Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-06-06
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mailing.
The Old Folks at Home meet at the
Hibernian Hall this afternoon to make
arrangements for their forthcoming pic
mic and annual festival.
Go to Mansford's, corner of Second
and Monroe, for news goods, including
daily papers, pictorials apd Literary pub
LEGATIONS from everywhere ~ ga {
Hooleys great minstrel and burlesque
opera troupe will give an initial enter.
tainment at the theater tonight. There
was quite rush for reserved seats al
the box-oilice to-day.
Joe Locke, at 1864 Main, has received
all the latest pictorials, monthly maya
zines, foreign newspapers, literary pub
locations and daily papers from all
points North, South, East and West.
The commencement examinations at
the Memphis Female College are pro
crossing to-day. The friends of the in
stitution are cordially invited oattepd
these interesting educational proceed
ings.
Tomorrow afternoon the General
Council will meet at the City Buildings
for the transaction of regular monthly
business. The union depot and elevator
questions will be up for discussion and
action.
The deputy clerks of the Criminal
Court are busily engaged in making up
the record of the Graves Poston case
for the Supreme Court. The record will
cover nearly one thousand pages Of
legal cap paper.
Mr.. L. B. Mcfarland, well-known
attorney, has removed his Office from 20
Madison to No. 80 on the same street,
over the Planters Insurance Company
as appears in his law card published in
another colum OF this issue.
Emmons, &. Son, pewsdealers on def
fersori and Beal' streets, have received
the latest daily and weekly papers from
Eastern, Western and Southern cities,
illustrated weeklies and monthlies, for
eign papers and periodicals, and news
goods generally.
The citizens of Brownsville brass
banded Horace Greeley as he passed
through that town on his way to New
York. Horace told them what he knew
about farming, and advised them to- go
to work and kill the grass before it ran
away with the corn and cotton.
The street cars collide in St. Louis, to
the great terror of the passengers. The
conductors explained the collisions by
saying they were caused by the drivers
and mules attempting to pass each other
on the same track. The conductors de-
MED that it could be done without result
ing in collision.
BY consulting an advertisement in
another column, it will be found that A.
Motley, the well known agent for brass
and string bands that discourses sweet
music for picnics and parties, has re-
turned to the city, and can be found al
the barber shop under the Bethel Block,
2S2 Main street.
The thermometer at II m. to-day
climbed up to 92O, while the barometer
dropped down to 80 Clio inches, showing
that while the atmosphere is increasing in
weight and density it is also increasing in
heat. Ninety-two degrees in the shade
does very we'll for the 9th day Of June
in the latitude of Memphis.
June 9Th, 1862, exactly nine years ago
Memphis fell into the hands of the Fed
eral troops. We all remember the shock
caused by the capture of Memphis. The
surrender of Fort Donelson, New Or
leans, Memphis and Vicksburg we're the
key-notes which heralded the fall of the
acknowledgement Southern Oonfed-
eracy.
The Hebrew Orphan Asylum picnic
at James Park to-day will be the finest
affair Witnessed during the season. The
ladies have charge of everything, and
are aided in their charitable work by a
number of committees composed of well
known gentlemen. The park will be
illuminated tonight, and dancing will
lend its enchantment to the rural scene.
Omnibuses and street cars will run regu-
larly to the grounds during the day and
night.
1t will crafty the reading public of
Memphis to learn at last that Ouida,
the author of Granville de Vigne," "
"Under Two Flags" Tricotrin and
many other able, spicy and sensational
novels, is an Englishwoman named Miss
Maria Louisa de la Rame, who was born
in 1889. Her father was a Frenchman
"of the period was man of letters
and of the world From him "Ouida
derived her peculiar views of worldly
matters. She has travelled considerably
on the continent of Europe, but resides
most of her time in London. inM
A few days since the mail train going
South on the Mississippi and Tennessee
railroad ran off the track short dis
lance below Senatobia, Mississippi.
The baggage and passenger coaches left