Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-28
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

New pews are being made for Calvary
| church.
There are now thirty-three prisoners
confined in Jail.
"A wake was held over the body of Wash
Roberts night before last.
The Mozart Society will give OliretIe al
the Memphis Theater tonight.
The motion docket in the United States
| Court will not be called to-day.
Captain Jack Walsh buried Wash Rob.
erts in the pauper's ground yesterday.
AT midnight the weather was still fall
ing, and the atmosphere was cooling.
A meeting of the Legislative Council
will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
If the magistrates do not obey Judge
Hammond's instructions there will be fun
this time
Mat Newman got sentence of two years
for petit larceny in the Criminal Court yes
terday.
The grand jury have examined large
number of witnesses in reference to the col
lection of poll-tax.
The thin man remarked yesterday: "Ill
bet that eat more and show less for it than
any man in Memphis"
"A high mass will be given at ST. Patricks
church this morning at o'clock for the re-
pose of the soul of John Haley, deceased.
Captain OHaver arrested Gabe Price
yesterday for stealing hides from the Mem
phis Butchers Association and John
Scheibler.
Marriage licenses were granted yester-
day to Taylor Flakes and Nellie Rice, Henry
Brown and Alice Burns. Tom Green and
Adelia Lacey.
ID. c. Loewenstine yesterday filed an in
ventory of the assets of Bejach & Brash with
Clerk Owen Dwyer, showing the amount to
be S24,602 80.
r. NJ. Blakemore was appointed admin
istrator of j. NJ. Kirwan yesterday. John
League was appointed administrator Of
Matthew Brown.
Jim james got a three years sentence in
the Criminal Court yesterday for stealing
bale of cotton, in Germantown, about o'clock
in the morning.
j. Edgar Byrd, one of the Howard
nurses during the yellow-fever, who recently
shot man at Florence, Alabama, was hon
orably acquitted yesterday.
The McKeon house, on the southwest
corner of Main and Beale streets, one of the
landmarks of Memphis, is to be torn down,
and the lot is to be used as coal yard.
The committee to consider the means of
checking the caving of the river front met
yesterday morning at Major Benyaurd's
office, but the meeting was private one.
"A complimentary ball will be given at
Casino Hall February 14,h, in honor of the
Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Ten
nessee, which will be n memorable affair.
AT O'Clock this morning a number of
pistols will be inferred in the Mississippi.
Colonel John Powell will deliver the funeral
sermon from coal fiat, at the foot of Poplar
street.
Memphis will now probably be decently
lighted, as an electric light company has
been established here with sound capital,
and lights will be placed in several parts of
the city for public use.
Mr. Lane, of the Society for the Proven
ton OF Cruelty to Animals, arrt sted with
some difficulty a big drayman who had
double load on one mule, and took him be-
fore Squire Coleman yesterday.
Letter to Old Prob: "DEAR SIR-We |
are very we'll satisfied on the whole with the |
way you manage the weather, but couldn't |
you occasionally give us a rain, Just for a |
change? Respectfully, vox PoPUu."
II. E. Hudson, fugitive from Justice, |
who is one of the confidence men that as
,aulted an engineer of the Memphis and Little !
Rock railroad a short time ago at Hopefeld, |
was taken over to Marion yesterday to stand |
Robert Ross, who was convicted in the |
Criminal Court last Tuesday of the murder
II Henry Bunch, wishes it understood that |
he is not the man whose name appeared in |
Thursdays APPEAL connected with divorce |
proceedings in Chancery.
The law provides for the collection of |
1oll-tax, but does not state that the same |
hall be paid by anyone who has not been a |
esident OF the State for a less period than |
me year. A case can be cited positively, |
ind perhaps there are others, where such a |
demand has been made. Let the grand jury |
investigate.
Sheriff James T. Barton, of Crittenden
county, Arkansas, arrested colored boy |
named Isaac Morris, at Scanlan's Landing, |
md brought him TO Memphis last night.
Norris killed a negro named John Moore, on
Thomas Smiths place, in Crittenden county,
NO nights ago. 1t is said Morris was hunt
ng for an old darky named Sam Floyd, the
reasurer of the county, with the intention of
filling him, and Moore said that he intended
warming Floyd. Morris wanted to know
What he had to do with it. A quarrel en-
ued and the killing resulted.