Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-21
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

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| Weather clear and pleasant.
The baseball interest will soon revive.
What will next seasons amusements be-
CAME Memphis have some spring races!
Let not the musical festival escape your
memory.
-Downey is the heel-and-toe pedestrian
| of the South.
The magistrates complain OF hard times
and dull business.
There was no Criminal Court yesterday,
but will be to-day.
-Beale street will be an entirely different
street in a short time.
-MdnoLd, by Lecocq, will be the attraction
at the Theater tonight
The concert of the OrioIe Octette on the
18th will be acceptable.
Torn up Beale street don't look much
worse than it did before.
business with the magistrates is ex-
travagantly dull just now:
The Memphis people viii not have many
more opportunities to hear opera this season.
A decision in the Sandy Matthews case
is expected from the Court of Appeals Sat-
urday.
The next public drill of the Broom
Guards will take place after the walking
match.
Few of the spring fashions are new;
most of them are rivals OF styles worn only II
few years ago.
The new styles in the buttons for dresses,
according to Demorest, are very small. The
large are for jackets.
The annual meeting of the West Ten
nessee Medical Society will be held at Mar
tin, Wednesday, May Sd.
Driving horses are not worried much
from the gnats now, and are consequently
more numerous on the streets.
The police are very busy keeping the
city clean. Every man whose premises are
filthy is promptly overhauled.
The contractor for paving Bese street
expects TO finish the job in thirty five work
ing days. Labor is cheap and plentiful.
The first game of baseball OF the season
between the Memphis Reds and picked
nine.
The toll-gate on the Poplar street boule-
ward has been removed nearly to the cor
poration limits, thus increasing the number
of tolls.
The concerts at the Cumberland Presby-
terrain church, under the direction of Mr..
Pitcher, of New Orleans, are looked forward
to with interest.
There has been a large sale OF seats for
the benefit rendered Monday night to Mrs.
c. H. Fits and Miss Bessie Pierce. 1t de-
serves to be successful.
The sunhower and the lily are seen in
printed dress fabrics, aud in millinery orna-
ments, lace pins, bangles and fancy buttons
of enamel under crystal.
The balayeuse of black or white lace
will again adorn summer costumes. Those,
h., ID IS 49, eli IL
satin are utterly out of fashion.
Irish batiste, in soft pale shades of
color as sky blue, lilac, shrimp pink, cream,
ivory, fawn and corn color, will be among
the list of popular summer fabrics.
Richmond and Collins, the two men who
were charged with beating and robbing
countryman, were discharged yesterday, the
evidence being practically nothing.
White foulard night dresses appear
with shirring over the shoulders and upon
the sleeves, and are trimmed with medici
lace and bows of white satin ribbon.
The motion for a new trial in the case
of R. NJ. Schuyler, feed merchant, charged
with rape on Nellie Cooney, will be heard
Saturday next in the Criminal Court.
Miss Marie Bockell, with the Ford
Opera Company, has created most favora-
bic impression here. She received beauti-
full bouquet when she appeared as "Oliyette."
I'm the case of A. B. Hill u.s. FL. Dow, for
$40 loaned money, the defendant yesterday
pleaded his own case before Judge Pierce.
A judgment for SIS so was returned for the
plaintiff.
Major Burke had in Mrs. Reddington a
regular catamouut to deal with yesterday
morning in the Recor ler's Court. She used
highly indecent language, and the Major
sent her to the Island for eighty days.
Fishing in the bayou has become
favorite pastime with the colored element of
all ages. An old negress was seen yesterday
enjoying fine sport "ketchin' cats" in hole
Of water in which the carcass of dead dog
lay within three feet OF where "dey bit de
most" tr-.
-Bustles are worn quite little below the
waist-line in the back, and do not reach over
the hips as in the past, the boy6ant effect
here being produced entirely by the pannier
draperies, to which are added huge sashes of
moire satin or silk, which are draped and
tied above the low set hustle, the ends falling
very often to the foot of the skirt in tae
back.
The semi-annual session of the Memphis
pre- .bytery meets at Somerville next We'd
nesdsy at 10 am, and the Rev. ]. NJ. Rose,
Of Memphis, breaches the opening sermon.
This presbytery embraces the counties of
shelby, Hardeman, Upton and tayette.
There are within its bounds thirty-seven
churches, with twenty-one min sters. 1t is
that there will be thirty five or
orty delegates.
Suburban streets are infested with |
lower thieves, who commit daring depreda-
lions in flower yards and vegetable gardens. |
Two colored damsels were detected in the |
ict yesterday afternoon on r iyburn avenue, |
near Broadway, and when warned off took |
heir own time to leave, and replied in the |
most insolent and insulting language. Chief |
Davis would confer a special favor on the |
,itizens of these unprotected localities by
giving special instruction to the force regard |
ng these raiders.
AT an election held in Brunswick,
Shelby county, Tenn, c. B. English re-
.eived IA votes for mayor, Robert L. Jones
!, T. C. Cooke and C. g. Hughes 3 For
ecorder Alex Jones received IS, R. A.
mead 4, 7. c. Cooke 3 and C. G. Hughes /.
Cor town constable, w. H. Bond %, r. A.
mead 4, VIM. Hamburger l. For alder
nan, C. G. Hughes 10, Rich L. Jones II, R.
l. Snead Is, Robert L. Jones Is, T. C.
locke IA, L. Rayner ID, II. J. Long 10, A. F.
phillips 9, c. B. English 6. J. N. Moore 6,
J. G. Rittenhouse 4, Alex Jones 2, n. A.
Buckley 2, w. d. Horne l, j. NJ. Tufin /.
he first FIVE candidates for aldermen are
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