Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-15
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
The teachers will be paid.


Mrs. Meriwether breaches to night.
1T is said the Siamese twins of the School
Board are sad and weary.
Edwin Booth appears at the old Mem
phis Theater Thursday next.
The APPEAL proposes the erasure OF the
County Court and the School Board.
CRUSADER G. p. NJ. Turner resumes the
war on the County Court tomorrow.
Mr.. Abbey's enterprise in bringing Ed
win Booth to Memphis will be appreciated.
"A great many people want to know who
wrote The Fools RereRge. Tom Taylor is
the author OF it.
The theatrical event of the season will
be the appearance here of Mr.. Edwin Booth.
the greatest of American actors.
The Bricklayers' Union will meet next
Wednesday night, the 18th instant, at which
time there will be an election for officers.
The flood is coming, but Memphis will
merely be locker on. Securely perched
upon the bluffs, she can laugh at the rushing
waters.
Hermann, the greatest of prestidigita-
teurs, will appear in Memphis March 10th.
He refuses to come under the SHADOW of
Death"
-Mansford received last night large line
OF Seaside and Franklin Square Ldbrdyis,
magazines, reviews and general assortme mt
of reading for Sunday.
Thieves entered the blacksmith shop of
Henry Drew, on Monroe street, stealing a
number of tools, and also the grocery of
Roper & Flanagan, getting SIP.
John NJ Daniel and NJ. Young. VIM.
Morgan and Lizzie Turpin, John jackson
and Lydia Gates, Garner King and H. Aston
we're granted leave to wed yesterday.
Il "a. I.
blighted many and blasted not a few OF the
best attractions that have entered it this sea-
sod. Joe Brooks is responsible. His inno-
cence did it.
Are you going 10 see Booth, Mr..
Lagrill?" asked Judge Jimmie Hunter
"Yes, sir" was the dignifed respons;, 81 ex-
pect to see him in the grand Shakespearesn
drama, Rtcheiieu"
Mr.. Russell, gunsmith, living at Morn
ing SON, Tennessee, shares the good fortune
of Mr.. /. NJ. Davis, who purchased the lucky
ticket in the last Louisiana lottery, each of
them securing $4,000. They were in Mem
phis yesterday, and sent their ticket, through
the German National bank, to New Orleans
for collection.
Little Rock Gazette: "Francis iAurignac,
a French subject, has flied claim, declaring
that in 1862, while he resided near Memphis,
Tennessee, United States soldiers took from
him properly TO the amount of $780, He
now lives in Little Rock. Mr.. John III.
Cherry represents him, while the United
States is represented by Mr.. j. NJ. Rose"
-Olireae will be given by the Mozart
Society at Casino Hall January 18th. Miss
Jennie Camp will take the partof ''OliVette;"
Mrs. R. NJ. Mansford, Countess Bathilde,"
Hutton, "Valentine;" w. J. Steele, "Ds Mer-
rimac;" Clark Kuowlton, Marvajal;'
George Mahan, Due des Ifs" Sam May,
"Coquelicot."
The Covington Call says: 'The report has
been very widely circulated among the IL
ored people of Hatchie bottom that the body
of Andrew Sanders, who was hung last sum-
mer, was taken up tina. night b. students of
the Memphis Medical COLLEGE, and that he
was resuscitated by them, and was 10 speak
here yesterday. A great many Of them be-
lieved the silly story"
George Simonton, colored, was suspected
by Mrs. McNally, the milliner, of robbing
her, and few days ago she made him take
her to his room and open his trunk. As
soon as he did so he vanished. She discov-
cred the missing valuables in the trunk. The
negro was arrested at Collieryille yesterday
by n-Marshal Arlington, and is now in
the stationhouse, being brought in late last
night.
The trial test under the direction Of ex-
perts, to which the Water Company two new
engines and pumps were to be subjected, I'M
der the contract, was made during the past
ten days, and more than sustained the guar
antees both as to capacity and economical
Each engine pumped nearly four
and half million gallons daily. and instead
of four hundred bushels of coal, as before,
only about one hundred bushels.
Both parties were much pleased.