Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-16
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

For court report and court proceedings
| generally see second page.
| The Scimitdr has applied to the union
| for printers. There's nothing like it.
r. Fitzhugh died yesterday at the Clsr-
eDdon Hotel. He arrived from Helena
| Thursday.
The celebrated divorce case OF Brown Us.
Brown will come off in the Chancery Court
Wednesday.
The ladies of the Strangers church began
a series of dinners yesterday at 247 Main
street, to continue until May 10Th.
The residence OF Major II Berry, 274
Union street, was entered Sunday night by a
back window and large amount of silver
ware was stolen.
Captain Pat Hackett, Sergeant Mike
Scott and several other prominent Germans
headed the procession Of the German pic
nickers yesterday afternoon.
The following dispatch was received at
the APPEAL Office last evening from Arkan-
sas City: ga white man named William
Shepard, feom Memphis, was drowned while
attempting TO cross the Mississippi river in
a canoe"
The Hon. Stanley Matthews will be here
on the 18th Of this onth to 81. with Judge
Hammond on several important cases. among
which is the old city debt matter.
! Marriage licenses we're granted yester-
ny to Robert Jones and Phillis Trezevant,
D.. d Redout and Lou Britton, James She'd
~ nd Elyira Walker, John Thompson
and Ma VIC 00e'' at Noonan anu MAJ
gle Piper
--,,I, yera ~, freights. Among them are
c 6. - aOo rlvnchburg, Va; ]. H.
henry Iin a9t,-e,. G. H. Coffin, Of New
w oodesu, y, rL, Columbus, o., and
Mr.. Sh .iher, of New York.
The APPEAL has received an unaccount-
able piece OF music, called "a .n el1i h
March, by Eugene L. Blak publ. 'nea Dy
.. W. HeImick, of Cincinnati 1t is VT. en- en-
in ho..oy of the convictio OF Gsrfela-
assassin. We may expect "Guiteaus LUZ
LADY" next.
sz-SColonel Joe Williams takes the cake.
He has solicited 50 Of poll tax from
ChinamaLss kh Sin declared that he was
not a citizen ard had never been natural
ized but Josephs good looks and seductive
words made him "anttr up" This Is the hrEt
case of the kind on record
The "Harborsge," neas Asbury ParB,.
n. J., is the collective name OF group OF
new and beautiful cottages, elegant in all
their appointments, which will he opened on
the Ist of June BY Mrs. G.. A. Bnlkley, of
sos Fifth avenue, New York, formerly OF
Memphis. The cottages are pleasanliy Atu-
ated at the North End.
Sheriff Athy recently wrote to the secle-
tary of state for information concerning the
collection of the liquidatiDg tax. The secre-
tary of state, D. A. Num-, informed him that
the bill introduced by L. NJ. Hill for the re-
peal OF the tax passed both houses, but was
not signed by the governor and consequently
did not become a law, and the sheriff will
have to collect the tax in consequence
Mrs. Sallie F. Chaplin, president OF the
Women's Christian Temperance Union, now
in the city, en- route from Little Rock, will
lecture tonight at O'Clock at an open meet
ing of the independent Order OF Good
Templars at Temperance Hall, 992 Main
street. The members OF the Women's Chris
tan Temperance Union and all others in
terested in the temperance cause are earn
estly invited to attend. Mrs Chaplin re-
piled TO the address of welcome on behalf
of the South at the convention held at
Washington last October in most beautiful
and feeling speech. Being Southern woman,
Mrs. Chaplin should be given warm well
come