Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-21
G PARAGRAPHS.

About 800 people visited Raleigh Sun
day.
The Louisville Exposition is an attrsc-
ton.
Sunday night was one of the most op.
| pressive of the summer.
For a rarity there were no inqussts Sun
day, so far 80 heard from
A Washington Wiate, BY Mrs. Dahl.
gren, at Mansford's, 298 Main street.
The gap on Second street, between Mad.
ison and Court, is to be filled at once.
Thirty -seven thousand dollars Of old
city Indebtedness ives filed fer funding wee.
terdsy. The board is doing a big business.
Suit for $1,000 damage. for ,respas.
was entered against L. B.. Eaton by j. D
Montedonico in the Circuit Court yesterday.
AN examination of candidates for The
Peabody scholarship will be held at MarkeI
Street Sehool to day, under the auspices o.
Superintendent Collier.
j. B. Lippincott & Co. announce thai
! the third volume Of AsnsCs Surgery, which
brings this great work to a c.ose, will be
ready on September LIST.
-Marrisge Licences were issued yesterday
to Westley Burnett and Lyde Bradshaw
Peter Britt and Mary J.. Weakley, Charles
Gholson and Mary Kennedy.
b. K. Coleman was shot aud seriously
wounded by an unknown man nj Gilmure'.
Station, on the Kansas road, Saturday night
The ball Was extracted by DIR. thornton.
The to N of Crawford, Marshall county
Mis-, Is reported by Bradstreet's to hav,
been burned to the ground on the 18Th 10.
stani. Not a single business house was LEFT
standing.
w. u. Furbu h, the darky who made ar
unenviable reputation here some years age
by his gyrations with a pistol, and also d..
tiugulshed himself as an Arkansa politician
has been arrested in Colorado for murder
He was sheriff OF Lee county and a me nber
of the L.gislature.
John Batterton. one of Burdick's victims
writes the chief of police, from Minnesota
that he is glad to hear thar the bigamist hs,
been caught in the tolls at last, and hops he
will get a twenty-years sentence. He offer;
to come down if he can be Of any help to ID.
| officers OF the law.
"A telegram from Chicago says: 9Th.
Porter Rifles, of Memphis, Tenn, Capt. J. D
Waldrsn, arrived here this morning, en- rout.
to Cedar Falls, where they Join in the en-.
campment of the Second Brigade of the low
National Guards. The Porters are one Of
the crack organic atoms of the South 10 poinl
of drill. The company remain here two
days."
-Pasident Nettleton, of the Memphis and
Kansas City railroad, ia in the city, and
President Edwards, of the Tennessee SJuth.
ern, is expected from Vicksburg 10 day
There has been some delay about making the
cut on Tennessee street, from Trezsvant &c
Beale, 30 as TO put all the railroads on az
equal grade, and it is to be hoped the msttel
will be arranged at the present meeting.
There is an ordinance making il q mis-.
d~emeanor, punishable BY a foe OF from 81 tc
| $50, TO leave a team on the street unattended,
and yet it is the rule rather than The excep-
ton. A horse, frightened by the first heavy
clap of thurder yesterday, tore out Mad.
ison street with a wagon at a lively
rate directly into the middle Of a number Of
carts and drays, and would have made some
thing Of a scene except for a darky, who
dexrously and at the risk Of his life, stopped
him.
"A noble action is reported of Engineer
Martin Higgins, who was Injured by a re.
cent accident to the pay-train on the Chesa.
peake and Ohio railroad, and who was lying
very ill at Covington yesterday morning
He was thrown under the boiler by the acci
dent, and lay there with the hot steam pour
ing dow add scalding him. A friend dis.
covered him while 10 this precarious situa'
ton, and at once went to work TO exlricats
him. Higgins heard a train approaching al
he lay with his ear near the rail, and eX-
claimed: DIDN'T mind me; let me stay, but
for Gods sake go and stop No.. Up The
train was stopped and a fearful accident
avoided. Higgins was Immediately after.
ward removed.