The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-14
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Wild turkeys are so plentiful in Arkan-
sas and Mississippi that they are being
killed with sticks.
!. The Young Mems Hebrew Association
will hold their regular meeting this after.
noon at $50 o'clock.
The Rev. DIR. Boggs being absent there
will be no services at the Second Presby'
terrain Church today.
Sugar has advanced from TO cent pei
pound in the past four days, caused by q
scarcity in the visible supply,
Upward Of IL, 900 barrels Of cement will
be u-ed this summer in the foundations,
etc, OF the big bridge at this place.
The special meeting Of the Tennessee
Club, called for last evening, will be held
at $ o'clock tomorrow Monday evening.
Tho Oklahoma fever has struck Mem
phis hard, and one OF the enterprising
manufacturers OF the city has already
shipped TO the new land Of promise several
car loads OF manufactured lumber.
Beginning today the mail train on the
Kansas City, Memphis & birmingham
Railroad will leave at o'clock am. The
Holly Springs accommodation, leaving al
4 o'clock pm, has been discontinued on
Sundays.
The Rev. A. b. Miller, ID, Of Little
Rock, will preach at the First Baptis,
Church both morning and night. DR..
Miller is an able minister OF Jesus Christ.
We bespeak for him large audience from
our people.
The Mirror, new Republican weekly,
will issue its initial number ON Saturday
or Sunday next. II will be a new venture,
and not connected with the management
OF the old Tribune in any way. The pro-
motors OF the enterprise arc citizens Of
Memphis.
Memphis capital is engaged In the cree
ton OF large cotton factory at Mound
Springs, on the Kansas City Railroad.
There Is water power enough, Il Is said. 10
run all the machinery In Memphis. The
Springs, promising site, are principally
owned by Memphians.
The pupils OF the Bethel Sunday-School,
assisted by some Others, will give an els-
cutlonary entertainment next Friday even
ing, tho 10th instant, at the Bethel Build
ing, corner OF Adams street and Charleston
avenue. In addition, Col. Barney Hughes
will give a talk TO the children, which can
not fail TO be interesting. Admission,
twenty-five cents; children. ten cents.
A lively kick is expected from property
owners on Shelby street over the proposed
laying Of an additional line Of track by
the street car company. The property
owners claim that the street Is too narrow
for double track, aud will endeayor TO
have the railroad extend It's line TO Jack
son Mound over some. other street An
attempt 10 put down another track will be
met by an injunction.
Drs. J. J.. Minor and @. II. Thornton
have performed an operation on Mr. John
D0nnclly, who was afflicted with an absccss
In bis head, from which he had lost his
hearing and was otherwise growing worse.
Tho skilled surgeons removed a section Of
the skull bone, just over the abccss. gave
u radical treatment, with the most en-
couraging result Mr.. Donnelly will DO
oil right In eight or ten days.
II. r. Church has written n card, In
which he denies having stated that Sheriff
McIendon promised him immunity from
yisitaiions Of deputy shcnls In cases Of
trouble NJ his place Of business lie ex-
plains that what he did say Twas that
Mr.. Mclondon had said when n candidate
for office that II he wns elected Sheriff ho
would not have drunken deputies going
into saloons aud raising rows. never
charged Mr.. Dean Pope with being
drunk"