Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-01
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Cool.
Settling day.
Smallpox past.
The courts are dull.
Spring fights scarce.
Crop prospects bright.
The Music Festival is the topic now.
The Mozart Society will be Queen Of the
May.
The Confederate graves will be decorated
on Sunday, the 18Th instant.
Nearly 500 worth of tickets for the
Sisters concert have been sold.
The sale of Mozart season tickets with
out premium opens this moi ning.
| Frank Gray's benefit will give our am
| ateur "histrionics" chance TO bloom.
| The April term of the United States
| Court at ackson will he finished in & day or
] two.
Mrs. Marie Hitzfeld Hawks will sing
| the title role of Gyp Junior at Frank Gray s
| benefit.
John Jones, a thirteen.year.old colored
| boy, was sentenced yesterday 10 Two years in
| the penitentiary for petit larceny.
jim Kinley, hotel waiter, carved the
| face Of a colnrads with lumber last night,
and now reposes in the Hotel de MADDEN.
&C. S. Norment was fined $50 yesterday
for allowing gaming in his grocery and
saloon at OIkyille, on the Pigeon Roost road.
Parties forming clubs TO attend the No.
Fart Festival should send funds at once to the
Mozart secretary in order to secure choice
seats.
"A lawyer said Yesterday that this was
| the dullest lime his profession had ever
known. A sure proof of progress and re-
| form.
| &-E~ery person on the programme for the
| Sisters Concert to night must be Tor time"
The manager Gays he will moi allow the audi
snce 10 wait.
"A, the Sisters Concert TO night all per
| some on the programme, especially the or
ches,ra, are earnestly requested to be on the
stage by AS o'clock.
| The New York Weekly, New York Ledger,
| Hdrper's Weekly, and a number OF other
| Northern papers will be represented at the
Music Festival.
The sale ofseason tickets for the Mozart
| Festival opens this morning at Mansfield &
| Co.'s drughorse, and will continue during
the time advertised.
The "Ladies' Library" project is on the
boom. No use talking-when the connect
ing links between mankind and the angels
determine to do any thing they always sue
coed.
An amendment TO the charter of the
phis Telephone snd Electric Company
was filed with the register yesterday. 1t il
intended 10 add power" for The electric de-
partment.
The Rev. DR.. Witherspoon, Of Louis.
| vile, KY, lectuTsd 10 large audience at the
Second Presbyterian church last night, on
The Vale Of ChSmouni; lis Glaciers and
Guides"
The German Maifest viii take place on
the 9TH instant at Estival Park, in which al
the German societies in the city will engage
and for which all are making elabo
preparations.
The following. plumbers drew the capital
prizes in the Commonwealth Distribution
| COMPANY, at Louisville, KY, April 30th
No. 56,485 drew $4,000; 1924, $4,000
Al, 451, $1,000.
The Moz.rl Society has had twenty
people employed for Two days past wrap
ping and mailing Music Festival matter
The office at the hall looks like the mailing
department of big publishing house.
The fair editress of the Scimigar promise
in the last issue of that paper to "uuveil the
| secrets OF her heart" All right-provIded
she does not in the unwilling mention the
young men who have given themselves
away 10 her In strict confidence.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday
to J. G. Bailey and Miss Mary II. Walker
Benz. Moeely and Mics Amanda Harrison
Albert Jackson and Miss Mollie Henderson
5 L. Reneau and Miss Lydia Hays, Juliu.
Venturini and Miss Ssbina Cfeagan.
H. A Thons, undertaken, returned
yesterday from Columbus, Miss, with hi
horse that was stolen on the 9th OF March
He is indebted for his recovery asd the cap
ture of the thief to Chief Davis and his abb,
and energetic officers, McCune and Pryde.
Mr.. ]. L. Hale, who lives near Elm
wood, on Dunlap avenue, says that yesterday
he discovered two boys, of respectable fsmi
lies, trying TO drive his cows to the pound
He thinks that cows are frequently driver
from points outside the corporation TO The
pound.
Tomorrow night "wednesday, May %
at s o'clock, the Rev. DR.. Mayo, of Boston
will deliver free lecture in the New Mem
phis Theater, on the subject, "How Doe