Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-17
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Jupiter Pluvins!
Cold this morning.

Cold this morning.
-Otirette will be given by the Mozarts to-
morrow night.
General Turner showed yesterday thai
| he meant business.
General Turner made good speech in
the County Court yesterday.
-Lestie's Popular Monthly and Cooley re-
ceived last night at Mansford's.
The Mozart Society will present Olirette
tomorrow night at Casino Hall.
Edwin Booth is the ideal actor in appear
ance. His face is classic beauty itself.
| "A number of Memphians will attend the
SullivanRyan prize-fght at New Orleans.
Mrs. E. A. Merriwether lectured Sunday
night to a good audience at Temperance
Hall.
| Bill Parker, a mig, was arrested yester-
day for selling a party OF emigrants bogus
baggage checks.
| A marriage license was granted yester-
day to Spencer Voss and Tetia Wright. Too
rainy for matrimonial business.
| Water poured through the ceiling and
| flooded the hall on the first floor of the Court
house yesterday. This looks dangerous.
-OSing to the inclemency of the weather,
the entertainment to be given tonight by
Anchor Lodge, L. o. G. T., is postponed till
| 1ucSudy evening" JduudTl Olsl
The Fire and Police Commissioners and
the members of the Board Of Public Works
have all received their commissions and will
hold council meeting this afternoon.
| A large segment of the bluff csved in
upon the railroad track on the levee, near
Monroe street, and prevented the running of
| the trains yesterday until it was removed.
John t. MintOn, the engineer mentioned
| in the dispatches as killed on the Virginia
Midland railroad, was a brother of w. u.
| Minton, of the Memphis and Charleston car
| shops, in this city. He leaves wife and five
children
Mr.. r. Wayne Nilsson, stage director of
the Oiirete performance to be given to-mor-
row night by the Mozart Society, wishes
every member of the cast and chorus to be
on hand at 80 tonight for a final re-
hearsal.
The Rev. s. X. Melton, an old Baptist
minister, who was formerly located in Mem
phis, died recently Dyersburg, aged
eighty-one years. Once he stood high in the
ministry, but when he advanced in age he
lost his pulpit and had to depend on charity
for support.
Mr.. Gus Steele, who went upon the bond
of Wilcox, the man who imposed upon Miss
Mary Cregel, denies the latter's assumption
that he had anything to do with the fraud. He
merely went on Wilcox's marriage bond and
left him. He was not present at the bogus
marriage at the beer garden.
William johnson, colored, died in his
cell at the stationhouse Sunday, and Squire
Alexander held an inquest. johnson was
very sick from exposure when he came TO
the stationhouse for lodging, and the verdict
of the jury was that he came to his death by
natural causes superinduced by exposure.
The Bluff City Building and Loan Asso-
citation elected the following officers last
night: G.. II. Judah, president; james S
Robinson, vice-president; Maurice Mas,
treasurer; Samuel Hirsch, secretary; L. & E.
Lehman, attorneys. Directors: R. V. Vre-
denburgh, S. Nendig, Eugene Lehman, c. w.
Heiskell, d. c. Trader, VIM Frank, II. F.
Andrews, Otto Schwill, H. Gronauer.
According to Tom Meals State Gazette
large force of railroad hands is now en-
gagged laying the Chesapeake and Ohio track
from New bern to Dyersburg and it is antici-
pated that the iron horse will reach the lat
ter place next Saturday. The road is to be
graded from Dyersburg to Ripley within
thirty days, and the iron is now going to
Memphis.
Sunday morning Squire Prior held an
inquest over the body of the negro Bill
Williams, whose real name was Jim Titus,
who was shot Saturday by Sergeant Scott.
The body was identified by Monroe Alexan-
der, JEFF Jones and Captain OHaver. The
verdict of the jury was that Titus came to
his death from a shot fred by Sergeant
james Scott in discharge of his duty and in
self-defense.
Three white rousters on the Laura l..
Davis, who shipped at New Orleans for the
through trip to Cincinnati, wanted TO quit
here Sunday and sued the boat for their
wages. Judge Bell J.. Etheridge was called
upon TO decide the matter, and he held court
on the boat and decided that the men had to
go on to Cincinnati or not get any wages at
all for what they did. The decision of this
case will be Of interest to river men, as they
are often victimized by good-for-nothing
rousters.