Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-27
BREYITIES.

inches and rising slowly.
Captain Ed. Cole, Clerk and Master
of the First Chancery Court, appeared
in his Office to-day, after weeks abb
sence caused by serious illnsss.
Joe Locke, at 1864 Main, has received
all the latest daily and weekly papers
from all points. Illustrated weeklies
and monthly magazines just received.
The Nashville Banner states that ex-
President Jefferson Davis has been in
vited by the Memorial Society to deliver
the Grafton at Mt. Olivet Cemetery on
Decoration day.
Go to Mansford's, corner Of Second
and Monroe, for everything in the news
line. Daily newspapers, weekly picto-
rails, magazines, foreign newspapers
and publications Of all sorts.
The ladies connected with the First
Congregational Church, on Union street,
will hold strawberry festival, at 81
Main street, on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday evenings of next week. ,
The fifty-second anniversary of the /.
o. o. F. was pleasantly celebrated last
evening at the hall of the Order. DR..
Ford, of the Central Baptist church, de-
livered an address full of humor, practi-
cal sense and sound advice.
Emmons q Son, news dealers on JEFF
ferson and Beal, have received the latest
daily papers from New York, New Or
leans, Chicago, Nashville, Cincinnati,
Louisville and st. Louis. Illustrated
weeklies from all points at their stands.
An injunction bill was filed this morn
ing in the Second Chancery Court by
Robertson Topp and wife, restraining
the city from executing distress warrants
for taxes on defendants property The
defenses set up by complainants are off
sets and unequal assessment of real
estate by the city. H So
Drunken men are now carried to the
station-house on drays by the police.
Last evening two well-dressed followers
of Bacchus surrendered to the humidity
Of the atmosphere and sank into CO
mt .tose state on the streets. A police
ma N, dray, a station-house and Re
cor,l Ter closed the scene.
Suiciding is becoming alarmingly
prev alent throughout the United States.
A few days since a German girl leaped
into the river at Davenport Iowa. She
left letter for her father containing
the following paragraphs; Il am tired
of this bad world. My soul is pure.
Before me is the water; above me is the
moon. Farewell
The Nashville judges are tur ming their
attention to the race of pr ,fessional
jurors who infest courts Of just ice The
judges have determined to en- force sec
ton 1898 of the code, which provides
that no person can serve mo re than one
time on jury in each period of twelve
months. The enforcew ent of this law in
Memphis would not have any evil effect
on the wheels of justic e.
Recorder Scales dis posed of thil'ty-two
cases to-day and asst ,ssed eighty dollars
as fines. Twelve of our Jewish fellow
citizens were before the Recorder on the
charges of assault with intent to kill,
aiding and abetting in the same, threats
to kill, etc. The legal tempest was
caused by a fight 'of little Importance
between two emplo' Jes of Main street
dry goods dealer. The Recorder fined
several Of the p arties and discharged
the others. .f.,..
In the Second Circuit Court on Tues
day last a jury returned verdict not in
accordance W th the wishes of an. attor-
ney engaged in the cause. Mr.. Wood
ward, the ngry attorney, askeoL the
Court to cf,nsure the jurors for their
verdict, and the insulted jurors a sked
the Court % reprimand the attorney for
insulting them. The angry counsel and
the insulied jurors will have hearing
before Judge Halsey on next Monday.
An effort is making in this city to gal
vanize with new life the exploded Colo
RADIO humbug. The "Our Colony song
has passed from the Memphis stage, and
our citizens will hereafter carefully con
slider tho interested statements of emf
grafton agents ere they go to a land
already full to OVERLOOKING with labor.
The cry, Hol for Colorado has been
heard too often in Memphis 1t has
ceased to interest anyone lit only
amuses.
The month of May, so much eulogized
by writers ever since, and even before,
the days of Addison, win be celebrated
in our city by picnies. On the sth the
German Mai Fest takes place at lanes
Park; st. Peters Parish school win have
a picnic at the Park ON next Monday;
the Emmett Guards vii have their rural
tete on the 10th; the Odd Fellows on
Thursday, the nth; and the Sunday
School celebration ia Court Square win
be held on the GOTH
Nilsson, a vocalist of some celebrity
probably worldwide will give two con-
certs in this city at the Greenlaw Onera