Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-21
MAIN sfREET PAVEMENT.
The Good work Commenced
at Last.

sands on the seashore, delivered in the
Board of Aldermen relative to paving
Main street. More excitement has pre-
vailed, and more i'll feeling been engen.
dered in consequence of this question
than were ever known before. Angry
words became the order of the day; PTS.
tolls and coffee were almost daily thought
Of; and remote illusions to Hope6eld
were borne on nearly every breeze.
But angry words we're not arguments |;
and fiery debates could not be trans
formed into wooden blocks or coal.tar.
While aldermen ventilated choice rhe'
toric and banded elegant epithets, the
dust grew on Main street, and visions OF
mud oceans presented themselves to our
business men. A repetition of last
winters experience was anticipa-
ted, and citizens grew disheartened
Presto change has come. The cloud
has been punctured, and sunlight is
cleaning through. This morning work
men are busy digging on Main, at the
corner of Madison street. The pick and
shovel sound as sweetly in the ears of
those whose hearts had been made sick
by "hope deferred" as the most ravish-
ing music, and everybody feels like
throwing up hats and huzzaing. All de.
tails have been arranged, and in day or
two the tar boilers, the blocks and the
PAYERS will be burying the mud-bed from
view forever. For the present, Madison
street is the head of street railway navi-
gation. The cars from either direction
must make it their terminus The com,
pany will for while be seriously in.
convenienced, and passengers ditto; but
the pavement is coming and that is glory
enough. Hurrah for the Nicholson I"
DEATH OF REV. G. A. DAVIS Rev DR.,
G. A. Davis, of the Cumberland Presby-
terrain Church, whose illness was the
occasion of much sadness during last
week, died Saturday evening and was
buried yesterday. The news of his
demise caused profound sorrow; he was
well known and generally beloved. His
funeral took place from the Cumberland
church, and was attended by very large
number of citizens. The interior of the
church was draped in black, and an al
most overpowering sadness prevailed.
Appropriate remarks were made by Rev,
Drs J. 0. Stedman, of the First Presby.
terian Church, and s. H. Ford of the
Central Baptist Church. Those of the
latter had especial reference to the last
hours of the deceased. In the pulpit
were also Rev. DR.. Guilford Jones, of the
Methodist Church, Rev. DR.. Graves
(Baptist), and Rev. j. B. MCPHERSON
and Rev. Mr.. Sample presbyterian.
After the services the congregation were
invited to come forward and take view
Of the deceased, who lay in the burial
casket in front of the altar. Nearly all
present accepted the invitation, filing
slowly through the spacious aisles This
sad spectacle concluded, the body was
conveyed to the hearse in front of the
church, and the funeral cortege pro.
ceeded to Elmwood, where the mortal
remains of the deceased were deposited.
DR.. Davis death is not loss to merely
his family or his church, but to the com
munity, to whom the decease of good
man is ever a calamity, DR.. Davis was
a gentleman of education, more than or
binary intelligence, Aand an earnest
devout Christian. His life was a con.
slant illustration of the virtues which
adorn Christianity-a bright example TO
young and old. His place in his church
or in society will be hard to Gil. "
The LATE Col. THORNTON. The fol-
lowing is the result of a meeting of the
bar, held on Saturday, with reference to
the death of Col J. B. Thornton:
The members of the bar of the city of
Memphis have heard, with unfeigned
regret, of the death of their brother,
James B. Thornton, Esq, Of the prevail
ing disease. While this is not fitting
opportunity to present to the public
review of the many virtues aud varied
Accomplishments Of our brother, we feel
that it is only proper and just tribute
to his memory to say that he has not
left behind him one of our brethren more
Just in his duties, more honest in bis