Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-05

CAPTAIN Ed HART is back.
SHERIFF ATHY is back from Dubuque.
MISS JENNY HIGBEE has returned home.
Mr.. WIN. NJ. Cross is back from Dubuque.
Mrs. ED HART and family are at Mont
Eagle.
Mr.. WILLIAM SNEED has returned from
the East.
Mr., W. ". TEACHER has returned from
Chicago.
Mrs. WM. BROOKS has returned from
Cincinnati.
JUDGE L. B. HoRRIGAN has returned from
n Northern trip.
Mr.. S. NJ. ROBERTSON has returned after
a tour Of several weeks.
COLONEL GREEN CLAY, a prominent
planter from below, is in the city.
Miss MARTHA TRUDEAU will be home
from Cincinnati about the 18th instant.
The Christian Brothers: College opened
yesterday with an attendance OF 149 stu
dents.
Mrs. l.. H. ARMSTRONG and her daughter,
Miss Lula, will spend a few weeks in Maury
county.
MISS KATE Riley and Miss Annie League
left yesterday for UTsuline Seminary, in
Brown county, Ohio.
Mrs. NJ. DUKE has returned from Wiscon-
sin, and is expecting her sister, Mime. Tru-
dc su, from the East in a few days.
Mr.. JOSEPH UHL accompanied the Porter
Guards to Dubuque. He is home again,
wearing a beaver as the insignia OF victory.
MISS CLARA CONWAY writes to a friend in
this city that she met Mr.. Horace Z. Garth,
wife, son and daughter, at Mont Blanc,
Switzerland.
Mrs. L. @. HUMBER, one of the Memphis
ladies who left here with the Western excur-
sionists on the 2Sth OF August, returned
home Sunday evening.
The Memphis excursionisis who left on
Captain r. A. Williams's Western railway
excursion s few days ago are returning, all
delighted with their trip.
Mr.. AND Mrs. MAX FRANENTHAL, OF
Conway, Ark, accompanied by Miss Cora
Franenthal, of Russellville, KY, are in the
city, guests OF Jacob Jacobs.
OscEoLA (Ark.) Times: Gas previously
announced, Mrs. Meriwether, of Memphis,
came up last Sunday and delivered two Of
her matches lectures, which were highly
appreciated by lar &c and enthusiastic audi
ences."
MAJOR E. L. MCGOWAN has purchased the
interest of Major J. J. Busby in the firm of
Busby, Toof & Co., and the firm is dissolved
DIV MS RETIREMENT anu tue dCCcSelOu VI mr.
MCGOWAN. By reference to an advertise
ment elsewhere il will be seen that the busi-
ness will be continued by Ben l. Busby, John
s. Toof and E. L. MCGOWAN, at the old
stand, under the firm name of Busby, Toof &
MCGOWAN. We bespeak for the new firm all
the success that has attended the old firm.
Mr.. Ben Busby, the Oldest son of Major
Busby, is a young pushes man of great
energy and much promise. Mr.. John S. Toof
has been known for nearly twenty years as
one of the best grocery men in Memphis.
He will continue in The front, as heretofore,
ready at all times to attend on the customers
of the HOUSE. Major E. L. MCGOWAN would
be an accession to any business. AS sheriff
and trustee of Shelby county he has long
since given the public ample proof of his
capacity for business and his sterling integ-
rity. We understand that he will take
charge of the Office Of the firm, and will
bring to bear on the details of his private
business the love of order and system which
enabled him to carry on the Office of county
trustee as methodically as a bank. We I'M
derstaHd the cotton department of the house
will remain in charge of that capable and
urbane gentleman, Mr.. w. G. Patteson.