Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-25
BREyITIRs.

Monday.
The grand jury Of the U. s. Cour
was sworn in and charged yesterday By
Judge Trigg.
1t is rumored that the Order Of Jesuits
will establish a college in Memphis a
no distant period Of time. 81
The graves of the Federal dead, at the
National Cemetery, near the city, will b.
decorated with flowers on the Both inst
The Nilsson troupe have abandoned
their San Francisco trip for this season
and have retired into seaside quarters
Rev. Lesco Triest, q German Protest
ant divine, proposes to establish and or
ganize church among his German fell
low-citizens of Memphis.
The Recorders Court has been turned
over to dullness. But little business was
transacted ip court to-day. Memphis is
fast becoming outrageously moral.
The leading dailies and weeklies Of
the country can be found at Mansford' {
news depot, corner of Second and Mon
roe; also, the latest dime songsters.
Joe Locke, at 1864 Main, has daily
papers from everywhere; illustrated
weekles and monthlies and literary pc
riodicals from all parts of Europe.
The Confederate Association meets
tonight, as announced elsewhere. A
large attendance is expected, as import
ant business will be transacted with re-
ference to the grand picnic on the Sd Of
June.
The FREELY, or lightning bug, illumin
ates, in the most approved manner, the
gardens and lawns in the suburbs of the
city. The light furnished beats the
newly invented gas with which our city
is said to be lighted.
The alarm of fire to-day was caused by
the burning out Of the Nicolson pave.
ment tar kettle at the corner Of Linden
and Main streets. The engines appeared
upon the scene in few minutes, and the
kettle difficulty was soon settled.
The anniversary of Queen Victoria
birth day, yesterday, was celebrated by
the st. Georges Benevolent Society
at James Park. The picnic was largely
attended, and general enjoyment pre-
vailed until the close Of the affair.
Residents on Market, near Carroll
avenue, complain that the lamps in that
vicinity are not lighted until eleven
o'clock at night. of late, several par
ties have been knocked down and robbed
at that locality. Light up the lamps.
Emmons & Son, newsdealers on JEFF
ferson and Beal, have received the --latest
papers from New York, New Orleans
St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville anG
Nashville. Pictorials, magazines ant
journals from Eastern and Western cities
and from Europe received regularly
To-day John Cosgrove was placed OF
trial in the Criminal Court for the muir
der of Charles Willis. 1t will be re
membered that the man Willis was Cos
groves barkeeper, and was killed in al
ARRAY which occurred at the saloon SOM
months since,
Capt. George Washington, formerly o
this city, delivered an eloquent ORATOR
at Knoxville upon the occasion of thu
decoration of the Confederate graves
near that city. The Press and Herald
speaks in the most eulogistic terms o
the address.
The colored school children of Soutl
Memphis carry their school books Oh
their heads when going to and returning
from school. This is good idea, ant
especially good if what's inside tn
books find a resting place inside tn
heads, thereby establishing the mucl
discussed connection between mind anC
matter.
The surviving members of the Bluff
City Grays purpose erecting a monu
ment in Elmwood Cemetery in memory
of the deceased members of their oil
organization. A meeting of the mem
bers will be held tomorrow evening a
five o'clock, at the office of the Carolinl
Insurance Company.
Quite a large number of our attorneys
are in Jackson attending the Supreme
Court. The motion before the Common
Council Of jackson to light up the city
with patent gas was tabled, a few days
since, when it became known that the
bar of West Tennessee would visit that
city and sojourn there a few weeks.
A dispatch was received by Sheriff
Wright yesterday from James Gordon
Bennett, OF the New York Herald, as
follows: "Please telegraph, at the Her
AIDS expense, the name and date of xii.
ling of the person for whose murder Sam
H. Poston is soon to be executed.
Sheriff Wright answered the dispatch
giving the particulars as desired.
The thermometer is away up in the
eighties, greatly to the annoyance OF
those not prepared for so sudden a
change. Many of our citizens have
taken a new departure for the Eastern
seaboard, the great lakes and the upper
Mississippi. By far the greater number