Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-14
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Brooks is keeping shady.

Joe Brooks is keeping shady.
| The Theater was closed last night.
The County Court war will be resumed
at an early day.
| A few more -~; '''-e that of Thursday
4 would sw dlul city.
| Why don't L. Lunacy "Guv'' Hawkins
| send those commissions?
| The terrific rain of Thursday night
ceased yesterday morning
| M. F. Philibert has sold out the Cont
mental Hotel to L. Foucault.
There will be no matinee at the Theater
| to-day, and no performance there tonight.
The excellent drainage of Memphis pre-
| served her from being flooded, as was Nash
vile.
General G. P. NJ. I. wants repose about
| the magistrate matter for few days. What's
| in the wind?
Mike Garvin says G. NJ. P. rs paper
| ought to be called the "Keen Kutter" How
would the ''Skimeter" do?
AT the Shadow of Death Theater to-
| night the great play of Shadopcs will be pre-
sented before shadowy audience.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday
to Isaac Wilson and Susan Bright, Richard
W. Watkins and Mrs. NJ Lou Murphy.
OF all the samples OF picayunish parsi-
iuOuy, lnaI 10 ueHY lHe teachers Iuelr money
during Christmas week takes the cake.
twenty-five emigrants came down the
river yesterday on the Golden Rule, and
opped at Elmot, where they propose TO To-
cate.
Squire Spelman held an inquest yester-
day on Ralph Watson, colored, who died on
the Coahoma. Natural causes" was the
verdict.
The pugilistic encounter between Gene
raj q. p. NJ. Turner and the County Court
takes place Monday. Pews are free and all
are invited to attend.
The meanest of employers is the man
who gives his employees a holiday and
charges them with it. From such an one
good Lord deliver us.
The Office of the Scuppernong Wine
Company, at No. Madison street, was
broken into night before last, and eleven
sample bottles of wine taken.
General G. p. NJ. Turner asked the AP-
PEAL reporter yesterday to let up about the
County Court business for a few days.
Squire Quigley is willing 10 let the matter
rest as it is.
Two important land sales are to be m ade
at the courthouse at noon to-day-the
chancery clerk disposing of one hundred and
forty acres eighteen miles north of the city,
and the County Court clerk putting up the
Farrell land.
The Legislative Council should consider
at once the paving of Second street with stone.
1t would be a relief TO Main street, and
would make Second as live as it was in the
past with business.
"A slight fire occurred yesterday morning
about 3 o'clock in the building on the north
east corner of Main and Jefferson streets.
The fremen discovered the cause very soon
and put the fire out.
A magistrate yesterday said that the
paragraph in the ArPEAL stating that the
County Court and General Turner were oEt,
was correct so far as the court was concerned.
1t was out about 5000.
An old pauper, Michael OSullivan, said
to be from Memphis, got off the steamer City
Of Helena at Cairo Wednesday, was stopped
by the authorities and placed upon the boat
cain, and ordered to be taken back to this
city.
The committee to whom was referred the
matter of the teachers salaries during the
Christmas holidays, have decided to report
in favor of it. This will be gratifying to the
decent and respectable people of the city.
Every school in every country known to civ
nized man allows the teacher a holiday dur
ing Christmas week. The individual mean
enough to deny them ought to go into a hole
and pull the hole in upon him.
The Tupelo Miss Journal pays the |
APPEAL the following gratifying compli-
uent: THE prospectus of the Memphis AP-
PEAL for 1882 will be found in another
column of the Journal This old reliable
Democratic paper Is deservedly popular
throughout the South, and especially so in
Mississippi, to whose political and material
interests it has contributed so largely. No
paper published out of the State deserves a
more liberal support from the people OF Mis-
sissippi than the Memphis APPEAL"