Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-02
BREVITIES.

throughout the city
The thermometer at IL m. to-day indi
Gated $50, and the barometer 20 GIL
inches and rising slowly.
Joe Locke, 1864 Main, has all Tho
latest daily and weekly papers from al
points North, South, East and West. \
General John b. Gordon, Of Georgia
will deliver an interesting lecture this
evening at the Greenlaw Opera House.
The recent rain and hail storms have
done great injury to fruit trees and gar
dens throughout North Mississippi and
West Tennessee.
The Recorder heard twenty-five cases
at his matinee to-day, and collected the
usual amount from the disciples OF
Bacchus and other heather deities.
A negro living on Mr.. Prices place,
near Collierville, was shot through the
body three times yesterday by a colored
brother. Cause, jealousy. The wounded
man will recover
The ladies of the First Methodist
Church will open strawberry festival
at the Assembly Hall tonight, and will
close on Friday night with tableau.
Lunch every day from IL m. to 3 pm.
Go to Mansfords, corner of Second
and Monroe, for news goods Of every
Observation-Disclosures weeklies, daily
papers from all points, fashion, scientific
and literary publications from Europe.
The delegates to hepenitentiary, num-
bering thirty-four and representing one
hundred and fifty years Of imprison-
ment, left last evening in charge of the
deputy SheriiGs for Nashville. There
are seventy-six prisoners now in our
county iail
Young Mr.. Meriwether, who was so
terribly injured by the negro Smith, is
lying in dangerous state. His skull is
fractured in three places, and he has
spoken but twice since he received the
blows. The would-be assassin has not
as yet been arrested.
The latest New York, New Orleans,
Nashville, st. Louis, Cincinnati and
Louisville daily papers can be found at
Emmons & Sons, on Jefferson and Beal
streets Pictorials, magazines of all
kinds, and general reading matter al
ways on hand at their stands.
Mr.. j. r. Duri, of the postoilice,
handed us the monthly report of the
Memphis Office. The statistics are as
follows; Mail letters delivered, LOG, 2S4;
local letters delivered, l0,44S; newspa-
pers delivered, 32,5SO; letters collected,
90, 100; newspapers collected, 5409."
The Church Home strawberry festival
was inaugurated yesterday at the Rocco
Hall. Each day during the week mer-
chants and citizens generally can get all
the Injuries and necessaries of life for a
small remuneration at the hall. Re-
member the orphans.
A "Civil Rights Bill case, involving
the right of two colored persons to ride
in the ladies' car on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, is on trial in Nash
vile before Judge Trigg, and will be de-
cidedin few days. The result is looked
for with considerable interest in social,
legal and railroad circles.
General Ferdinand Vanderveer, of
Hamilton, Ohio, is in the city and stop
ping at the Peabody. General Wander
veer resided in Memphis twenty-five
years ago, and has been looking in vain
for old landmarks throughout the city.
The General served in the Mexican war,
in the late war, is a prominent lawyer,
and is owner of an immense brewery in
southern Ohio.
The Germnn Mai Fest at James Park
on May the Sth promises to be one Of
the grand events Of the season. The
different German societies of the city
viii take part in it, and there will be, no
doubt, great fun for ALL The Germans
are celebrated for the interest they al
ways take in, and the success they make
Of the May festivals. We know Of no
occasion which promises so much sport.
Don Piatt, writing from Washington,
says of George Francis Train: He
has the most startling versatility, and
is thorough master of oratory, making
his points and managing his voice with
a skill that does not fall TO the lot Of old
actors, because they have neither the
nor the genius Of Train. All
the lecturers put in a mortar and pes
lied together could not make up the
multifarious gifts of George Francis
Train"
Colonel GOwan.
This celebrated engineer delivered an