Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-10
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Patterson for Speaker.

Patterson for Speaker.
Marion Elmore tonight in Chispa.
To-day is motion day in chancery.
The smallpox has prevailed in Memphis
the entire summer.
The jury calendar in the Circuit Court
will be called November 18th.
John Losgue was appointed admins
traitor of Michael Burke yesterday.
Uncle Dick Norris has gone TO Jackson
to manipulate the marshafs duties.
John F. Page was appointed admins
TRAITOR ef John F. Page, deceased, yesterday.
Patterson will in all likelihood be
Speaker of the next House of Representatives.
The United States Court is in session at
Jackson. The officers will probably be there
ten days.
H. NJ. Hill yesterday filed an amended
bill against the Memphis City Railroad
Company.
The Nichols-Morgan case was called in
the Criminal Court yesterday, and part of
the jury obtained.
Alex Hsrris, a promising chcken-thief,
was tried before Judge Horrigan and got one
year in the penilentiary.
Those who put their money up on the
election will have chance to explain the NJ
selves before the grand jury Monday next.
Several men who made open bets on the
election feel rather uneasy because of Judge
Horrigan's instructions 10 the grand jury.
Napoleon Blair yesterday filed bill for
divorce against his wife, Mary Blair, in the
Chancery Court He charges desertion and
adultery.
The Sky-blues have determined 10 post
pone their election two years. They then
propose to have a select, aesthetic gathering
all by themselves.
Chief Cleary is the only chief of the
Fire Department that has ever slept with
his men. He makes his rounds every night,
and is model chief.
Several well-known Sky-blues were OBJ
served on the streets yesterday carrying out
the prohibition plank in their platform.
They fell through, loo.
The Matrimonial Bank Account Asso-
citation made an assignment yesterday 10 H.
| X. Whifby. The funeral was spsrsely at
tended, but the mourners are many.
"A well-known Sky-bue carries his index
| finger in a rag. He has raised it SO often be-
fore the bar explaining the RUSSELL move
ment that it has been hacked to pieces.
The Boysr Literary Society is growing in
| popularity in Jewish circles. Their officers
are: President, Aaron Greenwald; ,secre-
AIRY, John Lehman; treasurer, M. Levy.
Marriage licenses were granted yester-
day 10 Thos. Kicks and Lucinda Bledsoe,
| George Barnett and Laura Beatus, John
Woodbridge and Martha J. Ellis, Andrew
Reed and Mandy Cole.
The Circuit Court meets to-day at 9
o'clock, and Judge Pierce viii hear any
! Gaze on the Don-jury calendar, which may be
presented and have been passed on account
of the absence OF counsel.
Morton to break Jail a short time ago, was
tried before Judge Horrigan yesterday, and
got eleven months and twenty mine days i'm
prisonment. He took an appeal.
&C. S. Cook, Capt John Harpham, r. P.
Boiling, G. V. Rambaut, W. B. Galbreath,
John L. Norton, John r. Goodwin, Ed Garvin
and Theodore Krekel were fined SIS each
yesterday for not obeyiDg the summons OF
the Criminal Court to serve on the jury.
-"No one" remarked President MADDEN
yesterday, "can say that the Sky-blues did
not keep their plighted faith" True" said
the APPEAL scribe, "and judging from the
lightness of the Fussell vote, il was a very
easy matter to keep their plighted iaith."
Mr.. S. w. Parker, who resides three and
half miles from the city, left at this Office
yesterday a sweet potato vine containing
twenty-five potatoes. OF course they were
not very large, but if they had been laft in
the ground few weeks longer they would
have been first-class.
Col. Warner and his porter, James Col
quit, colored, have both nearly recovered
from the gas explosion. The Colonel was
out yesterday, and looks as if he had been
through fire. The old skin has peeled off
his face and the eyebrows are burned of.
The porter is still confined to his house The
Colonel states that the explosion turned him
black and the porter white at the time of
the accident.
"A runaway horse enlivened BeaIe street
at noon yesterday, but with the exception
OF firing himself out and running into
couple of wagons did no damage. The
animal was taking his meal at the foot of
Beale street, hitched to cart, with his tridle
off. The whistle of an incoming steamer
frightened him, and he left his oats, ran up
the steep ascent of Beale street and galloped
TO the markethouse, where he was stopped.