Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-25
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Warmer yesterday, with few feecy
clouds.
The Social Pastime Club will organize
tonight.
Next year Memphis will have Mardi-
Gras celebration.
| The motion docket will be called in the
United States Court to-day.
Bishop c. T Quintard preached at Grace
Episcopal church last night.
| The Vokes Family appear tonight in
The Wrong Man IN The Right Place,
| st. Elmo will materialize sunhower for
Colonel John Powell next week.
Next Wednesday the Medical College
| will give its annual commencement.
Marriage licenses were granted yester-
day TO Sam Taylor and Annie Graham, w.
Hendrix and Laura Rooney.
The Rev. E. P. Hammond breaches in
the fernando street church to night.
The man who enters ''bucket-shop"
does not always carry away pailful.
Colonel Montgomery entertained the
Oriole Club OF Baltimore at his residence.
The ''bucket-shops" will now speculate
in futures little, but it will be before the
courts.
The man who bought one thousand bales
of cotton Thursday was $1,000 better off yes
terday.
There was ring around the moon last
night, indicating that there was plenty more
rain around.
What shall do with my garbage?" is
the question many citizens have asked them
selves lately.
Great interest is felt in the appearance
of st. Elmo and his troupe of spirits here
next week at the Greenlaw Operahouse.
The programme for future meetings by
the evangelist, the Rev. E. P. Hammond,
will be published in to-morrow's APPEAL.
Next week the markets will be open
from am. to 10 am. and on Saturdays
they will also be open from pm to 8 pm.
The Emma Abbott Company appeared
ia Knoxville last night. Honest little Emma
is on her way to Louisville, where she plays |
for the second time this season.
1t is whispered that three of the grand |
jurors themselves are not entirely unac-
quainted with Cultures" and that an inves-
tigation OF the bucket-shops will not be an |
agreeable task with them.
The numbers drawing prizes in the Lit
tie Havana Lottery of February oath are as |
follows: No. 1882 drew $500; 10, IVA, $1,000;
10,99s, $1,000; 1850, $3.50; 1862, $3.50;
Is, l36, $500; 22,371, 5000; 1855, $500; 300,
$500.
Deputy Sheriff Newell went to the Jail
Frank Brown and Sally Scarlet, charged with
notorious lewdness. When he arrived he
found that they were already out, by order
of the court.
A seedy individual calling himself A.
K. Fulkerson, physician, slipped into the
Peabody night before last and took supper
He was arrested by Officer Peters and taken
TO the stationhouse, where it transpired that
he was crazy.
-Flatboat No. 10, owned by G. B. Taylor
and loaded with eight thousand bushels of
corn, sprung a leak just below Fort Picker
ing. The boat with its damaged cargo was
taken to the foot of Adams street, where the
corn was taken out yesterday.
-"Where will l see you Tomorrow"
asked an individual of Wag yesterday. 81
don't know. You had better come early; l
may be on the Island by night" swell, if
you go the Island, general, l will act as your
guard" "Take care that you don't be a
then, Charles"
Judge Pierce, who has charge of the
grand jury during Judge Horrigan's abb
sence, instructed that body to examine into
the transactions of the "bucket-shops" In
with the above order, Colonel
j John Powell has ordered an ample supply of
full blown sunflowers, which he will present
to each attendant of the "bucket-shop" he
ads his subpoena to them for their appear
dHce DelOle tne grand jury.
The case OF Ben T. Reeves Us Peter
Tracy, for $4,000 damages, was begun in
the Circuit Court yesterday. Reeves was on
the grand stand at the Mardi Gras festivi-
ties last year. He claims that he was elected
by the General to the extent of $4,000
worth of inconvenience and damage. Judge
I. w. Brown and Judge C. w. Heiskell rep
resent Tracy, and Lyles & Harris and Taylor
Carroll represent Reeves.
"A new device for the protection of chick
ems and back yards generally has been prac-
ticed recently with good effect by a young
couple living out in Scotland. They pur-
chased a small strip OF calico and suspended
it on their back door and rear gate. } me ef-
feet is magical in securing perfect exemption
from the marauding chicken-thief. The
style and price of the goods are not of SO
much importance as the color. Ii the goods
are yellow the impression of smallpox is
sufficient to cause your chickens to remain
at whatever point they may roost In the yard.
On Thursday a negro drove a cart to the
bluff on the north corner of Beale street and
The river, and there unioaded and burned
quantity of bedding and other material in
fected by parties suffering from smallpox.
Whether il is good sanitary regulation to
convey such material through the streets
when they are thronged with people, then to
unload and pile them up on spot near
which are many dwellings, is subject
worthy OF the attention OF our Board of
Health. We are supposed to be under strict
sanitary regulations in Memphis just now,
put regulation that exposes infected mate
-ial, as was done on Thursday, looks like a
equation that does not regulate.
The New York South says OF our OIL
mills: 1.-THE Memphis Oil Company, organ
z d in 1869 on the joint-stock plan, with a
working capital of 100000, is accounted
Tery strong concern. Their buildings cover
square and half, adapted to crushing and
pressing seed and to refining and storage.
Forty Eve barrels of oil and twenty-five tons {
If cake are turned of every twenty-four
iours. There are several grades of oil pro-
iuced, the most noted of which is the refined
IT edible oil, which is coming into extensive
lse for cooking purposes, and which is taking {
he place of lard. Indeed, it is now thought
hat it will soon displacs lard altogether. 1t
5 as pure az can be, never becomes rancid,
lever scorches in cooking, and is much l
heaper. The cotton-seed, alter being ground
INTO meal, is used for feeding and fertilizing t
purposes. Vast quantities of it are shipped 4
o Boston and other Eastern cities and TO ex- {
ensive Northern diaries. Large shipments a
# cake are made to Europe, where it is /
round and used fer feeding stock" t