Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-05-05
News I'm Brief.
St. Peters picnic tomorrow.

Register REGISTER REGISTERl
" Few days" and registration will b
done. ftft y
Mrs. Thompsen's benefit next Frida.
night week.
| Soda fouhtains are beginning to pla,
with fine effect.
| Hereafter there will be Sunday morn
ing meat markets. Jfil nfi
| The Sun has added an additional col
umn to its pages. tio
Mrs. O'Donovan Rosa reads at tn,
New Memphis Friday night.
Three hundred and twenty-seven col.
ored voters registered yesterday.
A benefit will be given tonight at the
New Memphis to Mr.. Weaver, the stays
carpenter. 1a
All unmuzzed dogs will please take
notice that their owners will be fined five
| dollars or more.
The Committee on Entertainment
Commercial Convention) meets at the
Chamber of Commerce at four clock.
The ladies met yesterday and APP
pointed committees to conduct the grand
Masonic Fair which is soon to take place.
Mr.. Armour's school at Ridgeway, ff-
teen miles from the city, will have pic
mic excursion on next Friday week, the
l4th instant.
Mr.. W. r. Moore and W. s. Pickett,
committee appointed by the Chamber
of Commerce here, reported favorably on
the ship canal project connecting the
Mississippi river with the Gulf.
Professor W. W. Maguffin's singing
class will give grand concert at the
Greenlaw Opera House this evening.
Over tive hundred young ladies will ap-
pear at one time upon the stage.
A meeting Of Conservatives win take
place at Esq. Kiernan's Office, in the
Third Ward, Thursday evening, at eight
o'clock, to appoint delegates to the
County Convention, to be held on the
9Th inst
The Conservatives of the Fifteenth
Civil District are to hold a meeting to-
morrow Thursday evening, at Major
Morehead's store, on the New Raleigh
road, to appoint delegates to the County
Convention.
A meeting of the Conservatives of the
Sixth Ward will be held tomorrow eve
ming in the Waldran Block, Main street,
to choose delegates to the Convention,
which will nominate candidates for the
ensuing judicial election. A full attend
snce is desired.
Douglass B. Deusberry, the machinist
who shot Martin Cornell on Main street,
was released by Squire Herman yester-
day on bond of $4,000 for his daily APP
pearance until the result of the shooting |
is known. He was also fined twenty |
dollars for shooting within the corpora
ton.
A one-leggsd horse thief and despsrado |
named Ben. Campbell was takaS away |
from guard at Huntingdon, Tenn, by |
twelve armed men, and Tuesday morn
ing his body was found near the town
riddled with bullets. The way of the
transgressor is hard road to travel,
on one peg.
The Commissioners of Dyer county
have reoonsidered their action, and yes
terdsy voted one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars to the Mississippi River
railroad This is grand achievement
for the enterprise. The road will be built
1t was bound to be done some time, but
now it receives an impetus that viii send
It through.
A special train left the city this morn
ing OF nine o'clock on the Memphis and
Charleston railroad, conveying President
NJ. ]. Wicks, Superintendent w J. Ross,
Hon. John Everitt, of London, Right
Rev. Bishop Bugnion d Erlach, of Swift
zsrland, and others, to examine the
country along the line for immigration
purposes. They expect to 20 to the end
Of the road.
A party of the Illinois editors, who
have been South several days. passed up
yesterday on the Robert E. Lee. They
Aad been telegraphed to at Helena and
offered the Inequalities Of the Peabody
Hotel. But their time was up and they
could not stop over. They came up to
The hotel, however, aud paid their re-
spects to Colonel Cockrell, and staid
long enough to take glass of wine; aud
This is why they could not be found by
the Memphis editors, who called in
body to offer their greetings on the boat.
Colonel waiter Coleman ana the Mu.