Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-12

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meeting this evening
The Municipal, Law and chanccr'
Courts are ia session.
The Eureka and Bluff City ball clubs
play match game this evening.
Maple syrup-very nice, at Finni,
4 Buckham's. At aA. llaH l
= Thanks to Mr. Felix Cross, Of the
Southern Express, for fles of late papers
- The Nicolson PAYERS are at work on
Madison, between Third and Desotc
streets.
The failure Of the mails from this
city is greatly complained of by the eiti-
Gems Of Friar's Point.
The orphans are to receive the bene
FITS of great 0ratorio" at St. Peters
church at an early day. tr
John L. Wilson, Esq, editor Of the
Chicago Epening Journal, passed
through the city yesterday.
The Memphis City Transfer Com
pany have reduced their fare between
hotels and depots from fifty to twenty
FIVE cents. 90.
The Water Valley Eagle says Gen
W. ]. Smith did have his nose pulled al
the late railroad convention.
MIR. Andrews, Of the Male High
School, received a beautiful cane yester-
day as present from his pupils.
- The ball at Forest Hill on Friday
evening promises to be largely attended
by the bellies and beaux Of Memphis.
S. Q. ks. NJ. Guest, fernando
road, is selling groceries and feed cheap
for cash. Call and try him. Gil
= Brownlow's appointee, r. H.Thorne,
has taken possession of the Office hereto
fore occupied by Attorney General Wal
lace. -...s
There are three hundred and sixty
one grocery and commission houses in
the city, which pay a city tax of fifty
dollars each.
The net proceeds of the recent
amateur entertainment in aid Of the
Masonic Orphans Fund were two hun.
dred and seventy-fve dollars.
Nice Strawberries received every
day at 10 o'clock, from Mr.. Shepherd s
fine strawberry beds near Raleigh, at
Finnie & Buckham's. hs T
The St. Andrews and ST. Georges
societies have agreed upon a joint cele-
bration of the Queens birthday, the 24th
inst. The programme will be duly an
nounced. 9
The funeral services Of James w.
Boylan, deceased, will take place as per
notice in another column, at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning, from 800 Main
street.
The on dit in amateur dramatic
circles is the production, at an early day,
at the New Memphis, of the Marble
Heart, the proceeds to be devoted to a
charitable object, which will be duly
announced.
The Brownsville Bee regards as the
chief reason for the removal of the Su-
preme Court from Jackson to that town
the fact that it is more accessible to
Memphis, from which large part of the
business of the Court comes. Wouldn't
Memphis itself be little more accessible
still2
- The draymens meeting at the City
Hall tonight promises to be largely at
tended There are between nine and ten
hundred drays running in the city, the
aggregate State and county tax on which
at twenty-one dollars apiece is about
$4,000. 1t is this tax that the draymen
regard as grievance.
The following additional petitionsiH
bankruptcy have been reported by the
Commissioner James N. Watson, Hen
derson county; G. Underwood, Obion
county; Rufus L. Walt, Shelby county (;
Martin & Beasly, Shelby county; 81.
Marks, Shelby county; Henry p. Rodgers,
Hardeman county; Benz amin f. Stofer,
Shelby county; Seash Sweat, McNairy
county