Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-17
5000 REMNANTS
E M BROIDE RIES.
AT HALF'PRICE.
COTTON, MERINOiAND W00L!HALF HOSE
3PAIR FOR 81.
LADIES HOSE, TN ALL STYLES,
sPAIR FOR 81.
Misses Ezancv Hose
25 CENTS PAIR.
ALL OF OUR WOOL HOSIERY
AT EASTERN COST.
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ADJUSTMENTS,
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LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Weather hacky.
NO MardiGras this year.
Barrett tonight in Francesca dd Rimini.
Several railroad excursions will be run
during the Langtry engagement.
The Thomas B. Morton cases have been
reset for trial on January is, 1883.
The penitentiary lessees have been or
dered to come for the convicts in Jail.
The conveyance OF T. B. Allen to J.
Baum was bill of sale and not an assign.
ment.
Prof. o. s. Fowler lectured at the Chris
tian church last night on success and Fail
ure in Life"
The first engine on the Memphis and
Selma road was run yesterday over the track
as far as finished.
meeting TO hear the report of the citizens
committee and discuss it.
Lawrence Barrett last night had another
large and enthusiastic house. francesca is
certainly popular success in Memphis.
Dixie Knight will not be tried on next
Thursday in the Criminal Court, because Of
the ASCENDING Of State witness, Mrs..
Hicks.
George Harper yesterday got one year
in the penItentiary for stealing blanket.
George is a workman on the Mississippi
levees.
Henry Williams, for bringing stolen
property Into the State, was given three
years in the peuitentiary 10 the Criminal
Court yesterday.
The Cleaner, edited by Mrs. Angus
Campbsll and published by the Women's
Christian Association, for anuary, has been
received at this Office.
There was good sale of Langtry seats
yesterday. The amount realized was about
$500. The sale Of single nights begins to-
day. Seats will be reserved in the gallery.
Mr.. ]. I. Fargason has been elected
president OF the Memphis Street Railway Com
pany. Mr.. Raphael Semmes continues as
superintendent and Mr.. George Vance as
secretary.
About II o'clock yesterday morning an
open.face gold watch was stolen from Mrs.
Kestersop, who lives near Elmwood Gene
terry. The thief is supposed to be colored
woman, who was visiting the lady's cook.
Kate Moss, who stole number of arti-
cles from the family of Capt. w. B. Weisiger,
was tried before Judge Borrigan yesterday
and sentenced 10 three years in the peniten-
tiary. Her father, John Mos, was discharged.
Judge Patrick Winters, OF this city, has
completed line OF two miles and 900 feet
of levee, eight feet high and thirty.6ve to
fifty base, at what is known as the Dufiu
break, below Arkansas City, 200 miles south
of here.
j. l. Cooper, who was on his way from
Trenton, Tenn, TO Fort Smith, Ark, died
early yesterday morning at his room in this
city. Aijury of inquest was held yesterday,
and the verdict rendered was congestion Of
the brain.
Frank Spencer and Martha Stephens,
Enoch Boleyp and Sarah E. White, A. ].
Harrison and Mary NJ. Hodges, George Ter
rell and Ella Jefferson, Marshall Lane and
Mary Lofand, Sampson Snipes and Helen o.
Brown, were granted marriage licenses yes
terday.
The jury in the chaucery case of Payne
rs. Smith yesterday found the main issue
"That the deed made by George W. Payne
to his sister, Mary J. Smith Chen Moore)
was an absolute deed" thus virtually decid-
ing the question OF rights of property in
favor OF Mrs. Smith.
The Memphis Mutual Aid Society,
which was considered one of the most stable
of the kind, has succlmbed. The predictions
OF the APPEAL have been fully realized. The
matrimonial ard mutual aid frauds have all
gone overheard, and this is about the "last
rose Of summer" Ia tai
About 80 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
as George Young, engineer of the elevator,
was standing in the front part of the ele-
vator, he was shot in the forehead BY an
unknown party from the direction of the
coal fleet. Fortunately the ball was nearly
spent when it hit him, and it merely went
into the skin. Mr.. Young says this careless
shooting is OF frequent occurrence.
Chief Davis received yesterday the fol-
lowing telegram from Brinkley, Ark: "My
daughter, fourteen years old, ran away last
night with Mr.. Iagram, fruit agent. She
is rather tall Tor her age, and he is low and
chunky. She wears black Derby hat, and
has valise with my name at the bottom.
Prevent license for marriage. Arrest and
send me word. She wears a dark worsted
dress. Answer. VIM. Spofford."
The following gentlemen have applied
for membership in the Cotton Exchange. and
will be balloted for January 18th: John A.
Post, John Overtop, jr., james Lee, jr, j.
Stanwood Menken, a L. Brinkley. With
the above names the membership numbers
subscription, and when the 200 seats, to
which number the membership is limited, ID
taken up, the admission will probably be in.
creased to $500.
Two little children whose mother told
them they must not spend their money fol-
candies, ETC., but ought to give il to help
rebuild their,church 1.-THE First Presbyterian
| were the first to contribute cash to the fund
The little girl had been sick and had 81 for
| taking medicine, and the little boy had the
| same amount for doing work about the house