Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-01
BREFrTIEs.

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One hundred and eight unfortunates
pine away within the county Jail. Y.
The General Assembly of the State
adjourned sine die at IL m. to-day. I'D
This is the first Of April, known as All
Fools Day, Practical jokers are in
their glory, osi fi 'qag
st. Peters Orphans Fair at the As
sembly Hall this evening. Everybody
invited to attend. $50 q
Judge Whitney, Of the United States
Court left to-day for his home at Grand
Rapids, Michigan. 1 s.auH
The regular monthly meeting of the
General Council win be held next
"Wednesday afternoon. fa. afa1
Esquire John E. Burke, Of this city,
died yesterday at his residence in South
Memphis, of congestion, eas'
- Our Favosites give their grand
Easter ball at Cochran Hall this even
ing. 1t will not be en- masquerade.
Judge Whitley adjourned the United
States Circuit ard District Courts to-
day over to the first Monday in May
next. lage fHUt
The day and night police force ex-
changed duties at noon to-day. The
sanitary force is to be organized imme-
diately. IN dar 110 aztYttF
Next Monday, evening, April 9Th, the
Mendelssohn Quartette Club will give
their anniversary concert at the Mem
Iphis Theater.
Forty misdemeanor cases were dis
posed Of by fine by the Recorder this
forenoon. Not single felony case ap-
peared on the docket, vasewtug
| The Catholic and Episcopal churches
were decorated yesterday in most taste
full and elegant manner, and were at
tended by thousands Of devotees.
A. The Chamber of Commerce meets this
afternoon for the purpose Of considering
4 the report Of the committee on consoli
dating with the Cotton Exchange.
Il The WEEKLY PUBLIC LEDGER can be
had at the counting-room tomorrow
| morning. Single copy, five cents; sub
scription, one year, 81; clubs Of five OIL
more, 81 so.
Delegates representing the two lodges
Knights of Pythias, in this city, LEFT
this morning for Nashville, TO assist il
the organization of the Grand Lodge o
the State. sro-
i Annie Williams pleaded guilty Il
petit larceny in the Criminal Court this
forenoon before a jury of her peers, and
was sent to the county Jail for shor
period Of time. ' B
! The First Chancery Court met thi
. morning and adjourned over to mex
Monday. The regular April terms o
the First and Second Chaucery Court
commenced to-day. aoa 5a "a
The Appeal is rapidly becoming
6rst-class pictorial newspaper. 81 Th'
wood cut Of the Fair Grounds published
yesterday resembled ground patterr
. for Dolly Warden. 20 ~
= Rev. David Walk will deliver lectur'
on next Thursday evening at the Lindei
street Christian Church, for the purpose
: Of creating fund to erect house o
worship for the colored members of hi
. church. t.la gsIaro ata
Tomorrow evening the Sunday schoo
: teachers will hold meeting at the, Firs
Presbyterian Church for the purpose o
perfecting arrangements for the ap
! preaching May festival and other impor
, tant matters. yn
t Colonel :B. F. Ball, has announces
himself as candidate for the Office 0
Sheriff of Shelby county, subject to tn
: decision of the ensuing Democratic
0 County Convention. Should he receive
the nomination, he will get a heavy vot'
I. in the city and country. u
Captain J. Harvey Mathes, Colone
} G. l.. Anderson and Mr.. Douglass, 0
| the Fourteenth District resigned las
Saturday at the meeting Of the Shelby
County Democratic Executive Commit
tee. The following new members wer'
elected: Messrs. G. r. Wynn, Johr
, Gray, John Pendergast, Virgil RaWhng'
and Ames G. Roher. aaa 81
There is splendid quarry of lime
stone ledge rock within dozen miles OF
: Memphis. The lodges are from two to
six feet in thickness and inexhaustible
Owing to the fact that the rock is nearly
eight miles from a railroad it is value
, less at present 1t is probably the only
outcropping of limestone within hun
J dred miles Of Memphis.
A genius suggests plan for removing
the blufs-a method used in Californii
mining operations, viz; to cause the
steam ERE engines to play on the base o
the bluffs, which will cause the bank t.
cave, and then to wash the debris int
Z, the river by the same means. The ides
is q good one, and il practicable, is mucf
cheaper than the old and most expen
Z 10. r,a.lod a. ramove the bluffs Will