Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-23
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Good Friday.
R aces tomorrow afternoon.
The vernal equinox was a vilainous af-
fair.
The Legislative Council meets tomorrow
afternoon.
The churches are being decorated for
Easter.
The Cbancery Court has been diourned
over 10 next Monday,
The grand jury meets to day, and will
report 10 Judge Pierce.
The Cbickasaw Guards will hold an i'm
poriant meeting night.
Harm IN Simmer and Miss Emma Cherry
got license TO m AIRY yesterday.
The theatrical season closes May I'd, with
Carrie Swain 10 Nab, the Miners Daughter.
The sale of seals for the engagement Of
Ford's Opera Company begins this morning.
A passenger who came in on the MissIs
sipp and Teunesses road yesterday says no
snow fell beyond Whitehaven.
The STOW has disappeared except in a
few secluded spots, " here il visits IN slippery
silence for the uuwsry pedestrian.
The Cbickssaw Guards will give dress
psrsde by the COMPANY, instead OF plume
drill, at the hop mex Tuesday night.
The Easter openings of several promi-
nent dry goods and millinery houses drew
crowds of ladies 10 Nam street yesterday.
"A number of teiegfan3s were sent TO
Gov. Bate yesterday, urging the appointm ent
| OF James NJ. Greer 10 the criminal judgeship.
Good Friday dinners at 302 Main street.
| The ladies ask their housekeeper friends 10
| remember this, to some extent, in sending
contributions.
Among the coming theatrical events is
| The Devils Auction, a combination Of ballet
and pautomime. 1t is billed for the 5lh, 9th
and 7th of April.
| Kate Clsxton will appear at Ieubrie's
three nights, beginning April 18th. No jokes
about 40 increase in the rate of FIRE insur-
ance will be allowed.
| Drivers of garbage carts have been in.
structed not 10 gather up garbage in yards or
scattered on the sidewalks, but to take only
that placed in convenien. vessels or boxes on
the street.
The Memphis and Ohio River Packet
| Company are arranging excurrioss 10 Gin
cinnati during the Dramatic Festival. Tnir.
ty day tickets will be issued. Good for
passage on any boat Of the line.
Mr.. George B. Peters, it,, te.egraphed
from Nashville yesterday to President II adj.
den, that the city debt compromise bill had
passed it's second reading in the House
| Should it pass on the third and 6pal reading
ii b comes 6nality.
Mrs. c. II. Kenney, who lives Two m i es
out on Union avenue, reported 10 the police
last night that her son. Weldon Kenney
thirteen years old, had disappeared. She
sent him into town last Tuesdsy to get The
maii, and has neither seen nor heard any
thing OF him since he left home.
The saie Of unclaimed articles in tn,
hands OF the Southern Express Company il
going on at S.oddsrd's, on Main rect. A
buyer yesterday bid in trunk for SIS, ENC
found in il only pair OF empty saddlebsgs
worth about fifteen CENTS. Another ant
more fortunate ,psculator got for triHe
package containing q nice gold watch.
The New Memphis Jockey Club will
D give purses for three races, 10 be Juu at tn
I Fair Grounds to morrow. There will b
, two fat and one hurdle. A number of goo
horses, alter win,eripg at the track, are no,
" being trained for the racing season. aud ar
in good condition; and frst-class runnin
. may De expected. A train will be run q
:. the Charleston road.
: Louis Firth got judgment for so
against WA. Smith and Virginia Aver,
{ in the Circuit Court yesterday. The defent
ants chsrtersd the steamer 81. P E gers
/ carry lot of freight down the river duriu
the yellow-fever epidemic OF 1879. Tt
steamer stuck on q sandbar three mil,
above Helena, Ark, and the owner was d
. Prived of its use far beyond the time spsc
n He'd in the contract of charter. Hence Il
/ suit.
Nashville World, Yesterday: Jam,
Lavslie, of Memphis, sent to the penitenti AZ