Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-19
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
No marriage licenses Yesterday.

The Nashville drill begins Monday and
lasts the entire week.
The Auditing Board issued b1nds yester-
day amounting TO $751; 57 IS.
The payment ,of the old city debt wss
begun in earnest yesterday.
The umbrella supersedes the rubber
cost aud the Howeret the frost.
-Ebenezer church, destroyed by ere
Thursday morning, will be rebuilt.
Several sidewalk aud sanitary cases on
the police docket were continued Yesterday.
The case iof Ferguson against Dent &C.
cupied the Uailed States Court yesterday
evening.
"A female OF shaiowy reputation was
fined S. and costs in the Criminal Court yea
terdsy.
Two dollars in cash, and 200 DAYS service
on the gang was the yield of yesterday morn.
ing's Police docket.
The Knights of the Green .B,ize anx-
iously await the result Of the legal tourua-
ment in the courts.
adjourned ord thsg E gZr 6sDOifSs Ed and
conspicuous for IFS absence.
Prof. Saxby's exhibition of dancing
takes place at the Exposition building, this
evening from TO 6 o'clock.
The case of Alexander Hill, who MUIR
dered an old negro man and weman, who
betriended him, has been continued 10 next
term.
Young Ladies Journal, Revue de la Mode,
LesIie's Popular Monthly and North American
Repie,o, all for June, have arrived at Mans
ferd's, 29S Main street.
New buildings are going up 10 the most
unexpected places. Nearly all of the work
IL OF brick, solid and substantial. Few frame
houses are being erected.
Officer Headerick sung his voluntary"
10, =, o, 3, e 'onble cote 8 now op'n p'suant
T. journmenP-to empty benches and to al
most an empty prison pen yesterday morn
ing.
Several mules belonging to the Missis-
| sippi Valley Railroad Company were at
tsched by Deputy Sheriff ii ancock yesterday,
| to satisfy claims of laborers amounting to
1922.
An indictment was found against r
| Buchignani yesterday for keeping house OF
| ill repute. This is the secone Indictment
| found against that sex for that crime in the
| history Of the court
One or more rabid CANNES have sp.
peared on the streets, and the importance of
| taking measures at once 10 prevent serious
| consequences cannot be too strongly urged
| upon the city authorities.
The woodwork around the chimney on
the roof at Williams's mill caught from
| sparks about noon yesterday, but was quick
| ly quenched by the new Babcock fire extn-
guisher. Damage trihing.
"A black squirrel has been shipped from
New Orleans 10 President Hidden by Alex
ander Fuhmer, TO be turned loose in Court
| Square. Judge Hsdden thinks it will be
like putting the Old Scratch in Paradise.
The scaveuger has laid in a supply of
strychnine and will begin manufacturing
pills for the dog tribe in a few days. No at
| tempt will be made to lasso them. The
scheme was considerably discussed last year,
but failed.
| A two-story brick house on Market
street, between Main and Second, and seven
and half acres OF land near Russell ave-
nue. On the Pigeon Roost road, will be sold
at noon to-day by Clerk and Master Black,
at the courthouse.
| The Auditing Board began to issue
bonds yesterday morning under the late act of
the Legislature TO settle the old city indebted
ness. No. of the $500 and SlOO bonds
were cspIurad by Mr.. III. A. Hamilton. and
the first of the $1,000 denomination by Mr..
ii. NJ. James.
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the penitentiary was pronounced upon
George Henderson,, colored, to-day. He was
convicted sometime siocs of setting Ere to
the house OF John Hsmlin, at Collisrville,
but granted new trial on account of previ-
GUS good character.
Randolph Anderson, colored, is in du.
rance vile, charged with having burglsrizsd
the house of a neighbor on Hill street Of a
clock and work-box containing some loose
change. The clock WAS recovered by Capt.
O'Haver from second hand dealer on B.ale
street. 10 whom il had been sold.
City Attorney G. w. Heiskell said yes
| terdHy that the first clause of the act of 1888,
regarding the 81 litigation tax, is not the
same as that of the year before, which had
reference 10 criminal cases only, the word
criminal" being used in the act In the late
act this word is omitted. He addad that he
had always been willing to get up al sgreed
csse with the attorney general, bat the latter
would not join him.
81 see them Nashville fellows have got
ahead of me a notch" said his honor
al the conclusion of fifteen minutes
sitting OF the Police Court yesterday
morning. "Iye been reading the police
reports. in the Nashville papers, and L see
Judge Dooling fines what we call "vags"
here, $50 for failing 10 maintain themselves
by honest labor l must look up the au-
thorities on that classification"
The following mystic endorsement w.s
noticed on enc Of the briefs submitted in the
gambling case yesterday: Gas here the
language of the case is stronger and clearer
than in any other constitution, confusion
grows out of departing iroLi the language.
| Kindness, homogeneous, fatality, heterogene-
GUS, iqna, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen"
| The proportion of each of these ingredients
10 the whole OF the argument ia not given.
Wesley Moore, a colered "crook," got i,
for $50 10 the Police Court yesterday for
stealing a country darky's shoes. Yves. had a
confederate, and their game was to worm them
selves into the confidence Of the greenhorn,
| and while one was making himself solid by
| treating to.beer, the other was TO snatch what
ever was in sight and decamp. Two hundred
| days on the gang will keep Wes's mind &C.
cupied, as well as redevelop his muscle, which
has been wasting away BY mis- inactivity. His
accomplice escaped.
| "A darby named Dan Fleming escaped
from the courthouse yesterday. Tom Avsnt,
co.ored supernumerary, had him in charge.
Fleming was accused Of forgery. He and
his vile got into the courts on account of
their utter incompatibility, and found it
| harder to get cut sgsin than they expected.
Dan wanted lawyer to undo the tangle,
but didn't have the wherewithsl, SO be
forged an order TO Col. Douglass in the name
of man named Rats, by which the latter
agreed to be responsible for the fee. Then
he got deeper into the mire than ever and
jumped for freedom.
| -H.ying received information that Eu-
gene Estes, who has been confined TO his bed
at the hospital for rome time, was waoled at
Franklin, Robertson county, Tex, for the
murder Of his uncle, Sheriff Cannon caused bis
arrest yesterds y evening, and had him removed
10 the county Jail, where he could be more
securely guarded. Estes was struck on the
head. and badly wounded, two or three weeks
ago by a murderous darky named Hawkins
whose arrest deputy sheriff was endesyor.
ing to effect with Estes's assistance. He has
been insensible the greater part of the time
since then, and his fscs is so much disfgured
by erysipelss, that his identity il not sbso
lutely certain.
| Police Altorney-G.neral Nat Taylor and
associate attorney, Justice Miller, gave elab
crate opinions TO The Police Court yestsrda,
morning concerning the new law enforcing
"1hsck. up" 10 the State OF portion OF th,
6ues for minor cffenses against the Taxing
District ordinance. The opinion Of bott
bench aud bsr eeemed 10 be unanimous tha
the Law il cloudy as to what lie trainers in
tended. Gen. Tsyior's opinion is in substanc,
that the late law OF the legislature is eithel
intended 10 change the existing statute, which
| imposes on oosv ct on the tax of s. for III,
State, thus making general tax only Of 81
or il must only apply 10 the recorders Of
citie-, who, acting az magistrates, impose
| now under is operation 81 tax on convic
| lions for crimes or misdemeauors, instead o.