Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-24

was entered by burglars night before last
and a number Of dresses and eloaks stolen
The thieves paid their attentions only to the
best goods to be had.
| -Poll-tax collectors say 1t ia the assessors
who are to blame about bills being presented
| by one collector after they have been paid To
another. A large number OF citizens have
been assessed in two wards, and some in
| three.
! Barbara Seymour yesterday filed a suit
| for divorce in the Circuit Court against her
hubbard, Louis Seymour, for a divorce, the
| grounds being cruelty and inhuman conduct
and the association on his part with lewd
| women.
The School Board will meet tonight to
consider the case of Miss Towel. 1t is the
intention Of the committee 20 report favora-
bly, and recommend that she be reinstated
Mr.. MUgan will present statement, asking
that he, too, be reinstated.
General Spartackus de Turner yesterday
presented Horace Andrews, clerk of the
United Stats District Court, with a jorquil
10 behalf of several young ladies, testi-
monial Of their belief that he is the most
aesthetic person in the courthouse.
The following judgments were taken in
the United States Court against the Taxing
District yesterday: Willism Msrburg, for
1925 u; E C.. C'ubb, for S734 80; Charles
NJ Matthews, 1874 50; Charles NJ. Matthews,
trustee, S734 So; g. w. Billups, S472 So.
In view of the recent story about the
reptil.. found in the bunch Of bananas, peo-
pie had batter be very careful how they eat
this fruit from the bunch hereafter. 1t
would be rather unpleasant to bite off the
head of snake instead Of getting a bite of
banana.
"A merchant submits the following query
roitv 4 A, for 81 |
of testing scales made solely as a perquisite |
for the inspector of weights, or to secure ac-
curate balances? All measures are tested |
but once; the scales are taxed twenty-five |
cents every three months"
William Moore was arrested yesterday
at the instigation OF a steamboatman named |
Kelly, who accused him of appropriating
SO from him. Moore explained that being
a companion OF Kelly, who was drunk, he
had merely taken the money for keep
ng. He was accordingly released.
"A correspondent writes the APPEAL:
What does the Ledger mean by the myth
al ruler Z-phrus' becoming calm and taking
nap?" Reference is probably made to the
vest wind ~ -phyrus," which was not a myth
cal ruler at al, but an inoffensive breeze,
which is now used as the synonym of mild,
slmy air.
The dilspidated condition of the bridge
hat spans Bayou Gayoso at the crossing of
'ront street should have attention at once
he foundation of the bridge is of iron, and
ives the appearance of a costly structure
hen erected. The east half has fallen, and !.
lie line of travel is confined to small strip,
hch admits of only one vehicle at time. :
he flooring OF that is rottfpg and full of 4.
oIes.
The City Railway Company took up q
Ieir tracks at the intersection of Vance and q
auderdale streets at an early hour yester- h
~ morning. for the purpose of laying new 4
ack and paving the space without the inter n
ptiou Of passing cars. Passengers are now
CURED to change cars at that point The
mpsny think 10 complete the j b in forty
ght hours by working full force both night
ID day.
In the top limbs of large sycamore
re en- Sugar nil Ia high section lying just
st of the Hope Oil Mills, aud north of
iyou Gayoso where 1t empties into Wolf ~
'er), is large piece of tin roofing some r
euty feet SOU are which the residents on the =
IL say was blown there from way down town +
the night of terrific wind storm which :,
CURED some two months ago. The eIeva- :.
N OF the hill allows a fine view of the =,
usetops for great distance, which dis -
'ses the fact that there are no tin roofs in .,
neigh borhood. II
United States Deputy Marshal Ed Wiegel. &C
Arkansas, informed an APPEAL reporter nj
At the m captured by Captain OH aver ID
Detective Pryde had robbed Henry Piel, IN
by blowing his safe. The pI
or was blown clear off its hinges, blankets w
wing been put around it to deaden the TO
Ind. The men must have been very sharp, as
Piel lived next door to his grocery. The
putty marshal thinks they are the same
n that recently blowed open the safe at
pkson near Tittla Rock so,,a
ney and jewelry. M
Fred Weimer, a German citizen who has
m in Memphis many years, complains that
has not been treated fairly by the city
He offered to shoe mules and
'ses for 81 % for each set of shoes. This, .h
says, was the lowest bid, but the contract ! u
; given to a colored man named Spellman, ~
81 40. He says that the only ground on ~
ich this could be done was by claiming th
t he was not q good workman. He has :.
n shoeing horses here for more than -
nty five years, and defes the community ~
how that he ever injured horse or mule D.
his work. -
"A correspondent,w writing from Kerrville, sit
E: This is an enterprisng little town. Lac
: high school, under the management of DIR,
Futrell, is progressing finely, with about bel
y pupils. Merchants are doing a good an
Iness. 1t Is a temperance town-not a fee
OF whisky sold here. The Board OF the
Venture held meeting on the 18th to lef
'nge a programme Tor the next lair, to the
2 place in the fall. 1t will excel all pre-
Is efforts of the association, as the
1nds are to be improved, an arena, am
theater, flower hall, agricultural hall,
other buildings to be erected"
"A party named Lige Cole was up before G..
,ident Hadd n the other day for being gu,
nix. "Mr. Hadden," said he, "I'm up for -
g drunk, Pm from Kentucky" "Well," DIS
the president, 81 came from that brave chi
e myself" 81 am from Todd county," Z
Cole. $50 am l." said the president. the
ON ElktoD," sobbed Cole. IT'S my birth Ma
,e," said the president, deeply moved. Eli
u say you were drunk and from Ken Coz
typ eyes, SIR" "Well, then, shall
you chance to go back to Kentucky"