Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-14
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

st. Valentines day.
Abolish the School Board.
Martha tonight by Miss Abbott.
1t began raining again at midnight.
The School Board ought to be declared
epidemic.
School Board wind was at premium
last night.
The school teachers have been kicking
in the traces.
Cotton is not pleasant subject for con-
| Tersation now.
1.-THE Shadow-of-Death School Board
met last night.
The School Board kept in last night till
after 2 o'clock.
Captain Jack Walsh is the mentor of
the School Board.
The pigeon oratory of the School Board
last night was utter utter.
The weeks amusements began very
promisingly last night at the School Board.
The palmy days of the old School
Board were revived last night.
MIR. Duffy last night called Mr.. Jack
Walsh his eminent colleague at the School
Board.
The negro losfers on the corner Of Main
and Beale streets ought to be dIspersed by
the police.
The river rose one inch Sunday night,
which would equal about five feet when the
river is low.
The APPEAL recommends that the School
Board be given the contract for supplying
the city with gas.
Eleven thousand four hundred and sew
enty-nine motions we're made in the School
Board last night.
The attention of the police is called to
the School Board as being guilty of keeping
disorderly house.
Sheldon Wilton and Miss Ellen Y Nc
Gayock were granted permission to wed yes
terday by Deputy Clerk Shea.
Mr.. Jack Walsh, last night at the School
Board, told Mr.. Degnan to take care of his
bald head; it was not well covered.
The question of appointing a receiver
in the Mundinger case was postponed by
Chancellor Mcdowell until Wednesday.
Fred Moulton, a newsdealer on the Mem
phis and Charleston railroad, was arrested
Sunday for kicking his wife with a heavy
boot. She put up his forfeit for him. The
case comes off to-day.
Alex. Walker, trusty at the station
house, has taken the smallpox in its worst
form. He was sent TO the pesthouse yester-
day. The blankets and mattresses at the
stationhouse we're burned and the place itself
fumigsted.
Memphis has the checklist teachers on
record. One of them actually set aside the
rules of the schools, and substituted an old,
worn-out History Of the United States for one
of the latest editions. Teachers like that
should be lifted out of the schools entirely.
Captain s., who was very strenuous
ly opposed TO the "coon bill' when it was
before the legislature, was heard to say
Saturday: at would have been an outrage
upon the people 10 have passed that bill"
WHAT bill are you talking about" asked
bystander. 1.-The 1908, of course" 80,
h-w said the bystander, 81 thought you re-
ferred to the coon bill"
"A Memphis gentleman who was recently
at Aberdeen, Mississippi, brought back with
him the photographs of the three Walker
boys who were murdered near that place by
Jones and Miller some weeks since. The |
pictures were taken after the victims had
been placed In their coffins. He also secured
photographs of the father of the boys Ia |
old gentleman) and their |
brother, who was surrounded by the dogs |
that accompanied the young men; also pho |
tographs OF the murderers, who are to be |
executed on March 3d. Jones, the white |
man, does not look like the wretch who |
would perpetrate such a crime. Miller the |
negro, has very flat nose and most pro- |
Ethiopian face, but his does not |
look like the vile face that such monster |
shouId carry