Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-04-13
News I'm Brief.

News in Brief.
| Grand Masonic fair to commence Mon
day, May l7th.
One hundred and twenty.eight prison
ers in the county Jail.
Yesterday, eight years ago, Fort Sumter
fell. Times have changed.
| c. G. Gallagher, the pugilist, who con-
quered Tom Allen in the recent fight in
St. Louis, is in the city.
red car will run on the fernando
branch of the street railroad to.nigh,
after Farmers concert.
Mernphis has needed town clock for
the last forty years. We hope Congress
| will give US one on the Custom-house.
II On dit, that ball will be given in
honor of Mr.. Johnson, at the Peabody,
as we'll as the Overton, by way of variety.
Mr.. c. P. Norris, Vice President OF the
First National Bank, we regret to learn,
had severe hemorrhage Of the lungs
4 late yesterday afternoon.
We are pleased to state that the rumor
| of the Memphis Club being about to be
dissolved is without foundation. The
society is aourishing better than ever.
Colonel B. F. Winchester, St. Mary
parish, La, Major ]. M. Rodgers, Walnut
Bend. Ark, DR.. 7. d. Chunn, Arkansas,
and N. 81. Gotten and family, Arkansas,
are stopping at the Worsham House.
We learn that Messrs. Spangler & Co.,
of the Stillman Hall veloeipede rink,
have consolidated with J. W. Owen 4 Co.,
and win open the Bluff City Velocipede
Course, on the corner of Third and
Adams, in a few days.
Mr.. Henry Farmers concert at the
Assembly Hall tonight is arranged to be
one of the most brilliant and pleasant
affairs Of the season. The house will be
filled by the elite of the city. Tomorrow
we will give careful notice of the per.
Torrance.
The Tax Collector on Privileges has
notified the liyery-velocipede keepers
that they must pony up twenty dollars
on each animal kept for hire. The tax
payer elect responded that this was o
higher price than he was able to live at,
and that he would like for the Commits
sioner of Police, or whoever caused the
tax, to take it out in riding. This res-
soEable proposition will probably be sub
mitted to Mr.. Pearne day.
Yesterday the weather was most un-
seasonably cold. Cloaks, furs and over
coats appeared in strange contrast to
spring styles and the half-grown leaves
in Court Square. List night was very
sold and the ground was hard frozen;
There was heavy frost and it is feared
the fruit crop is ruined. IL not, it is
almost certain to 60 tonight. The fruit
interest is becoming so important in this
mart of the country that heavy frost at
this trns of the year is greet calamity.
The steamer Belle Memphis, which
leaves this afterusoa for st. Louis,
brought down on her last Trip &C happy
n, 'I 81 ever enjoyed the bliss OF welded
iova It gas none other than Mr.. ILL
p.,rv the second clerk of the Belle
Memphis. Nnd his fsir young BRIDE late
Miss Julia s., Vain. Of Chester, ILL
Mr.. Perry's many friends are saligh'ed
to know that he 'as Won beant'fsi
prize, and feel assurea that be VIII ever
prove worthy of her.
The advertisement Of the extensive
drug house of Messrs. Wasson, Smsiser
& Co., 3lS Main street, will be noticed in |
our present issue. Under the senior
partner, DR.. ]. B. WATSON, this house, in |
years past, has enjoyed an extensive
trade, and acquired reputation in all
the country contiguous to Memphis
creditable to the mercantile character of |
our city. Under its present auspices,
in the enjoyment Of ell the facilities that
skill aud capital can afford,
the house has future as encouraging as |
the future growth and prosperity Of our
city is certain. Their present advertise
ment is specially noticeable as in,roduc.
ing more extensively the new form 10 the
Of quinine, by which this
hitherto bitter drngis wholly deprived Of
it's TASTE thus rendering it agreeable even
to children. This will, indeed, be good
news to the thousands spbiect to chills
and fevers and the varied phases of
malarial disease 10 the rich alluvial dis
tr;ctr Of the Mississippi Valley. Read
their sdsestirewept and govern your
selves accordingly
MKNPHIs CLUR.-Members are heseby
notified to attend a semi-snnusl meeting
for tue election Of officers aud amend
meut Of by-'aWs. this evening, at half