Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-10

The police have very little to do.
Two more fires yesterday, making
six in three days.
The County Court has adjourned to
the next term of the court.
The work on the Gayoso House is be-
ing pushed with all possible speed.
-Burdick, the bigamist, walked out of
the Criminal Court yesterday a free al
Carolina Lundy, a colored woman,
was committed to jail yesterday, being de-
clared a lunatic.
That the Fire Department should be
increased to double its present capacity is
the general expression.
The case OF John Burk, white, charged
with larceny, was continued in the Police
Cour yesterday morning.
"A sentence of a year in the peniten-
tiary was imposed yesterday upon Rosa
Redmond for stealing spoons.
The fair of the McNairy County
Agricultural and Mechanical Society
takes place October 18th, 18th, 18th and
18th.
Yesterday mornings police docket
yielded $50 for the city and 81 for the
State, beside a handsome amount of I'M
paid fines.
The workhouse question seems to be
approaching a solution, as a committee
was appointed yesterday to buy a farm for
the convicts.
A rumor got out last night that a
policeman had been killed on the Charles
ton railroad, But it was a New York Off
cial, as 1t turned out.
Chief Davis is in receipt of a letter
asking for some information regarding the
death of Thomas Hartford, who is sup
posed to have died in 1879.
On request made by Judge Eldridge a
partition is to be built across the Probate
Courtroom with folding doors, a damask
curtain and rubber hinges.
Licenses to marry were issued yester
day to John A.. Southworth and Matte
NJ. Parker, p. S. Davis and Susie V. Roe
J.. II. Lanier and Ellen G. Cooper.
The work of grading on Rayburr
avenue is going on satisfactorily and 6
thousand feet, from Webster to South, ha:
been paved under Contractor Belts.
The races on the 22nd, and lasting
the whole week, are one of the chief sub
jects OF comment on the streets. The
Jockey Club promise to make a rare sue.
cess OF it.
Nobody would mourn to any appre
cable extent if the courthouse were tc
burn down. Many OF the officials declare
they would like to see an ash-heap where
the old rookery stands.
The following numbers drew the cap
ital prizes in the Louisiana State Lottery
at New Orleans, yesterday: No. 1889
S75, 900; No. PAPA, $50, 900; No. 54,499
$4,000; No. So, l20, drawing $1,000, was
sold at Memphis.
nannfS Carnau an xrlitn pnnrhnttSf
hummer, was up, Monday, for vagrancy
and was ordered to the poorhouse, but he
continued to lay round the city until yes
terday morning, when he was given a jot
in the recS parlors for forty days.
chelsea is steadily improving, anC
promises to be the site in a few months o
a number OF elegant private residences
The Jockey Club are still anxious so have
the street ears run out to the Thomas tract
and make grounds and clubhouse there.
The Mozart Board OF Directory hav,
decided to begin active work Immediately
despite the flames of Monday night. TIL,
season will begin with a rehearsal G
Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the hal
over ii. q. Getchell & Cos music store
No. SO Union street,
"A horse belonging to Mr.. John Eich
berg became frightened yesterday even
ing while standing in the door of Dunn
stable, on Adams street, dashed across tn,
street, struck a rockaway and anothe
buggy, knocked down another horse, anC
finally dashed away down Main street OF
a run.
The Referee Court holds its session
daily in the United States Courtroom, sit
ting in the morning, while Judge Ham
mond sits in the afternoon. Judge Snod
grass occupies the center chair, Judg
Bright on his left and Judge Gardenhir
on his right hand, the clerk to the right @
the latter. Several cases of minor i'm
portance were disposed of.
Pat Quinn, a hard looking custome
OF the Anglo-SaXon persuasion, hankere
after a bait of pigs feet, and after german
dizing a ten-cent bundle at a house KEEP
by a lady on Front street, gave impudenc
for pay, for which she caused his arrest
and Judge MADDEN yesterday mornin
gave him a So job on the ~chain-gang wit
a view to his partial reformation.
Henry Smith, colored, fingered on
ov~ercoat, and, unfortunately, one belong
ing to the wrong sort of a man. 1t wa
Tom Garvey's, and Tom thinks too mucl
OF his winter friend TO allow it to adorr
the back of a thief. The police got tn
dead-wood on Henry in a case of trespasS
for which he was fined $50 and costs, an
a charge of larceny, for which he wa
bound over to the Criminal Court.
-Bradstreet had 160 failures in tn
United States and t~hirty-two in Canad
and the Provinces reported for the wee
ending October 9th. There were four les
Than the preceding week, th%irty-nine NOR
than the corresponding week OF 1882, an
se%venty-four more than the same wee
of 1881. The Middle States had forty
three, New England States, twenty-six
Southern States, fifteen; Western State:
fifty-two; Pacific States and Territorie:
twenty-four.
Emile Botto and Marian Carolina,
couple of Italians living on Jefferson
street, got into an alteration Tuesda
night, in which one assaulted the othe
with a huge butcher knife, and was me
by the other with his Ettle "pop." Neithe
one was hurt, but what might have oc
Cured had not Officer Koran appeared i
time to disarm the combatants no one ca
tell. The row was about a wood-pilt
which one charged the other with bein
the author of its depletion. They wer
fined $40 and costs each in the Polio
Court yesterday morning.
The Mozart Society have lost no time
The directors nave not allowed the grass I
grow under their feet. They have a
ready established themselves intemporar
quarters over Getchells music store, o
Union street, between Main and Second
and there, until permanent quarters are st
cured, the classes will meet and the societ
will have its rehearsals. Memphis ha
never had a musical society on so strong
basis as this, and not one that has in S
short a time accomplished SC much for h
advancement of music. Its membershi
embraces much of the best amateur an
professional talent in the city, and h al
sociate members number on their list mo:
of the first gentlemen in the city.