Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-08
BREVITIEs.
The Thermometer at 70 m. to-day indi-
Gated 75', and the barometer 20 $40

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Throwing water from windows into
the streets at night induced disciple
of Blackstone to contribute the sum of
ten dollars to the city treasury to-day.
The Technologist, Scientific Ameri-
can, Manufacturer and Builder, and
other scientific weeklies and monthlies
at Mansfords, corner of Monroe and
Second.
The Criminal Court was investigating
the case of Charles Gholson to-day
Gholson is charged with the killing of
another negro named Calvin Harris,
near Big creek, some months since.
Nothing has been heard from Powell
and Whelan, the jail-breakers. 1t is
understood that the Sheriff is investi-
eating the affair, with reference to the
criminal carelessness of some of the Jail
guards.
The General Council met again last
evening, transacted some unfinished
business of minor importance, failed to
act on the elevator and other important
questions with promptness, and ad-
journed over to the first Wednesday in
May.
Yesterday Good Friday was generally
observed in the different churches. The
Episcopal and Catholic Churches we're
draped in mourning. To-day Lent ends,
and tomorrow the trappings of sorrow
will vanish and give place to a new era
of hope and joy.
There will be grand sacred concert
at St. Peters Church on Thursday eve
ming next, the proceeds to be applied to
the painting and repairing of the church.
Prof Sabatzky will preside at the organ,
and the choir will be assisted by the
leading amateurs and professional ar
lists Of our city.
Emmons & Son, veteran newsdealers,
on Jefferson and Beal streets, have daily
papers from New York, Cincinnati, st.
Louis, Louisville, Nashville New Orleans
and other points. French, English and
German newspapers and pictorials al
ways on hand. All the American pic
torials and magazines just received at
their stands.
The Western Associated Press came
in for a scorching blast from Train last
night. Mr.. Train bitterly denounced
this huge Radical monopoly as an enemy
to the South, and the tool of the Radi-
cal press and politicians, from which
conclusions, judging from the tenor and
tone of its general dispatches, we have
no disposition to escape.
We are placed under obligations to
Moyston & Bro, of the Star Gallery,
249 Main street, for splendid cabinet |
size photograph of George Francis
Train. The photograph is finished in
the highest style of art, a style worthy
of the most celebrated galleries in the
East. The photograph is startling
likeness of the wonderful talker who has
so captivated our people.
Special Recorder Taylor presided at
the station-house to-day. Twenty-four
cases were disposed of and one hundred |
and fifty dollars were collected. A
horse-thief named Wash Pebbles, noted
for his love of horse-hesh, was sent to
Jail under one thousand dollars bonds,
on the charge of stealing a mare at
Horn Lake, Mississippi.
The city proposes to tax things be-
longing to the immaterial world. The
seanceS of Mrs. Farris, held nightly in
the Cochran Hall building, are regarded |
by the city authorities as "show or
place of amusement" while the believ-
ers in spiritualism insist that it is a sys-
tenn of religion, and is no more subject
to tax as a show than any other church,
and the collection taken up is a practice
common to all churches.
Since the advent of Mr.. Train the
popular taste for epigrams has increased,
or rather has commenced. Several po-
etical epigrams, by those counting the
Muses., have appeared in the morning
papers. We now look for the epigramatic
age when newspapers in Memphis will
be flooded by illusions of this character.
An epigram is defined to be a short
poem having a point Writers aspiring
10 this difficult style of mounting Par
nassas will do we'll TO remember the
point.
The Train matinee comes off this
afternoon, and tomorrow night Mr..
Train will deliver his most interesting
ecture at the Greenlaw Opera House
or the benefit of the orphans, the entire
proceeds to be donated to that purpose
Tickets, fifty cents. There is raciness,
! freshness about Trains lectures that {
produce an exhilarating impression upon
sven the dullest and most sluggish
minds. The terrible truths he tells
lbout society and its sham professions
ire enjoyed by the public, while from
lis enthusiastic earnestness it is very
,vident that like Abu Ben Addin, he {
AN be written down as one who loves 8
lis fellow men, therefore, as a ponular