Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-21
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The days are dull for news.
| -Vennor seems to be lying Low.
This is motion day in Chancery.
Plenty of suspects" are in town.
| Are we to have Theodore Thonas7
-Janauschek succeeds Katie Palnsm.
The eky cleared up about noon yester
day.
Tie thermometer looked CLOUDY yes.
terday.
The merchants have ceased to csnplain
of hard times.
The churches will hold SERVES ON
Christmas day.
Are the matrimonial associations dead
or only sleeping?
Mr. P. J. Kelly is also an sspiran for
the Office of oil inspector.
Blind Tom gives a matinee and night
performance on Christmas.
The Katie Putnam company arrive this
morning from Little Rock.
Everybody wants to see Mrs. Lanstry
since the scandal cropped ont.
Jim Brown, who robbed Crosby,s butcher.
shop, was sent TO Jail yesterday.
Dixie Knights plea in the murder Il
w. L. Dickens will be seli-defense.
The main streets are hardly lsrQ
enough to hold the people on them.
The motion TO appoint receiver in It'd
Avalanche case has been set for 10 day.
The Mexican war veterans will parfici.
pate in the inauguration OF Gen. Bate.
The Kate Adams received many visitors
yesterday. She leaves for below this even.
ing.
1T promises to be one of the merriest
Christmas holidays Memphis has seen for
years.
The Mozaris propose to have chorus Of
$50 voices, if they can secure Theodore
Thomas.
Bleak House and Marie Antoiaelte viii
be among Janauschek's plays :given here
next week.
-"Growl and grow fat" is the revised
motto of the tarpaulin editor as Christmas
approaches.
I'm the case of Porter Us. Barnes, the In
junction wss dissolved yesterday by Chapcel-
Tor Mcdowell.
BY order of Judge Horrigan yesterday
$40 so recovered from G. r. BoIes was turned
over TO Mr.. A. d. Gwynne.
Literary exercises will be held at the
High School Friday at ] so O'Clock pm.
Parents and friends are invited.
If the Madison Square Theater cannot
send anything 10 Memphis better than Esmy-
raldy, it had just as well leave off.
There seems to be general desire on the
part of the merchants 10 do away with the
future board at the Cotton Exchange.
az want to see Lena, the Nightcap,n re-
~ naked patron of the Tneater yesterday.
Them stocking pictures knock me cold"
&C. P. Marshall yesterday was appointed
administrator of John Haley, the young man
who died suddenly at the Peabody Hotel.
I'm the case of Belts u.s. Belts, $500 was
allowed Mrs. Belts from the corpus of the
Estate yesterday by Chancellor Mcdowell.
-Mansford is well supplied with steel
engraved Christmas cards. They are very
unique, and should be seen 10 be appreciated.
The case of Gilbert Moyere, charged with
1nlawfully OBTAINING pension fees, is stilI
,oing slowly on in the United States Court.
An interesting programme has been pre-
pared for the Christmas exercises at Miss
digbee's school to-day, to commence at 10
,'clock.
M. Naper and A. Blunt, walters at the
aloon on Main and Adams, got into fight
yesterday over some macaroni question and
we're both arrested.
Frank Hubert, the butcher who had two
horses stolen from him last Friday night,
las recovered one of his equines, which was
ound at Capleville.
The annual pledge-maker and breaker
looking up his old resolutions. He ought
o have series of them now. Strange to
ay, all his resolntiops are passed.
There's one little girl / know that
hasn't much sense; think che will have
ne. remarked detected individual as he
cad the marriage licenses yesterday.
Sam German. the shark who robbed an
Id man who was treating him, was sentenced
y President Hidden yesterday to 200 days
n the Island for vagrancy, and sent to jail
or theft.
e. l. Gray, alias Brown, the man who
ot on the Wunder jury by lying, was pre-
ented in the Criminal Court yesterday, tried
or perjury, and sentenced TO three years in
be penitentisry.
Monday Graham, who was suspected for
while OF the murder of Albert Graham, was
ried in the Criminal Court for assault with
intent TO murder Dave Hays, and was given
ne year in the penitentiary.
ter stands at ffty-four degrees" remarked |
n old bum yesterday. SWell," said his
riend, "the thermometer seems TO have stood |
t that figure all your natural drinking life." |
The people OF the lower end of Main |
treet, through their far men, are again COM
flaming. They say that the City Railway |
company are not "Whooping" things up |
nough; that they have few elegant work. |
nen trifing with their track, and that the |
FORK is going Of too slow.
"A drunken negro named Wesley Moon |
laimed to be the brother of dead negro /
q South Memphis the other day. The rela- |
ives of the deceased wanted to scalp him.
lie was handed over TO the police, aud when |
e came within the beam of DR.. Hadden's |
evere Official eye, he was sent 10 the Island |
Dr. forty days az punishment.
Ed Roberts and Polite Frsnkling, VIM.
I. Roach and Matte Ward, Garrett Coz |
nd Carrie Rivers, &. Kaiser, and Mrs. Bar |
ara Henpel, Charles 2 Newell and Mary
gnes Keefe, Louis Gibson and Jamie Gard |
er, T. T. GOldsby, IT., and Jennie Rembert, |
oloman c. Creushsu and Mr.. Susan Bow. |
RS, we're granted marriage licenses yesterday.
Frank Duberry was tried in the Crimi-
al Court yesterday on the charge of taking |
money from the brseehes pockets of his room
1rrf he