Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-04-23

city, Is travelling agent OF Lakes circus
Sporting men from abroad are arriv-
ing in the city in anticipation Of the
forthcoming spring races.
Mr.. John Donovan, of this city, has
been elected one Of the Vice Presidents
Of the National Turf Congress.
The brick observatory Of the Over
ton Hotel is being pulled down to be re-
placed by one of lighter material.
The business Of our railroads has
greatly fallen of within the past year,
owing to the stringepey Of the times. q
IN. L. Scott, Esq, General Ticket
Agent Of the Columbus, Chicago and
Indiana railroad, is at the 0verton Hotel
The hotel registers this morning
show a goodly number Of arrivals in
the city within the past twenty.four
hours.
Mr.. 7, W. Leake, of the Revenue
Department in this city, has resigned,
and will return to Paducab, KY, his
former home. 49,.
Gus Signaigo, having purchased the
interest of his partner in the Grenada
Sentinel will in future be sole proprietor
Of that paper.
of the school children of the city,
about two-tbirds are attending the public
schools. The other third are pupils in
private academies.
Admiral Semmes, our late dis
tinguished fellow.townsman, is prsc-
ticing law in Mobile in partnership with
his son, Oliver ]. Semmes gr III
The Memphis Cornet Band have ten.
dered their services for the occasion of
the floral offering at Elmwood, and their
kind offer has been accepted by the lady
managers. fe
Capt. E. B. Byington, general ticket
agent of the Memphis and ST. Louis
packet company, has returned to the
city from an extensive tour of the North.
ern States.
O.P.H.P. ks. M. Guest, fernando
road, near South street, has full supply
of Hay, Corn, Oats and Bran; also every
thing 10 the way Of Family Groceries.
CHEAP, FOR CASH
Joe Locke, % Jefferson street, re-
ceived this morning the Louisville
Courier, Cincinnati Enquirer and Com
mercial of yesterday, and the latest
dates of the New York, Chicago and st.
Louis dailies.
The running of trains on the Nash
vile and Northwestern road beyond
Johnsonville, has been suspended. The
whole road promises to be suspended at
an early day, if Brownlow's Receiver
Innes is not.
"A match, yesterday, between the Bluff
City and Eureka Base Ballers resulted in
the victory Of the latter, the score stand
ing fifty to one hundred and one. The
contest was the first of the season, and
both clubs manifested lack of practice.
AT a meeting of creditors yesterday
in the bankrupt cases of Henry G. Hol-
lenberg, Matthias Hoffstadt, W.. j. Hicks
& Co., James N. Douglas, Joseph Klaus,
Samuel A. Given, Thomas Bilbow, A.
G. Moore and Montillon Scott, W. Y.
Cirode was appointed assignee.
Patrick Mathew, an employe of the
Memphis and Charleston railroad, was
run ever and instantly killed at Collier
vile, on Tuesday night. He had fallen
asleep on the track while in state of
intoxication, and was not discovered by
the engineer until it was too late to stop
the train.
About dusk last evening, what was
supposed to be human corpse was dis
covered floating down the river, mile
or two below the city. 1t may be remem'
bered that little over a week ago over two
score of bodies were washed out of the
graves of cholera patients on Arsenal
island, near St. Louis, and carried down
stream. May not the corpse discovered
last evening possibly have been one of
them
1t is intimated that the Commission
ers in Withholding the county printing
from the Bulletin until July, deemed it
best to wait and see if, in the event the
impeachment fails, the "organ 1" does
not again swing around the circle This,
perhaps, rather than the expectation of
there being one less Richmond in the
field by the pegging out of either the
Second or Union street concern before
July, may have governed the Board in
deferring action in the matter.
WHEATON 4 Co., hatsers, 1879 Main
street, have all the latest styles Of soft,
cashmere and straw hats-best qualities
-cheapest prices. As
SPIRITULMsM-0n Sunday evening
next lecture will be delivered 10 st.
Patrick's Church, on spiritualism. The
lecturer, Rev. P. F. 0'Reilly, of ST.
Louis, has made the subject study for
years; has read the works of leading
spiritualists, and has also witnessed not
few of their developments and remark
able phenomena. Not seldom kaS be
come into direct contact and even col
lision with their practices. We may,