Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-14

consumption--a disease our Gus never
had; hence the mistake. Colonel Sigma
igo delivered his lecture in st. Louis,
and is able to read his own obituary
notices. .0t
The Bluff City Fire Insurance Com
pany has been reorganized, with DIR.
Fenner as President and Mr.. W. IL.
Moore as Secretary. These gentlemen
have secured the confidence Of the bust
ness community of this city, and the
company is already doing fine business.
The stockholders and directors are relia-
BILE business men in our midst, and are
guarantee for the soundness and SOL
vency of the company in all business
transactions.
The immense platform in front Of an
ice-house on Beal street, and stretching
out into the middle of the street, ought
to be removed at night. A carriage con-
tanning a party going to the concert last
evening, dashed up on this obstruction,
hurled one of the horses beneath the
carriage, and thereby saved the party
from being in the midst of a general
wreck. The police should compel the
removal Of such life-traps.
In another column is announced the
decease of Mrs. Betty Pittman, daugh-
ter of our venerable City Register, l.. r.
Richards. She was all that noble
woman can be, and leaves to the friends
who survive her memory at once
mournful and sweet. To her father, a
man whose name is q SYNONYM of all the
great qualities that honor humanity, and
to others whom her death has bereaved,
we offer our poor, sincere, but unavailing
coincidence.
Owing to a suggestion made in the
LEDGER Of last evening the Jefferson
street Sun dispenses with the LEDGER
Geographic dispatches for the present.
We had no desire to deprive our neigh
Dor of our telegraphic news, as we felt
complimented at its republication,
twelve hours later, in morning paper,
but we intimated that a proper credit
should be made-to the LEDGER instead
of Washington. The VERY Latest
appears every evening in the LEDGER,
and is sometimes republished in the Sun.
VIM. Mitchell, the confidence man who
swindled two countrymen out of two
hundred and eighty-fye dollars, some
days since, is endeavoring to play the
same trick on justice. An affidavit,
stating that an important witness This
partner, Davis, whom the police are look
ing for), was absent from the State, ETC.,
secured continuance Of the case to the
next term of court. Mitchell did not
like the rapid manner in which the law
and the officers were showing him toward
the penitentiary, his old home, so he
concluded to play for time, hoping the
countrymen would not be able to return
to Memphis.
DR.. Mcbride, the King OF Pain, whom
our people remember as a long-haired
itinerant who drove throughout our city
behind fast team about year ago, is
dead. The King Of Pain surrendered to
the King of Terrors at Indianapolis some
days since. He was strange creature
reckless, immoral, improvident an EN-
pyric, gambler and rogue, but was said
to possess many generous traits Of char
acter. The colored population of Mem
phis who bought his nostrums will never
see that wide-brimmed hat again. The
King is dead
An effort is making among the French
residents of Washington and New York
to secure tide Of immigration during
the next season from Alsace and Lor
raine. The annexation of these prov
inces to Germany is so obnoxious to the
people that thousands of the middle
classes who own property in the towns
and in the country intend removing to
the United States. East Tennessee,
Northern Georgia and Alabama are the
points which the French residents OF
New York and Washington haven view.
The actual value of eloquence has been
at last estimated. There arc sixty-eight
magistrates in the Davidson County
Court who receive 81 per diem each; the
aggregate sum, $l36; average working
hours each day, FIVE; cost of Court per
hour, $27 20. One Justice occupied the
floor thirty-two times on one day and
twenty-seven the next day-one minute
and one second at each rising. His elo-
quence, therefore, was worth $27 20
during two days. Some of our Justices
talk for hours and get s. per day; but
then eloquence in Memphis is quoted at
q higher rate than in other cities on
account of its greater gush and volume.
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