Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-14
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Hot Springs.
Miss Carrie Ennis is to give concert
on Easter Monday night. M 1000
Judge Hudson sentenced five persons
to the penitentiary last Saturday.
DR.. Spalding of the Memphis Theater,
is off on a little trip to the Crescent
City.
Colonel Nose Parrish, Of. the Bolivar
Bulletin, arrived this morning and is at
the Peabody
The fruit crop thus far has not been
killed, and there is hope that it will
escape the spring frosts. -
The largest crowd perhaps ever seen
at the Memphis Theater' was at the
matinee of Humpty Dumpty last Satur-
day afternoon.
4 The spring is very backward, and
farmers have not done much blowing
Some few have sowed oats. The ground
is still too wet to plow except uplands
Tonight Rabbi H. T. Sneesobn, of Je-
rusalem, will lecture on the Holy Land,
at the Memphis Club Hall The enter
tainment cannot fail to draw a fine
crowd anaiuD .rrDsiuoiaBf 90 holu %
A Democratic Convention will meet
tomorrow evening, at seven O'clock, in
the Exchange Building, to nominate
candidate for Magistrate in the Fifth
Civil District.
Rev. Mr.. Cross, well known Baptist
minister of Center Hill, DeSoto county,
Mississippi, died at that place last Friday
morning, afterTa severe weeks illness,
resulting from fall, and was buried the
day following.
W Captain Newt Harris pacing green bay
horse has gone the way of all horses not
locked up in a safe or bomb-proof eel
lar every night. 1T has been stolen.
The owner walks now like common
man.
The Memphis Water Works Company
has paid up capital of 100000 At
an election held Saturday, Judge T. w.
Brown was elected President, and Mr.. C.
J. Phillips Secretary and Treasurer
This looks like business.
Colonel d. Cockrell, the ever courtly
and popular host of the Peabody Hotel
returned yesterday from business trip
of eight or nine days toNew York. He
is one of the few men who grow older
every year, like the rest of mankind but
do not show it, We wish him as many
days as he has friends.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany received fine coil of telegraphic
cable yesterday from New Orleans. 1t
will be laid across the river between this
and Hope6eld as soon as the river de-
clines, after which we will have an unin-
terrupted Geographic line to points west
of the Mississippi.
Saturday was fine March day. The
wind blew with force Mt times that
threatened serious damage to property
and persons. Sunday was lovely The
sun shone with the genial effulgence that
we usually experience in May. Last
night was cloudy, and heavy shower of
rain fell at an early hour this morning
in the neighborhood of Forest Hill. To
day the weather is changeable. March
is a month that cannot be regulated no
how, and we can but wait for brighter
skies and softer breezes.
We learn that Cornelius Z. Carmack
died in Hawkins county, East Tennes-
see, on the 18th instant, under very dis
tressing circumstances. II seems that
he was preparing to ride into the town of
Rogersville, and was helping himself to
a lunch, when he got hold OF piece of
bread which had been medicated for
poisoning rats, but had not yet been used I
Tor that purpose, He lived only about
twelve hours after the accident. He was
l much respected farmer, near eighty
years of age, and, what is remarkable,
lied beneath the same roof under which
ne was born, never having crossed any
other door as the threshold to his home.
He gave five sons to the South in her
ate struggle, only two of whom survived,
me of them being Judge John NJ Car
mack of this city.