Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-10
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.


--nHss tonight.
This is motion day in chancery.
The Theater was closed last night.
Mr. Albert Suggs was enrolled yesterday
as an attorney of the United States Court.
Chancellor Livingstone finished up his
business here yesterday and left for Browns.
vile.
A marriage license was granted yester,
day TO Mr.. Frank o. Byrd and Miss Lulu NJ
Chearella.
The sale OF seats for the Abbott engage
ment was very large. The umbrella brigade
scooped the choicest.
Ticket No. AZ, held by Captain Ed Now
land, won the horse and buggy ratified at
Gaston's hotel last night.
The Esthetic Club gave its first enter
tainment, at No. 81 Madison street, last
night. 1t was quite an enjoyable affair.
People across the river are living in the
/ second story o. their houses, owing to the
fact that the first floor is too much like a
swimming pool.
The Ladies' Aid Society OF Grace church
will give sociable this evening, February
10th, at $50 Lauderdale street. Tickets,
including refreshments, fifty cents.
An Assignment was made yesterday by
! Hugo Esch, the tObacconist at 292 Main
street, to Thomas II. Jackson. His iabili-
ties are placed at $S46l 80, and his assets at
$4,000.
There is a general desire that Miss Abb
bott should give Faust Saturday night.
Marguerite" is one of her best parts. Fur
thermore, Mr.. Comfy is a magnificent "Me-
phisto."
The 80 am. train on the Louisville
and Nashville road now makes close connec-
tions for Nashville, the water having SUBJ
sided sufficiently to let the trains pass over
the track at Jacksonville.
The man who wanted to take poison at
Renkert's drug store recently was not, as has
been reported, clerk there, but young
fellow who had been drinking heavily and
came in there to ease himself of the nuisance
of living.
"A colored baby was left in the front
yard at Go st. Martin street, last night, by
some unknown party. 1t was handed over
to a colored man named VIM, Hall, porter
of NJ. L. Meacham & Co., who is taking care
Of it.
Lewis Barrow, a negro, was arrested
night before last on the suspicion of at
tempting to rob tailor shop. Yesterday
morning, in the stationhOuse, he complained
that he had the smallpox. On being exam
iued, he was found to have the disease, and
was promptly sent to the pesthouse.
Squire james Allen, who recently at
tended the session of the County Court here,
had slight eruption on his face when he |
returned home, but paid no especial attention |
to it. Three or four days ago his little girl |
was taken with smallpox, and she isDow very
i'll. DIR. Davis. the attending physician, was
in the city yesterday to get some virus for
the people Of the nejghborhood, who are |
thoroughly alarmed. Squire Allen lives |
about six miles north of Germ antown, in the |
Ninth district.
The Galveston Daily Journal evidently |
does not like Joe Brooks, judging from the
following spicy mention: Colonel ]. NJ. |
Heating, one of the editors and proprietors
of the Memphis APPEAL, was arrested in
New York recently on libel suit brought
by Joseph Brooks, OF Brooks & Dickson,
lessees of the Memphis Theater. The suit is
brought for damages alleged to have been
sustained by the complainant by reason of
criticisms oil his management of the theater,
which have recently appeared in the APPEAL.
The srrest OF Colonel Heating in New York |
city was a piece of meanness of which no re-
spectacle manager ought to have been guilty.
The criticisms were made in Memphis and
applied to his theatrical management in
Memphis, and if there was any ground for a
libel suit Memphis was the place to institute
it. The object Of instituting the suit in New
York is patent. Joe Brooks has not made
many new friends since he became a mana
ger, while he has lost the good will of many,
now in Texas, who had some respect for him
when he was a dry goods clerk in Memphis.
Joseph is slightly afflicted with what is
vulgarly termed the big head"