Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-09-28
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

-Chapeery Court begins Monday.
The WessqH case has been reset for
trial October 10th,
The motion docket Of tho United
States Court will be called Saturday next.
A fine of - was imposed upon Grand
| JuFyRap IA Wilson yesterday, for being
absent.
Rachel Long Was pa, e,iaer Il bond OF
| $3.50 to appear as Il witness against Dennis
Taylor.
The new posters advertising the fall
meeting of the Jockey Club are pretty
enough to frame.
The trial OF Tom Bartlett for stealing
Il mule from W. p, Budget has been set
Tor October eth.
George B. Peters, IT,, was made adj
ministrator OF the estate OF Thomas Peters,
in the Probate Court yesterday,
Winchester avenue presents d queer
! contradiction. 1t is paved with stone and
has not a street lamp from one end to the
other.
W. r. Lane, sheriff of Craighead
county Ark, has written Sheriff Cannon
to hold Lee Tatum, the househr2aker, I'M
til his arrival.
The public schools will open on MOf1-
lay BeSi. The teachers will meet Satur-
day corning st 9 O'Clock at the Market
street schoo,,'eousc.
In the Cr;m;pa'' Court yesterday the
bonds of G. +. Ringwald IA -" Tits'M'
manslaughter, were forfeited; DO" D"''Ji'
petit larceny, not guilty.
"A telegram was received yesterday
from w. W. Dickens, Batesville, Miss,
asking hat the body of his relative, who
died on a steamer, be shipped to him.
Judge Eldridge yesterday granted let
tiers of guardianship to +. W. Royster, of
Benny, Mary, Ella and Charles L. Allen;
also made him guardian OF Mary Lee
Chatiin.
The pavement on Marshall avenue was
the theme OF an order to the police depart
ment by President MADDEN during Police
sessions yesterday. 1t must be liked in
stanter.
Licenses TO marry were issued yester-
day to Andy Warfieet and Fannie Steger,
q. c. Kubler and X. Annie Hubbard, sam
uel Ashner and Frederika Karleboch,
Henry Edmonds and Mollie Radford.
The following numbers drew the capt.
tai prizes in the first drawing of the Henry
College Lottery, at Louisville, KY, yester-
day, 18th: No. 54,S33 drew $4,000; Co.,
Oh, $4,000; 2l,267, 5000; 32,623, $500;
60, IA, $500.
"A suit for $500 damages has been en-
tered before Justice Fleming by Lula
Woods against l.. Porter, whom she ac-
cuses of damaging her reputation by
causing her to be untrue to her maidenly
instincts, etc.
The contractors on Rayburu avenue
have begun work at the South street inter
section, which is now barricadcd against
travel from South to Georgia. Persons
going out Rayburn must 90 down Main or
the street east of Rayburn, to Georgia.
-Parson Tally needs to show his thin"
book, the one with the pages well filled
with names and amounts, and not the fat
one, with but few entries. What has the
parson done with his thin book? Has he
led it to the thin and hungry orphans?
A true bill for murder in the first de-
gree was found by the grand jury yester-
day against Dennis Taylor, who fatally
stabbed Jack Cannon on the bluffs near
the foot of Beale street not long since.
The ease was set Tor trial next Thursday.
The steamers Lee and Coahoma are to
be lit by electricity us soon as their out
fits, which have been ordered, can arrive.
They will have three lights each. The
headlights are SO00Ncandle power each,
and are said to be the largest in the South.
Blind John conway got on q high
"Wednesday in honor OF the advent OF the
circus, kicked all the bark off of Officer
Horan's shins, tor which he appeared be-
fore the Police Court. In consideration of
old citizenship and his helpless infirmity,
he was discharged.
Bob 0verton, a laborer from Missouri,
fell while walking along Main near Beale
street yesterday evening, and struck his
head against the sharp corner of a stone
pedestal. He was senseless when picked
up by Officer Hurst, but recovered o
after his arrival at the stationlrouse,
whittier he was carried in a wagon.
The Virginia State Fair opens at Rich