Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-20
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

| bOOh II u "A IL " 11AJs
Nothing doing in the Probate Court.
The gambling Law will go into effect in
| about TWO weeks.
The regular season at the Theater closes
| with the Hess engagement.
| A humber OF Memphians will visit the
Cincinnati Dramatic Festival.
| The Hess Opera Company at the Thea
ter Tuesday night in Fra DiauolO.
| Tickets for the concert of the Sisters of
| the Good Shepherd can be had at Mans
ford's.
| Tickets for the Sisters CONCERT are going
| rapidly. None are good unless they bear
The seal Of the Good Shepherd.
The Cotton EIchspgs life insurance
scheme grows in popularity. A large num-
Der OF signatures were obtained yesterday.
| DR.. ]. r. Graves will preach at the
| Third Baptist church (Chelsea) at 8 O'Clock
tonight. The meeting sill continues with
| Interest.
just now the Memphis "sport" is put.
| ting IN all his spare time studying up rail.
road guides, preparatory for his enforced
| emigration.
DRAW poker" is said 10 be "congenislIy
familiar" in London. Most OF the boys
around Memphis have passing acquaint-
ancs with the game.
WIN. Hughes, for demonstrating, got
seven years in the periteniisry yesterday,
and Tom Barrett, for selling liquor without
license, was fined $50.
Luke Nelson yesterday fled bill in the
Chaucery Court for a divorce from his wife,
Sophia Nelson, on the grounds of abandon
ment and adultery. The parties are colorsd.
T. 81
thiakirg people that about the meanest OF
ali Lars is the one who maliciousIy inter-
prets sayings aRd ACTIONS in themselves
innocent
Only sew cases Of minor importance
we're tried in the Police Court yesterday
President Hsdden SAYS that his decisions in
the early part of the week have had the de-
sired fleet, and that peace and quiet reigUs
supreme.
The Hess Opera Company will close the
regular smusement season with an engage
men; of five nights and matinee, opening
next Tuesday with Fra Di6volo Miss Ab5ie
Carrirgton appearing az " riina" The
sale Of 'eats begins at the Theater Tomorrow
morning.
Mr.. Robt A. Young, the lively agent OF
the Mcz1rls, has Just returned fIom an ex-
tended tour over the Mississippi and Ten
ues,ee, Illinois c. ntral and Chesapeake,
Ohio and Southwestern railroad lines, which
he has been making in the interest of the
Festival, and reports great enthusiasm pre-
vailing in the various towns on the subject
The New Orleans Times. Democrat says
that Mr.. l.. L;pmann, of the cotton house
of LshmaD, Aorshsm & Co., of that city,
who has lately been along the Arkansas Val
ley, and who has seen and studied the situa-
ton there, finds Memphis in almost COM
plete control Of the entire trade Of that sec.
'tion. OF course she is, and che intends to
keep II. What are you going to do about il?
-The porly proprietress of a bagnio
gave 40 overture 10 the steepechase fague
yesterday by driving a horse at full sallop
down the course. Ga arriving at the side
gaze leading into the track she fell OUT Of
the buggy and lay under the horse until
pulled away by lockers on. She m sde such
a "holy chow" OF hsrsslf thai most people
were sorry to rec her get off with whole
neck.
Marriage licenses we're issued yesterday
to w. F. Langdon and Mrs Carrie Unss
Eddy, George S. Moore and Miss Emma Bal
lard, REUBEN Mills and Miss Ida Porter,
George K. F. Gille and Miss Julia E Nc
Dermott, Burton Palmer and Mrs. Hannah
Butler, Phillip Ryan and Miss Ellen Con-
nsrs, Julius Grover and Miss Elz, Belle
Taylor, J. s. Maingault and Miss Cora S
Carutherd.
The Banner says the biggest crowd ever
in Nashville will be there at The May drill.
"An excursion from literary Boston will
bring the elite of the Hub, and we should
show them they have a rival in this, the fore
most of South m cities as an educationsl
center. Many from the East and Northwest
and Middle States will likewise take sdvan-
Lage of the occasion 10 make prospecting
tour into our State and city. There is no
doubt about be fact of bsiog 'crowded'n
Our leading merchants evince the liveli-
est interest 10 the first great Music Festival Of
the Southwest. Last night the Auxiliary
Committee on Transportation, which has in
charge the Mississippi and Tennessee rail-
road aud lis connections, INST at Mozart Hall
aud completed their arrangements 10 secure
extra facilities for visitors by that route.
The committee consists OF H. Wetter, chair
man, and Messrs. w. G. Pattesou, J. J.
Thornton, John w. Dill srd and E L Nc
Gowap, all good men aud jealous for tie
welfare of Memphis.
THE Objects of Education" will be the
subject of Prof. Albert Salisbury's lecture
tonight at the Ls Moyne Institute, com.
mencing at 8 o'clock. Teachers aud others
interested in educational affairs especially
invited 10 attend. Prof Salisbury has been
for several years prominently connected with
normal school education in the State of Wis
consin, and is throughout the West and
Nsrth regarded as authority on questions f
education. His lecture will be well worth
hearing. The lecture is free.
"A Philadelphia girl who won't marry
Gays: 81 think the distate for married life
does not exist so much with young men a.
msny suppose. II there were any of the
right kind Of young men-youug men with
nobe principles snd superior intelligence as
well as personal graces-it might be diff,r
en,; bu! the race seems dung out. With
my present tastes and views l am not likely
10 msrry anyone, so just dance because l
can get more enjoyment out of thst than any
thing else. There is no d fficuIty in getting
partueTE, aud that il all l think society men
are good for--to dance with"
-Mule-traders will perhaps be glad to
learn that the mortality among mults in the
river counties is very great. Ga the planla-
ton OF Mr.. W. A. Pollock eleven died; on
that OF Col. Green Clay, twenty died, and Mr.
Dave Mayer lost eleven and Mr.. Charles
Scott six. On the White places, in Arkansas,
the leases are nsnch greater, seventy having
died up 10 Friday last. Ga the Gsrdnier,
Day & Co. plantation, at Gaines l. auding, in
Arkansas, eight bad died up 10 Wednesday
last. % The Tsllshatchie river the gnAia
have appeared in great numbers, but no
deaths among the stock are reported.
Commissioner A. J. McWhirter has is
sued in neat pamphlet form for distribution
mis- first report of the Tennessee weather ser
vice. Twenty -niue Of the foriy-e ght volun-
teer observers have Sent in reports, abstracts
Of which are embodied in this pamphle'.
Commissioner McWhirter makes conpli-
meniary mention OF the corps of observers
for their gratuitous werk. he states that
6f,y DRY bulb thermometers have been re-
ceived BY the bureau from Gen, H sz=n, cb ief
Of the Signal Service. TWeniy-six wire for
Tsrded to observers whose reports reached
the commissioner prior TO the 7th instant,