The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-03
CITY NEWS.

-AHo uuht 10 ioiilhS'
Courts were closed yesterday.
No more elections for two years.
The police had quiet day Of IL.
This weather is rough on the
clothiers.
The cotton congresses ara run
ming day and night.
The Hon. Casey Young was on
the ground yesterday.
Preparations for the winter are
going on at lively rats at the race
track. W n
The election yesterday was one OF
the quietest ever held In Shelby
county.
The weak vice Of scratching was
not INDUCED in 10 any appreciable ex-
tent yesterday. =
A Womans Error, by Bertha Clay,
and Century for November, just re-
ceived by Mansiord.
French market" at 800 Second
street (Women's Exchanged next Fri.
day and Saturday, from 4 to 10 o'clock
pm.
Jockey Forleigh sticks TO his story
that Ascoli was drugged Saturday, but
avs he does not believe the jumpers
owner did It,
Robert Peblow, an old and well
known citizen, dropped dead with
heart disease yesterday evening at his
residence, No. 69 Avery street. He
was rs years OF age.
Light winds which prevailed all
day Yesterday caught up the finely
powdered dust and sent II in clouds
through the streets, Main street look
ing IS II Il were enveloped in a fog
most Of the day.
The dlrkies took little interest In
the result, and unfortunately the mer-
chants were all over their ears in
work, and many Of them found it diff
fcult to find time to vote before the
hour for closing the polls.
The Young Mems Christian Asso.
citation will give a social entertain
ment and concert at their rooms, No
207 Main street, next Friday night al
s o'clock. There will be no charge
for admission and all friends are cor.
daily invited.
There will be meeting OF the
aides Auxiliary Of the Young Mems
Christian Association next Thursday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock, In their
parlor, No. 207 Main street. All Ia.
dies wishing to take part in this work
are invited to be present.
The market master at the Won.
ems Exchange next Friday and Satur.
day evenings will have need TO be Q
polyglot. The number and variety Of
stalls, stall keepers, wares, purchasers
and tongues, will eclipse anything THU
side OF Paris-or Egypt.
Judge Dubose sustains Coroner
Powell in his statement that he ant
his deputy are alone entitled TO hold
inques's, when either are in the coun,
ty. Judge Dubose says: "InquestI
are frequently held where there is nc
necessity whatever for such practices
/ am determined that useless extraya
ganoe in this, ss well as in other cases
shall not be permitted; no such un
lawful expenses allowed. No magis
trate but the regularly elected anC
qualified coroner or his deputies hay,
the right to hold inquests in Shelby
county"
Several halloween parties wer,
given Monday night Many Of tn,
customs at such gatherings are yer,
pretty. One Of them is to place fou
dishes on a table, one containing
gold ring, another water, the thir,
clay and the fourth broomcorn.
person is led blindiolded TO the table
and II he puts his hand into the disl
with the ring he will be married be
fore the years II he dips into the waite
he will take a journey across tn
water; il into the clay, he will b
buried before the end OF the year;
the i'll starred dame OF tickle fortune
should nudge his. elbow, mayhap h
will grab the hEoomcorn, which de
cides his fate as an old bachelor to tn
end of hig days.