Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-01
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The Kyle employs a man with the belly
ache 10 do its whistling for it.
Alex Hill was arraigned for murder yes
terday, snd pleaded not guilty.
The burning OF the old stationhouse yes.
terday will assure Us better one.
IT III. Hartmus was appointed guardian
of the person of Virgil c. Russell yesterday.
Garrett Costen and Riley Paine got four
years for horse stealing yesterday from Judge
Horrigan.
The sparrow may be used for food, as
he becomes very fat and is as good eating as
young quail.
The minstrel band made good music
yesterday and attracted general attention
that of the small boy especially.
w. r. Briggs Boston operate Min
strels performed 10 good house at the
Greenlaw Operahouse last night.
The ex. Confederates who propose to help
DR.. j. Berrien Lindsey in the military an
mails Of the State should report promptly.
The Charlotte Thomp-on party will ar
rive this morning by the Kate Adams from
Heens, and open at the Theater tonight in
Jane Eyre.
The Lirss of IRushious Shoemokers, by
William Edward Winks, price twenty-five
| cents, has just arrived at Mansford's, 29S
Main street.
The Ledger wants Col. Marsh Polk to
| tell all he knows about the corruptions at
| the capital into which he was led and by
which he became defaulter.
The people OF Memphis are indignant
at the mere thought Of Nicolsen or wood
pavement after their many sad experiences
of it the past fourteen years.
J The motion for new trial in the Dixie
Knight case was overruled yesterday BY
Judge Horrigan, who sentenced the criminal
to twelve years in the peni,entiary.
| The following numbers drew capital
| prizes in the Commonwealth Lottery Com
pany at Louisville, XIV, yesterday: Nos
4l.s0l drew $4,000; 96,207, $4,000; 9s49,
| $4,000.
| The verdict of the people is for stone
block pavement all the time an everywhere.
Wood pavement breeds disease, and the Tel
ford and macadam on Adams and Jefferson
makes mud.
The man who drives fast horse wants
| q smooth pavement OF wood, but the man
who wants the health of the city preserved,
and its good name sustained, is in favor of a
stone pavement.
Capt. John Overton is right. The mere
announcement that Nicolson pavement was
EOluS u Uc put uOHu III WOulu
jure her abroad with just the class of PEG.
pie we want to come here.
-Haverly's Mastodons will be here the
latter part OF uext week. The main features
of the Sam Hague minstrels have been added
| to the company. In the way of negro
minstrel mastodonic enterprise, Haverly
takes the cake.
The Nicolson pavement has been 9
stencil 10 the nosirils of the people of Mem
phis ever sincs it was put down. They were
swindled in the cost of it, and lost Thousand,
of their kindred through decimating diseases
I perpetuated and aggravated by it.
The newest bracelets, though not tht
most popular, are made of links. Thos,
made Of graduated cubes of gold and firmly
fastened together are thought quite stylish
The plain Roman gold bands aud ornament
ed etruscan have lost none OF their popu
iarity.
l. DIR. Thornton, the health officer of th,
Taxing District, and recognized authorit,
on sanitary subjects, is utterly and all ths
time opposed to wooden pavements. Rottins
wood he knows is potent factor 10 tn
origin and perpetuaiion OF many preventa
BILE diseases.
An informal meeting OF the committe,
to arrange for the lecture of Gen. Flzhugl
| Lee Was neiO dt tue OIuce OF uOSe helSkel
yesterday afternoon. Another meeting viii
be had this evening, when the reports of tn,
various sub committees will be heard, ant
all arrangements completed.
The Mennerchor will give grand IN as
, querade ball next Monday evening, Marcel
9Th. at the old Mmnnerchor Hall, corner o
Jefferson and Second streets, for member
, and invited friends. Invitations can be pro
cured at the following business places: Loui
: Keith, o. Zimmerman, F. Telling W. +
, Moews, r. Kumpf, j. Nagel.
-Adolpbus Anderson and Mrs. Margare
A. Wilson, J. L. Goodbsr, jr., and Mrs IA,
DePass, Ike N. Newman and Lille APR
Frank Orr and Miss Sarah Gibson, Isaa
Hunt and Mira. Psrtbenia Patterson, Loui
Durenberger and Miss Frances L. Ge,z, Job
> S. Brown and Miss Mary E Speed, Richar
! Halliday and Miss Liza Butner, james Blac
and Miss Critic Jones were granted mai
I riage licenses yesterday.
The English spsrrows are the most eff
cient and valuable insectivorous birds on tn
premises, and though unless fed in the sprin
: with vegetable offal will eat the early spin
sch and lettuce and the first tender leaves Q
fruit trees, they do not eat TO an extent {
cause material damage. They eat no frui
e of any kind. When insects appear in th
!. spring, up to June or August, they appear {
be unremitting in feeding upon them.