Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-18
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Patience tonight.

-Pdtiencs tonight.
--Troratore will be presented at the mat
inee.
-Esthetcsm has obtained hold in
Memphis.
Emma Abbott gave her pic lures to
several Young ladies last night.
Several lots, near the mounds in Fort
Pickering, are to be sold to-day in chancery.
Mr. George Comfy, the basso of the
Abbott Company, has several relatives IN
this city.
The sale OF seats for the Vokes enter
tainments next week, commences at Hollen-
berg's this morning.
The question of appointing receiver in
the Mundinger chancery case comes OH this
morning at 10 o'clock.
e. Curtin and Luella Corbett, William
B. Virgins and Margaret johnson were al
lowed to marry yesterday.
Work on the customhouse has been re-
sumed, and it is calculated that there is
enough material on hand to work for some
time.
The carnival edition of the New Orleans
Times Democrat, with finely Autographed il
Illustrations of the pageant OF the knights
of Menus, is now on sale at Mansford's
The most remarkable case on record is
on trial before Esquire Quigley. Moses
Beattie a boy, has been arraigned for steal
ing thirty-four barrels from John A. Denies
limehouse last Tuesday.
The Taxing District has advertised for
sealed proposals for furnishing two first-size
steam fire engines, with Ahrens's improved
circulating coil boiler, double pump and
CYLINDER The District offers in exchange,
as part payment, two Silsby rotary pump
second hand steam fire engines.
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meeting at the courthouse yesterday morn
ing, Ex.Judge X. J. Morgan presiding. Two
reports majority and minority-were pre-
sented. The minority report was adopted
after being amended go az to allow the Appel
late Court to pass upon the facts formally,
aud reference TO any other reform was in
definitely postponed.
B. J. Armstrong, William Q. Allen and
A. g. Bartholomew yesterday had an injunc-
ton served by deputy-sherif against the
Memphis and Springfield Railroad Com
pany, to prevent them from running their
track along Fifth street or the Horn Lake
road Work has accordingly been stopped.
The compliments are the same parties that
registered such a kick against the road in
the County Court.
Yesterday afternoon at . o'clock the
case of G. Mundinger, on States warrant,
for embezzlement, was called before Esquire
Coleman The counsel for the defense OBJ
iected to the trial of the case then, on the
ground that 1t would prejudice the chancery
case then pending, and furthermore made
claim that they were SO busy preparing that
case they could not devote the necessary at
tentiou to this case. The counsel for the
compliments wanted the case tried then and
there. Esquire Coleman postponed it until
Tuesday.
Our public administrator, Mr.. John
League, was made the guardian, for a short
while the other day, OF beautiful little
feathered songster that came in unlimited
and was discovered by him pranciug about
on the back of the Office chairs. Mr.. Robert
Leagues attention called to the fact,
when steps were at once taken to secure the
intruder Doors and windows were soon
closed, when father and son INDUCED in a
REGULAR Spoopendyke scuffie for the pet ca
nary. Spittoons, chairs and legal-cap filed
the air for moment till his Honor arose,
smiling from under a table with the
"bird in hand" Congratulations from father
to son were yet incomplete, when a young
lady entered, called for the bird, which was
promptly handed over and accepted with
thanks, when Mr.. Robert remarked: "My
dear little, pretty little miss, may blessings
shower upon you. If / had half crown a
year, would spend it all upon you-Bird."
"A correspondent asks us, (which of
the two expressions is correct: Tomorrow is
Friday Tomorrow will be FridayY"
Every day has its own tomorrow present on
that day and on no other. What to-mor-
row this day was not 50 the day before, and
will not be the day after. In speaking
OF tomorrow the mind, consciously or unob-
served, implies words that are not expressed,
and it is that implication that constitutes
the difficulty that puzzles our correspondent.
When the implication is the present "to-
morrow" we say, and correctly, Tomorrow
this days tomorrow; is Friday" Often the
implication refers to the actual arrival. II
what is now tomorrow, the expression is
then equivalent to, "When what is now to-
morrow arrives, Il lciU be Friday" Both ex-
pressons are therefore correct when taken in
their full meaning. A similar case exists in
speaking of collective objects. The City
Council met and It resolved" ETC., if we are
thinking of the whole as a single body;
s'the City Council met, and they resolved"
etc." if we are thinking of the members of
the council individually. Speech is not a
perfect expression of thought, and continu-
ally implies much that is not expressed, rem
dering it necessary ito read between the