Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-16
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Another spring day.


This is chancery motion day.
The sky had cleared up last night.
The spring races are being patched up.
Skies were clear part OF the time yester-
day.
The rains all around point to another
food.
The Criminal Court will be in session
to-day.
-Vennor, the weather crank, has al last
arrived.
Gus Williams, in One of The Finest, will be
the first attraction.
The Knights OF Pythias give a bali
next Monday night.
The sale OF seats for Gus WiIliamss en-.
gagement begins this morning.
Valentine day has had no perceptible
effect on the number Of marrisges.
-Hasei Krke will be produced at the
Theater a week from next Monday.
ST. Valentines day left no bad effects,
except upon some of the participators in the
Dubuque concert.
The Christian Brothers and their pupils
will give their annual public entertainme Mt
at the Theater next Thursday night.
1t is generally conceded that some bill
changing the present form of the School
Board will be passed by the Legislature.
j. c. Clark and Mrs. Mary King, 7. A.
Freem an and Miss Annie Laurie Bohannan,
were granted marriage licenses yesterday.
Ella Rice Yesterday brought suit in
the Circuit Court against her husband, James
Rice, for divorce, on the ground of cruel
conduct.
The Fire Department gave ane1hibition
at 10 o'clock yesterday morning TO The
Dubuque guests. The department was not
quite as sly" as usual.
The case of John Woods U.s. Mollie
Welsh, to settle the will made by Mrs. John
Woods, was in the hands of the Jury all yes.
terday and no verdict was reached.
Yesterday afternoon Officer Mcfarland
arrested party on suspicion of having
cheated coun.ryman. 1t turned out that
| the fellow arrested was guiltless OF the par.
ticulsr charge for which he was arrested,
but he proved to be James Dooner, who
raised number of bogus city licenses when
W. A. McCloy was register.
Mrs. Foster, the distinguished temper.
| ance lecturer, will deliver her first addres.
tonight at the Central Methodist Episcopal
| church, Union stree, beginning at 7:3C
| o'clock. She will visit LeMoyne Institute
| tomorrow at IL o'clock am, and lecture again
| Saturday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the
First Methodist church on Second street.
Maria Cummins, wife OF Jack Cummin s,
| colored, was shot in the back between the
shoulders last night in her room, at the cor.
ner of Beale and Desoto streets about 10 80
o'clock. Albert Dunlap was with her last
evening. Shortly after the shot was fired
Ben Pettaway and Dunlap were seen coming
rapidly down the steps. They were arrested
BY officers Hoss and Randolph. Drs. Erskine
and Walker were called in. The woman at
last accounts was senseless, but her wound
was not regarded as fatal.
II. N. Mccall, stranger, who had been
| down at Warren and Monticello, Ark, on
his way to Charlotte, N. c., was in the city
yesterday, and was standing at the postofice,
waiting for pen, when a sharper, named
Carter, came up, engaged him in converse
ton and learned his destination, which &C
cidentally conceded with his own. Hs
showed check drawn by T. N. Cardonna, o.
Austin, Tex, payable to the order OF ]. w
Morgan, of Austin, drawn on Park Exchange
Bank, Of New York. The sharper managed
to borrow $50 of Mccall, and then gently
| huf firmly daparfad