Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-02

A meeting OF the General Council VIII
be held this Afternoon at 3 clock.
Mitchells Biographies are to be sub
stituted for Cornell's in the city schools.
The Grand Jury of the Criminal Court
meets this afternoon at three o'clock.
Another beggar has arrived. He plays
on o wind instrument, which drives peo-
I pie around him to the other side of the
street.
More immigrants have arrived from
Chicago. That city of late has become
the gateway of Southern labor and immi-
| .; eksAbAA - "a a
A large number of arrivals were regis
tered at the Peabody and other hotels
yesterday, indicating much travel and
hactivity in business. li9iiBt o par
+ The weather is delightful again. So
fremarketh every person to every Other
fperson on the street The weather is a
staple article Of conversation just now.
Two divorces we're granted in the
Circuit Court yesterday-one on the ap
plication Of wife, and the other on
application by the husband The divorce
business may be said to be looking up.
j The following is an exact copy of an
advertisement which is posted on the
Pigeon Roost road, near the city: Lost
KAT ret, (red) Nit 2 behind legs White
emmy ! 6ndin Sed KAT Will pay me
dollers."
1.-THE case of the First National Banl
VS.. 6!ickle, ct al, went before the jury thii
morning. The jury returned verdic
at one O CT ck in favor of the plaintiff
AN appeal win be taken, probably, if
new trial is not granted. ra' 97s 30
The case of sullivan, Administrative
for her deceased husband, against the
Memphis and Charleston railroad fol
damages sustained in his death, was
opened before the Law Court this morn
ing. II win, doubtless, occupy some
days.
Our morning contemporaries, the Ap
peal, Avalanche and Sun, have all made
complimentary mention Of the LED GER :
new face and improved appearance
Their expressions of good will and en-
tente cordiale are heartily reciprocated.
1t is little more than four weeks un-
til the county election and the election
on the ratification or rejection of the
State Constitution. Candidates have
heretofore been counting the months on
their fingers. Now it is weeks, and soon
will be only days.
Captain Sam P Rose, of the Upton
Record, one of the most fearless and
successful country newspapers in West
Tennessee, is in the city on brief mat
rimonial trip. He came to attend the
wedding of Upton county friend, who
hiss been wooing and winning Shelby
county belle.
The following is report Of the letter
carriers work for the month of February
Number of carriers employed, l2id deliv-
cry trips daily, A; collection trips daily
5; mail letters delivered, 93,942; local
letters delivered, 1892; newspapers, etc,
delivered, 26, 9s7; lie tiers collected, 81, s24
newspapers, etc, collected, 4757.
The following jury has been obtained
in the Criminal Court in the case of the
State VS.. Pattison and Thompson, IN
dicted as accessories to the murder OF
Nancy Dickens: Lewis Smith, Robert
Peplow, Mike Mcbride, W. II. Deadrick,
E. Marshall, M. Nealis, John R. Oldham
Morris Quinland, James O'Connor, John
Hollywood, G. W. Tomlin and J. r
Boughner. ra tsa.g'as
Our report yesterday of the meeting Of
the School Board was confined chiefly to
the action on the report of the Commit
tee on Appeals, to whom had been re-
ferred some other report. 1t is due to
Mr. Barnum to say that DR.. Edmonds
moved a resolution to- the effect that, al
though the Board haol dispensed with the
services of Mr.. J. H. Barnum, Assistant
Superintendent, it did not in any way re-
feet on his character. Carried unani-
mously. f1r ~1 .aarsa
Our. esteemed fellow-citizen, Colonel
W. T, Avery, has returned from Wash
.ington City, with his sins of rebellion no
more. He was one of the number OF
Tennesseeans whose disabilities were re
Gently removed by Congress, and he is
now eligible to any office which he may
be elected to by his friends. We are
glad to see chat he is in fine health and
spirits, and look every inch a Clerk OF
the Criminal Court, to which position he
will doubtless SC on be elected without
opposition. IS
This is the second day of March, and
Ash Wednesday, the first of the forty
days Lenten season, commemorative OF
the fast of our Savior in the Wilderness
before he went up TO be tempted of the
Devil, and immediately preceding Easter.
In the Catholic and Protestant Episeo-
pal churches the season is observed.
q Chambers Book Of Days" or almost
any encyclopedia, gives full account of
!, 80 1I +ba p,annar in