Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-02
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Angelo Marie is in the city.

Angelo Marie is in the city.
The Chancery Court meets to-day.
The cows will be soon warred against.
The st. Louis elopists are not in Mem
phis.
The crusade on the dogs will begin next
Monday.
The races Wednesday should be well
patronized.
The May term of the Criminal Court
begins next Monday.
The German Lutheran picnic took place
last night at Estival Park.
The case of Magistrate J. p. Cole has
been continued until to-day.
-Cockrell's shoot is postponed until Thurs
day, when Captain Stubs will be present.
1t was rather difficult for the admirer OF
pedestrianism to keep from saying yesterday,
Glow is the seore"
The sheriff's jail bill for April, 1882,
was $40; for 1873 it was $500 during the
same month, the difference being $3.50.
The sacred concert announced to come
off at st. Peters church this evening is post
poned. Due notice will be given OF its pro-
duction.
The dog which Mr. J lanes Lenew thought
would lead him TO the man who burglarlZed
his house has gone back on him and refused
to lead off.
Sheriff Athy has appointed J. M. Rogers
to take the place of J. r. Collins, Who had
charge of the island prisoners and who died
last week.
"A case of smallpox was taken from the
Anchor-line wharfboat yesterday morning
early. He was a deckhand, and he arrived
at the pesthouse eventually.
The Raleigh bridge is undergoing re-
pairs and is impossible. number OF peo-
pie we're disappointed there yesterday. 1t
will be finished in few days.
"A coIored citizen who was asked to pay
his poll-tax said he had been married six
wears and he hadn't got any children, and he
didn't see why he should pay poll-tax.
-Carr's nine and the Memphis Reds will
play at Olympic Park next Sunday. In
view of the close game Sunday before last
the next game promises to be exciting.
-O'Leary will leave for Little Rock to
finish arrangements for a walking match
in that city, in which Dale, Downey, Hart
and Causton, besides OLeary, will enter.
Mr.. w. S. Rogers, keeper of Winchester
Cemetery, found the dead body of white fe-
male infant, Sunday morning, covered with
a sack of shavings, and evidently knocked
on the head and murdered.
The concert at Estival Park tomorrow,
for the benefit of st. Mary's cathedral, prom
ises a treat to all lovers of music, besides
affording the last opportunity of hearing the
Memphis favorite, Miss Bessie Pierce.
The spring races at Olympic Park,
Wednesday next, will be well worth seeing.
They are for the benefit of the different
orphan asylums and should be literally
patronized. The entries named in the
ad vartiai1o columns elsawhere
Captain Stubs gave an exhibition of
his skill with the rifle yesterday afternoon,
which was witnessed by few friends. They
were all astonished by the expertness Of the
celebrated shot, who broke glass balls with
his rifle thrown ia all directions. He is I'M
doubtedly the crack shot of the world. .
Samples of Irvine from the Pioneer Cot
ton Mill have been sent the APPEAL, coupled
with samples of Georgia Irvine. There is
simply no comparison. The Memphis cord
is smaller and stronger than the other and
much more compact. A specimen of rope
was also sent. with which the exchange edi-
tor proposes hereafter to hang the exchange
fend. 1t is a fine rope, certainly.
There was mutiny of the crew of the
Henry Lowrey yesterday near Cheeks Island.
The mate, Leander Huff, refused to obey
Captain John II. Long, who ordered barge
to BE turned around. The m ate also forbade
the men to work, saying he had charge.
Deputy Marshal Neill and Captain Ralston
went up to look into the matter. The mate
and the captain exchanged shots, but neither
was hurt, and the mate escaped.
"A gentleman from Terre Haute, Ind,
wrote to gentleman of this city yesterday:
"You can place a bet of $4,000 that the
Chicks will not beat the company of this
place. Let me know how much you want.
viii take $500 myself" Colonel Eugene
Leidy, to whom the matter was referred, in
formed the APPEAL reporter yesterday that
Captain Stack Lee had offered TO put up
$1,000, and that another gentleman would put
up $500. Terre Haute need not fear that
any bet viii not be accepted.
"A new combination chrome has APP
peared on our streets and seems to be muchly
sought after by the recently married gents.
1t runs as follows: Scene IA man with an
agreeable, self important smile. At the bot
tom is printed, "I'm daddy" Scene ?
The man with expression changed to pleas
ing look of wonder, "The nurse says it's
two" Scene 3-The man with a startled
look OF considerable disgust. ats three"
Scene 1.-The man with hair on end, eyes
staring into vacancy, lower jaw hanging as
if very sick, "It's four" Scene 5-The man
in bed with bandage on his head, eyes closed,
looking oh SO weak, "Its FIVE"
L
Rouge in few days. OF him New Or
leans paper says: Mark Twain, the Tramp
Abroad" will be "Roughing II" this week
in the Crescent City. On Saturday next he
and the "Innocents" with him will ascend
the six million river on the good and faith
full steamboat City of Baton Rouge, the cap
tain OF said boat being the early, true and
tried friend of the "prince" when he was
peasant" or to more properly say, "a cub
pilot" Mark has a strong liking for "Bix-
by's Best" and loves the genial Horace as
Joseph loved Absalom. We amt quite sure
that the two names last quoted are the right
ones, but they will answer our purpose.
Captain Bixby was the Astronomer Ro. alp
who taught the little Samuel the devious
ways of the crooktd river.
Now that the walking match is over,
public attention is directed to the big picnic
and parade to be given at an early date by
the Trades Assembly of this city. All the
labor organizations in the city are to be repre-
scented. The Stonecutters have signifed their
intention of taking an active part in the
proposed jolliGcation, as have also the Iron
Molders, Bricklayers, Plasterers and Paint
ers. Typographical Union No. IL, the
monthly meeting of which is to be held on
the 9TH proximo, will, without doubt, do
their part. Until the organizations are
heard from the exact date cannot be named,
but it is safe to say that within the next
thirty days the workers, the producers, men
whose hands go 30 largely to make up the
prosperity of the city, will have holiday
which not only they, but the general public,
will heartily enjoy. The affair must prove a
success; men who have built the town are
certainly competent to arrange for days
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