Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-24
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
First bales are pouring in.

FIRST bales are pouring ID.
The Planters Oh Mill is a model il its
way.
The street railway track is beiog seneI-
ally repaired.
The Porter Guards we're baBqueted st
Dubuque last night.
The pestilsntial drummer of the Ana
MAS breed is abroad.
The two churches on Poplsr street are
going higher livery day.
The Front street fire 8 i'll smok. s. The
work OF pumping oil has ceased.
Work on the gap of twelvs miles yet re-
naming between Memphis and Kansas City
is being rapidly puzzled.
"A willow mattress 90 feet long was
sunk by the United States government hands
above Hopeheld yesterday.
The Methodist Missionary Society will
meet at Bartlett on the 18Th of next month,
and continue in session two days.
The Nash Library scheme is not dead.
1t is only sleeping. The prospects are just
as bright as ever, but not 80 near as they
were.
The Jeans Senators will endeavor to en-
terrain everybody next Monday night at E
tival Park-the last performance and hop Of
the season.
The witnesses against the thief and big
amist BuTduck have baen mott ID to ho.d
themselves In readiness 10 come and testify
WHEN wanted
BY a late ordinance all fire fides must
be lined with terra Gotta, AMI a large num-
Der of these Innings have been manufactured
in the past few days.
-Tnere is a great deal Of righteous iudig-
nation among cit z sns on account of the in
famous stories circulated by spectators re-
garding the health of Memphis.
The dray race drew a big crowd about
Madison street yesterday afternoon, and it
took them a long tine to uadsrstsn1 that il
was caused simply by the arrival OF two new
bsles. :.
M. J. Doyle, an old resident OF Memphis,
and the contractor for carrying the mails TO
and from the dopots AMI pcstctfice, is re-
ported daog rrously ill at his residence in
North Memphis.
Block stone was laid yesterday for the
completion OF the SEC md street pavement
from Madison to Court. Ii will be replaced
by such material as the Cotton Exchange
may desire when their building is completed.
The following numbers drew the capital
prizes in the Little Havana Lottery, at Hsv-
ana, Cuba, yesterday: No. I3, 500 drew Sl7,-
OOO; 26,S4S drew $500; "a, 95S drew $1,000;
and 5293. 1921, 2l,497, l6,62O, 1885 drew
$500 each.
About $4,000 worth of watermelons have
been received by rail and consumed here
| since the season opened, and a large guam
tity, not easy to estimate, have been sod on
the streets from country wagons. The
shady side Ct Madison street is the favorite
stand.
Engineer Martin Higgins, who wss re-
Gently injured By an accident 10 his train
near Coyipgton, Tenn, aud whose heroic &C.
iion in saving another train from wreck has
been reported 10 these columns, exDired yes.
terday morning. Many q less worthy man,
many a one who was less a hero, has had a
noble monument erected TO his memory.
"A bill for divorce was filed in the Cir
cult Court yesterday by Lucinda Marshall
against her husband, Samuel Marshall, whom
sue accuses of the most horrible atrocities.
"a enc occasion, she says, he knocked her
down and jumped upon her prostr ate body,
and when she lay helpless in btd got a rope,
tied one end to arafter and making a running
noose in the other end informed her that be
intended to hang her. His intention would
have been carried out, the bill adds, except
for the interference of ~neighbors, who were
aroused by her screams.
Two women, Belle Starr and Aunie Far
rell, got lnto a desperate fight night before
last, on the bridge above the gas works, and
scrambled about like Two tigresses for fully
fifteen mioutes. The former finally madden.
ed Annie Farrell by striking her in the eye
with her fist, and was immediately seiz-d
and forced 10 the edge OF the bridge, and
there a deadly struggle took place. Persons
10 the vicinity went TO the rescue, and Annie
Farrell was arrested by Dsputy-Sherif
Campbell and taken before Justice Spelmar
for trial. She was fred So and costs.