Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-22

! LOuIsvilie depot to Beale street would greatly
relieve Main sLreej. Why can't it be done,
Sergeant W. r. Wildberger has accepted
the second sergeant's position with the
| "Chicks," and will attend the competitive
| drill at Louisville.
Jas. Dupuy, mate of the steamer Gaf,
was dismissed from the charge of carrying
| concealed weapons, before the Taxing Dis
trict president yesterday.
The Memphis and Charleston railway
| directory meet this morning TO consider the
| question of merging that road with the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia line.
The annual commencement of the
| Christian Brothers College will take place at
| Leubrie's Theater this evening, and not on
| to morrow evening, az WAS erroneoU=ly stated
| in yesterdays local.
Il it waiting for crowd to gather near
before dropping2 That old rookery at the
corner Of Main and Second, occupied until
very recently by the Board of Health should
be removed. 1t is unsafe.
The old deserted Poplar-street market
house most suitably located for city rock
pile. A branch railroad extends TO within a
few feet of the south door, and there is
good, solid paved street (Washington) pass
ing by from east TO west.
The commencement exercises of St.
Mary's school, on Poplar street. were held
yesterday. The Rev. DIR. DunbelI, OF Jack
SOD, Tenn, delivered the annual address.
The graduates were Misses Olivia McCune,
Grace Gibson and Carrie Wood.
Some one exploded a giant ire-cracker
in the alley back of the Peabody Hotel,
about o'clock yesterday afternoon, which
brought out large crowd, all OF whom ex-
pected to zee at least one, and perhaps two
dead men. They were disappointed.
Register Hunt had the following papers
filed with him yesterday: John 7. FLYNN TO
William WALSH, deed; Tom Keel to William
Pool, lease; Cbickasaw Building ami Loan
Association to NJ L. Bacon, deed; William
Walsh to w. A. Wheatly, trust deed.
-Four marriage licenses were issued by
the County Court clerk yesterday, all to col
ored couples: B F. Hunt and Miss E. B
Shouse, Silas Dixon and Miss Emma Sim
mons, Andrew Mitchell aud Mrs Emma
Greer, John Nicely aud Miss Rosalie Will
liams.
AT Sardis, Miss, on the night of the
10 instant, mob of 20 men took negro
from the Jail, who was imprisoned for the
rape of a white lady, and hanged him to a
tree about half mile south OF the town,
where The body remained hanging for twenty
4our hours.
Virgil Graham, Albert Thomas, Taylor
Graham, Julius Fails, Valentine Bowling
and Lash Brown were Arranged before the
Criminal Court yesterday on an indictment
for the killing OF Albert Thomas, jr., and
each plead 'not guilty" Their bonus were
fixed at $4,000 each.
Our citizens who fail to find police
man just when they want them should re-
member, before grumbliDg at the inefficiency |
of the force, thai there are only thirteen pa
trolmeu on duty at one time over this entire |
city, from Chelsea to Fort Pickering, and the |
river to Estivsl Park.
Won't somebody kill the stray dogs,
take up the wandering COWS, aud tie the |
rambling goats? Where are the scavengers,
tine chief of police, or "any other fellah"
who can utilize these nuisances that awaken |
the citizen from his SAUNDERS destroy the |
beauty Of his front yard.
Valentine Boiling, German, who has a
grocery and residence on the Raleigh road,
corner of Mosby avenue, was arrested by
Deputy Charles Newell, on an indici ment
or the killing of Albert Thomas, jr. THIS
makes the seventh person arrested on this
charge, with more 10 hear from.
"A little negro boy about ten years old, who
vas affl icted with epilepsy, and who had been
Missing from his home, near Grenada, Miss,
or the past ten days, was found drowned in
ehallow stream yesterday by party who
vas attracted TO the SPOT by large collec-
ion CT buzzards, which had eaten away the
lesh from the face of the corp.e.
"A ons-legged coored man by the name
4 j. NJ. Noodle, who kept repairing hat
tore at No. 23S Second street, near Jefferson,
lied suddenly yesterday afternoon at $3.50
CLOCK in the rear part of his store, of heart
isease. E-quire r. NJ. Mason summoned
ury of inquest who, through the evidence of
illnesses, testified to the above facts.
Several drunken negroes congregated at
- |
asst night, and for nearly an hour INDUCED
a Safeguarding, cursiDg and swearing
he attention OF the police is again called
D this nuisance. The drivers of hacks Nos.
and IA were particularly conspicuous.
"A colored schoolboy and his sister, aged {
eight and ten years, INDUCED in
ten-minutes' Hgo-as-you- please" fight at ;
ne corner OF Second and Madison streets
forenoon over dispute to
hich should carry the books. A large
rowd collected, yet no one interfered, and {
he affair ended only from the sheer exhaust
IN of the boy. +
ierce presiding, the case OF G. w. Lewis u.s.
William Finnie and w. T. Goats, firm OF c.
Hargan & Co., was decided in favor of the
laintiff The facts OF the case were that The
nm employed the plaintiff for one year at
Is month, and without just cause dis
issed him before the close OF the contract. q
judgment for 1900 was given. ,
Millions of bugs swarmed about the cleo :
ic lights in the city last night, and in ,,
any places necessitated the turning off of
lie lights They were 80 numerous at sew
al saloons on Monroe street that the inside
ectric was discarded for gas. The water
INKS behind the counter, used for washing
asses, were filed with them, where they
splayed their love of the water by sporting
D. down and bout like little fishes.