Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-27
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

There win be moonlight picnic at
Fitzgibbon's Grove Sunday next.
The Lincks, OF Nashville, and the Wetttr
Nine will have game at Olympic Park SUM-
diy afternoon.
There will be a grand barbecue at Mil
ling,ou to-mori ow, at which all the Demo
cratic candidates will be present.
The cresm festival under the manage
ment of the ladies of the Central Baptist
church, has been indefinitely postponed
owing 10 the illness of the pastor.
The Low-tax Greenbackers held an ema-
ciated meeting on the bluff last night. The
little boys and girls enjoyed the music in.
tensely, but when the speaking began the
crowd mildly but firmly withdrew.
Constable Mike Garvin found the negro
girl Dee Lipscomb, who is said to have been
faped By boy of nineteen Yesterday. She
was in cabin about five miles from the city.
The rape case will come up before Esquire
Quigley day.
-Finnie Dickson yesterday brought cult
in the Circuit Court against VIM. Dickson
for divorce. The parties were married in
1872. About four years ago defendant be-
gan to beat, strike, whip and abuse her, and
forced her several times to leave his house.
There will be a grand rally of the S, c.
ond ward Democracy, at the corner of Main
and Poplar streets, at s o'clock this::svening.
Colonel George CAN'T, General G. P. NJ.
Turner, Colonel A. II. Douglass, Major w. A.
Goodman and others will address the as
sembly.
"A picnic on an unusually large scale
will be given at the Exposition by the Bap-
list Seven Church Union, which includes the
Bsal street Baptist church, Salem Baptist
church, st. John Baptist church. Union ave-
que Baptist church, st. Paul Baptist church,
Central Baptist church (Causey sireet),
Macedonia Baptist church, Pilgrim Rest
Baptist church, Mt. Nebo Baptist church,
Mt Zion Baptist church, Fret Chelsea Bap-
list church (Read's), and Ebenezer Baptist
church.
ID. Canale, fruit dealer, was taken be-
fore the City Court yesterday morning on a
from the Board of Health that he
had brought from New Orleans to his store
a quantity OF lemons. BE showed ceTtifi-
cate from the National Board of Health
stating it was safe to allow them TO pass.
President Hadden has decided that health |
order No. ii shall be enforced until he is
notified that the inspection service will be |
continued by the government. Canale's case
was continued five days.
The Democracy of the Third ward met |
in front of the stationhouse last night TO |
listen TO General g. p. NJ. Turner, Mr.. ] ames |
Harris and others. The crowd was large |
and enthusiastic. Some little disturbance |
was csused by interrupiing General Turner. |
The Democrats claimed that the men had no !
right to interrupt, and the interrupters |
claimed that il was free country and they |
had right to say wha they were a mind TO. |
One os the parties was arrested, but forfeit |
was promptly put up for him.
Officer Hurst arrested negro youth |
named John Jackson yesterday on the charge |
of maliciously stabbing Reuben Beecher, on |
j ackson street. The difficulty originated al |
q Fort Pickering baseball ground. Jackson |
threw stone at Beeeher because the latter |
refused TO throw baseball 10 him. A short |
tussle ensued, and Jackson got the worst of |
il. Later on in the day he stepped up behind |
Beecher and thrust the knife into his back |
up TO the hiit. Beecher's condition has been |
pronounced by his physician, DIR. Mcmillan
to be very serious.
In the APPEAL OF July 2Ist COM
munica,ion signed "Democraf," referring 10
a letter OF Mr.. Henderson's in favor OF Mr.. |
Manning, contained the following: @Mr. |
Henderson ought to know what disaffection |
ton or meeting of disafected Democrats ever
held in this county, meeting which re-
suited IN a permanent division in our ranks,
and In the organization of the Greenback
party here" 10 this Mr.. Henderson re-
plies: This statement is utterly without
foundation. Never in my life have / pre-
'ided over any political meeting whatever,
nor have 1 ever hadslhe least sympathy,
much less cooperation, with such a move
nent."