Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-25
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Sunday was cool,

The amateurs viii rule the roost now.
The Oriola Octette concert On the 28th.
The walking match sets every body a.
talking.
The beer interest seems to be doing bet
ter than any other.
Mr. Henry Craft has been selected as or
ator on Memorial Day.
-Atthousand people witnessed the begin
ming of the tramp last night.
The decoration of Confederate graves
will take place hext Sunday.
-OLeary fails to see any melody in the
song Cup in Balloon, Boys"
The moon will change and enter its fret
quarter at 2 o'clock this morning.
The young man who purchased a straw
hat was convinced of his mistake yesterday.
The trial of Louis Daltroff for forgery
comes off tomorrow in the Criminal Court.
Colonel Richard Norris, crier of the
United States Court, departed for jackson
yesterday.
The spring dogs are still roaming. The
police ought TO be instructed to kill every
tray canine.
Dresses of real black Spanish lace,
draped over red satin, will be popular din
ner dresses.
-Wilhelmina Fromm yesterday secured
divorce from her husband Nicholas, in the
Chancery Court.
The Ledger is authority for the state
ment that the celebrated "Msrk Twain" was
in the city Sunday for short time.
The Tuscumbia Alabamian says the Ohio
river corn is dirty and musty, and far infe-
rior to the st. Louis corn sold IN Memphis.
The Odd Fellows will entertain their
families and friends at their lodge-rooms in
Odd-Fellows' Hall Wednesday evening next
The husband of the crazy woman who
has several times put up at the stationhouse
has at last written to Chief Davis about her.
Sandy Matthews, the condemned muir
derer, was brought back from Jackson by the
sheriff of Madison county yesterday. He has
been sentenced to hang on the same day as
Bill Rivers, June ID.
Porcelain or soldier blue cloth Jersey
basques are used with the black silk or satin
duchesse skirts OF last season. Terra-cotta
cloth and dark olive green basques arc also
seen, with occasionally a velvet jacket.
Marriage licenses were granted yester-
day to Frank L. Hardin and Mamie J.
Lewis, Jack Isom ami Mollie Boyd, NJ. II.
Dozier and E. J. Evans, Cornelius Hamilton
and Annie Alexander, Allen Crane and
Esther Bethey.
Last night visitor at the walking match
shot at the target in the Exposition Building
and the ball went through the crack of the
walls and struck lady in Court street in
the neck, wounding her painfully but not
seriously. The police could not find the man
who did it.
Cicero Roberts, the young man accused
OF numbering a near relative near Tuscum-
bia, Ala, was handed over TO the Alabama
authorities Sunday. The officers sent to
fetch him declared that it was a very cold
blooded affair. Officer Mcfarland deserves
credit for his prompt arrest of The man.
Old lace curtains that have little holes
in the netting can be made TO appear whole
when they are laundried. Take piece of
lace, or very thin muslin, and when the cur
tain is starched, starch this piece also and
put it over the spot which needs mending
1t will show very little, if at all, and the
starch willkeep in place.
New Madrid, Mo-, sent an excursion
party to Memphis yesterday on the City of
composed of the following persons:
Mrs. Oscar Kachtizski, Miss Ella Kachtizski,
Mrs. Thomas Digs, Mrs. Lilburn Lewis,
Miss Mamie LsFarge, Miss Nellie Brough-
ton, Miss 7. Lewis, Miss Kate Ellis, and
Messrs. Albert Davis, ALT LaFarge, Casey
Newsome, Henry Cook, Robert Watson, John |
Harper. They took in the walking match |
last night.
-E-quire r. B. Miller is writing FIVE |
act play, which is rapidly being revised and |
subjected to finishing touches. The author |
links he can complete his labors in about |
light months. The title OF the play will be,
The Pedisree;; or The Gorernor's Ddughttr. |
It is written in blank verse, not too blank, !
,ut Just blank enough. Whether it will be |
played by Salvini or Sarah Bernhardt is, as
ret, unsettled.
The game of baseball at Olympic Park |
sunday proved livelier than was anticipated.
some 600 or more spectators were present, |
although the day was rather cool for the
port. The contrasting mines were the Mem
ibis Reds and james Carr's nine. The game
vas close up to the ninth inning. when the
core stood TO in favor of the Reds. The
tarr nine then experienced an epidemic OF |
Ieavy batting and made three additional
cores and then chicagoed the Reds.
The stocking of the coming season is
orgeous affair. 1t would seem that design
RS and manufacturers had suspended opera
ion in other directions and devoted them
elves exclusively to this particular detail of
be feminine wardrobe. II is in accordance
18th feminine perversity that just as design
nd manufacture have been completed,
ashton and her willing devotees should face
ght about and declare that there is nothing
ylish but black silk stocking, and should
lack dresses. but with white, pink and pale
lue ones. Terra Gotta and rose are the new
iades offered this season, and there are also
cry dark garnet, cardinal and brighter
turkey red, with porcelain blue, tan color,
rab, ecru, seal brown, navy blue, bronze and
ark green. The lsce-work open design and
and embroidery of self-color or in contrast
re the ornaments for silk or thread stock
gs to be worn with low slippers, and these
ippers, most often OF black satin, are so :
Try low at the toes'that the embroidery on {
e stockings begins Just above the pointed I
es and extends half way up 10 the knees.
nall red rosebuds are wrought on black, s
lle-blue, pink or ecru stockings, but the a
west style is the open lace-work with self
lored embroidery, ar else the whole stock '
& is of the lace-like design. But these go t
begging while women persistently draw
the plain black, and vainly i'm gine them
ing of beauty. r
PERSONALS.