Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-28
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The Chicks" hop was success.
Market street has been paved from Front
to Main.
Judge Edridge will hold court at Bart
lett to-day.
The grand jury returned twenty indict-
meuts yesterday.
Last day Of the Women's Christian. AS
ISOLATION dinners.
Last and best dinner of the season al SOP
Main street to-day.
The Devils Auction will be opened at
Leubrie's on the 9th OF April.
There were nearly twenty entries for the
Jockey CLUB stakes yesterday.
-IoIanthc will be given at the matinee TO-
day and The Merry War tonight.
The County Court meets next Monday
to elect sheriff and attend 10 routine BUSH
ness.
The colored Masous were out yesterday
in all the glory of gorgeous regalia and a
brass band.
The Music Festival will be on the 14th
and 10Th of May. The chances for Its sue
cess are very cheering
The postofice will be closed al O'Clock
pm. to.dayas a mark of respec. to the late
Posim aster-General Howe, whose funeral
takes place to-day.
-Euiries for the spring meeting stakes
closed yesterday. A numbar are expected
by lstter this morning, and il not post- marked
later than the 9Th, they will be received.
Henry Jones got nine years yesterday for
robbing Capt A. NJ. Miller's residence, aud
William Davis i've years for stealing clocks
and curtains out OF the First Methodist
church.
-Marrisge licenses were Issued yesterday
10 w. A. West and Miss NJ. A. Carter, Frank
Lilly and Mrs. Matte Madden, Charles
Psriee and Miss G-orgie Markham, NJ. J.
Larkin and Miss Z len Seahill.
The little army of earnest workers at S02
Main street had bright faces yesterday after
noon. at wss our best day yet" they said,
sand one more just like it will clear our
1000 and bring us out Of debt" So mote
it bel
The transcripts of thirty-threa cases APP
pealed from the Criminsl Court were sent to
jackson yesterday. The only appealed case
left on Judge Horrigans docket is that of
Dixie KnIght, in which no bill of exceptions
has yet been filed.
The Glee Club, of the l., Moyne Ius!i-
| tute, assisted by friends, will give a concert
at the school tomorrow night. The club has
been under drill by the music teacher of LIE
Moyne School for several weeks, and a high
claes Of music will be rendered.
Rose SherWeOd ia the title Of q story told
by Miss Belle Peterson, which that lady is
soliciting subscriptions for. 1t is illustrated
by several wood-cnts, and is illuminated by
hand-painted photograph of Miss Peter
son, which We think capital Likeness.
Judge James NJ. Greer opened the Grim
inal Court yesterday morning, and got down
TO business in true Horrigan style. Mr.. Sam
D. Weakley, Gen. Turner'S assistant, was
sworn in as attorney-gene pro tenn and the
prisoners 10 j all under Indictment were ar
raigned.
The paving OF Union street from the
bayou to the railroad will be begun at an
early day, and will be completed BY the 10Th
1 of May. The cost of the work will be abou.
$4,000, nearly half of which has been sub.
| scribed by the owners of property along tn at
| part of the street.
The residence of Mr.. NJ. A. Rios, the
locksmith at Brownsville, was destroyed by
| FIRE about 5 o'clock yesterday morning,
the occupants barely escaping in their night
clothes. No estimate of value or insurance
stated. The FIRE originated from the upset
ting of a coaloii lamp.
4 EuOJCSt OcOolc at meeting OF
the Greenwood Literary Socsty Monday
night was, "Whether the South Should Be
i Paid for Her Slaves" The result was, el
course, that slaves were dead ducks, in q
financial sense, and The equitable aspect o.
the question was lost 10 the Certainly thai
they would not be paid for.
The question of paving Poplar stree
from Main to Front, and the alley 10 the real
of the courthouse, with wood blocks, is agaiI
sgi,ated. President Hadden thinks tn,
; county should pay for the pavement, anC
, promises that the Taxing District will bos
the job. The reason given for the selection
of a wood pavement is that the rafting O
: vehicles over stone would disturb the judges
attorneys and clerks Of courts
The movement inauguraied sewers
years sgo toward converting Rayburn ave
I nue. from Georgia street out several mile
! southwark into graded and concrete-grav
g eIed boulevard has been revived, and il tn
residents and propety-owners along the lin
will "put up" reasonably there will be III
doubt about the Success of The scheme.