Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-23
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The flies are coming.
The weather is beautiful.
Jupiter Pluvius can take holiday for
a short time.
The Water Company are going to give
US more water.
New plank sidewalks are being laid on
Lauderdale street.
The hackmen will be forced to remain
upon the bluff hereafter.
-Birthington's washday passed without
any unusual demonstration.
The Vokes family repeat Fun in Fog
and Ruth's Romance tonight.
Heroic treatment" will be applied to
the cases of estheticism in the city.
The sufferers in the Mississippi bottoms
deserve all the aid that can be sent them.
1t is probable that the United States
Court will adjourn for the session Monday.
-Estheticism is spreading. 1t will soon
be epidemic. Several sporadic cases have
appeared.
The Rev. E. p Hammond, the reyivalist,
begins series of meetings in this city next
Saturday.
The milkmen will have to pay more at
tentiou to their cows and less to their pumps
hereafter.
Several unoccupied buildings on Auc-
ton street have been condemned and will
have to go.
The storm which struck Memphis SO
heavily emptied water spout over Illinois
aud Indiana.
William Wilson, in Jail on the charge
of grand larceny, was granted writ OF hobeds
corpus yesterday.
"A large number of cattle were driven
into the city yesterday from the overlooked
plantations below.
A flock of darky emigrants were in the
city yesterday on their way from North
Carolina to the West.
The Memphis and Little Rock railroad
has moved its wharfboat from Hopeield TO
the foot of Poplar street.
"A Judgment was taken by Anthony Hide
for 12,206 yesterday against the Taxing
District on old city bonds.
There is large and dangerous hole at
the foot of Monroe street which the engineer
should direct his attention to.
Horace Graham will be arraigned in the
United States Court Monday for putting a
weight on a safety-valve on the Rene Mac
ready.
The Memphis Saddlery and Oak Leather
Tanning Company, and the Psstime Social
Club of the Taxing District, have obtained
their charters from Nashville.
"A citizens meeting will be held at the
Cotton Exchange at o'clock pm. to-day, to
adopt measures of relief for the overlooked
sufferers of the Mississippi valley.
DIR. Thornton examined No. 20 Front
street yesterday, and will recommend TO the
Council that it be totally destroyed. 1t is an
old dilapidated affair and is-unoccupied.
-Armstead Bros. & Given, of Fulton,
were burned out Monday morning at
o'clock, losing about $1,000. They held an
insurance policy here with C. B. Wellford's
agency for $4,000.
VIM. Robson and Annie Loffen, Peter
Davis and L. Williams, David Gregory and
Mrs. Bette Lewis, we're granted permission
to splice yesterday.
AT the Suuday-school conference at ST.
Johns Methodist Episcopal church last
night, Rev. J. B. Ford, NJ. D., addressed the
meeting on the subject of 1.-THE Model Sun
day-school Supe rintendent-"
"A od-looking individual representing
himself as New Jersey judge has been dis
charging his duties as a frst-clsss drunkard
for two or three days here. He has wound
up in the stationhouse twice.
Two cases of smallpox We're discovered
on the Island yesterday morning, both ne
groes They were Immediately isolated from
the other prisoners, and have by this time
probably been sent to the pesthouse.
Officer Logan arrested young man on
Besle street last night for stealing Sc from
Henry Lever in his room The young
mans mother offered to pay the amou Mt
taken, and on her account his name is with
held.
The laying of the track of the Kansas
City railroad along the river front and
through Fort Pickering, to its connection
advancing rapidly, notwithstanding the con-
tinued bad weather. An ample force of
men are employed on both branches.
Perhaps the lad alluded to will be
governor of Arizona or some other Western
State thirty years hence" etc. That is the
ercomium the local editor of the Evening