Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-19
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
The awnings must go.

Considerably warmer yesterday.
Don't forget tie Strangers church din
ner, at 247 Main street. This is the last day
The laying of stone on Beale street has
begun.
big thing.
The bath-bouss at the stationhouse is
nearly finished
The fsur de lis is favorite design upon
crean-colored sateens.
The timber for the hanging of the two
negroes is at the Jail now.
-Begemap. the Little Rock thief, got four
years yesterday, and Monroe seven.
General Tracy will, in all probability,
lead Oscar Wilde to victory in the South.
Lawyer Carroll was informed yesterday
that the governor was considering the case of
Bill Rivers.
Richard Wilson was given three years
in the Criminal Court yesterday, on plea of
guilty to stealing a 81 bill.
The Mozart Club are expec ting to en-
gage well-known New York leader to
give a series of concerts this summer.
MIR. I. S. Devant, assistant general pas
senger and ticket agent of the Memphis and
Charleston, left for Nashville yesterday.
In another column will be found notice
of the grand opening of Estival Park, under
the management of Mr.. James Kirkland.
Attorney Moss received letter from the
governor yesterday, saying that he would
not interfere in the case of Sandy Matthews.
The Rev. n. M. Long will deliver .
public lecture on Prohibition" at Temper
ence Hall, No. 1872 Main street, TO night at 8
o'clock.
No stray bullet has as yet penetrated
the carcass of Tom Owens, who is running an
elopemeDt entertainment with Miss Sophia
Neal through the country.
Colonel Saltmarsb, who has been day
turnkey Tor some time, has become night
station-keeper, and Mr.. Stewart, late station
keeper, becomes day turnkey.
Captain OHaver and Detective Pryde,
on their way from Little Rock, captured AL
bert White, an escaped convict from this
place, and brought him home.
Chief Cleary has received three new
alarm boxes. One will be placed in Chelsea,
the second at Orleans and Adams, and the
third probably at the cotton-mill.
The Beale street contractor seems to be
unmi ndful of the pretty weather that we
now enjoy. A few workmen and a torn-up
street is all that is to be seen by an observer.
Jim Higgins, who was up before Presi-
dent MADDEN in the captivating light of
horid drunk yesterday, said that the presi-
dent could not fine him, as he was not
fasco. His plea was fasco, and he was
fined.
Captain George 7. O'Haver and Detect
i've W. G. Pryde returned from Little Rock
yesterday, where they have been deta ined in
attendance on the trials of the two highway
men arrested here by them some time ago.
The policy of the defense was to break down
the charge by delay, but the two thieves were
convicted.
-Causey street, between Beale and Vance,
is being treated TO new sidewalks, IN atches.
Why some can hold property and get exemp-
ton from laying sidewalks is one of those
things no fellow, save one OF ''strong politi-
cal influences" can find out. At the north
west corner of Causey and Linden is stone
curb 1.-THE city payssfor the curb) and an
uneven dirt and stick sidewalk.
Puck for last week contained on the
front page very effective twin-portrait of
our Uncle Sammy, and on the last a Ca rtoon
entitled "The Collapse of Two Great States
men"-Bismarckg going to the pope for help,
and Gladstone captured by Parneil, who
seems 10 be very complacent over it. The
double-page cartoon is one of the most
effective drawings we have ever seen in Puck.
1t represents -"New Party"-tarif reform
and anti monopoly - removing political
Wisdom" and political Honesty" the last
from the Republican Sodom, and the first
from the Democratic Gomorrah, both of
which have been struck by the death-dealing
electric fash of public condemnation"
An india-ink sketch of Mississippi
river scene near this place has been finished
by Mr.. Fred T. Anderson and placed on ex-
hibition in the show-window of j. S.Wilkins
corner of Nam and Madison streets. The
picture is about two and half by five feet
and shows a farmers landing few bales of
cotton, several idle negroes, and white man
on horseback. Three steamers are coming
up the river. The Dean Adams is near the
shore, but is carrying full head of steam,
and is as natural and smooth-6nished to the
eye, at a short distance, as a photograph
Abreast of the Dean and across the the river
the Josie Harry, with her we'll known model
and tasty finish, is holding her own. Further
down the river and in the wake of the Dean
is sidewheeler whose name ia not distin-
guishable. The foliage, az well az the laying
OF the land, Is true and graceful. The name
of the modest artist does not appear on the
work, yet such execution would do credit to
many of wider fame.