Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-16
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
-O'Leary will soon be here.

! ~ Lear VIII SUM NC hSAS'
| -Patience tonight at Leubrie's.
Several efforts were made to rain yes
| terday, but failed.
The second story of the customhouse is
| progressing well.
Yesterday mild epidemic of the spring
| fever was introduced.
Two women were arrested yesterday for
selling groceries without license.
Bills of Mccullough, the tragedian, have
already been put up in the windows.
Long slring-lik droves of geese, flying
| high, were seen on their Northern flight last
evening,
Judges Mcdowell and Livingston re-
| fused to grant receiver in the railroad case
| yesterday.
The people along the river would be
| glad to have the pleasant weather continued
in our next"
Marriage licenses were granted yester-
day to J. w. Easley and Laura Curtin, b.
Smith and Alice Branch.
Captain Sam Carnes has received an
addition to the "Chicks" All his friends
have congratulated him.
The buffaloe gnats made their appear
ance yesterday in quantities sufficient to in
crease the oil sale and annoy animals.
Ia the report of the Merrill and the
Jefferson street schools the two got mixed.
The Merrill school has the best showing of
any in the city.
The secretary of the School Board is pre-
pared to pay the teachers for January and
all bills due to February list. Please call
promptly this afternoon.
The Rev. w. f. Hughes, OF Liverpool,
England, has arrived in the city, and will
sing in the meeting now in progress in the
Cumberland Presbyterian church tonight.
Henry Craig, the negro boy who killed
Jerry Galveston recently with knife, was
tried in the Criminal Court yesterday and
sentenced to three years in the penitentiary.
Bill Jackson, the negro who stole a
mule in order to pay Lawyer Moss's fee,
pleaded guilty in the Criminal Court yester
day, and was sentenced TO three years in the
penitentiary.
According to reports, the Mexican
mines have opened up strong, and DR.. Porter
and Ex-Mayor Flippin are very jubilant
Quite a number OF Memphis people are in
terested in these mines.
Mrs. Pattie A. Clay, OF Kentucky, has
forwarded to Mr.. E. F. Miller, of Bolivar,
Miss, who is in the city, a check for 500
for meal and provisions to help the sufferers
1t was generous act.
Celia Morris and Harriet Cannon col
ored, were arrested for keeping, as they said,
"nastynation" house. They have been in
the habit of dressing in mems garments and
parading the streets at night. Mr.. MADDEN
gave them fine of 81 each.
Our street railway tracks tore off the
hind-wheel of rickety public express wagon
Yesterday noon, at the corner of Main and
West Court street, which allowed the wagon
to fall and carry with it in its downward
course the forms of the Memphis SciBitar,
that were being carried to the pressman.
A fire broke out about 8 o'clock yester-
day morning at the house of Captain Pat
Hackett, on Calhoun, near the fernando
road, and the house was burned to the ground.
The furniture was saved. Officer Boyd no.
titled the fire department, but owing to an
accident the nearest engine could not arrive
in time. The house was burned when Cap
tain Hackett arrived on his horse.
About o'clock yesterday morning fire
originated in the upper story OF the house OF
Dr. Burleson and Mrs. B. A. Hollenberg, on
Walker avenue, beyond Elmwood Cemetery.
The house, which was a two-story frame, ele-
ganuy furnished inside, was almost totally
destroyed, and great deal Of fine furniture
was lost The loss is probably $1,000, aud
the house is supposed to be fully insured,
there being an insurance policy in the Home,
of New York, amounting to $500, and one
in the Imperial, Of Lon ion for $3.50 on the
furniture.
"A citizen, recently blessed with an addi-
tion to his family, met General Peter Tracy
on the street Yesterday to whom he was re-
lating the happy event. The general asked:
What titled prefix will the youpg man have
TO carry through life in connection with his
distinguished patronymic?" Beg pardon"
replied the happy dad, Il did not catch on?"
81 merely wished to know what name you
had he haho
have not yet decided on a name" "Umph,
well, when you take the matter under con-
sideration please remember that there is 10
embargo on my name-my dear sir, Peter
Tracy would immortalize the offspring of
crowned heads"