Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-11-26

stating that he had heard nothing about
three hunters being hung for setting fire
to nrairie Grass and did not believe the
story to be true.
Aaron Thornton asks Judge Pierce, in
a bill filed in the Circuit Court yesterday,
to grant him a divorce from his wife Fan
ME, who has of late displayed too great a
fondness for gay company, and who has
strsyed away from her wifely duty.
-Ford's Opera Company will give Gil
bert 6.Sullivan's new opera, The Mikado, at
the Memnhis Theater Thursday. Friday
and Saturday next. The venerable John
T. Ford, who has not been in Memphis
since 1852, will be with the company.
About 10 o'clock last night a white
man named Mccormick fell through the
trestle at the foot Of Beale street, a dis
lance of thirty feet. He was taken to the
Station-H House and sent thence to the hos
pital. 1t is believed one of his eyes was
broken.
The Fayette county election cases
Court yesterday. Peter B. Mosely was
found guilty in the first two of six counts,
and charles Jackson in the first Of six
counts OF the indictment. They we're each
fined 500 and costs.
The teachers of Shelby county, and
others who are interested, are requested to
meet at the Office of the County Superin-
tendent on Saturday, November 28th,a 10
o'clock to organize a reading circle for the
improvement of teachers in professional
and general culture.
-Lymus Wallace, who was arrested q
day or two ago for overlooking his mules
by hauling four bales of cotton from the
river, says the officer was mistaken. He
says he was not hauling four bales of cot
ton from the river, but that he was hanl-
ing four bales from shed to shed, as he
has been for twenty years; and which is
the general practice Of draymsn,
The new Memphis Jockey Club,
which already OWNS a handsome tract of
iann &c wnole Of the old fair grounds,
| yesterday purchased from Captain w. A.
Collier a tract adjoining of twenty-six
| acres, which will be added to the ground.
1t will be planted cut in trees, laid off in
walks and a handsome park made of it.
It is situated on the corner OF Trezevant
and Central avenues and is Immediately
north of the old race track.
Mr.. John K. Speed Indignantly denies
the story that he is a candidate for police
and fire commissioner, and states that such
use of his name was utterly .unwsrranted
| and unjustifi able. On the contrary be is
earnestly in favor of the reelection OF
President Hadden, and if necessary will
| put his shoulder to the wheel to keep him
in a position for which he believes him to
be 30 well fitted and in which he has done
go much good for the city. There is no
mistaking Mr.. Speeds position in the
matter. >
Two suits for damages were entered
in the Circuit Count yesterday. Jesse
Boothe, a mechanic, who had his thumb
crushed by the big hammer at the Mem
phis and Charleston railroad shops, sues
that company for $40, 600 damages. s. B.
McLemofe demands $1,000 of Porter Kor.
trecht for striking him across the
shoulders with a stick. McLemore has
peer in the insane asylum several times,
and YVES at one time tried for insanity and
a verdict returned in his favor. He is said
to have fully recovered his mental equilib.
rum.
-Nataline, the Persian girl, who has
created such a sensation by the way she
handles the ten huge serpents on the
stage, had quite a battle at supper time
Yesterday with one of the smaller and
paratory to shedding its skin, and when
blind they are terribly dangerous tc
handle. She was placing it in the boz
when she carelessly slapped it, hurting it,
sensitive mouth and head. His snakeshit
turned on her and bit her in the center
of the hand, one of the curved teeth
slender as a large knitting needle. broke
off in the flesh, making a painful wound
There is nothing, however, dangerous il
the wound, only that it will tester ant
swell up, being poisoned pretty much al
the tartar from the teeth of a rat viii
poison at times. She performed her &C
last night with a piece of cloth about he
hand.
"A rather complicated case, involviu,
county school money, was decided in tn,
Circuit Court yesterday. The directors o
the Eleventh District last year wer,
Messrs. F. A. Hurt, r. 7. Anderson ant
James Cornelius. The term of the latt.
expired and no legal election was held
Mrs. Horton, the superintendent, ap
pointed James Brown to fill the vacanc,
on the strength oil a long petition. He wa
epjoined by Cornelius. who claimed tina
he had been reelected. Hurt moved t
the city, leaving no one but Anderson t.
act. He drew an order for S22 so to pa,
himself for his services in taking the cen
sus of the district, and got Cornelious t
sign it. Together they ignored Brown AMI
elected Mr.. Calls, who also signed tn,
order. The county trustee declined to pa,
it on account of its informelity, and he wa
sustained by the Judge.