Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-25

rested BY Constable Mike Gsrvin yesterday
"A voudoo doctor has been engaged in
South Memphis by colored family 10 run
of the reaches.
The Waldran Guards give their drill and
ball tomorrow night at the armory of the
Porter Guards.
The success of the Jockey Club is almost
assured, but the tender Of subscriptions
should be kept up.
September win mark the sctive revival
OF business, and the APPEAL will lead the
van in the way Of progress.
The plight Of the men who run the mar-
rage associations, about six months from
now, will be pitiable in the extreme.
Judge Jimmie Hunter will summer at
Kerrville, and Lieutenant Weskley will
exile himself to Alabama, il the Porter
Guards are defeated.
Membership cards will be ready this
morning for the 100 or more children who
called Yesterday at Mozart Hall to take part
in the Cinderella opera.
HARRY Founders and Mrs. Belle Brooks,
J. F. Carnes and Mira. NJ. E. Thomas, Frank
Anderson and Mollie HaIliott were given
marriage licenses yesterday.
From the number of people who have
obtained bills OF their back taxes, it looks
very much as if Memphis would get some
extra money Tor paving, auer all.
The Daily Marriage Association will
incorporate soon with the following gentle
men: John B. Wright, j. ]. Stevens, w. +.
Wallace, J. S. Stigler and S. S. Wright.
The Mexican "Vets" are interested in the
coming meeting at Nashville. They are still
patrioIically striving after their pensions,
which, by the way, they deserve to have.
A laborer at the navy-yard, named
Kelly, met with bad accident yesterday by
falling from a scsffold fourteen feet, sprsin-
ing his knee and sustaining other injuries.
Mr.. Benton paid the children who are
desirous of taking part in Cinderella a high
compliment yesterday. He says he was de-
lighted with their intelligence and good APP
pearance.
Mr.. Cullen could not improve the
County Court Office by having any deputies
OF her than the old ones 1t would be clever
idea for him TO have John Shea where he
was before.
The following numbers drew capital
prizes in the Little Havana lottery yesterday:
l4,ISl, drew $4,000; 70i. $1,000; 1899, $3.50,
and II 72i. Is, 493. 1873 and ai,6o4, eaeh
drew $3.50.
Bob Patrick was tried before Esquire
Quigley yesterday en- the charge of assault |
ing &. P. Pleasant on June oath, at ST.
Johns church, and was bound over in the
sum of $500.
Increased receipts of cotton at Galveston |
yesterday, according 10 Cotton Exchange re- |
ports, indicate a heavy rush of the new crop |
on that market. Our first new bale is vet TO |
be heard from.
The Daily Cash Marriage Association |
applied for charter yesterday with the fol |
lowing incorporators: Fl. M. Hill, A. d. |
GALLOWAY, G. F. Volkmar, ]. Fl. Waggener |
and E. B. Lewis.
M. 3. House, street-csr driver, was ar
rested yes erday for creating disturbance on |
a street car while off duty. The driver of |
the car, named Taylor, had to eject him
after having had delicious free. fight in the |
car.
-Georgs Mallory, of the Chancery Court
clerks Office, has abandoned himself to the
wild delights of the Aztec literature. When |
he has exhausted this field he will devote
himself to COptic poetry and Egyptian civil
ixation.
The business men have been alive to the |
value Of advertising in the APPEAL during |
the summer, and from encouraging words, it |
is certain that the September issue will be
almost directory of the business firms OF |
the city.
Major B. H. Harrod. of the Mississippi |
River Commission will meet the Mississippi |
engineers here August 2Sth. Ii any of |
Them have any complaints or objections TO |
make, they had better be prepared to make |
them then.
The colored preacher, J. P. Jay, was |
fined $40 yesterday by President Hadden fer |
committing an assault on Brother Brown. |
The latter had charged him with kissing |
sister. 1nssmuch as Jay had thoroughly |
beaten up Brown the recorder considered |
that he had been punished enough, and dis !
missed his case.
The APPEAL has received from the Pr
oneer Cotton Mill sample of the first piece
of osnaburgs turned out from its looms. 1t
is eight-ounce goods, smooth and well woven,
and compares favorably with the best quail |
ity of any of the older mills we have seen
The mill expects in a few days to have every
thing in working order, and will then be able
to turn out from $500 to 5000 yards of fin
ished goods per day, for which they will no
doubt find ready market
Quite an amusing incident occurred at
the Clarendon Hotel yesterday at noon. By
accident brace of secretaries of three mar
rage associations met at dinner, and each,
anxious 10 ply his vocation, handed the other
leafet, and for few minutes tons OF adver-
Using matter were exchanged between the
three, when the mistake was observed and a
huge chuckle took place. Enterprise and
push always win, except when the secretaries
of three matrimonial associations meet and
lackle edCH Otn6T dt the uiuucI-taoic.
The following gentlemen compose the
Mississippi River Commission: General G.
A Gilmore, United States army, is president,
and General G. K. Comstock, Prof. Henry
Mitchell United States Coast Survey, Major
Charles P. Suter, United States army, Major
B. II. Harrod, Captain james B. Esds and
Judge r. s. Taylor, are the other members.
Lieutenant Leach, United States army, is
the secretary of the commission, and the
OF the works Is Captain G. 3.
Sears, United States army. The commission
will meet in St. Louis September 7th.
EARLY yesterday morning, a fire origi-
mated in one-story frame building on the
corner Of Brights avenue and Georgia street.
The fire was SO sudden that the family living
in it barely had time TO get out alive.
Mrs Phillips, the lady living there
asserted her belief that her
husband set fire to it. They have been on
bad terms for some time, but her belief seems
10 have no foundation. The house belonged
10 Patrick Martin, and was insured for $500.
Owidg to the distance the FIRE department