Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-24
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
This is the FIRE season.
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LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
-This Is the FIRE season
La Belle Russo tonight.
The churches were filed Sunday.
The big ball comes off Thursday.
The streets we're crowded yesterday.
Tom Keene will be here next week.
The Knights OF Innisfail give ball |
October 3lst.
he Criminal and Circuit Courts are
not in session.
The WaIdran Guards meet at their ar
mory tonight.
Several of the stores were hung with
flags yesterday.
The Abbott company were to appear
last night in Cincinnati.
The Tri-State Medical Society will meet
this morning in the Porter Guards armory.
The mask ball at the Exposition build
ing last night attracted a considerable num-
Der of people.
Mr.. Arthur Gibson has been delighted
of late with the addition 10 his family OF a
handsome boy.
"A very brass band circulated around the
streets yesterday, swaking the citizens to the
fact that there wss mask bali
Henderson Rsllison aud Mrs. Drills
Jones, H. NJ. johnson and S. Z. johnson
were granted marriage licenses yesterday.
The Charleston road should have plenty
OF cars to accommodate the people going 10
the races, and especially on the last trair.
An arch composed Of cotton bales will
be erected fspaning Main street, probably
near the corner of Madison, on Jubilee day.
c.
on board the steamer Carrier, fell from the
boats wheel about 1 o'clock yesterday and
was drowned.
Some shAvings caught FIRE at a planning
mill near Second and Union streets yesser-
day afternoon. and succeeded in turning out
the fire department.
Assistant ard aster Geo. x. Thatcher,
Of the Louisville and Nashville road, had
his toes cut off Saturday night by an engine
during the confusion at the cotten-shed hre.
Secretary Lane, of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty TO Animals, had two
drsy drivers arrested yesterday on Madison
street for having four bales OF cotton on each
OF their vehicles.
Friday last c. c. Collins, stepson Of
Mai. Seaman, of Scanlan's Landing, was
severely cut at the gin at that place. His
hand was torn to shreds and his arm las cut
in three or four places.
The Eclipse Baseball Club, of Louis
Vile, will be here next Sunday and Mon
day aud play the Memphis Reds at Olym
pic Park The Reds will have Whiting, oil
the Baltimores, to catch Tor them.
President Hadden refused permission TO
several colored citizens who wanted to hold
balls last night. He said the Exposition
held the floor for the time being, and he
didn't want The fun scattered too much.
Mr.. Emmett Howard, the enterprisins
superintendent of the Western Union, ha;
| provided additional wires and operators at
the race-trsck, and on to-day will be pre-.
pared to handle promptly all business thai
may be offered.
The insurance policies held by the Eu.
terprise FIGURING Mills are as follows: Phe'
nix, on stock, $4,000; Western, of Toronto
on building, $4,000; Lancashire, England
$4,000; German American, $4,000; Mannfac
turer, Boston, $4,000; Fire Association, Phil
adelphIs, $4,000; Lion, England, $1,000; to
tai, $4,000.
Owing TO the email number in attend
| snce, the meeting of Italian citizens ytster
| dav. called to raise funds for the relief o.
| sufferers by the late disastrous floods IL
Italy, took no action in the matter. Furthel
consideration of the subject was postponed
| TO the next regular meeting OF the Italian
| Society, Thursday week.
The ladies of the Strangers Church
| have opened lunch-room at No. SOP Mair
street, and will continue during the week
| All the delicacies of The season will be tur
nished az moderate prices. Regular dlnneri
| only fifty cents; lunch st regular prices
| Strangers visiting the city should not fail tt
call at the. Strangers church lunch-rooms
| The APPEAL has been kindly remembered
by the ladies, and returns thanks accordingly
| Mr. John Strehl, who keeps butcher
shop on Main street, nearly opposite TIM
| Mississippi and Tennessee depot, met WIN
painful accident Sunday morHing, from thl
effects of which he is confined TO his bed
| While waiting on his customers early Sun
day morning small quantity OF beef sue
| adhered to the soles of his shoes, and II
going up-tbe flight OF stare leading to ht
| family rooms, when at the top, his loo
clipped and he fell headlong to he foot o
the stairway, receiving serious bruises aboa
the head and chest. Being OF heavy bull
the wonder is thai he was not killed by tn
| fall.
-Messrs. billiard & Cafiu had policies di
yided among the Home, the Planters an
the Factors Insurance Companies, amounting
in all 10 $4,000. The total number OF bale
in the shed was sos, OF which some 80
| bales will probably be saved in PARTIAL
damaged condition. Two hundred an
sixty-eight bales had been sold to A. 4
Patton & Co weighed up to them; the scale
| had been pat over it, and the mark of PATIO
& Co. stamped on it The ftm of Dillar
e Coffin clsim that this cotton was Patton
Co.'s. Should the court go decide billiard
Coffin will lose nothing.
We learn from Western member pres
emf at the regent meeting OF the America
Public Health Association that Fresider
| L. ali - Tyadf mil
most handsomely, winning many compl
ments to our city as well as himself. Hi
| unassuminy. vet self-possessed and pleasin
deportmsnl gained all hearts at once, Will
his speech 10 defense Of the National Boar
of Health kept the large audience 10 clos
attention and elected repeated applause an
laughter. Expert judges pronounced 1t
marked and able effort, brief, humorou
logical and effective. A good weeks wor
was done for Memphis by our president
| visit TO Indianapolis.
The following notice of young Roger
1 a son of DIR. J. w. Rogers, formerly OF lhi
city, we copy from the New York CORE
spondence OF Washington paper: 81 ID Al
ris Rogers, late electrician of the House {
Representatives, is said TO have struck
rich. He has been here but few month
but I hear he has given such satlstactlo
to experts and capitalists with n
new telephone and electric lightin
system that large sales for cash hav
been made, and one or more comps
mics With ample capital organized to plae
his Inventions before the public. lie hs
determined to reside permanently in Ne'
York, having purchased fine residence nj
fsr..from President Artburs, in Le1ingto
avenue. The writer knew young Rosers We
in Washington, and always snrmlsed ther
was more in him than appeared-ln lac
about what be seems to be developing
sort of Faure battery of electrical know
edge"