Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-02
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COTTON BELT BULLETIN.
MEMPHIS, TENN, July 81. 1882, pm.
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The negro Charles Williams, who killed
Jennie Graham, has not been caught.
The Wetter nine play the Lincks, oil
Nashville, at the Olympic Park, Sunday.
The requiem mass, in memory of Miss
Eudora Athy, will be chanted this morning
| at st. Peters.
| There will be grand Democratic rally
( tonight on the bluff. Able speakers will
| address the crowd.
The name of the boy drowned SATURDAY
was John Adele instead of Adler. He is tn,
son of John Adele, the carpenter and builder
In to-morrow's election Mr.. Waltel
| Goodman will be voted for in all the wards
az candidate for magistrate from the city
at large.
Reuben Shaw, the celebrated negro
thief while being taken from the jail yester-
| day, broke away from the officer having him
in charge.
Harry Brown and Eva Dakon, Alfred
| Wright and Hattie Crum, James Emery and
Mrs. Tempe Turner got permission to wed
yesterday.
There will be free races at the Olympic
Park, Friday evening, with the following
entries: Chas. Gallina's Mamie G., Flakes
pony, Nicol, of Grenada, Miss, and Owens's
bay horse. 80
james G. Kings Sons, of New York,
yesterday filed suit in the Chancery Court
on bonds and coupons against the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad Company and the
Taxing District.
The Board of Designators, composed OF
Judge Hammond, General w. J. Smith and
Colonel S. s. Garrett, yesterday appointed
Hiram o. Brace, pilot on the Cons tMillaf,
TO be inspector of hulls.
yes" said a candidate pensively yester-
day, "I'm going to join the church when the
election is over. / have had 10 drink more
whisky, tell more lies and kiss more babies
the last two weeks than ever did before in
my life.'
"A report spread around at o'clock this
morning that four men had been shot at
Heppertstown. A lot of roughs were Great
ing disturbance there, and an indignant
citizen came up and fred some peas into the
crowd, it is thought. Nobody was hurt.
Harry Robinson, member of the order
of knights of Pythias, from Steubenville,
Ohio, died in this city Monday evening.
Last night his remains were forwarded to
Steubenville, and were escorted 10 the depot
by members of Memphis Lodge, No. 6, in full
uniform.
The Democracy of Shelby county will
have a torchlight procession and grand fnal
rally on the bluff tonight. Judge n. L.
Elicit Colonel George CAN'T, the Hon. Casey
Young, Judge r ]. Morgan, Colonel r. F.
Looney, General G. P. NJ. Turner, Colonel
Josiah Patterson and others will address the
assembly.
Some time ago judgment was obtained
inithe suit of London Us. Flippin on an ap-
peal bond of the old city Of Memphis for
$4,000 in the United States Court. Yesterday
Flippin asked of the same court a msndamus
against Minor Meriwether, as receiver, re-
turnable October LIST, TO compel him to pay
the judgment.
The Democrats of the Eighth ward are
requested 10 meet at Hessen's Drug store,
corner of Poplar and Bull Run streets this
evening at o'clock for the purpose of form
ing torchlight procession to take part in
the grand rally on the bluff. Torches will
be furnished by the committee at the
meeting.
AT a meeting of the Waldran Guards
last night, Mr.. Hugh Bryson was elected
secretary and treasurer. The boys also had
a dress parade and driIl on Main street by
the electric light, and made a fine showing
Captain Waldran drilled his namesakes in
the absence of Captain Dixon, who is dan
gerously i'll of typhoid fever at his residence
is it not unseemly in Extra Alvin, the
chief executive OF the State, 10 threaten to
'scrench The country IN blood again. in case his
Hgreasers" do not have a free ballot and a
fair count? 1t is shame that the governor
of the State should instill such ideas into
the minds of the ignorant masses. The
APPEAL would remind Extra Alvin that the
courts OF the country are equal to any
emergency, and that it is not necessary 10
resort TO civil war, in order that free ballot
and fair count may be had.