Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-04
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
-Mardi Grss ball, Tuesday night.

LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
-Mardi Gr's ball, Tuesday night.
-Msnsford has full supply of good Sun
day reading.
Check has left The city, but plenty Of lie
followers remain.
The kid to be given at the ball will en-
liven matters considerably.
President Hadden's plan of lighting the
wharf BY electric light is . very excellent
one.
The stockholders are painting for their
tax. The people might provide tacks and
make the shylocks sit down on them.
The Rev. DR.. George S. Savage will
preach in the Cumberland Presbyterian
ehnrch, Court street, this morning at IL
O'Clock.
The charter of the new Jockey Club was
fed in the registers office yesterday, with
the name of John X. Speed in addition to
those already published in the APPEAL
Sale of seats for the KelloggBrignoli
engagement opens on Tuesday. Regular
prices only will be charged. Engagement
Wednesday and Thursday nighis-tWo nights
only.
The lady managers of the Leath Or
phsn Asylum will meet Monday morning at
| 10 o'clock. A full attendance is earnestly
requested. By order Of the president, Mrs.
Doyle.
There was a pony at the express office
| yesterday that was q decided curiosity. 1t
was a dwarf pony from Texas, twenty seven
inches high, and weighed only lS5 pounds.
1t had been shipped 10 Athens, Ala.
| The experiment of lighting the wharf
by electric light is TO be tried next week.
Four or five lights will be located. The
river men made q request that this should be
done, as it would be of assistance TO boats
coming in during fog.
The Ladies' Aid Society OF the Alabama
street Presbyterian church will hold their
| regular monthly meeting at the church on
Monday next, the 9th instant, at 2:S0 O'Clock
pm. All the ladies are requested to attend
All the oil manufactures and dealers
in cotton-seed oil are requested to meet al
the cb amber Of the Merchants Exchange al
$50 o'clock Wednesday evening, 10 consult
upon matters of interest 10 that branch Of
trade.
| james Boylan yesterday made an assign.
meut to Charles Bodkin, with view of pay.
ing off and saiisfying creditors. His ssset'
are quoted at S2034 for work done on The
Memphis, Selma and Brunswick road; hil
liabilities about $1,000.
-Marrisge licenses were granted yester
day to Roscoe Lynn and Miss Margare
Harris, Robert Harris and Miss Callie Hill
Will Phillips and Miss Mollie Alexander
Willie Jones and Miss Rindy Cartwell, KEEL
lar Paris and Miss L. Madison, Henry Bar.
rett and Miss Lou Scott.
The following parties were taken 10 thu
penitentiary yesterday BY Officer Turney
Henry Cannon, manslaughter, two years
Thomas B. Morton, breach of trust, thre,
years; Henry Williams, bringing stoler
property into the State, three years; Chas
Green, petit larceny, one year; George Rog
ers, petit larceny, one year.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, with its characteristic iberality anG
long established custom of reducing its rate
when the volume of business justifies, will
on Monday next, make a considerable reduc
ton in the present rates between Memphis
New Orleans, Cairo, Cincinnati, Nashville
st. Louis and other points.
Pat Winters will undoubtedly be elect
ed. The disappointed ones are giving il
one by one, and concedipg that the RICH
thing to do is to sustain the regular nominet
J of the party. Mr.. Winters was not in favo
! of convention, but finding that a majority
! of the party was, he scquiesced and submit
ted bis name. Every body should vote TO
J Winters.
Henry Sanford, taxcolIector of Lauder
dale county, and I. Bun Carson, chairman
OF the Lauderdale County Court, who wer'
ordered to collect certain taxes in the pro
ceeding of J. J. Busby Us. Lauderdale coun
! ~, May %, 1882, BY the United State
Hammond 10 appear and show cause VIII
| thew ware uaf in ronfemnt for NOT oh@vi m
,, the orders of the court.
I -Menken Bros. propose TO enlarge thei
, facilities for business to meet the increasin,
, trade of Memphis, and 10 this end they hav
) purchased the jackson Block. They vii
. tear out the whole interior q d recoustruc
the same in palatial style. Our well-knowl
architect, Mr. E. G. joiner, has been eutruste
with the work of remodeling, and from th
plans now in progress we have the assuranc
that Messrs. Menken Bros mean to be secou,
, to no dry goods establishment in the South
Justice P. J. Quiglsy has received tn
following letter from w. P. Campbell, th
> commissioner of State lands of Arkansas
which may interest a number of Memphians
"Your favor Of the 18th instant received
and contents noted. In reply have to sa
that our Supreme Court has made no de
, cision in reference to lands donated by tn
| 9tdtcs lug ducctAOu VI tuC VI w
nation deeds has never been brought befor
the court"
All Of the churches cooperating will
the Memphis and Shelby County Bible So
cieiy will be closed to night. The fifty
third anniversary will be held in the Cum
| berland Presbyterian church, Court street
commencing ats o'clock pm. and adjourn
ing to 1880 o'clock pm, at which time ad
dresses will be delivered by Dfs. A. S. Hum
of New York, and George s. Savage, of Ken
: lucky. Some of the best Mozarts will sin
! and Mr.. Downs will preside at the organ
Doubtless large audiences will greet tn
eloquent speakers.
The meeting called at the Merchants
,, Exchange yesterday resulted in further tim
being granted the Committee on Merchant:
Tax. Messrs. L. Erb, E. L. MCGOWAN an,
w. L. Clapp were appointed committee +
/, ing the road bill as presented by Represent
, alive Galloway, with instructions 10 embed
|, in the bill authorizing a commission OF tire
10 assess and disburse the money collecte,
for road purposes under that act. This com
mittee is to report at IL 80 o'clock Monda,
morning, to which time the meeting ad
journed.
Clerk and Master Black Yesterday sol
the lots on the northwest corner of Madison
aud Third streets, consisting of seventy-fo
feet. The corner lot proper was knocks
!, down to Napoleon Hill and J. C. Nicely fe
$11 300, and the other lot to Napoleon Hill
for $500, making total OF SIS, 800 for III
seventy. four feet. This properly formerl
belonged TO Knox Walker and Sam Walker
who was the father of Judge Walker. 1t ha
in coussq uence a sort of historic flavor 10 il
A lot en- Ruth street, below Vance, fifty b,
AS feet, was sold to the Rev. Samuel Wat
son for 1910.
During the fifteen years the Peabod,
has been in existence, it has never been .,
prosperous and popular as now. 1t is worth,
: of the patronage it enjoys, for it is now
model hotel in every department. The larg
number of private families and young ladie
and gentlemen guests at the Peabody give
!. it all the seciabiliy OF a village or fashion
BILE watering place. The hotel has been un
usually gay during the month of January
and promises to be equally go in February
A brilliant dancing party is announced TO
tomorrow night, complimentary 10 Mis-
Galloway and her guest, Miss Haymor, o
Kentucky. The tickets, most beautiful ant
unique, executed by Tracy & Co., have beef
Issued, and fashionable society is all agos