Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-24
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

"A smell OF snow in the air.
will the City Fathers proclaim day of
Thanksgiving?
The Theater has Ane lot of attractions
for The sslahce of the season,
81 feel like !: Federal oficeholder," re-
marked detected turkey yesterday.
Bob Hays whipped bis girl with a lath
and had 10 pay 81 for the exercise.
The turkeys are beginningt to feel shaky,
Just as the Republicans did before the last
election.
-Virginia Scurlock was granted divorce
| from her husband, Robert Scurlock, yester-
day by Judge Pierce.
1t is rumored that Schwab & Co. and
Rice, Silk & Co. will resume business in
Memphis on large scale.
If this thing keeps on, vacant lots for
suitable cottages to accommodate 'two per-
sons" will be at premium.
MIR. James w. Burton, who was killed
at Somerville, was q member of the Knights
of Honor and the Knights of Pythias.
Stewart, Gwynne & Co. yesterday OBJ
tanned a judgment, in the Circuit Court
against Rachel NJ. Henniug et al for Sl400
The entertainment for the benefit of the
Lsdies' Christian Association will take plscs
| tonight at Judges Pierce's, 105 Court street
About 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon
| q ERE broke out in a one-story brick shaniy
belonging TO Mr.. NJ. L. Meacham, on Beale
| street, near the river. The damage done
| was about $40.
The forsaken bachelor who says the
cool weather does not increase the matri
monial epidemic, is off his base. As the
| spiritualists say, "the conditions are becom
| ing favorable"
l John Woods, who went crazy seeing
| ghosts, and who has been in the stationhouse
for two or three dave, was the husband Of
1 The Mrs. Woods who committed suicide
about six weeks ago in Fort Pickering. He
sees his wife in his dreamP, and is afraid &c
| 60 10 bed alone.
| -Attorney-General Turner yesterday ad-
dressed letter 10 the chief of police asking
what had become of the Ed Schmalzried
case. In his letter he expressed his convic-
| ton that the offense charged against
Schm alzried was a penitentiary one. The
attorney general informed an APPEAL re-
porter last night that he intended to make a
| vigorous examination of the case and sif. il
| TO the dregs.
| -Messrs. Menken Brothers closed lease
| yesterday for the property on the corner Of
| Main and Monroe streets, it being their pur-
| pose TO erect a large store 10 meet the grow
ing trade of Memphis. The preparation OF
| plans and The erection of the building have
been intrusted to Mr.. E. c. Jones, architect
| The cost of the bnildipg will be $4,000
| We trust this is the initial step to a new ers
| of commercial growth.
| -Marrisge lict nses were granted yester-
| day TO Thomas l.. Jones and Annie Low, ]
| G. w. Smith and Amelia Johnson Jim Mos
| ley and Della Griffin, Joseph Lucarini and
| Mary Costello, G. Micheletti and Alice Cam
| pedonico, E. Giuliaui and Louisa Vaccaro
| Adam Helbling and Josephine Kaiser, A,
T'rotter and Mrs. L. E. Walker, Walter
Forcht and Matilda Hamsnn, Robert Work
and Hattie josie, Anthony Driver and
Mandy Horton.
Mics Mary Boddie aud Mrs. Judge
| Adams, librarian of the dd-Fellows Lii
brary, have been appointed by the directors
| TO canvass the city and solicit subscriptions
to purchase books for the library. This in
stitution Is free and open to all, and is the
only public library in the city. II will be
| kept open until 10 o'clock at night. Our
citizens should respond literally when
called upon by these Ladder, as the object is
worthy one, and should receive substantial
| support.
-Messrs. Kohlcamp, of the Louisville and
Nashville; Meek, of the Chesapeake and
| nessee, and Sibley, of the Little Rock roads,
met President Hidden at his Office yester-
day and agreed upon certain places at which
| fagmen are to be placed. President Had
den locked the railroad men in, and in a
| two-hour's speech urged upon them the ne
| cessity OF increasing their rolling stock and
| fully doubling their capacities, in order to
meet the demands of the country tributary
| to Memphis.