Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-06-25
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
-Watermelons have appeared.

-Watermelons have appeared.
The PAYERS are pacing along on Poplar
street.
The Tracy testimonial takes place to-
night.
Yesterday was st. Johns Day among
the Masons.
The steamer Obion left Dyersburg
yesterday for Memphis.
The Bod Boy at Home; price, twenty
five cents, at Msnsford's.
The Fay Tempeton Opera Company
opens at Estival on the 30th.
Justice Mason covered himself with
glory at the barbecue yesterday.
Jim West was bound over yesterday
for stealing $40 from VIM. Martins room.
The exercises of the Christian Broth
ers' College, held last night, were the last
of the season.
Every railroad leading into the city
will bring excursions to Memphis at low
rates on July 4th.
The argument in the Kauerz Schuyler
murder case closed at noon yesterday,
when it was given to the jury.
Licenses to marry were Issued yester-
day to Fred Horuker and Mary Runner,
John K. Williams and NJ. Z. Campbell.
VIM. Rogers, colored, who was caught
by Mr. Oakley in his bedroom, was fined
$40 in the Police Court yesterday for
trespass.
Compliant is made Of the indecency of
| bathers on the sand-bar across the river.
Their conduct is such SIS to deserve the
| severest punishment.
Mr. George Batter returned home at
o'clock yesterday morning, on the Val
ley line, from Helena, and was at his place
of business as usual yesterday.
"A meeting of all the chairmen of COM
mittees in charge Of the orphans picnic,
July 4th, will be held at 4 80 o'clock p m.
to-day at st. Peters parsonage.
Jim Burns, coloIed, who was arrested
yesterday by Officer Fsver with lot Of
brass in his possession, had a pistol and
some store-keys in his pocket when
searched.
-McKeever has not'confessed yet, but
| he is almost certain 10 do so before the
hangman's rope chokes his utterance. He
| was baptized and received into the Cath
Ole Church yesterday.
About dozen poll-tax cases appealed
from mag strates' courts were tried in the
| Circuit Court yesterday. They were all
decided in favor OF Collector Weatherford
4 6ACCpl OllC5 WlAACh was 0CAOOblNOs
There is regular hue and cry against
the crane in Court Square. 1t is COM
planned that he amuses himself all day
long by killing sparrows, and that he has
no trouble in the world in catching and
destroying them.
The Central Methodist Sabbath-school
| will have basket picnic at Capleville, on
the Memphis and Holly Springs railroad
Friday, June 26th. Trains will leave from
the crossing of fernando road and Broad
way promptly at o'clock am.
Jim Robinson, colored boy, was Sc
riously wounded by negro named jim
Cox, at the corner Cf Robson and Quinby
streets Tuesday night. The negroes had {
previous quarrel, and Cox, with vengeance
in his heart, waylaid Robinson as he wal
going home. Cox escaped.
On and after the LIST of July the new
} postal law goes into effect. Instead o
half an ounce, two-cent stamp will cove
an ounce, and all second-class matter, sucf
as newspapers, will be carried and deliv
cred at one cent per pound, instead OF tive
cents, as at present.
"A number of children have been badl!
1 hurt since the swings were put up in Cour
! Square, and most parents who now senC
their children there to play are oveTjoyeC
Sergt. Rogers is to be commended for hi
, action in removing them, but he ought Il
sell the ropes to the rag man. A lot o
dangling sea-grass lines does not add ma
terially to the beauty OF the square.
On account Of the threatening weathe
the excursion TO Lakeview last evening
, was not as large as it might have been
but it was select, and all those who wen
: down seemed to enjoy the trip immensely
q | Crcce Bros string band furnished tn
! music, and everything taken together, tn
| experiment went to prove that the Wednes
; day excursions can be made popular
{ Croce Bros excellent band has been en-
/ | gagged by the road for all excursions thu
2 season.
t Justice Elliott has at last decided tn
{ | turkey case. From the testimony it ap
: | peared that Miss Early, who resides il
= North Memphis, got a gun and swore ven
9 | geance against the neighborhood fowl
s | which were depre6ating her mother
4 | garden, She killed a number of geese
: ducks and chickens and threw them owe
2 | the fence. A few days ago the youn
: lady caught three young turkeys an,
! stripped them clean of feathers, leaving
few upon the wings, then turned then
2 loose. Their owner hardly recognizes
:, them when they went loping home, bu
lsdyis arrest, and she was fined 3 81
=, uDSaae,. the small oneDss IAN. The gran,
: jury ignored the bill.
8 The will of the late Maj. Jimmie Die
t Hill, we'll known here, was probated Tues
g day at Nashville, in the County Court
: Mr.. H. II. McAlister and Gen. Ira P. Jone
!. were named as executors. He direct
g them to first pay all of his Just debts an
funeral expenses. To VIM. Kane Riddl
: be bequeathed $1,000 and gold watch an
chain, and $1,000 to Elise Riddle, the legs
r cies to be turned over in full when tn
benefciaries attain their majority. To y
: II. McAlister, IT,, he left the gold watcl
and chain worn by the deceased at hi
r death. The residue of his property b
directed to be divided equally between hi
= two sons, James Dick Hill and Harr
Longer Hill, now residing with thei
d mother at Par Bases Pyrinus, France.
d The afternoon papers contain car
by Mr.. G. G. Dent, who officiated at tn
4 wedding Of George Batter and Mary Bul
}. ton, in which he says; "What 1 did 1 di
7 as an attorney, for which Mr.. Batter pal
me a fee. Before acting I fully invest
d gated the genealogy of Miss Burton, an
here give it, having proof for what 1 ga
II given in a legal way. Her great-granC
I. father was Col. Clay, and her great grand
u mother was an Indian squaw. By theI
was born a child named Ellen Burton ,wh
q lived with DR.. Purcell, a white mar
From this union her mother MRS. Ba
y teri was born, Jane Burton, the issu
d of Ellen Burton and DIR. Purcell, is tn
mother OF Mrs. Batter (nce Mary Burton
}; the father of Mary Burton being Andre
n Burriss, tailor, doing business here yea
ego. The only reason why Batter wei
to Helena to be married was to avoid
newspaper scandal. My name in II
i transaction was not to be mentioned, as
acted solely as an attorney, and before sc
p ing gathered the facts above stated"
DRAW.POKER is much dearer than draw
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