Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-03
BREYITIEs.

monthly meeting last night.
The celebration Of Mardi Gras in New
Orleans will take place on the 2lst inst
The thermometer at IL m. to-day stood
at so and the barometer at 80 4 10 inches,
Recorder Scales disposed Of fofty-one
cases this morning 5000 were assessed
as fines.
Memphis has been sighted this season
by nearly all the prominent actors and
musical people.
The delightful weather attracted o
large number Of elegantly dressed ladies
to Main street to-day.
The Press Association assembled in
Nashville to-day. A nuuber of Memphis
editors are in attendance.
The Old Folks at Home will hold their
regular meeting tomorrow afternoon,
and talk of "olden times"
ALT Burnett, the humorist and elocu-
zionist, will give an entertainment on
Monday night next at the Greenlaw
Opera House.
The sum of $4,000 was appropriated
by the city of New York to defray the
current expenses of O'Donovan Rosa
and his fellow exiles.
Ex.President Davis declines lecturing
before the Confederate Relief and His
torical Association, for reasons satisfac-
tory to'the Association N \
At meeting of St. Andrews Society
held last evening, it was resolved to eel
citrate the centenary of Sir Walter
Scott on the 9th Of August next.
We regret to learn that but little hope
is entertained for the recovery of Col,
John Dawson, who is lying in a critical
condition at the Overton Hotel.
Yesterday, in the Tennessee House of
Representatives it was resolved to re-
move the pictures of Lincoln and John
SON from the Library room of the House.
The Cincinnati papers publish in con-
secutive order, and with proper appre-
citation of the relations and fitness OF
things, births, marriages, divorces and
deaths.
Capt. j. Harvey Mathes, State and
County Tax Collector on Privileges, an
nounces that he will issue distress war
rants against all those who are delin-
quent.
The argument of counsel in the
shrievalty contested election case Of
Curry VS.. Wright closed last evening.
The decision has been reserved by Chan
cellor Morgan.
Mr.. George Clare, of Golconda, Ill.,,
arrived in the city yesterday. He came
for the remains of the late late Mrs.
Ulen, one of the victims of the late
steamboat explosion. a'If
The last number of the Memphis Pres
byterian appears in new head-dress.
The Presbyterian is live, religious and
secular paper, and deserves the support
of the religious public. aap84
Dr. ]. B. Russell, alias Hewett, alias
Beck, who had an Office or infrmary on
North Court street, has disappeared from
the city, leaving number of creditors
to mourn over his departure.
A Mr.. Abraham Samuelson committed
suicide in Louisville on Tuesday last.
His mind had lost its balance, because
he had been attending, and had become
interested in, spiritual seances.
The practicability of bridging the Mis-
sissippi at this point was clearly seen
yestesday when the steamer James How
ard lay athwart the stream, forming
magnificent pontoon bridge.
Mansford receives all the late papers
on time, and has the largest stock of
dime song books and valentines in the
city. He has also received all the latest
illustrated weeklies and monthly maya
zines.
John Hay, the author of that serio-
comic poem Little Brooches" and Of
that serio-profane and blasphemous one
" Jim Bludso," is an Episcopalian and
one of the staff Of the New York
Tribune, nnfR De- gistsaw rfsr
A negro named Henry Wilson died
on Beal street this morning
The colored population attributed his
death to poison administered by some
person afflicted with dissolving views of
the green-eyed monster.
The new Minister to England, General
Bob Schenck, is said to be the best poker
player in Ohio. He has been instructed
by Grant, that if he can't beat the
English Premier at diplomacy, to try
him on little game of bluff Teen e
The Cincinnati Commercial contains
a telegraphic account of the sinking of
that flatboat at the mouth of Wolf river.
The Commercial goes several better than
the Avalanche, and says seven or eight
persons went down on the fiat.
Dom Piatt says of Winnie Ream's
statue of Lincoln: How long 0 Lord,
how long, is the great National Capitol
to be cursed with these crude abomina-
tons of ignorance" He calls for the
image breakers to come forth.
Joe Locke has received all the latest
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