Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-11
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
n mnre theatricals this week.

County convicts will work the roads
The Porter Guards will soon give hop.
Several strings of racers are expected
to-day.
The HaverIy Company went to Jackson,
Foun.
Court Square is putting down its green
carpet.
Yesterday was the first instalment OF
balmy spring.
The State Medical Society met at n ash
vile yesterday.
Race men are jubilant over the promise
of the spring meeting.
Sheriff Cannon is improving, and will
be at his post in few days.
The County Court will elect a work
house superintendent to-day.
-Steamboatmen say the electric lights on
the levee are too high in the air.
e. E Petty was appointed, yesterday,
administrator of Theodore Biehle.
The Mozart Society is rapidly perfect
ing arrangements for the Music Festival.
The choir of st. Peters church will
render Rossini's Stabat Mater tonight.
Martha Roper has been appointed
guardian of the minor heirs OF M. ONeill.
The hammer of the carpenter and trowel
|, OF the mason are nearo on aimost every
street.
! The Board of Directors of the Cotton
Exchange meet in regular session this even
ing at o'clock.
Louis w. Steinhsuser who victimizsd
the German pedder, Henry Mauderer, was
Indicted for grand larceny yesterday.
Kate Claxton will give The Tso Orphans
Monday and Tuesday aud Frou-FTOu Wednes-
day night. Henrietta Vaders is her leading
lady.
The resolutions passed by the bar on the
| death Of Junius r. Greene were presented to
the Probate Court yesterday by George 3.
| Peters, j..
The following numbers drew the capital
prizes in the louisiana State Lottery, class
| ID" at New Orleans yesterday: s., SS7 drew
S75, 5000; 1882, $4,000; 52,9S9, $4,000.
The charter for he life insurance de-
partment of the Cotton Exchange was re-
ceived from Nashville yesterday, aud the
committee will meet to-day for permanent
| organization.
-Ambrose Scott, the Brownsville printer
who shot Tom Alexander at the Louisville
and Nashville railroad depot, hiss been in
diced for malicious shooting and assault
with intent to murder.
eve have the legal right to stop boat
| tea miles from tne CITY IL we tnlnk sue mas
yellow-fever aboard" said President Hadden
yesterday, "and by the great gun OF Ath-
lone, we'll exercise it"
The grand jury yesterday ignored the
bill charging Engineer L. J. Holland with
involuntary manslaughter, in the killing OF
E, L. Jones on the track Of the Chesapeake,
Ohie and Southwestern road.
AN entertainment will be given next
Friday night al the residence of Mr.. Joseph
Tagg, No. 273 Union street, for the benefit
| of the Strangers church. Admission Tree;
refreshments twenty-five cents.
The meetings at the Central Baptist
church will be held at 4 o'clock pm, for
the remainder of this week, ia order that
business msn and the young people may
have an opportunity of attending.
-The Cincinnati Commercial Gazetts, OF
Monday, says: "The oath of Office was ad-
ministered 10 George R Sage, the newly
appointed United States District Court
judge, in the presence OF large number Of
menu ers of the bar by Judge Hammond
-Messrs. Hiram Sibley 6 Co., the popu,
lar flower. seed growers of Rochester, n. Y.
ard Chicago, H., have favored the APPEAL
with package of the products of their es-
enlistment, embracing vegetables and flow
ers OF rare varieties. The seeds from S.bleJ
!. & Co. are fresh and reliable.
The following horses were backed fol
+ the Louisville races last week, in Watts
, Coz books: Derby-Queen Ban, strong
Drake Carter, strong. Cup-Mistral, strong
' Apollo, strong. Merchants'-John Davis
!, strong; Freeland, Timbuc'oo, filled; Check
mate. Turf-Jonn Davis, strong; Gus Mat
I thews, filed; Apollo.
/ AT a meeting of the Little Rack City
Council, Monday night, Frank Botsford. {
: deputy sheriff, was elected chief OF police il
place OF Cspi. Counts, who has held the pc
o sition for a number of years. 1t ia said tina
! the defeat OF Counts was due TO the irfaenc
:; of Alderman Angelo Mare, who has Ion:
i been Counts's bitter enemy.
l. Tom Persons, a young colored sharp
!, met Tom Collins, AN aged colored simple
e Yesterday, aud said TO him: 81 have $500 OF
4 deposit with nv landIady, aud she won
give it up until psy her So for taking car
| of il. Loan me thst sum wherewith 10 re
: deem my wealth ard you shall use the who'll
Of il "a you see ft." Collins bit like trout
= and Persons, Of course, got away with hi
Ever"
Jane Strong has brought suit in the Cir
cult Court for divorce from her husband
: Daniel Strong. She claims that they wer
married in February, 1881, and that after
few months of copjugal bliss Strong mysteri
| OuSly disappeared. IL luFne0 out Lnat al IN
> | time of the marriage he YVES an escaped con
| vict, and the mysterious disappearance wa
caused by his recspture and return L
Eosley's convict farm.
The Nashville World says: "The Porte
{ Rifles met last night at their armory, will
twenty-three present. They decided 10 post
= poue the exchange of two-click for three
= click guns until after the May drill. TIL,
| question of disbsuding was brought up, bu
trested as a jest intended to bring out lsrg
. | attendance at the meetings. Surgeon EV
and several members delivered brief ad
dresses, which awakened spirit of the olC
enthusiasm in all present. Il was deter
mined TO drill twice a week, in order 10 m ak
prrsentsble appearance during the Ma,
drill"
Tho West Tennessee Normal Institute, tt
be held at jackson, will open June 11th anC
last until July 9Th. The instructors will b,
Capt. W. r. Garrett, United States history
geography; Prof Frank Goodman, srithme,
tic; Miss Clara Conway, primary teaching;
Miss Brown, Quincy methods; Prof J. N
Conger, disgram and English analysis; Su
. | perintendenI T. J. Porter, reading and gram