Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-03
LgCAL PARAGRAPHS.


-PfoWlers abroad. c
Federal Decoration day. 4
Picnic al Fitzgi5bon's to-day. c
Yesterday was motion day in the Cir
nit Court.
The Italian picnic to be given next :
Wednesday will be an enjoyable shair.
Alex Hill, migrate and murderer, will q
ave a trial il the Criminal Court to- morrow. I
The Supreme Court affirmed Judge .
ireer's decision in the PIrnell csse yesisr-
lay.
Eighteen dollars and no victim Tor the
.hain-gang, was the result OF yesterday's
ieal at the Police Court.
"A rsg-selIer was arrested yesterday for
ALLURE TO pay license to the city. The rag
pickers' time will come next
Motion for nav trial in the case OF
Poston against the Water Company, was ar
zued in the Circuit Court yesterday.
The jury in the damsge suit of Green
against the Louisville and Nashville railroad
brought in a verdict for defendant yesterday.
The Alumni Society Of the Christian
Brethers' College will hold their semi annual |
meeting at the college Monday evening at 8
o'clock.
Prof. Haudwerksr, Mrs. Fits, Mrs. Gil
DIRT halQe ana Aiss bfAC6 Li-NcllyH arc
hard a. work training The children for
Iolanths.
Mrs. Josephine Duane arrived from New
York Yesterday, and returned last night with
the body Of her brother, Auguste Bernard,
the suicide.
-Msrshsll, the hackmsn, was fined SO
for disorderly conduct toward a countryman
yesterday. The charge OF attempt to rob |
was not sustained.
Elder Carter, of Ebenez n Baptist church, |
Chel.ea, will bsptizs aumber of persons in |
Wolf river, near the old factory lot, at 10 |
o'clock this morning.
in the Probate Court yesterday NJ aria L. |
Mckay wss sppoisted guardian of John o.
Mckay; o. A. Alsup, administrator de bonis
non of w. II. Longnecker.
The veterans who left Harden an county
in 1888, under command OF Gsu. r. ?.
Nicely, 10 remove the Cherokees, will hold
reunion at Bolivar tomorrow.
An inquest was held yesterday Upon the
body of Ers. Jennie Rogers, who died sud-
denly at Morgan's news stand, in Chelsea,
the evening before, of heart disease.
The programme for the concert to be
given at LeuErie's Theater TO morrow night,
| fer the benefit of Mrs. Hattie NJ. Trezsvaut,
| is published in this issue and promises to be
well attended.
The President and Board of School
Com missioners desire 10 return their thanks
| to those members of the Board who kindly
| acted as ushers at the closing exercises Of the
| public schools.
| The Rev. DR.. Sweeney, of Linden Street
| Chris ian church, will preach this morning
| on "Christiauity and Human Nature" and
| tonight on 'Christ and Miracles. Did He
| Work Them, and How?'
The verdict OF the jury in the case of
| Poston Us Water Company, being based, in
the opinion OF Judge Pierce, on miscoR-
ception of the charge, aud therefore exces-
sive, was reduced 10 $50.
DR.. Black, of the City Hospital. says
that the abatement regarding the hauling of
fishermen il the Pesthousc wagon is ipcer-
rect, and that it wss the team which came in
I behind his that hauled them.
| The ladies OF the Saff,rzns Street Meth
odist Episcopal church will give festival at
| Mr.. Days house, near tbs corner OF Fourth
and Loonsy streets, next Tuesday, June 5lh,
posiponement irem Lass Thursday. Ali
are Invited.
The grand jury found an indictment
yesterday az ainst The brutal darky who cut
little nswsboy in the foot, but have moi
yet found the man. 1t il said he sent his
1 GtAAay "a0 AOliOWCu yos-
ierday morning.
| On Monday, the 4th instant, John F.
Miles. with the consent and approval OF the
Hon. d. P. III ldden, will cal upon the CHI,
zens of Memphis for subscriptions for the
purpose of painting and pu ting in repair
the Court Square fountain.
| The Supreme Court, in session at Jack.
SOC, referred 10 the referees OF West Tennes.
see all the causes on the docket for this di-
vision up 10 January l, 1888, except the rev.
enue cases They entered upon their duties
in jackson on the 18th ullimo.
A mzu with bunged eye called al the
Board OF Health Office yesterday and want,
some medicine for it. He s;id: "a smail
boy throwed nay window gfSss in init stone
two times once. l vas doing uoding 10 de
country oud when them leetle rascal COON. >
Marriage licens,s were Issued ye,terday
| to Sam Malone and Mrs. Eliza Jone., Martin
Ryan and Miss Ann Coughiin, Dick Roy al
| Mrs. Mary Murphy, W. P. Echols and Mis-,
S. C. O'B,nnnn. Nose English and Miss Ma
tilds White.
Considerable damage to small bridges
| over the county is reported from LAST weeks
storm. In many places it swelled the creeks
TO small rivers asd swept the bridges bodily
away, and in others it came down hard
enough to beat Potatoes were washed W
from the ground.
Officer Hedrick found white woman il
starving condition near the Hebrew bury.
ing-ground yesterday and had her taken tC
the poorhouse. The neighbors state tn at she
is married to negro preacher named Collier
Arnold. Arnold, il is said, ran away wher
he saw Officer Hedrick approaching.
-Iu the Criminal Court, yesterday, jim
| and Rachel Shaw plead not guilty of receiv
ing stolen goods; JEFF. Davis, charged with
assault and battery, had his case reset fo
the 9th; Rachel Shav's bond was fixed a
$500, and j. Foppiano was fined $50 snC
sentenced to three months for beating Thoma
! Waters.
. The Baptist Mission Board have de
TRIMMED to build mission church in For
Pickering. The following persons hay,
been appointed TO call on all the citizens o
South Memphis to aid them in purchasing
lot and erecting a suitable building: Th,
Rsy. Mr.. Lipssy, S. J. Bolton, Mrs. Milton
| and Mrs. Bartholomew.
Three dom chickens were stolen Frida,
night from B. Colin, who keeps grocery OF
Railroad avenue, and yesterday morning Con
stable Garvin found dozen IF them at tn,
houie of Alice Van Dyke on the same rect
The balance had been sold BY the thief Il
the m,nager Of a church festival. Tn,
woman was locked up.
LA front of the courthouse vesterds,
Clerk and Master Black, of the CHANGER,
Court, sold lot No. 4, 45ixl5O feet, on to,
south slice of Vance, 100 feet west eff Her
| nando, TO M. ]. Blessing, for S27 foot front
also lot on Allen'sIavenue, 4I3xl82 feet, I,
John Miller, for S13 so foot front, and th,
lot adjoining to the same party for the sam,
price.
j. W. Jones, sheriff of Robinson county
Tex, arrived last night to look at Estes, tn
man who was knocked in the head in Mis.is
sippi county, Ark, some two months ago, by
Hawkins, who it will be remembered wa
killed By sbsriff's posse while resisting ar
.. rest. Estes, il he is the right man, is wanted
in Robinson county for the murder of BIZ
uncle eight years sgo.
The victim of a $40 fine by the Pslic,
Il Court yesterday morning threatened to ap
peal the case. $50 right along and appeal,
: said the Court; "nothiag gives me NOR,
pleasure tbzn TO have my decisions carried
! up TO the highest courts to be returned in
! dorsed, ss every one has been that has beer
carried up. The opinions from nay bench h ~,
been dissected by every court from Greer tc
Stanley Matthews, aud not one has been re-
' rsed or even revised"
Here's your man, Squire" said tn,
| Court 10 one of his attorneys yesterday morn
ing. "Here's the m an you've been THROWN.
| up TO me ever since Pve been on the bench. ,
} "Who's the man ye're talkin' about, vel
: bonor?" "Daniel O'Connell, drunk and dis
orderly. Just watch me get even on him
g." The police Attorney General Jun ped tc
his feet and yelled. "Your honor, D,uiel
| OConnell was known as the Kerry Eagle
but his would-be prototype standing at my
elbow is known as the Pinch Chicken"
Justice Fleming held an inquest yester
day upon the body of an infant, aged ons
hour. TIE mother, colored woman named
Mollie Lee, lives on Causey street, and wal
| entirely alone when the child was born, tn.
| child's father, a roustabout named Bill
| Clemens, having run away a few hours be-
fore. she had no money, no comforts, nj
bread, no medicine and no friends. Justic,
| Fleming sent out and bought her some tea
and made such other arrangements as he
| could for her comfort
| An old negro man named John Ebert
seveuty-6ve years Of age and with Ions
white beard flowing upon his breast, came il
| on the Memphis and Carleton railroad
4 Yesterday hound froua Geor0is IN Tsrxa n.