Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-01
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
-HazeI Kirke tonight at Leubrie's.
Old Prob. says it will be cold now.

-HazeI Kirke tonight at Leubrie's.
Old Prob. says it will be cold now.
New vegetables are becoming common.
The st. Elmo Company will arrive this
morning.
The employees of Menken Brothers were
paid off yesterday.
AT present Memphis is the Mount Ararat
of the Mississippi bottoms.
The city has been in total darkness for
the last three or four nights.
ST. Nicholas for March Just arrived at
Mansford's, 298 Main street.
"A marriage license was granted yester-
day to I. o. Ellis and Mary E. Chambers.
The United States Court jury has been
discharged, subject to the call of the Court.
TO night there will be a meeting OF citi-
zens at the Peabody to take measures toward
another Mardi-Gras.
Horace Graham was tried in the United
States Court yesterday for obstructing .
safety-valve on a steamer and was found not
guilty.
Anthony McCarty, charged with dealing
was tried and found guilty in the United
States Circuit Court yesterday, and fined 500
and costs.
1t was so dark night before last, owing
to the fact that not single gas lamp was
lighted during the night, that two policemen
ran into each other before they could see
each other.
Judge Horrigan will resume his duties
as criminal judge this morning. His trip
to New Orleans has done him. considerable
good. He expresses himself as highly
pleased with his trip, and says all the Mem
phians were taken care of.
l. A.
Union street Methodist church at 10 o'clock
this morning; at fernando street Methodist
church this evening at o'clock; and at the
Central Baptist church tonight at 7:30
o'clock. Everybody invited.
Captain W. P. Hall, the cold man in the
skiff," is in the city. Owing to the flood, he
has been driven away from the Arkansas
mounds to the Mount Ararat of the Missis-
sippi valley, where his bark will remain
until the waters subside somewhat.
The will of William Simpson was pro-
bated before Judge Eldridge yesterday, and
F. R. Christian was appointed executor
without bond. The property is left to be
equally divided among six grandchildren,
after the payment of any debts OF the de-
ceased
The forty-iirst drawing OF the Common
wealth Distribution Company took place at
Louisville yesterday. The following tickets
drew prizes: Capital prize, S30,O0o, No. 81
073; second prize, $4,000, No. 1904; third
tickets drew $1,000 each: Nos. II ,O40, &c, All,
A, $50, 8, 299, IS, 800, 72,S67.
The Rev. H. G. BuBose, a missionary of
ten years experience in China, and an accom-
plished lecturer, will deliver an address at
the First Presbyterian church this evening
at 7:30 o'clock. The other Presbyterian
churches will have no prayer-meetings to-
night, that all may hear this address. The
public generally are inFi ted to attend. No
charge for admission.
In yesterdays account of the Menken
Brothers failure it was inadvertently stated
that Trustee McGo wan had an idea that the
merchants of Memphis all gave in too low
estimates of their stock. In this the reporter
misunderstood him. While there are quite
a number who are in the habit of giving the
amount too low, Colonel MCGOWAN thinks
the merchants of Memphis are conscien-
tious and honorable as those OF any city in
the country.
President Hadden, aP,opos of petition
TO improve Bull Run street, said at the
council meeting yesterday, that he had taken
a horseback ride through the street Sunday,
when he met q solitary individual sticking
in the mud, who asked him If he was going
to nave the road fixed. The solitary indi-
vidual stated that be had resided out there
for thirteen or fourteen years, and during
that time enough money had been squandered
on the street to have paved it with silver half
dollars, edge up.
The commencement exercises of the
Memphis Hospital Medical College will be-
gin at 7:30 o'clock this evening at the
Greenlaw Operahouse. Diplomas will be
delivered and the prizes awarded. DIR.
Ward, of Mississippi, will deliver an address;
Mr.. Kennedy Jones will represent the gradu
ating class as valedictorian; DIR. Heber Jones
will deliver the charge to the graduating
class. An excellent programme OF music
has been arranged for the occasion The
public are cordially invited.
Mr.. Fl. Fitzgerald yesterday showed an
APPEAL representative copy OF the New
Years Offering of the Carriers Of the DAILY
APPEAL TO Their Patrons" for the year 1857,