Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-18
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and Monroe, for papers, books, sta
tionery, etc.
The thermometer at IL m. to-day in
dictated 73o, and the barometer 29 ITO
inches
The new map Of Memphisand suburbs,
prepared by Mr.. M. I. Williamson, is on
exhibition at Tax Collector McLean's
Office.
The Recorder disposed of thirty-four
misdemeanor cases at his matinee to-
day. One hundred and thirty dollars
were collected as fines.
Captain Ed Cole, Clerk and Master Of
the First Chancery Court, is quite i'll
from an attack of bilious fever, and Is
unable to be in his Office.
Nearly four thousand children will be
in Court Square on Saturday, the 10th
prox., enjoying the .tete gotten up by the
Sunday School Superintendents.
Emmons & Son, newsdealers, on JEFF
ferson and Beal, have all the latest daily
papers from all points; pictorials, mag
azines and journals just received.
Chancellor Scott rendered the follow
ing decisions to-day: Stewart VS.. Pitt
man, demurrer ovf.rruled; Price VS..
Mann, new parties. allowed; Cherry VS..
Taylor, yearly support refused.
The season for picnics and strawberry
festivals is rapidly approaching. April
and May, months which embrace each
other in tears arid smiles, make the
whole earth rejoice by hefalding the adj
vent of spring.
De Castro, after performing number
of wonderful feats last evening, gave
away over a hund red dollars worth of
valuable gifts to the audience. This is
a grand exhibition which you are paid
for attending.
1t is reported. that the interest OF
Thompson Dea n (2540 shares) in the
Memphis CASH ght Company, has been
bought by W. IN. Harrington and others
at $l25 per hare. Will this transfer
bring about an. era of cheap gasp
The spring meeting over the Chicka-
saw Jockey Club Course promises TO Se
successful in every respect. The best
stables in the country are arriving daily,
and will participate in the grand test OF
horse flesh during racing week.
The Chicago White Stocking Base Ball
club Will arrive Fl ON New Orleans this
afternoon, and Will play the opening
game with the Mutuals of our city to-
morrow, at clock: p. m, at the grounds
Of the latter on fernando street.
The vestrymen for st. Lazarus Church
were elected yesterday, as follows: Gen
eral Pillow, s.. Mansfield, w, A. Good
man, W. o. Woodson, W. F. Boyle, ex-
President Jefferson Davis, w. II. Ste
phens, W. F. Arlington, D. d. Saunders
j. W. Scales and Bronson Bayliss.
Those grinding through the bankruptcy
mill will be pleased to learn that Com
missioner Pleasanton has decided that n
discharge in bankruptcy discharges all
debts due the Government for taxes.
This overrules the opinion of Collecto =
Patterson and District Attorney Hudson.
1t is complimentary to the LEDGER
that last evenings dispatches are re-
published in the Sun of to-day, just six
teen hours after the public had the
pleasure of reading them in the LEDGER,
The LEDGER will continue TO furnish the
public and the Sun with the latest tele-
graphic news from all points.
VIM. Mitchell, the confidence man, is
anxious to plead guilty to the charge of
petit larceny and be sent to the peniteil-
tiary rather than lie in the county jail
for several months. The case of OBJ
tanning money by forged draft stands
on Indictment, and no such ARA ngemeIt
can be made with the prisoner, be he
guilty or not guilty.
In the United States District. Court to-
day the jury in the case of Crowder,
Hausick & Co. VS.. Ktna Insurance Com
pany decided that the policy of irsur
ance had been vitiated on account of u
breach in the warranty. The suit orig
mated in the destruction of complain
ants tobacco warehouse in the Navy
Yard by fire in 1861
Charles Remelin, Esq, Of Cincinnati,
the able Southern correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial, was in the city
yesterday on his way no me. Mr. Rene
Inns statesmanlike ap d correct views of
Southern men and affairs, which Of late
have appeared III the Commercial, are
well calculated. to create the best feel
ing between the two sections.
Col. Duncan McRae, in letter pub
lished in the Appeal to-day, states that
had General Lee been victorious at Get
tysburg, France and England had prom
ised to recognize the Confederacy. Col
OBJ el McRae was attached to the Confed-
crate Foreign Embassy for sometime du-
ring the,late war between the States.
So many dead bodies are found in
Louisville that IL is seriously proposed