Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-16
LOCAL
Nothing new with the tickers.

Nothing new with the tickers.
Sixteen thousand dollars filed for funding
yesterday.
The Porter Guards will surely go. They
had an enthusiastic meeting LAST night.
The hotels have bean doing a good bus.-
ness for several days pa.. There are a num-
Der Of strangers in the city.
The matrimonial market is very droopy.
No licenses were issued Tuesday and none
yesterday up to A o'clock In the afternoon.
Judge E dridge yesterday appointed J.
ii. McDaviit administrator of the estate of
the late L. B. Turner, which is valued at
SIZE. 900.
BY an error il wat stated that Mike
Keaiing had entered suit for $500 damages
against the Nadt BROTHER. He was merely
a witness in the case.
F. T. Eimondson was yesterday APP
poioted administrator OF the estate Of ]. P.
Sprague. and Laura NJ. Sawyer adminis,rs-
,rix of Felix Sawyer, in the Probate Coutt.
The boss carpenter Of the rev brick fac
tory being built in South Memphis, WAS re-
ported TO have been seriously injured yests:-
day by falling from a ladder when the storm
broke.
An open boil OF cotton was sent to M.Gavin
& Co. yesterday by Gsorge w. Humphrey,
who has a farm Of 125 acres on Presidents
Island. II ia said to be the first in the
county.
DR.. j. r. Graves has been invited by the
citiz .rs of Somerville to deliver a series OF
doctrlnal sermons in the courthouse. The
fret one will be delivered on Saturday next,
at ii o'clock s.m.
The problem as to the manner of pun
ishing the goOd-fur-nothiug females confined
in the stationhouse will be solved by means
of hammer and rock,. They will be put to
work In the courtyard of The old station
house.
Mr.. J. B. Huhlefeld complained to the
police yesterday that he had been robbed of
$1,000 in bonds, which were taken from his
trunk. Later in the day he found them hid
den away between the leaves OF a book,
where they had be n placed and forgotten.
"A copious shower of rain fell in the city
yesterday afternoon, and it is believed 10
have extended for a radius of several miles.
1t was badly needed by the farmers, who
were beginning 10 complain consider ably OF
the drouth. In the city a great deal of good
s~anitsry work was done.
"A man named John Bsgg, with his vile
and q little baby two or three weeks old,
arrived in the city yesterday from Missis-
s'ppi, and were sc ut to the hospital 10 be taken
cne Of. They were all poorly clad, the man
was a living skeleton, his wife was i'll with
swamp fever, and tine babe bad hardly g
spark of life in its little bony frame. They
said they had eaten nothing for two days,
excent n piec- of sausage and some crackers,
and Deputy Sheriff John Campbell rent out
and got a good square supper, for which he
was richly repaid by the eagerness with which
they devouiei it.
The Porter Guards had a good drill last
night in the manual. They selected the
Chesapeake, OHIO and Southwestern road as
their rouie-will leave Sunday morning at
$50 o'clock. Lieut.. Jas. Rec leaves this morn.
ing by the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southw, st
GRO road 10 make hotel accommodations for
the company aud their friends in Chic'g,.
The company will STRIVE at Chicago at 7:SC
o'clock Monday morning, where they will re-
main two dave, then 60 to Dubuque and c..
dar Falls. The company desire it under
stood that excursion tickets will be cold Il
none but members of the company and theil
invited guests; SO all who are invited 10 &c
will report 10 Capt. J. D. Waldrsn, that h,
msy furnish the ticket-agent with a list o.
those the Guards desire to accompany them
A drill in fatigue is ordered for tonight, AM
a fuil-dress drill for Friday night.