Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-24
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Fra Diouolo tonight.

Fra DtoUot0 TO might.
Baseball Guide, 1888, at Mansford's.
The County Court will tackle the tan.
cent road tax to-day.
The Proudft- Winberg murder trial will
be resumed this morning.
The police made seventy-seven arrests
on Saturday and Sunday.
The programme of seats for the Mozart
Concerts can be seen in Leidy's window.
The Sisters concert promises to be one
Of the pleasaniest events of the season.
The United States Court met at j sck son,
Tenn, yesterday, Judge d. NJ Key presiding
The gate receipts during the spring race
meeting were much larger than those of the
fall meeting.
The Jockey Club has filed its subscrip-
ton OF $4,000 for the purchase OF new
track near town.
The sale of seats for the Sisters concert
is going on famously. One young lady sold
thirty five yesterday.
Two frame shanties on Third street, be.
tween Greeniaw and Mill, were buried yes
terday afternoon. The loss about 5000.
There is talk of a new cotton seed oil
mill soon to be built in Memphis. The men
engaged in the enterprise are prominent in
business circles.
Prof Barney Hughes has kindly con-
senied 10 make it lively for the bidders at
the auction this morning, in the rotunda of
the Peabody Hotel.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday
to J. s. Rumbey and Dsniza McCorkle, Frank
Soyer and Miss Julia Frssou, P. B. Baker
and Mrs. Henrietta Anderson.
The monhly meeting of the Baptist
Missionary Society was held at the First
church Sunday nigh. The exercises CON-
| sisted OF music, an address by missionary
| to Africa, and the usual collection.
in an alteration on the corner of Sec
ond aud J Jefferson streets, Sunday mig hit, John
| Maley, :, cond cook on the steamer Ida Oar
rsgh, sashed the cheek of Joe Clark, cook
on the James Lee. Maley was arrested.
Judge Greer yesterday ordered DR.. Will
liiord, the Jail physician, to inspect the
| quarters of the insane inmates of the poor
house, in consequence of complaints that
these unfortuuates were not we'll provided
| for.
One of the jury men in the Proudft- Win
berg murder case wrote a note 10 a friend
yesterday afternoon, when they were ordered
| 10 be put under lock and key by direction of
| Judge Greer: Il am stuck on the jury. Send
me some poker checks and a new deck OF
cards"
! This morning the long -looked- for auction
Of choice seats for the Mozart Festival takes
| place at the Peabody Hotel. The Mozart
Gazette, second edition, awaits the name OF
the fortunate bidder 10 herald it within a
radius Of Memphis trade, in an edition oil
$4,000 copies.
The Hess Opera Csnpany will arrive
from New Orleans this morning. They give
1 Hro 10 oh ToI0nfha WaInaaAau
Faust thursday, Ohuette Friday, Bohemian
Girl at the Saturday matinee, and Mariana
| Saturday evening. This engagement closes
| the regular amusement season at the Theater
The ChickosaW Messenger says: "There
seems TO be but little prospect of the Mem
phis, Selma and Brunswick railroad being
| built ct an early day, but we hope some
company having the means and energy suffi-
cisnt to put it through will take the place of
Wolfe and his crowd" The APPEAL hopes
so too.
The Mutual Aid Committee of the Mer.
| chan,s' Exchange met yesterday afternoon
and adopted code of bylaws for that de.
psrtment, which will be submitted 10 G N.
eral meetiug to be held at l o'clock This
| afternoon. They embrace nearly the same
matter az those recently adopted by similar
department. OF the Cotton Exchange.
The will of John A. Appleton, of D.
Appleton & Co, the famous New York pub.
lishers, was probated Yesterday, on a
transcript from his home, S1uthfeld, Rich
mond county, n. Y the probate was made
necessary by the fact that the Iestator owned
some property 10 this county. The principal
bequest II the viii is one of 100000 TO his
wife.
] Cincinnati Commercial Castle, Sunday:
Yesterday was Judge Hammond's forty
third birthday, and the deputies of the
| United States clerks office-George, Neyen
| and DJrman-presented him with an elegant
basket of flowers. His honor was delighted
and ne cent the bes utiful flowers to his wife
al Memphis, Tenn, as a souvenir Of Ii:
event."
| Eddie Noonan, the young SOC of Mr.
| John NooDan, the Johnson avenue grocer, was
drowned in Bayou Gayoso, Yesterday, BE-.
tween the Louisville and Nashville rail.
roaa machine shops and the depot. He was
wading in the overflow on the side of the
bayou, and accidentally slipped off into
deep water. His body was recovered at IL
O'Clock last night.
Manager Frank Gray is to have his an
nusi benefit on the All of May. The per-
Torrance will begin with the little com sdy,
1Uo Can Play at that Game. Miss Grace
Lie Sellyn and Messrs. Louis Davis and
| George Coleman will be the principal mem
bers Of he cast. Following this will come
the operetta, Gyp Junior. The APPEAL pub-
lished list of the performers in the operetta
Sunday morning.
| w J. MeDermott has been arrested on
a warrant sworn cut by Joha D. Milburn,
charging him with embszzIing $4,000 be-
longing to the Shelby County Build ,ng aud
Loan Association whIle secretary of that in
slltutlon. Med rmott e ave bond in the cum
OF $4,000 for his appearance before Justice