Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-18
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
The spring auarrels continue.

The spring quarrels continue.
Billy Steele will lecture soon on GLOW
to Mash Town." This does not refer tc
| Collierville.
The merchants have been taking a con-
siderable number OF mortgages on crops
| from the farmers.
The annual closing of the Hickory
Withe Male and Female College will take
place Friday, May 26th.
Charles Jones and Fannie Brennan, Geo
L. Norton and Sallie p. Harbert, were Ii
censed to marry yesterday.
"A number OF gentlemen leave the city
tonight, per Louisville and Nashville rail-
road, for visit to Bon Aqua Springs.
The concert and festival by the ladies OF
the Central Baptist church, at Estival Park,
has been postponed until warmer weather.
Miss S2inmen's WINDOW, by the author oil
A Bad Boys Diary, can be had in twenty five
cent edition, at Mansford's, 29S Main street.
Mr. B. G. McHenry resigned yesterday
as a United States commissioner, and Mr..
Robert 6. Brown was appointed in his stead.
old John Brown, not Ossawatomie
Brown, was sentenced to one year in the pen
itentiary by Judge Horrigan yesterday for
stealing COW.
An Evolutionary tournament will most
likely be given by the ladies of the Strangers
church soon. General G. p Empty is barred
out because he is a yellocutionist.
"A literary and musical entertainment,
by the intermediate and preparatory classes
of the Christian Brothers College, will occur
al Leubrie's The alter Friday evening, May
10Th.
Let them drop. A long string of the
unsightly street awnings, measuring two
stories in hight, are being removed from in
f L.. L.. d.
lar street
Owing to the GOODNESS of the evening,
the concert and festival by the ladies OF the
Central Baptist church, to come off at
Estival Park. has been postponed for couple
of weeks.
Circus and tbeater show-biils no longer
occupy the street sign-boards. The mercan-
tile advertiser, with his patent medicines,
oils, or celebrated tobacco, is to be seen in
their stead.
Excursions TO this city from the towns
along the Memphis and Tennessee road
came in large numbers yesterday. The ex-
cursionists are privileged to return any time
in four days.
Woodstock, Tenn, on the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad, is enjoying a smallpCx
scare. A colored family living with DIR.
Prior, on the Rawlings place, have two chill
dren down with the disease.
VIM. Jones, a young man of nineteen,
died Of smallpox at the residence OF his
mother, corner of fernando and Vance
streets, yesterday morning. He was i'll for
more than a week, and was nurs,d by his
mother and grandmother.
Louis Dsltroff was tried in the Criminal
Court yesterday under an indictment for
forgery. There was no doubt of the forgery,
but it was not proven on Daltroff, and Judge
Il H. III al Il
had not made out a case, and dismissed the
prosecution.
The prizes offered by the German Mutual
Benevolent Societies at their picnic last
Monday, was a spring lamb for the best
shot, and ladies' watch. The former was
won by Gus Limberg, who has given the
prize to the Memphis Rifle Club, of which
he is a member, and the latter was won by
Louis Lagomarsino.
Ascension day will be celebrated by
the knights Templar, St. Elme Commandery,
to night at the Cumberland Presbyterian
church. The music will be under the direc-
ton Of Prof. Winkler with full choir, and
the address will be delivered by the Rev. II.
impressive and interesting occasion.
The health authorities cannot be too
careful in the enforcement of the regulations
governing contagious diseases, especially in
guarding against the spread of smallpox.
We know of a case where a lady who had
been nursing fatal case who returned to
her own home in a thickly settled locality,
and was herself attacked with violent case
of the disease. Nurses in smallpox cases
should be qusrantined against until all pos
sible danger is past 1t will be an incon-
venience to one or two individuals for the
benefit of entire communities.
Templars, will appropriately observe Assem-
sion day in accordance with the time-honored
edicts of the order, as will be seen by notice
ia this issue, by assembling at their asylum,
in the Masonic Temple, and marching to
Calvary church, where services will be held,
the rector, the Rev. Sir George White, Off
ciating. The services at the church will
hat the Memphis Commandery will hold
reception for their invited guests at their
asylum upon the conclusion OF the services
1T the church.
Officer I. ID. Jackson makes the follow |
ing statement regarding the communication |
IN yesterdays APPEAL by the Rev. NJ. F. A. |
Easton, OF Marion, Ark, concerning the |
Heath of DR.. Watts: CDR Watts came here |
J short time ago and joined the Independent |
Order of Immaculates to secure trade. He |
has failed to pay any of his dues, and has |
never assisted any of the orphans. As for |
Easton, he comes over here every few weeks |
md passes his time in the dives on Beale |
Itreet gambling and drinking" Officers /
Jhastaine and Boyd corroborate Officer Jack !
Ion's statement.