Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-15
BREvITIEs.

day and collected $3.50 as hRes ana lot
FIXTURES.
The city is rapidly filling up with mos
quitoes, and never before were they 50
thoroughly organized and confident Of
success.
Joe Locke, at 1864 Main, has an inn
mense stock Of reading Materially
and weekly papers Of latest dates from
all points.
The Wyndham English Comedy Com
pany will commence an engagement for
one week at the Memphis Theater on
next Monday.
Quite a number of our prominent
merchants, who are engaged in the i'm
porting business, are going to Europe
this season.
The Circuit and Criminal Courts are
impaneling juries to-day, preparatory
to commencing business for the May
terms.
Mr.. Justice Bleckley is at his office
to-day dealing out county warrants to
jurors and others who are creditors Of
the county. H1l
Mr.. J. p. Boughner, Notary Public
and Commissioner of Deeds, has re
moved TO No. IL Madison street, next
door to PUBLIC LEDGER Office.
St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Chi
cago and New York papers received
daily at Mansfords news depot, corner
of Monroe and Second streets.
A negro attempted to carry off bar
rel of oil from the store of Blood Il Co
this morning. The Recorder sent the
oil stealer to Jail in default Of bonds.
Horace Greeley, the Tribune philoso
pher, passed down the Central railroad
to New Orleans yesterday. He excited
considerable curiosity among the people
all along the route.
The caterpillars which have so infested
North Mississippi for several weeks, are
rapidly disappearing. In many local.
ties bushes and trees are entirely
stripped of their foliage.
The WEEKLY PUBLIC LEDGER can b.
obtained at the counting-room tomorrow
morning. The WEEKLY LEDGER is {
popular paper in this and adjoining
States, and offers great inducements t.
advertisers.
The ladies of the First Baptist Church
intend inaugurating strawberry festi
val at the Assembly Hall tomorrow
evening. A splendid lunch will b,
spread each day during the continuance
of the festival.
The Confederate Memorial Associa
ton purpose giving grand fashionable
promenade concert in a short time, a
the Overton Hotel, for the purpose o
liquidating Indebtedness necessarily in
Cured by the Association.
The Knights Tenplar of Memphis di'
not engage in the drill for the prize ban
ner at Nashville, which was won by tn
Murfreesboro Commandery. The Mem
phis Templars did not attend in force a
Nashville, hence they did not engage il
the contest.
Chancellor Scott decided the following
cases to-day: Blum VS. Blum, relic
withheld Fleming VS. Mckay, deere,
for complainant; Stephenson VS. Stephen
son, rehearing refused 0zment VS. Todd
decree for complainant.
Emmons & Son, newsdealers on Jel
ferson and Beal streets, have a larg
supply of news goods, including illus
trated weeklies, magazines from al
quarters and the latest daily newspaper
from the North, South, East and West
Foreign papers and periodicals receives
regularly.
The Hindoos of Memphis ridicule thu
idea of bridging the Mississippi at thi
point. The English are building rail
road bridge over the river Ganges a
Caunpore, much to the horror of all true
Hindoos, who regard it as an invasion o
the sanctity of that holy stream.
Kissing the hand Of another is in
dicative of gratitude; kissing the cheek
of regard; the forehead, of respect; anC
the lips, Of love. SO says French
commentator on the science of oscula
ton. He also analyses and elaboratei
upon the sensations produced by the re
spective labial exercises.
Lot owners at Elmwood Cemetery
complain that flowers are plucked from
graves by those who visit the city of the
dead. This sacrilegious and floral sys-
TEN of larceny ought to be prevented.
The arrest of few grave decorators
would have beneficial effect.
The churches, the beer gardens, the
cemetery and the Sacred Concert al
Humbolt Park, where aerobats hung on
the trapeze, walked ropes and performed
Olympian games, were largely attended
yesterday. The different and varied
styles of observing Sunday in Memphis
prove our city to be metropolitan.
Electioneering and log-rolling have
commenced for the office Of Superinten-