Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-02
BREYITIEs.


Fashion says that overskirts are to be
abandoned by their occupants.
The Inventors Aid Association meets
at the Chamber Of Commerce at four
o'clock this afternoon.
Some one suggests that in promen-
aiding on Main street, if you don't keep
to the right you'll get left.
The Old Folks at Home will meet at
three O clock this afternoon to consider
matters of interest to the Society.
Justice ]. M. Crews, of the Eighth
Civil District, resigned his position as
Magistrate of Shelby county yesterday.
The Supreme Court of the State met
at Jackson yesterday to consider the
immense mass of legal business sent up
from our city courts.
Insanity is becoming prevalent. Yes
terday William Flaherty was adjudged
to be insane by jury of inquest sum-
moned by Esquire Miller.
The St. Peters Orphans Fair at the
Assembly Hall last night was largely
attended by our citizens. The fair will
continue during the week. NJ
The General Assembly of the State
adjourned yesterday sine die. Repre-
sentatives Harris, Crews and Lumkin
reached Memphis last evening.
The County Court yesterday voted
fifty dollars to assist in defraying the
funeral expenses of one of their number
the late Esquire John E. Burke.
Messrs. 7. Boyle, John Steele, B. B.
Barnes, H. A. Montgomery, P. M. Win.
tiers, John Miller and M. j. Wicks were
elected yesterday afternoon directors Of
the Shelby County Turnpike Company
A morning contemporary informs the
public that at is fashionable now for
coachmen to wear gloves of the same
color as their horses" The color of the
gloves worn by the horses is not clearly
stated. i-,ee
The great Sunday school celebration
will come off on the 10th of May. The
committee Of arrangements is composed
of Messrs. N. N. Barnes, j. r. Goodwin
w. r. Stewart, Ben May, N W. Speers
and DR.. Gobel.
Superintendent Bigelow, of the post
Office, reports the mail business fol
March as follows mail letters delivered
1872, 1920; newspapers delivered, 28,802;
letters collected, 1921; newspapers col
lected, 3840.
The Cotton Exchange has been estab
lished as a branch of the Chamber Of
Commerce. The much vexed question
of futures" which it was supposed
would ruin the country, has been for
gotten as thing of the past.
South Memphis is growing rapidly
In every direction houses are springinG
up as if by magic, and the sound of the
hammer is heard from dawn until dark
As a necessary consequence property is
held at higher figures than heretofore.
First of April jokes we're INDUCED in
and enjoyed throughout the city yester-
day. We heard of several business men
being sent to interview the Woodman
family, who are represented by indians
and other figures in front of cigar stores.
The vestrymen of Calvary Church for
the ensuing year are Messrs. W. B. Mil
Ter, F. W. Smith, ]. j. Freeman, W. B.
Hamlin, J. A. Hayes, W. A. Goodwin,
]. P. Learned, f. Banksmith, j. Fl.
Bowen, W. W. Young and l.. M. VOL
colt.
The city has been divided into three
sanitary divisions. Officer VIM. Feath-
erston has charge of the northern, i.
W. Jenny of the southern, and .. W,
Goddard of the middle. All com
plants must be made to Sergeant-at-
Arms A. c. Belts, at the Mayors office,
or to the Chief of Police at his head
quarters in the Adams block, corner of
Adams and Second streets.
In the House of Representatives at
Washington yesterday, on the reading Of
the amnesty bill, it was discovered that
it contained the names Of Zebulon
Vance, A. 0. P. Nicholson and Isham
G.. Harris. The reading of the names
caused considerable commotion and ex-
element among the ultra-Radical mem
beers. The bill, which contains over
five thousand names, was referred to the
Judiciary committee.
Two detectives, acting upon secret in
formation, went out to the northern
suburbs of the city yesterday and dug
up mysterious looking box supposed
to contain the body Of a murdered in
FAINT. When opened dead black and
tan met their gaze. A card attached. to
the animal suggested something about
the LIST of April. The detectives did
not remove the body. 1t was stronger
than they, and made them move.
A man named Long, from near Grand
Junction, was fined fifty dollars by the
recorder to-day, because he approached
young girl at the Mississippi
depot, carried her up town to a
Lotal and rar;starad her name "a Miss