Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-04-10
News I'm Rrief.

DR.. Taylor vaecinated the station.
house yesterday.
twenty-five hundred letters distributed
daily by the carriers.
Two hundred and eighty-three white
persons registered yesterday.
All the Congressman from this State
are opposed to little Smith except Stokes.
Mr.. P. G. Bigley has returned to the
city from trip of week to New Or
Orleans.
Mr.. Henry Farmers concert, next
Tuesday, promises to be brilliant sue
cess.
Rumored that Messrs. Spalding & Bid
well, Of St. Louis and New Orleans, are
negotiating for the New Memphis
theater.
The strange spectacle of a street car
after tkeater time will be witnessed to-
night, unless it rains. II will be labelled
fernando.
Government taxes in Memphis, two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the
Congressional district, five hundred
thousand dollars.
Colonel Howard Falconer, of Holly
Springs, one of the most genial and
worthy of our Mississippi friends, is in
the city, and stopping at the Peabody.
One attraction at>the New Memphis
tonight will be the rattle for beautiful
and valuable afghan, worked by the
skillful fingers of Miss Jennie Pickett.
Our young friend Jonathan Rice, of
Rice, Silk Il Co, leaves Monday for a
European tour, and will be absent five or
six months. We wish him a pleasant
journey.
Aboat tyelvo o'clock yesterday the
house occupied 5y and belonging to
Thomas Mcbride in South Memphis, was
banned, with its contents-nothing saved.
not eve1 ihe clothing of the family.
Steve Graysoh, RE awful colored
Democrat who rolled up SO ngch free
lunch last summer, has gone back to his
first love, spd walks arm in arm with
Barbour Lewis ard Ggqres at Radical
meetings,
The police are seldom seen south Of
Beal street at night, except in the Vicin-
ity of the station-house. People in
South Memphis complain very much OF
promiscuous shooting, stealing and scar
city of police protection.
Rev. DR.. Ford met with severe acct
dent yesterday afternoon about three
o'clock ss be was returning from a visit
"a q sick member of bis church in Fort
PICKERING His horss took fight, and
he was thrown violeIi.'lv TO the ErOSna,
breaking his right leg near the t1's anu
his arm between the wrist and elbow.
His shoulder was also severely injured.
Drs. Erskine And Rogers and Hodges
we're called 10, and did all in their power
to alleviate the pains of the sufferer.
The sad misfortune of the Doctor excites
general sympathy. He will be confined
to his room many, many long days.
Why don't our country cousins
hurry their vegetables into MARKET
Is the frequent remark of hon sskeepers
that they experience great difficulty in
supplying their tables Vegetables of ell
kinds command q ready sale and high
prices. Our markei.houses remind us
of Goldsmilh's deserted village. 1t
makes one sad to visit them. The crowds
that once throEged them no longer fire.
quept them. The booths aud stalls
throughout the city have drawn away the
trade. A lady friend, who has charge of
large boarding house in our city, tells
us that she visited one of our market
houses this week, and could almost have
vspt at the desolation. What could che
fud to tempt the appetite of her boarders 7
In despair. she Turned homewards with
nothing to offer her boarders but meats,
meats Will not our suburban friends
bestov more attention on their gardens,
so profitable to them and 50 welcome to
the dsnizens Of the ciy3