Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-09
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Work has been resumed on the Beale
street paving. Ten days ought to finish it
Rain again yesterday. These afternoon
showers are becoming too numerous for the
| good OF cotton.
r. r. Douglas and g. P. Robson were
unanimously elected honorary members OF
the Waldran Guards last night.
1t is reported that the workingmen's
| unions will have grand mass meeting, with
music, fireworks, etc., on the bluff about the
18th instant.
Mr.. G. Adolph Fechner and Miss Will
| liamena Yerger, whites, and james Coleman
and Laura Fizer, colored, were granted mar
riage licenses yesterday.
-1Ficks of the Greeks Unveiled, by Robert
HoudiD, and Contraband, by G. ]. Whyte-
Melville, are the latest in cheap form at
Mans'ord's, 298 Main street,
Certificates are now ready for the re-
cently-elected county officers, magistrates,
constables, etc. Those whose places are not
contested can qualify Immediately.
I'm the drawing of the Louisiana State
Lottery yesterday, The capital prize OF S75 900
was drawn by No. 56,021, the $25,000 by No.
1888, and the $4,000 by No. 3S, 450.
The Little Havana's drawing yesterday
resulted as follows: No. 1886 drew $4,000,
No. 1892 drew $1,000, and No. S731 got
$3.50; Nos. 1896, 1885, 1897 and 17,777, each,
$3.50.
The cedar paving on Jefferson street will
be completed in few days. The success of
this wood paving will be watched very
closely, there being 80 many people opposed
to it. If any wood is durable as paving
material, heart-cedar ought to be.
The Memphis Zouave Guards will give
a street parade at o'clock on Thursday
av and draas dill AMI he Inf off
which they will have grand picnic at
Avery Chapel park, to which invitations
have been extended to the other military
companies, preparatory TO leaving for Co.
lumbus, ..
Green Evans, who had been in the
United States mail service as route agent, |
has been turned out of his place. He has |
always been an earnest Republican, aud had |
considerable influence with the colored peo- |
pie, bot in the last election on the Low |
tax Republican ticket This probably |
cooked" him at headquarters.
Another matrimonial association is to /
be organized in Memphis. petition was
presented yesterday for charter for the
Memphis Marriage Union. I. B. billiard, J.
w. A. Jones, S. L. Sanders, w. E. Young
and F. Patterson are 10 be the charter mem
bers. 1t proposes mutual benevolence and
support, nd to promote economy, morality
and matrimony.
The aggregate assessment of Shelby
county property is S1s907 ,553, which is
made up of the following items: 456,65S
acres of land, valued at s., 2S3, 2ss; 11,15s
lots, at 81, 7S4, 1S2; personal property, ST.
$40, 1873. The total tax on this, with the
railroad and telegraph yet to be added, is
S151 ,260 80. The books will be placed in
the trustees hands on the second Monday in
September.
The present decline of the river shows
that there has been no settling or washing
away of the lower levee. With the bluffs
between the railroad tracks and river taken
away, the whole area paved and all OBJ
strucLions removed, the levee is now clean
and capacious. The big freight depot of the
Chesapeake, Ohio and Northwestern, between
Union and Beale, will be a splendid substi-
ute for the ragged old bluffs.