Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-12

LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
The city will lay a fag-stone sidewalk
on the Main street side OF Court Square.
TO break the pavement on Second
street would be to ruin it beyond redemp-
ton.
The sale OF seats for the Milton No
bles engagement begins at Hollenberg's
to-day.
boys Hope Night School opens on
Monday night on Main street, opposite
the courthouse.
Marriage licenses yesterday: ]. NJ.
Scott and NJ. j. Johnson, G. NJ. Tarpley
and Alice Washington.
Letters of administration were yester-
day granted Mrs. Lucy Gregg upon the
state of J. NJ. Gregg, deceased.
Jesse Williams, colored, and John
Smith, two Court Square %snooZers, were
fined 81 and costs in the Police Court yes
terday.
The huckster stand ~belongingto Jacobs,
on the corner OF Yates avenue and Adams
street, sustained a triiling loss by fire at 10
o'clock last night.
The APPEAL acknowledges receipt OF
IN invitation to attend the eX-C%onlederate
soldiers reunion at the Dyersburg fair
grounds October 10th.
The Jewish Day OF Atonement was
generally observed by the closing OF bust
ness houses, entire or partial fasting, and
attendance at the Temple.
The Pratt Coal and Coke Company
has. by proper legal proceedings on the
part of the stockholders, been supplanted
by the Pratt Coal and Iron Company.
A musicale for the benefit of the
Women's Christian Association will be
given at the residence of Mrs. Joseph
Bruce, lSG Union street, this evening.
Petition for a divorce was filed in the
Chancery Court yesterday by Henry Gill
more against his wife Annie, whom he ac-
cuses Of failure to cook his meals and per-
form other household duties, and finally
desertion.
The Mutual Aid Association of the
Cotton Exchange Yesterday paid the bene-
ficiary named in the certificate of its men,
Der, the late X. w. Davis, SI2l0, a per
capita assessment of ten dollars m the
membership.
The clerk of the Supreme Court
gives notice to members OF the Bar that
Judge G. j. Deadrick has ordered that
lawyers can have records to enable them
to file exceptions, etc. This order was
lAAsAAN ~ III ANIuNCA VI AiiNAAAbNio
of the bar.
A good deal of complaint is made Of
the name in which shade trees are
ruined by the employees of the Telephone
Company. Instead of having tall poles,
SO that the wires may run above the trees,
low poles are used for ecOnomy's sake,
and the trees are mutilated.
The 'busmen, the hackmen and the
express-wagon men are like oil and water
down about the depots-they don't mix
worth a cent. Yesterday morning Green
Lyle, a colored hackman, was fined 81 and
costs for usuTping space set apart for the
'busses and refusing to give way when or
dered by the police.
The meeting at the First Methodist
church is growing in interest every night.
Mr.. Steel preached last night on Con
version" The singing was led by Mr.. and
Mrs. Hughes. There were many moist
eyes when Mr.. Hughes sang, "Oh where
is my wandering hoy tonight" Tonight
Mr.. Steel will preach on Excuses"
-Overcoat thieves are getting ripe be-
fore the season is fairly at hand for that
character OF garment. A day or two g
one was pulled" and sent up to the Grim
inal Court for purloining Tom Garvey's
benjamin. and yesterday Judge Hadden
5 mt Henry Jones, colored, up with a tab
of fifty dollars for the city, for stealing the
oVercoat of Waterman Johnston from a
skid-pile on the wharf,
The attention of the police is called to
Il set of individuals who litter the streets
With dodgers. On suburban streets they
are in the habit of dashing up to front
doors, ringing violently and throwing
down a handful of circulars, then running
out again. A great deal of annoyance is
caused in this way and several of the vic
TINS avow their intention to watch with a
shotgun. The law OF t~resspass is sui
tcient TO cover the otfense.
Maggie Billings, whose complexion is
much the same as the cover of GrimsbdW'S
History Of the United States, assaulted
Fannie Meriwether, another of the same
complexion, while coming out of church
Wednesday night, for which she has to
skirmish around after n SO note and an
extra 81 for the great State OF Tennessee,
or else do forty days service in the
archaeological department of the city's
industrial institution. Fannie was also
taxed 81 and costs for "sassin' Maggie.
Eyes, give 'em the whole city and
donate Court Square fora stable. Let EN-
raise the price of a ride to a quarter; it's
worth it. Stood up for about fourteen
blocks and passed up at least a dozen fares
The last time ! rode, beside helping put
the car on the track n time or two" The
APPEAL mar had only asked his opinion OF
the propriety of allowing the Street Car
Company TO put dow a track on Second
street, but the mere mention of the thing
aroused his anger To such an extent that
nothing definite could be obtained as to
how he stood.
Just before the adjournment of the
Legislative Council yesterday evening
President Latham, of the Water Company,
dropped in and made quite a little speech
on the water-supply question. He said he
had drawn up a communication which he
would present ut q future meeting, calling
attention TO the danger of the water supply
giving out, the sewers going to wreck, etc.
The precise nature of the communication
was moi stated. 1t was the custom, he
said, for the Water Company to put up
extra pressure in case OF fires. Monday
night the four old and four new engines
We're all working. The four old engines,
he admitted, would not alone give a salts
factory pressure.
- Judge MADDEN yesterday morning
prefaced regular proceedings of the Police
Court by calling the attention of the police
force to the fact that each one must con-
slider himself a sanitary officer, and report
anybody and everybody's premises found
to be in an improper sanitary condition.
Their attention was particularly directed
to the accumulations of stable %sweepings
in various localities, noting an instance in
rear of the old Board of Health office,
corner East Court and Second, and other
places. He also gave u whack at heplank
sidewalks, some instances where but one
slab constituted Il sidewalk, and others
where the planks were broken, loose and
out of keller generally. Positive orders
are issued that n of property must
be made to fix their sidewalks properly.
Since September oath, when the comet
OF 1872 increased its brightness some
six-fold in t%wenty-four hours, but two
observations have been possible in this
locality. On September 26th the bright
ness had decreased, but the nehulosity
had increased in size. On September S0th
the appearance had become much rs when
first seen-a speck OF light with very faint
haziness surrounding il. These changes
show that the nucleus is becoming FAC
tive" and is throwing off envelopes
which stream backward to form the tail.
This activity has heretofore only been no.
ticed when a comet is much nearer the
sun than the approaching one now is,
and, therefore, the possible future devel.
opments will be watched with increased
interest