The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-22
IEMPHIS APPEAL---WEDNEsDAY. SEPTEMBER o.

s25,SSl 70 for the taxes Of Shelby
county for 1885.
"A big evenings fun on the tobog-
gan tonight is assured. The cars will
make the forward and back runs with
out any person having to change
seats. This will prove novelty which
should draw ont the people.
The Baptist Foreign Mission Con-
vention OF the United States OF Amer.
lea will meet in the Tabernacle Baptist
Church, r. N. Couutee, psstor, this
"wednesday morning at 8 o'clock.
Nearly every State in the Union will
be represented.
--Magistrates for the Second, Fifth
AMI Eighteenth Districts, and Con-
stables for the Fifth and Fourteenth
Districts are to be elected. There are
any number OF candidates for each
Office. The liveliest fight will be
made in the Fifth District.
Prof. Barney Hughes has dis
guised himself so that even one OF
Pioketton's men wouldn't know him.
lie has shavsd off bis hirsue append
ages which have yelled his cheeks for
the past ten years. 1t is rumored tina.
he contemp'ates delivering another
lecture on the mule.
The task OF collecting poll tax
from those who exercise the elective
franchise by deposiiing their ballots
at the different voting precincts has
always been a difficult undertaking,
but IL is not generally known how
small a percentage of those who take
prominent parts IN elections ever pay
Tor the privilege. The books show
that the properly holders pay this tax
without grumbling, and it seems like
an injustice that the non-propeIty
holders should be exempted through
a failure TO properly enforce the law.
The School OF Acting, located in
the Lyceum Theater, New York City,
hes forwarded the APPEAL statement
OF its newest plans. Its third year
opens in October, under a reoreanizi \.
ton comprising Mr.. F. II. Sargent as
director, David BsIasco ss stage man.
agsr and full corps OF dramatic teach.
els. Students this year ara offered
public appearances, Ike those Of Will
son Barretts Thea'er, London; daily
stage drill, after the manner OF the
Paris Conservatoire, and education In
all the actors accomplishments. ltt
management claim that this school ID
the only institution in America exclu
sively devoted 10 training for the pro
fessional stage.
The brakeman, published at Chat
tanooga, has made very liberal offe'
to further develop its rapidly expand
ing subscription list. Each subscriber
sending 81 for one years subscription
will receive eight handsomely bounC
volumes OF standard authors, includ
ing works OF Carlyle, Macsuley, Ten
nysop, D'lserali, Kingsley, Goldsmith
George Elliott, James Anthony Froudh
Hawthorne, John Ruskin, Charles ii
Spurgeon, Lsmartine and others
Also, knights complete History O
England" The brakeman contains
in each Issue valuable letters from
every commercial and industrial city
Of the South, and besides gives the
name of every new enterprise con.
templated or commenced in any Of the
Southern Statee.
Sam Ellie, co'ored, who lives five
miles north Of the city, was arrested
yesterday morning by Officer Lane, o.
the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals, at No. 1872 Main
street, for driving mule with a sore
back. When about passing the Court
house the darby insisted upon going
into Justice Pope's Office to be tried
Lane declined his request, wishing to
take the case before Justice Powell
land the darby became obstinate, re-
fusipg to 20 on. Lane finally drew hii
pistol, and thus coaxed, his prisoner
4 yielded. Justice Powell fined him s.
and 81 30 costs. Lane also arrested q
H. Wurtzbureer, charging him with
interfering with him in the dischArg,
Of his duty, but the Court dismissed
the case. Lane was afterwsrd boun(
over by Justice Pope for drawing hi
pistol on the darby.