Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-07
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Cotton is ripening fast.

Cotton is ripening fast.
President Montgomery is jubilant.
Our Sunday issue will sling the dough-
nut.
The Jockey Club stakes are filling
handsomely.
The Sunday APPEAL will be an unusual
interesting issue.
Advertisers shoul6 send in their adver.
| tisements early to-day.
The Waldrau Guards gave ball and
drill at their armory last night.
| Col. Josiah Patterson will speak at the
Greenlaw Operahouse Monday night.
| The Democratic ratification meeting will
take place Monday night instead OF tonight.
| Robert Wilson was indicted yesterday
for the murder OF Mr.. John Russell, the
grocer.
| The Memphis branch of the Irish Ma
tional Land League held meeting last
night at 225 Second street.
| Mr.. John CASTOR yesterday purchased
| the old Sledge properly on Rsyourn avenue,
and will probably use it as his own home.
-Wallie Pickett for obtaining money I'M
der false pretenses in 1873, got i've years IN
the penitentiary yesterday, In the Criminal
Court.
The matrimonial associations have be-
come so thick that the title of president has
become almost as widespread as that OF
professor.
The man who gets up the funny column
of the Iheater Programme has applied for a
permit to enter the Asylum for Decayed
PunsteIs.
-Marriage licenses were granted yesterday
10 Joseph Parks and Dixie Bowen, Anthony
Nelson and Ellen Goldson, Henry Hender-
SON and Mollie Butler.
The man who was asked If be had seen
the comet, and who replied that it was $50
early he couldn't comet has been sent to
the Island by President Hidden.
MI. Hall who was. charged with OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses from j.
]. Rawlings, pleaded guilty in The Criminal
Court yesterday and got Ave years IN the
pententiaTy.
-Messrs. &. E. Semmes, ]. S. Wilkins, jr.,
and r. ii. Vance desire thai those who wish
TO become associate members of the Jockey
| Club should send their names TO the secre-
} tary of the club.
An APPEAL atdche caught snake mean
Gaston's Hotel last night and put it In 3
, cigar box. He has brought satisfactory
evidence to the local man 10 prove tnat ne
didn't shave 'em."
, The Eckfords and Wetters will contest
at Olympic Park, Sunday afternoon, for the
: championship of Memphis. The clubs are
, yerv evenly matched, and will put in theii
: b.st ticks. Game called at $3.50 o'clock
: "A negro named George, who works a
Patrick,s gin, met with a fearful accident
| Yesterday. His arm caught in the machinery
? and was Torn into shreds almost. DIR. koger'
1 vas called in TO dress the wound. de
: though, amputation would be necessary.
There vss an error in naming entrie
8 | for the stakes. We neglected that OF Dardei
> & Kirkman's &C. Meditation, by Buckden
: dam Meanuess, in the Montgomery stake
and that Of &C. Musk, by John Morgan, dan
Riniodide. in the Peabody Hotel and Rsii
). road stakes.
The Cotton Planters Association meets
: in Little Rock from October 18th to 2lst, In
4 elusive. The Little Rock railroad Is teilln
!, son,S- frin tickets from Memphis al S. p
h Eh;cb includes omnibus fare to the Fsi
4 Grounds and return. Sam Wells is billing
i The town extensively with this ipformalor
;, -Iom Avant, coloIed, writes 10 the AFPEA
: ,h., ,he abatement in the Ledger OF Octobe
e a. To The effect that he had changed b
e nolitics from Democrat to Republican slnc
il he vas defeated for ianitor OF the courihous
q Is untrue. He says those who best know MI
II know that be has always been Hemocra
i never has voted any other ticket and ne's
y expects to. ,.;v.d 10, tb
le usnnbis Medical College, from student
10 Esvet,e county. a rare curiosity. Ii Is ID
D. - isu of an eve which has fnlly d.
! vsIoped horn grown to the lett aide Of u
a. 80 which measures about hve inches
,e isno,h and is about two and half inches
3 diameter at the root. The greater mystel
Is that it grew to the jaw OF an eve, not
ram,