The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-25

tina ulhen.
yes, sign them all, said
Main street merchant yesterday.
what does petition amount to,
anyway
Nearly every church in the city
will have had its whack 81 the iesti-
val racket before the strawberry sea
son Is over.
The row in the Republican camp
is about settled, the name OF the OBJ
! jectionable candidate having been
withdrawn by the boomers.
The market gardeners in the east
ern suburbs of the city are praying Tor
rain, which Is badly wanted to de-
velop the Irish potato crop.
The Republicans will have n con
vention June TO fcnd delegates 10 a
State Judicial and Gubrruatorial Con-
yenton 10 be held at Nashville.
Albert schaehcr, a victim OF
drink, tried TO commit suicide in the
Station-ilous9 Sunday night by tying
one OF his socks around his throat. He
was discovered in time.
III. Mahan being absent Mt Confer
ence, Judge Graft occupied tbs pu pit
at the Central Methodist Church yes
t-rlay, his subject being the washing
Of His disciples feet by the Savior.
There was big crowd at Raleigh
last Sunday. A large number went
ont in buggies, rocsaways, furniture
vans and in carts, all provided with
/ good things in baskets, and had a
| jolly time in the lovely little valley.
An election for delegates and
Democratic Executive Committeeman
was held Saturday in the Sixth Dis
tr ct, at Raleigh. u, Fletcher Taylor
YVES chosen committeeman and
Fletcher and Wylie Taylor were elect.
ed delegates to to-day's convention.
Citizens Of Irish birth and de-
| scent will not forget the meeting TO be
| held to night at lnnislail Hall 10
! take the steps necessary 10 securing
| subscriptions OF money, food and
clothing for the starving people OF the
west and northwestern parts OF Ire
land
The convention TO send delegates
TO the Judicial convention, which
meets at Nashville June 9th, will con-
venc at the Exposition building at II
! o'clock this morning The Demo
cratic Executive Committee vii meet
at 10 o'clock and organize for the cam
| p'ign.
Tho switchback, or "toboggan,"
/ will not he ready to start to-oay, us
the cars have not yet arrived from
Philadelphia. II is expected that this
new railroad novelty will go into
operation on Thursday afternoon at .
O'Clock and will be a bic attraction on
the comiug hot evenings.
The question as TO the right OF
Messrs Cross end Mercer to sit as
members of the County Quarterly
! Court will come up before the SUI
preme Court for final adjudication on
Thursday next. The matter has been
! fully discussed ever since Chairman
Slaughter's election, and it is not be-
liaved by the best posted members of
the bar that there can be any change
of the decision rendered by Judge
Pierce.
- One of the attorneys of the Mem
phis City railway asserted his positive
belief yesterday that the Supreme
| Court, which would take up the case,
would decide IL in favor OF the Street
Car Company. The court here deoid-
ed that the simple fact OF occupying a
street upon which the Cuncil had
not granted right of way, constituted
a nuisance, Should the Supreme
Court decide adversely, the whole
| question will assume its former at j.
tude, one favorable TO the old COM
pany.
The American kindergarten Nor
NAL School viii hold its session this
year ut Mount Mitchell Hotel, Black
Mountain, North Carolina, where
teachers in the South especially will
find IL not only pleasant but very
| prohtab to meet Miss Coe in North
Carolina, especially MS an arrange
ment has been made to extend the
kindergarten lessons beyond the time
of the assembly meeting. Thus ali
can be provided for by special lessons.
Teachers in Memphis and the sur
rounding country will take notice.
"A meeting will be held at the
Cotton Exchange tomorrow afternoon
at 8 o'clock for tie purpose of consid-
| ering measures necessary to prevent
the total loss of the valuable land ly-
ing between Tennessee street and the
river, from Bcale street 10 the ice
house and brewery. Every person
who owns property within that limit,
| whether east or west of Tennessee
street, is vitality concerned in this
movement, which should result in
immediate work after the water falls
There is not q moment to lose, and all
concerned should act nramptly and as
| one man
"A Hardemau county man, who ut
! present occupies an $50 position N the
! pc totlice, which was tasen with the
! belief that he would be promoted
still holds that place in spite OF the
| pressure upon Postmaster Fowlkes
who is reported loath to dispense
with the services of Mr.. j. f Benton,
the superintendent of mails. Mr.
Benton is a Republ can, but thorough,
! w understands his business, having
occupied his present position, which
pays about $500 a yer, for long
! time. His dismissal, and the promo
/ ton of the liardeman county m II,
WIN carries votes in his pocket, it is
said, is demanded by one Of the gen.
omcn who took an active pa in Mr..
/ Fowlkes's nomination and now seeks
! one for himself,