
meetings with reference to the proposed local
option law in the legislature OF the State, and
the closing of business houses on Sunday.
The Fenlan Brotherhood will give ban
quet on the night of the seventeenth instant,
st. Patrick 5 day. Colonel A. J. Kellar has
been selected as orator of the brotherhood.
The legislative council Of the District will
meet at the courthouse this morning, at ten
o'clock. The police and fire commissioners
will meet when called upon by President
Porter.
Strangers visiting our city find their way
to Court square, where the beautiful fountain
is an object of admiration and the tame
squirrels are an object of attraction and
amusement.
The mortuary report Of the board of
health for the past month shows a large de-
crease in the number OF deaths, averaging
about three day TO population of at least
City thousand.
"A pair Of purses, knit by Mrs. L. Herr,
were presented to Mr.. J. Kohlburg and Mr..
NJ. Sartoris, as tokens Of gratitude for noble
services rendered the family Of Mrs. Herr
during the plague last summer.
The cotton receipts so far lag behind
the receipts Of last season by over twenty
two thousand bales, but the fine weather
and good roads of the spring season will
make all that up in a few weeks.
The investigating committee on the
crueities to prisoners at the county work
house, on Presidents island, met yesterday
and discussed the report to be made. The
report has not been rendered to writing, but
will be IN few days.
DR. B. F. Dickinson, a we'll known resi-
dent of this city in years past, recently died
at Arkansas City. His remains were con-
veyed to Milan, Tennessee, for interment.
DR.. Dickinson was one Of our oldest citizens
and had host of warm personal friends here
who will regret his loss and revere his memory. |
st. Louis Globe Democrat, Of Monday |
last: six volumes of Tennessee law reports, |
Cooper's edition, bound IN yellow leather, |
were found IN the private alley between Main |
and the levee, Poplar and Almond streets, |
yesterday, by Officers Hetferman and Dunn, |
who took them to the Chestnut street police |
station, where they are now awaiting a |
claimant.
On the evening of the seventeenth in |
slant, at eight o'clock, a wedding will take |
place at the residence of Mr.. Quentel, 81 |
Gayoso street, the contracting parties beng |
Mr.. Charles Quentel, il, and Miss Emma |
Boryszewski, all of this city. A reception |
will be held at Cochran hall Immediately |
after the ceremony.
The supreme lodge Of the Knights of |
Honor has made assessment No. 81, pro- |
viding for twenty-seven deaths, among which |
are the following Memphians John II. |
Chencwith and Max Hartman. Each MEM |
Der will be called upon to pay one dollar N |
satisfy this assessment, and it will yield fifty |
four thousand dollars, or two thousand dol |
lars to each beneficiary.
Many minors are permitted to driak |
lager beer and whisky at several saloons III
this city. This Is wrong. The boys, as to |
age, range from fourteen to sixteen years OF |
age They drink and become partially intox- |
lcated and are then led astray by older and |
more vicious boys, and enticed to visit houses |
of ill-fame, gaminghouses and other places |
where they ought not to be admitted.
At Elmwood cemetery the green graves |
of the past year have been adorned with !
flowers. This Is a tribute from the living to |
the reVered and beloved dead of the epidemic !