Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-20

woman told her che was hunting for her para.
mour, who took her from Minneapolis and
deserted her.
The sanitary officials are doing good
work 10 keeping a close watch on the vio-
lators OF the s.aIIary ordinances Nearly
two dozen colored people were fued IL each
yesterday morning, for allowing the sewer
on their premises TO become foul.
The splendid $4,000 stone culvert across
South Main street is now nearly completed,
put there is much yet 70 be done before the
street-csr line can run their cars to The ex-
IRENE southern terminus OF that line. We
hicles can cross the break with safety now.
-On and after the 1st of next month the
Auditing Board will begin the payment of
coupons on Taxing District and stampe5
Flippin compromise bonds. They will be
paid upon prrsentstion 20 the Importers and
Traders Bank of New York, or the UGion
and Planters Bank of this city.
-SheriG Hsskins, of Osceola, Ark passed
through the city last night ca route to Casey
SEVILLE, KY, with Peter Huri, VINO ia accused
of committing a nameless outrage upon a
widow named Lizzie Prather, at lat place
last March. Hurts companion in crime
was hung by an iDcenssd mob at the time,
and he escaped to Osceols where he was cap
tuTed by Hsskins.
The Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern
Railroad Company has purchased fifty acres
of land 10 Paducab, and will Immediately
erect thereon machine and boiler shops, aud
an enginehouss with twenty-five stalls, and
will, within year, give employment TO
1000 mep. The city subscribed $4,000 TO
secure the location of the shops.
Justice Fleming held an inquest, yestef-
4 ha ROD IF Sorhta
J dali, washerwomsn Who died Of hemorrhsge
OF the lungs, opposite 1872 Main street. Tue
house was closed uutil noon to-day, as there
was great quantity of clothing in the
| rouse, belonging to d fferent persons, which
Otherwise might have been stolen.
| "A bootblack insisted upon shining Pres
| ident h sdden's shoes yesterday, and bribed
him to submit by the offer of paper to read
| while the contract was being carried out.
| The judge sat down aad asked what kind of
| papers he had. "On, Pve got all kinds, "
said the young arab, shut L guess the TEXAS
S1tings will hit you the hardest"
The frat mad dog of the season was
killed yesterday morning about 10 o'clock
on Charleston avenue, by Patrolman VIM.
| Conway. The brute ran up and down the
street foamiDg at the mouth and tearing its
own flesh with IFS teeth. At the moment il
was seen by Conway it was in the act Of
springing upon two little girls, who were un.
able 10 get out of the way. He fired quickly
and was lucky enough to strike a vulnerable
| point the frat shot.
/ Two small dsrkies, Louis Semmes and
Henry Hunter, one eleven years old and the
| other nine, were convicted in the Crimina a.
Court yesterday and sentenced to the work
house. They are the first convictions o
children in come time. The law is tina
youths between the ages of seven and four
tes n years may be convicted if it is showr
that the nature OF the crime committed il
such as to require acuteness and deliberat'
planning, though the age of discretion il
Fixed at twelve years.
"A rough-looking individual, calm.
himself j. II. HsttIck, was up in the Polio
Court yesterday morning charged with beat
ing his wife. TIE prosecuted woman, 3
ususl, gsvs her evidences tempered az nue.
az possible without d Walton from the trut
in favor of her brutal husband, but eoui'
cot saye him from the wrath OF the hum an
judg-, who fined him s25. Afterward tn
iitls six We ir-o'd daus hter Of The unhapp
uair plead for her brutal father, succeeding
ia getting the fac held up on condition b
would leave Ice city N one hour.
" serdsy morning VIII Kennedy, VIII
shot George Fletcher al the National Gene
terry, w5s taken back there for trial. Tn
j1siice WIS Instructed by Attorney Genera
Weakley TO hold the trial at Fiatcher's house
60 that ne could testify, and 10 lake his state
ment in writing, to be used in case he Shout
die. Fleicher's condition was said 20 b
/ worse late yesterday evening than it ha
been, and Dr. Ddnc IN entertained no hope G
his recovery. Kennedy is said TO be yer
independent, and struts about az if be ha
committed some deed of which he had reaso
10 be proud.
Three prisoners we're lodged in all yes
erday by deputy sherff from Brownsville
Tenu.-Ben Poindexter, B lite, his wife, an
Raleigh, his son. They ara charged will
shooting Bob Ere emau, colored, on tn
| Westbrook farm, about one mile and ha
from Brunswick, last Sunday. Freeman
went to Poind=xter's cabin and refused (
Isave when told TO do 30. Ben Poindexte
got his gun snd freeman closed with hin
A regular wres,ie followed in which Free
m an wss ebot in the mouth and neck. Som
| of the buekshot psssed through his CHR
making it impossible for him TO hold watf
Il IN mis- mouth Fsrt OF his law was sho
away. The Poindexters had a preliminsr
, hearing before Justice Cox and were boun
over. II ia said thst FreeIu an cannot re
cover.
In pronouncing sentence yesterday
the Criminal Court upon a young man VIII
bad been convicted by the Jury of poker
playing, Judge Greer remarked that
would remit the Imprisonment az il WAS ii
first csse but wished il to be a solemn war;
log to others not to be guilty OF a vioiatio
: of the law which was entirely 100 common
, He said the infraction of the law of whic
the prisoner had been convicted wss a con
,, mon thing. and that hundreds OF the be.
men in the city had been equally gully wit
him. For that reacon il would seem t.
unjust to punish one when all The others wei
fee. But it might as we'll be nnderstoo
that to play poker was violation of ii
lNw-not only of the last Legislature, but ,