Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-23
LUCAL PARAGRAPHS.

| wharf.
The County clerks office is undergoing
repairs.
-Workmen are arranging TO roof the
customhOuse.
The Telephone Company held meet
ing yesterday.
The Eckford Baseball Club will meet to-
night at their headquarters.
License TO marry was issued yesterday
to Frank Rose and Miss Lula Leogsp.
The Meehan.Ksne case was continued
yesterday on account OF an absent witness.
An applicant named Ben johnson was
sent to the City Hospital yesterday evening.
The Legislative Council tried to have a
meeting yesterday afternoon, but failed for
| want Of quorum.
Forty -four dollars in cash and 476 days
on the gang were captured by the Police
| Judge yesterday morning.
Twelve hundred and seventy dollars of
the old city Indebtedness was funded at 5
| O'Clock yesterday evening.
Edward L. Rawlings made application
yesterday to Judge Eldrldge to be appointed
guardian of Jennie Hester.
The Young Mems Hebrew Association
| will give delightful entertainment at EIti-
/
The new jailer, Mr.. Walter S. Lswless,
| gives perfect Satisfaction and has books, cells
and yard in excellent condition.
| -Eghty-6ve per cent of the taxes for The
| curreRt year have bsen collected. The re-
| maindsr is in the hands Of censtsblea.
| Ruth Rose, colorsd, was fined $40 yes.
| terday for larceny, vagrsncy, trespassipg and
| failing to m iintzin herself by honest labor.
/ l, - Al
| terday sgsinst the Taxing District by H. s.
/ declaration was filed.
| Ca 4 telegram from this city John
| Brothers was arrested at Csiro last night for
the larceny of quantity of fine harness be-
| longing 10 the late Gus Coleman.
Invitations to a strawberry exhibition
| In be given at Belle, Tenn., Friday, May
25th, by the Western Fruit and Vegetable
| Growers Association, have been received.
| Judge Baxter will cit with Judge Ham
mone, of he United States Court, at the be-
ginning of the May term, next Monday.
| Counsel must have everything 10 readiness,
and proceed promptly to business.
| Col. Eli P. Digs. name headed the
| police docket yesterday morning, charged
with being nuisance on general principles.
| He was fined s25, which the Court promised
| to hold up 90 condition that be leave the
city.
-Aa attorney was Unexpectedly called
| upon to pay S5 forfeit ne b ad "stood" for
one of his clients. He was under the i'm
preston it had bean paid, but being con-
WINGED to the contrary, he forked over with
| out murmur.
"A lengthy petition was received by
| President Hsdden, yesterday, from woma
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| left from a completed street. The rocks
were refused. Judge Hadden has about
1898, more or less, of kindred requests day.
"A row of electric lights, from Main
s,Teet to the Exposition building, which
were put up during the Festival, were in full
blast Monday night, and the street was light
| as day. 1hsss lamps are not Used except
when there are entertainments at the Expo
sition.
The first case under the law making
| wife. beating punishable by lashes inflicted
in public, was tried by Judge Greer vester-
| day. James Rice, timer, had the honor
md found guilty, but sentence was Gus
pended until an official copy OF the act can
| be received.
CASES OF drunk and disorderly were fined
sums ranging from 81 to IS yesterday morn
| ing Half an hour INDUCED 10 by the attor-
neys in argument before the Police Court
yesterday morning, succeeded in getting
plain drunk case continued until this morn
iDg. woman was at the bottom of the
mans infrmity.
| An impostor, who gives his name as Ed
or Yves Price, has been victimizing the good
people of Lee county, Ark, by pretending
TO be an agent Tor the APPEAL and receiving
money for subscriptions to the paper. The
bert thing 10 do with him is TO hand him
over 10 The jail authorities for receiving
money under false preteuses.
DR.. Percy Bray, a vet, riuary surgeon, Yves
arrested by Detective McCune last evening
| on telegram from ST. Louie, charging him
with stealing horse from Joseph Cox BRAY
is about fifty years old, fios-loekins fellow.
of striking presence, and looks more like a
preacher than horse-tbief. He declares it
to be piece of spite work.
John Ssvills, charged with keeping an
unsaDitsry slaughterhouse, allowed 3 S.
forfeit 10 20 by 4defsull, but the report of the
sanitary officer inspired his honor TO class it
S25 ofense, and, declaring the IS forfeited,
ORDERED the usual proceeding for the col
lection OF The additional $40. Mr.. S.vills
will be allowed 10 explain this morning.
Eugene Estes, who was taken 10 tn. iail
| from the hospital several days ago, on infor-
nation received that he was wanted at
Frsnkliu, Robertson county, Tex, for the
| murder of his uncle at ID at place, is recover
| Jog rapidly from his wound, and Sheriff Can
non has tels graphed the town marshal OF
franklin to come and take charge Of him.
| AT o'clock this morning, at the Expo
silion building, the score of Dale stood
thirty eight, against twenty eight for Nei.on.
| Both retired from the track shortly before
that hour. Gutter cones 10 this morning at
5 o'clock. Dale walks sgainsl all three, .
fresh one starting every eight hours and
forty minutes. The match began yesterday
evening at o'clock.
| Frank McEWen and Jim Williams. two
colored citizens, had been fighting. McEsen
wss arrested and Williams summoned 10 sp-
pear as witness. The latter failed to appear
until brought up on warrant yesterday
morning. 1t was proven that McEweu had
been trying TO rob couutrymsu, for which
he was fined SO, while Williams was cast
for - for failing to appear as witness.
| The charge OF fighting against the Rev.
J. W. Turner was dismissed, the evidence
| going TO show that Graham, the drummer,
made toe assault, besides using the most in
suiting snd indecent language toward the
| reverend gentleman without oc.tion
| Graham failed to appear and claim $40
| forfeit and the judge fined him $25, and
ordered bis arrest whenever be return. to the
| city.
| A number of persons report a light
frost yesterday morning, and one gentlem an
declares he wrote his name in a coating of
| of it on his cellar door. Cotton and some
of the tenderer garden vegetables will be
damaged by it, but the effect on the potato
crop will be rather beneficial than otherwise,
as BY checking the growth of the vines the
potato itself will absorb all the nutriment
| IN the soil.
| A divorce was granted by Chancellor Nc
| Dowell yesterday TO The Rev. TAYLOR Night
irgAle from his wife, Adelina Nightingale.
Comp ainan, il pastor OF the Besle street
Baptist church, colored, and was surprised
six months after his marriage with Adelina
| by the advent OF a little songbird, whose
parentage be disclsimed. Shortly after this
| Adelina left him and married another man,
contrsry 10 law and religion. Wherefore +,
he applied for divorce and obtained it.
Sheriff Hoskinp, OF Osceola, Ark, passed
through the city last night with seven con-
victs, which he was taking to the peniten-
! iary at Little Rock, Thew were