Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-24
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

NO electric light last night, owing to al
accident to the machinery.
There will be a Greenback meeting a
the Exposition building tonight.
-Tweniy-six cases were disposed of yes
| terday by the recorder, netting very mall
reyenue to the city.
"A runaway horse created little stir neal
] the corner of Madison and Second street,
1 about $50 last evening.
Sam Burrus and Ellen Ray, colored
\ were the only couple who received license Ia
l marry from the County Court clerk yester
1 day.
-Chancery Clerk Black, at the courthouse
| at noon to-day, will sell several pieces OF
| valuable property--lot in the Trigg sub
/; division, lot in Chelsea, and fifty acres neal
/ the city.
In the Probate Court yesterday, Judge
| Eldridge presiding, George E. Rudisill was
appointed guardian for his minor children
Willie NJ, George E, Junius H., Mary B.
and Frank w. Rudislll.
--Roddy Powell, colored, about sixteen
years old. was sentenced to imprisonment
for one year by the Criminal Court yester-
day tor stealing s. watch. The execution
oil The sentence was held up during good be-
havior.
In the United States Court yesterday,
Justice Stanley Matthews and Judge E. s.
Hammond presiding, the case of james A.
Loudon ps. the Taxing District of kShelby
county and John r. Flippin was decided for
the plaintiff.
The two old brick buildings north of
Frost & Bros candy mandatory, on Shelby
street, are being torn down, to be replaced by
a large building, in which Frost & Bro. will
ests blish cracker bakery. This substantial
improvement was started very quietly.
The citizens residing in the neighborhood
of the colored church on Causey street, be-
tween Linden and Pontotoc, pronounce it to
be nuisance. They claim that the attend
ants are SO boisterous between the hours of
IL pm. and am. that they disturb sleep.
Pauline G., dark bay mare owned by
Charley Gallina, and Josie G., a gray mare
owned by Vic Gallina, were shipped yester-
day with their grooms per steamer Andy
Baum to Cincinnati, to 20 in training under
the charge of Mr.. Beair, a celebrated driver
and the handler of Maud s.
Judge Pierce, of the Circuit Court, dis
posed of a case yesterday that was not on the
docket. The mechanics that are at work on
the courthouse building were called into
court by the sheriff ana detained there by
the Judge until the business of the court was
dispatched. This the court did to stop their
hammering and other noise that was delay
ing the proceedings OF the court.
Dan Larkin, youth OF nineteen years,
met with serious accident at Olympic
Park this week in attempting to speed
horse around the track. The animal made
an attempt to fly the track and brought the
rider in contact with the fence in such
manner "a to break his leg in.two places.
He was carried to his home on Bradford
street. where medical aid was called in.
The closing exercises of Mrs. Wade's
school were held yesterday morning. The
friends of Mrs. Wade and the relatives of the
pupils made quite an audience, and were
well entertained. The little misses who read,
recited and made music, both vocal and in
strumentsl, acquitted themselves with credit.
Especial mention Ia made of Misses Phoebe
Frazer, Lettie Sanders, PAMELA Coe, Annie
Clark, Annie Wallace, Ida Gregory and
Mamie Gregory.
"A gang of aspirants for county Offices,
subject to the decision of the Democratic
Convention, were enjoying each others society
and discussing the results of the late Demo-
cratic Convention at Nashville, as they stood
about the police station yesterday, when
Esquire Quigley quietly remarked, in his
broadest brogue: "1'll bet $40 the Democrats
will get Bate in the November election"
George Mallory rushed forward to take the
bet. He was let off by treating when the
wager was made in writing.
Will Jarvis and jesse Butler, two boot
blacks, together with the clothing of some
twenty other boys, was captured at Wolf
river, Just north of The county Jail, where the
crowd Was bathing. Officers on the Chesa-
peake and Onio railroad made complaint of
the indecent exposure TO the patrons of the
road by gangs of boys bathing at that point
each evening as their trains pass. At the
approach of the police, all the bathers ex-
cept the two named above, made good their
escape by swimming to the point of land on
the opposite side OF Wolf river.
The Circuit Court, Judge Pierce presid-
ing, made the following decisions yesterday:
John Mcnamara rs. A. Mette, dismissed; W.
F. Reinhsrdt U.s. F. NJ. White, dismissed; s.
J. Beine Is. w. NJ. Watson, finds for plaintiff;
J. J. Barley rs. A. c. Northcross and w. P.
Horney, decision OF Justices court affirmed
j ames Mclean Is. W. II. Volkmar, finds for
plaintiff; Belsie Peterson rs L S. Lindgreen,
dismissed; Riley Bros. & Baer rs Eta
Cooper, dismissed; Bernard Gladden. Us.
Richard Eustice, finds for defendant; s. P.
c. A. ~. Taxing District Of Shelby county,
finds for defendant; Philip Simo1s rs. Ed
mund UrquhArt and John D. Murtagh, finds
for plaintiff; A. F. Sowell Us. Memphis and
Charleston railroad, finds for plaintiff.