Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-15
BREyPTIRS.

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Joe Locke has daily papers, illustra-
ted weeklies and foreign magazines at
1861 Main street.
The "Thdiians propose TO give a
magnificent select ball at the Overton
Hotel next Friday, the 2lst.
St Bridgefs fair, at Cochran Hall,
closes tonight. The voting and dancing
viii be spirited. All are invited to at
tend.
W. B. Stokes, the "Bald Eagle" has
been appointed State Supervisor of In
ternal Revenue, vice George w. Emory,
removed to Kentucky.
George r. Phelan, Esq, and Captain
George w. Gift will lecture before the
Mechanics Institute, at the Memphis
Club Hall, on Thursday evening next.
1t is suggested that grand prize baby
show ought to be heldin Court Square on
May day. The exhibition of infant
cherubs last year was largely attended
by our citizens.
Somebody carried off copy of the
statutes Of Tennessee, of date of 1858,
from the clerks Office Of the Second
Chancery Court without notifying the
clerk of his intentios,
The Recorder heard twenty cases to-
day and assessed ninety dollars as fines.
A colored person charged with stealing
Easter eggs was let off with light fine,
and warned to retire from the egg bust
ness.
Go to Mansford's, corner of Second
and Monroe streets, for news goods,
monthly magazines, weekly pictorials
French, GermaR, English and Irish
papers, and the latest dailies from the
North, South, East and West.
The marriage licenses returned to the
County Court Clerk dufng the present
week are as follows: E. Bauman and
Hannah Irlson, Robert Hancock and
Miss Angelina Rogers, Thomas j. Rem
bert and Miss Katie M. Cameron.
The irrepressible and strange com
pound of ability and mystery, George
Francis Train, is Smelling the Pittsburg-
ers with his Southern experience. Mr..
Train is advertising Memphis throughout
the North in a manner MOTTO be despsed.
Cows, goats, horses and hogs exc out
living at night in our streets Gar
dens, shrubbery and flowers are rAided
upon by these voracious animals. The
practice of turning loose these four
footed providers at night ought to be pre-
vented.
The suicidal mania in Memphis has
been checkmated by the stomach pump.
Nashville and Louisville papers ought
to publish this fact for the benefit Of
those who, "rashly importunate," try tc
digest morphine, laudanum and other
dangerous drugs.
The new Surveyor of Customs in Mem
phis is ex-General and ex-Congressman
W. j. Smith. Like all others of the
elect, so soon as he was laid on the shell
by the people the Government provided
for him. A Government Office is hos.
pital for crippled and disabled Radical
politicians.
The officers and teachers of the differ
ent Sunday schools will meet at the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church to
morrow Sunday at four pm, to hear
the report of the Committee on Arrange
ment and Programme. Everybody in
terested in Sunday schools is expected
to be present.
The 9th inst. has been set apart by
our Governor as day Of fasting and
prayer, in accordance with the ancient
usages and customs of the Pilgrim faith
ers who established the Blue Laws. The
Ku-Klux bill and several other abomina-
tons must have impressed our Governor
with the idea of fasting and prayer.
Emmons &.Son, news-dealers on JEFF
ferson and Beal streets, have received
the latest dailies from New York, Gin
cinnati, New Orleans, Louisville, st.
Louis, Chicago and Nashville. Maya
zines, journals, illustrated books and
papers, comic publications and all news
goods at their stands.
The Southern Pacific and Atlantic
Telegraph Company has extended its
lines 10 Jackson, Miss, in opposition to
the old monopoly, the Western Union.
When the opposition lines are extended
throughout the country twill be source
of congratulation to the public generally,
and especially to the business man and
the press.
There are hundreds of young men in
our city who strangely imagine that they
sing like Hableman and other artistic
vocalists. The fact is, many of them
cannot sing at all, and their public ex-
hibitions convince audiences that vo-
calists, like poets, are born, not made.
A young man with a passion for vocal
music, without the powers of execution
or performance, is a melancholy sight to
behold.
Action was taken by the Quarterly