Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-10
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Planters complain of too much rain.
! Sweet potatoes are abundant on the
market.
There is painfal dullness in business
generally.
| -Canteloupes and watermelons can be had
| at buyers prices.
] Main street merchants are painting and
| fixing their stores for an early fall trade.
| What has become of the proposition to
convert the Chickasaw parade ground into a
park?
-Housekeepers complain of the inferior
| quality of beef offered for sale in the market
houses.
-Memphians are not much afraid OF the
| yellow-fever being brought from Texas to
this city.
The question agitaiing the public mind
is, "When will Poplar street be recon-
structed?"
-Cantaloupes, cucumbers and tomatoes
are still being shipped by carloads from
Memphis to the North.
The enforcement of the ~ O'Clock law
with saloons makes Memphis after that hour
a sleeping and orderly city.
Now that the election for county officers
ia over, the ward bummers find consolation
in free lunches and borrowed hsmmocks.
Another marriage association was regis
tered yesterday for charter under the name
of the National Furniture Gift Association
Mr. J. E. Dalton and Mrs Maggie e
Moore, and Wiley Knox and Sarah Sim
nous, colored, were licensed yesterday to
marry.
The work of paving Bull Run street
progresses slowly. The recent rains have
rendered the grading "heavy" and unwieldy
with mad.
The Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwest
ern railway contractors are busy grading off
their depot grounds on The river front, south
of Beale street.
-Frcst's cracker factory and SeessePs
meat packery are rapidly approaching COM
pletion. Such establishments bring money
to Memphis.
Double daily passenger trains will be re-
sumed on the Memphis and Little Rock
railway next Sunday week. The heavy in
crease in travel demands it,
The only night amusements TO be in
obliged in at present are the csrd-table and |
''verand al talk" The former are numerous, |
the latter "quiet but steady"
Work is progressing slowly but steadily |
on the customhouse, and its splendid proper |
lions begin to loom up in all the msgnif-
cerce of architectural grandeur.
Several eostly residences and business |
houses are in process of construction in this |
city, besides considerable amount of re-
pairing and reconstruction of old buildings. |
The stranger coming into our gates by
way of the river must be struck very forci- /
bly, with the PROVINCIAL picture presented |
when game of baseball is in full blast on
the Chickasaw parade-ground.
-Morket hucksters complain of the
plentiful growth of getables and other |
garden truck" rendering their incomes
small The gardeners are virtually giving
away stuff" there being no sale.
Monroe street, from Main to Front. is
now one of the most popular drives in the
city. A drayman will haul load ten
squares out of mis- way to take that thorough
fare in his route TO and from the wharf.
Cholera has broken out in China, and if |
Memphis people are not careful of what
amount of vegetables they nowaday eat they
may take collie of different stages. The rains |
now falling create unhealthy garden food.
Baseball has become a mania with the |
youngsters of North Memphis On vacant /
lots can be seen daily crowds of white and |
colored boys engaged in the game, who make |
the neighborhood resound with their Indian |
war-whoops.
The fruit merchant who makes his |
daily visit 10 the So burban orchard to secure |
mis- bssketful of stock for the days trade.
makes lively kick when required to put a
nickel in the street-car box for the basket as |
well as one for himself
The festival which was 10 have been
given by the ladies of the Alabama street |