Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-26
BREyITIEs.

The Supreme Court meets at jackson
next Monday.
y Celery sauce--something very 6ne--at
Oliver, Finnie & Co.'S.
The great German Maifest will be held
at James Park on the 9th Of May next. |
Organ-grinders and wandering harpists
appear daily and nightly on all our street
corners.
The Board Of Underwriters INDUCED
in a grand opening at their quarters,
No. l6 Madison street, yesterday.
Janauschek and the popular Wynd-
hams will appear at the Memphis
Theater before the close of the season.
Joe Locke, the great newsman at 1868
Main street, has all the latest daily pa
pers, weeklies and monthly magazines.
Paul Wrights news stand is supplied
with all the late publications, weekly
pictorials and periodicals; also, hui
morously illustrated exposition of Free
Masonry.
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be had at
the counting-room to-day. The WEEKLY
LEDGER contains resume of the politi-
CAL local, commercial and general news
OF the week. q
After the uenten season the city will
be gayer than usual. Quite a large
number of private parties, masquerade
balls and fashionable weddings are
sl,oken Of as things to come to pass in
the future.
Ii IS rumored that the negotiations for
the sale or lease Of the Little Rock rail
ro I'd to Tom SCOTS Southern Railway
Security Company have failed. The
terms betwee,, the contracting parties
could not be agr, sed upon.
Harry P. Ryan, Assistant superln-
tendent of the Memphis ana onarieS'oh
railroad, was the recipienty es1arday Oh d
valuable gold watch-chain rom d
number of personal friends in t. us ei'y'
The te stimonial was well deserved.
ET.mons & Son, veteran newsmen, ~
No. 10 Jefferson and 40 Main, have tn,
lateit magazines, periodicals, pictorials
and dail,r namsnanara frona oil noiuto
Eve rything in the news, reading and
stationery lines can be found at EN-
mons.
At the regular meeting of the Cham
Der Of Commerce, held yesterday but
little was done, the committee on the
Cotton Exchange conference not being
ready to report, The Chamber adjourn
I'd over to TIE next regular meeting, or
subject to cal by President Pinson.
The members o.f Mcdonald Battalion
(the old Forrest Regiment of Cavalry
are requested to assemble at the First
Methodist church at clock this after
ternoon, to attend the funeral of f. /.
Cochran and d. c. Ammon, late mem
hers Of company B, Captain Barbour
Darkness enshrouded the gambling
palaces last night, owing to the action
of the Police Board and the raids made
by the police. Gambling may as well
retire gracefully from the field. Law,
public opinion and the police authorize s
are against it in Memphis.
The Purim masquerade ball at the
Memphis Club Hall last night was a
splendid success. The prizes for the
best presentations were awarded to Col.
M ID. L. Stewart, Italian brigand; Mr..
w. D. Mcdowell, Heather Chinee; Miss
Mollie Lloyd, of Nashville, page of
olden times.
1t is reported that the committees APP
pointed by the Chamber of Commerce
and Cotton Exchange, to consider the
union of the two associations, met yes
terday and failed to agree Should the
committees not agree, the Chamber of
Commerce and Cotton Exchange will
exist as distinct bodies.
The remains of the late Governor r.
NJ. Anderson, will arrive in this city on
Thursday evening next on board the
Arkansas river steamer, Thomas IL.
Allen. On Friday next the remains OF
the deceased will be buried in Elmwood
Cemetery. We regret to learn that Mrs.
Anderson, widow of the deceased, is
lying dangerously ill at the residence OF
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Barnett Graham,
aud that her physicians entertain but
little hope of her recovery. Mrs. Ander-
son is the sister of Senator Dubose, of
this city.