Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-12-18

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LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Those who have holiday gifts for sale
are doing a good business.
Sale of seats for the Charlotte Thomp-
son engagement opens to-day.
The Pat Haley murder was called in
the Criminal Court yesterday.
-Patrolman Basket broke a bone in his
hand yesterday tusseling with a rascally
drunk.
Mr.. John ]. Barry, as the editor of the
Bazar Gazette, will WELD a good pencil for
a good cause.
There was a morning session of the
Circuit Court yesterday and a number of
cases continued.
Licenses to marry were issued to J. w
Wright and Sallie A. Hunt, James Jones
and Mamie Mitchell.
In an architectural sense, Memphis
needs reform as much almost as she did
municipal regeneration.
The Women's Christian Association
meets at $50 o'clock this afternoon, at 25S
Main street, on important business.
The Masonic lodges of this city will,
on Friday night next, elect sfficers to serve
during 1884, which is now very near.
In the Criminal Court yesterday Geo.
Washington was fined $50 and sentenced
to sixty days, for assault n battery.
-Saw-dust over the boiler of Cochran's
mill caught fire at $50 o'clock last night,
but was extinguished without material
loss.
"A select hop will be given Thursday
evening, December 9th, at the Priddy
IJA,za ~ fhn Turflsnht plAndY,rn SAnI-n,.s
Club.
Heroes and Heroines of Scottish His
tory" formed the subject of Prof. Cars
lecture last evening at the First Baptist
church.
The Chancery Court adjourned yester-
day in honor of the memory of Judge
George Dixon, who was once the judge of
that court.
The grand entrance of the new syna-
| gogue looks like a hole in the wall, and
| destroys the effect the building would 9TH
erwise produce.
-Frayser Prewitt, who committed an
assault with a razor, was fined SO and
sentenced to thirty days, in the Criminal
| Court yesterday.
One OF the express wagon-drivers had
his foot badly crushed, Saturday night, by
a loaded truck, at the Memphis and
Charleston railroad depot.
Judge Greer was busy yesterday argu-
ing a case in the Circuit Court. He man
aged to try a number of cases in his own
court, however, between times.
One man intent on serving himself or
his, friends through the Taxing-District
government could sap its foundations, and
make it as unpopular as now it is popular.
The plans and specifications of the
new Cotton Exchange have arrived from
Louisville, and the Building Committee
were yesterday engaged in examining
them.
Judge Eldridge yesterday made the
following appointments: VS.. Menderall,
guardian of Lula Menderall Jno. League,
administrator OF the estate of ]. NJ. Car
mack.
The accidental tumbling out OF a CRATE
at w. B. Winn's saddle store, at 344 Main
street, at midnight, caused a slight blaze
which was quickly extinguished by the
Babcock engine.
Mrs. French is an agent for the sale o.
One or TtUOf by two sisters-the late l.
Virginia French and Lide Meriwether. A
very superior work, readers of the APPEAL
will find it an excellent presentation book
for the holidays.
The chain-gang will go into winter
quarters tonight in h west half of the
calaboose, where hunks have recently
been fitted up for them, one above the
other, steamboat style. They will manage
to keep comfortable with a new stove, new
mattresses and new blankets.
The sanitary police report that scarlet
fever, of which much fear was entertained
a short time ago, has now almost died out
A large number of those who took it are
convalescent, as the disease does not seen
to have been OF q very aggravated type
All the cases have been reported and the
houses posted, but for the past week nc
placards have been put up.
Fire at 8 o'clock yesterday mornin.
destroyed a one-story brick building or
r Jackson street, near the Marine Hospital
in the southern part of the city, owned by
S Mr.. Lake and occupied by John Britton
The Babcock engine was the only one tina
. went to the scene, as there was no water
l in the vicinity for the engines. Mr.. Brit
ton also lost $50 in money. His furni
ture was insured.
A gratifying feature of the steady
growth and influence of the APPEAL is tho
substantial TACT that its field cQmpasses, il
local news, all the towns within q radin!
| of 300 miles OF Memphis. Go where you
will, through the States of Tennessee
= Mississippi and Arkansas, and the Dali,
APPEAL confronts you with not only a re
sumo of tho happenings in all the know
world, but also the latest and most trust
: worthy accounts OF events at home.
A meeting Of the bar was held at II
o'clock am. yesterday, i'll the CHANGER.
Courtroom, the court having adjourned
e out of respect to the late Hon. George Dix
on, formerly judge of said court. The Hon
VIM. NJ. Smith was made chairman, an,
] fhn follNyrinn Uantlannn nnnOIntpd n pOm
mittee to report Thursday morning at tn
same place: The Hon. VIM. NJ. Smith
chairman r. j. Morgan, S. p. Walker. J
:. o. Price, G. w. Heiskill, w. W. Mcdowell
and T. ID. Eldridge.
:, Detective Pryde left last night for Gin
cinnati to take charge of a man named Il
Schwartz, alias Treese, alias Priest, ala
! half a dozen other things, who is wante,
E here for having obtained a l00Q-mile ticke
from the Mississippi and Tennessee rail
o road by disappearing himself as tn
q agent of a German emigration society. ]
Samelson * Co. also claim that he obtained
! 5000 from them on a promise to obtain
! certain number OF l000-mile tickets, whicl
he failed to DO. A warrant was sworn on
; by Mai. Burke and given Capt. Pryde, VIII,
will also obtain a requisition from tn,
: Governor.
, The new ward for the insane at tn
County PooThnGse will be ready for occu
pancy in about twenty days, and will b
5 greatly better for the poor u~nfortunat
: creatures who live out their blank lives a
3 the expense of the county. They ar,
being constructed of heavy plank, line,
1 with dressed white oak, and will be quit
warm when completed. The old build
ings now occupied are lacking in thi
respect as in many others. Those of tn
inmates who cared to do so, gathered il
one of the largest wards Sunday ~evenin
= and listened to an eloquent sermon iron
!, the Rev. Mr.. lnge, who is the first, excep
colored preachers, to hold service at tn
institution In some time.
-Deputy-Sheriff A. X. Hancock wen
out on the war-path Sunday evening ,arme,
with about a dozen warrants for the arres
. of crap-shooters, who have beer en-
gagged in that forbidden pastime in a win
+ of the old prison on Presidents Island
where they held high carnival almos
Z nightly. He had a rough ride at nigh
; ove the plantations, and finally succeede,
y in capturing three of the gamblers-Henr,
Washington, George Brown and Ale,
e Gibson. A fourth whom he espied es
capped by the sheer length of his legs an,
the rapidity with which he moved hi
clo~d-hoppers. Hancock fred one shot i
the air to see him run, n says there wa
quite 4 rain of old shoes, hats and loade,
dice. Justice Fleming will try the cases
4 The controversy between the city an
county authorities as to the disposition G
sick people is still going on. 1t is the rul
with the city not to admit anyone into tn
hospital who has lived in Memphis NOR
III I than tx,+alt-a ,,Dnthe nn tLn atIa. lAr-l