Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-06
Baseball this afternoon.

Baseball this afternoon.
-Everylhing points to a good fall trade.
John Shea takes his defeat quite good
naturally.
There is to be a ball at Bon Aqua
Springs on the 11th instant, in which many
Memphians will participate.
81 am in a little financial trouble TO-
day" he remarked. "One Of your bar bills
gone to protest." asked asympathetic friend.
The machinists and blacksmiths will
meet at No. "a Adams street next Thursday
night at 8 o'clock for the purpose OF organ
izing a union.
The house of Zeno T. Harris, near White
Haven, was robbed night before last of a
breech-loading shotgun and a watch. The
thief has not yet been captured.
Prospects look bright for a Democratic
success in November. General Vaughan,
| Mr. Kimbrough and Mr.. Crenshaw exceeded
the combined votes of the Republican wingp.
OF the Low-tax Republican votes, the
workingmen polled probably 1000. 1t is
hardly necessary to say that this class will
not vote with the Republicans at the next
election.
Great interest was felt here in the result
of the election of the Bartlett Court clerk,
and almost universal satisfaction was ex-
pressed W0eQ IL was lOuu0 ludl SIcuenaW 08Q
beaten Bolton.
1t is said that Poplar stree could be re-
paired from one end to the other for about
$1,000 30 that il would last ten or fifteen
years longer. The matter is worth looking
into, as il is a popular thoroughfare.
-Clerk-and-Ms ster r. ]. Black yestsrdsy
made the following sales: A piece of prop
erty on Jefferson and Fourth streete, 169 by
14S, to G. n. Grosvenor, at SIT % a foot; q
piece of property beyond Estival Park
10 4l-l00 scres-for 1882 per acre, to w. NJ.
Randolph.
John Wright immortalized himself ont
on the fernando road day before yesterday.
He took his pistol and went out in search of
adventure. He made a Negro boy smell his
weapon, scared the life out OF two negroes,
and aimed at SCOT Cannon; went TO a gro
Gerry kept by a widow, choked her and
hourished an ax-handle at the children, and
wound up the days sport by shooting at B.
Clemens, the street-car driver, nearly hitting
two passengers in the car.
Louis Walker, an uuhung negro of
thirteen, was arrested yesterday morning ON
Beale street, for committing an indec-n as
sault on a little white girl, named Teresa
Snyder. Walker found the girl playing
with her little brother, threw her violently
to the grouEd and would have mutilated
her, had it not been for her screams, which
brought help to her. The condition of the
girl is said 10 be serious. That boy ought
10 he taken out and drowned for the sake of
General G. P. M. Turner appeared be- |
fore President ladder yesterday and asked |
Charles Williams, the shiftless negro
who shot Jennie Graham, be committed for
mansIaughter. General Turner has made a
move in the right direction. When a man
persistently refuses 10 put down a pistol
when told to do so, and continues 10 point it
at a woman, he deserves, if not a bit of
hemp, at least a good sentence in the peni-
Judge A.. Wright and Mr.. Nat
appeared for Williams. President
Hidden bound the fellow over to answer.
Last night a slough" knocked a poor
drunken fellow down on the corner of Sec
1ud and Court streets, and in the most brutal
and cowardly way proceeded to kick him in
he head. When he had finished the man
was insensible, and his head was covered
With blood. When the cowardly rufia
my more ne walked off. He was on the
point OF entering Billy Murray's saloon, but
Billy was so disguised with the roughs
conduct that be threatened 10 lick him
I he put his foot inside of his
He did give the fellow a lick
II two, which were not resented. The kind
# cattle that pummel and kick helpless
neH are not favorably disposed toward fight
ng sober men. The attention of the police
5 called TO this matter, and il they do moi
ucceed in 6ndiug the man who committed
his cowardly assault, it will be an everlast-
ng disgrace upon them. The man who was
up was so drunk that he could not
efend himself.