Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-05-31
NEWS In Brief.

Dent forget the strawberry supper at
272 Ayres Block tonight.
The hotel at Medon, one Of the Oldest
in Tennessee, was destroyed Friday
night by fire.
Forrest will get 100000 from the city
of Columbus, Miss, for his road. The
Board of Aldermen voted the tax.
The postoffice is to be closed to-day
from one to five pm, out of respect to
the commemoration ceremonies at the
National Cemetery.
A vocal and instrumental concert has
been rendered Miss E. M. Clemmons, a
worthey music teacher Of this city, for
the purpose Of purchasing her piano.
The affair takes place Friday night at
the Assembly Hall, and we hope will
be complete success.
A gentleman named Moore was shot
in the arm and seriously injured, last
night, by chicken thieves. Mr.. M. is Of
the firm of Moore & Halstead. Two balls
pierced his arm, but the bone was not
broken. No arrests were made. Drs.
W. d. Lyle and Pitman dressed Mr..
Moore's wounds.
The sermons of Rev. DR.. Green, of
Nashville, yesterday, at Wesley and As
bury churches, and his address to the
children in the afternoon at the Cumber-
land Presbyterian church, on Court
street, were heard by great crowds of pee
pie, old and young, with much interest
and pleasure.
The grand juvenile concert and tab
leaux, given some time ago by Prot. VIM.
Magoffin's singing classes, will be re.
peated by request at the New Assembly
Hall, next Wednesday night. This will
be one Of the most pleasing entertain
ments of the season, aud will doubtless
be attended by a large and elegant
audience.
The City Council held o called meeting,
Saturday evening, to consider PROPOSE
ton made by T. Z. Brown & Co. for final
settlement with the city, under their
Nicoson paveaent contract. The Mayor
sent a message decidedly adverse to the
proposition. A communication on the
subject, found elsewhere in to.dsy's
paper, will be read with interest.
Nineteen cases were on the docket at
the Police Court this morning. Several
persons we're required to answer the
charge ofviolating the sidewalk ordinance
that Is, neglecting to lay the sidewalk
:. the city ordinances direct. None OF
,hsss = -ses we're disposed Of. Sleeping
on ,ha side~-alks and other popular
offenses completed the list
The extension of the Mississippi Cen
trail railroad norihward from jackson,
Tenn, has been indefinitely postponed,
bv the mutual consent Of the company
owning the road and the lessees. There
are number of railroad enterprises yet
undeveloped which will affect the Gem
trail road when located and completed.
Hence the postponement, though the
friends of the extension are confident
that il will be made at no distant day.
Memphis cares not how distant the day
We notice With pleasure that workmen
are engaged in completing the Christian
Church on the corner of Linden and
Mulberry streets. The tower, so long
unfinished, is already built up to the
height of the other one. This church,
when finished according to the original
design, will be one of the most handsome
aud elegant structures in the city, and
will be pointed out to the stranger with
pride. Ali honor to the fair, noble ladies
who ipaugurated this work so auspi-
ciously.
The freedmen os Mississippi seem to
like lynch law very well when it is in
their own hands. Last week number
Of them went one night to the house OF
Aaron Buford, who lives in Oxford, and
gave him terrible beating for being inii-
mate with another freedman's wife. IA
ron raised crowd Of his own few nights