Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-23
B. G. BROS.
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

"A new insurance company has opened
M.
-Thsrs are row twenty-seven men on The
chsin-gang.
The reform echool w~ss,opened yesterday
By Prof. Murphy.
-Twsniy-four thousand dollars was filed
Tor funding yesterday.
The crops in the immediate vicinity Of
the city are cot 10 the best condition.
The Childhood of Religions, in Humboldt
Library, at Mansford-, 29S Main street.
The willow party uP the river furnished
$50 cords OF willows in the past ten days.
There was a brsn-dsnce at Sbskerag
last night, and a wei!-known justice led the
cotillion.
One barge load Of coal was received BY
steamer D'ppold for the United States epgi-
neer's service.
Two miles of the fourteen-mile gap in
the Memphis aud Kansas City railroad were
closed yesterday.
DR.. Wesson's case has been indefinitely
continued on account OF the illuess OF Attor.
ney-General Turner.
Lucy Station will be the scene of a big
barbecue to-day, ard a number OF persons
will go cut from the city.
"A party of thirty-three men were sent to
Islsnd Ne. 40 CT The Is b 10 cut poiee, and
sent down ffty-lour cords.
carpenters were engaged yesterday in
making a dungeon in the cellar of the station
house, directly under the office desk.
M. j. Kelly and II. Hurs, were yts.er-
day appointed special adminisirators of he
estate CT p. J. Daily, by Judge Eidridge.
The snagboat John r. Meigs commenced
work on the 17th, and has removed thirty
four snsgs and logs aud Two drift racks.
"A resident; Of Vance street attempted
suicide early yesterday morning. A he wss
unsuccessful he escapes a more extended
notice.
Capt. Black sold at chaucery sale yester-
day q lot OF the corner of Third and Wa.h
inston streets, with a frame house and a tSo-
story brick, TO w. P. Wilson for S45l5.
Col. Dick Capers, of the Criminal Court,
ls all alone in his glory and declared that not
a single soul besides The reporter visited his
deserted wing Of the building yesterday.
B. Lowenstein & Bros. moved into their
new retail store last Monday morning. 1t is
said they moved the entire stock aud were
resdy Tor purchasers in o1e hour and twenty
minutes.
Aaron Miller and Emma Alexander,
Pst Manns aud Mary Shelton, John Il,
Vanhorn and Maggie Rsn-han, L. johnson
and Viney Stewart we've granted marriage
licenses yesterday.
"A cot;ou-Stalk weighted down with open
bolls, raised on the farm of J. n. Jones, oce
mile and a half south Of the city, was shown
the APPEALS staple reporter yesterday. The
bollB opened last Friday.
The party for the benefit of the Strangers
church S0nday-schcoI, which WIS 10 have
taken place at the residence of Capt. Hsr-
Vey Mathes, on Cynthia street, tonight, hss
been postponed TO next Tuesday night.
The percentage of time lost by sickness
among the river improvement hands ia a6ou,
three and ene-half per cent. This does no..
however, represent the health OF the party,
as about twenty-five per cent Of the men leave
on account OF sickness without having lost
any time.
Charles Newell, colored, IVES put under
bond By JustIce Elliott yesterday b. Georl e
Ferdinand for throwing a brick a! the lat
ter's wife. Julia Richman gave boud to
keep the peace toward Lou Reed, and Man
usi Mckee was arraigntd Tor stealing S21
from j. ID. ClIter while repairing the ~latter's
house.
--Tha Moore was bound over BY Justice
Fleming in the suu Of $1,000 yesterday fer
bnrgiaJIz!ng the store Of Mrs. Tnom as, in
Fort Pickering. Mrs. Trsbucco, who was
ARE sted on a charge of frsudu!enlly appro
p%E'aiing some clothing belonging 10 Mrs.
1eTger, was diach lrget, the proof being that
MIS- Yerger bad loaned her The clothing.
"A telegram from Dubuque last night
says The Port,r Guards, Of Memphis, arrived
this evening from Caicsgo and were given a
general welcome. A committee Of citizens
met them al Galeua md escorted them here
on III. traip, thence TO the hotel BY the drum
corps and citlzens' committee. While here
teey whl he the guests OF the cit'zans Of
Dubuque"
AT 6 o'clock yesterday morning the
double ienemen,fr frame on The corner OF Fifth
and Gbe'son streets, half a mile beyond the
southern limits OF the city. caught FIRE and
was burned 10 the grourd. The building was
owoed by Mrs. Dupree, and was incurred for
1900. sac occupied one side until day bsfore
yesterday morning, when she moved ou,.
The other side was used IS a clearinghouse
by a man named Richardson. The origin oil
the hre Is unKnoWn. Richardson vas burned
ont about t~o month ago at The corner Of
Front and Walker streets.
The work OF constructing large ma
tresses has been continued with but little in
~terruplon. Owing 10 the scarcity OF labor
and brush buI little work has been done on
upper bank Protectfor. The grader party
nss not yet been organized, rs the party COT
s'ructing large mattresses now oc .upits the
hsnI where grader work is 10 be began. O1e
small gang OF men has been kept employed
n fearing the bank of timber. Il is pro-
posed 10 continue this work along toe whole
oans, but only cutting such trees az are in
dsnger Of falling in the river. One mattress
493 by 100 feet wss sunk lately at Hops6eld
AMI 6S7 by l4O of mattress wss Constructed
during the ten dayF.