Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-29
BREyITIEs.

ot. fatrickB churcn concert to-mor
row night.
Chills and fevers prevail in the city
and suburbs.
The General Council meets next
Wednesday in regular session.
Tolls have been advanced fifty pei
cent on the Poplar street boulevard.
Now that summer has come, there is q
large supply Of coal in the market.
The Industrial Exposition mass meet
ing at the Chamber of Commerce to.
night.
Eighty.five in the shade is the cool
quotation given by the thermometer
daily. 4lg9
The hotels are crowded with guests
all admirers Of race-horses and game.
ROSTERS.
The suburban roads are in a dusty
condition, and vegetation is thirsting for
drink.
The Radical office-holders intend hold
ing Grant mass meeting in this city on
the 10th of May.
A delegation of Washingtonians who
delight in chicken fighting arrived in the
city yesterday.
Next Sunday the Sunday school chill
drens' rehearsal will take place at the
Greenlaw Opera House.
Smith leads the van, closely followed
by Jones, johnson, Brown and Williams,
in the new city directory.
The herses, roosters, their hackers and
admirers, are all in Memphis at present.
Every man has weakness.
A fast Poplar street driver contributed
five dollars to the city treasury, at the
police court, this morning.
Fifty misdemcanor cases occupied the
attention of the Recorder to-day. The
amount Of fines collected was large.
Piscatorialists are fleeing to the Ar
kansas and West Tennessee lakes, in
search of mosquitoes and the fnny
tribe.
Jsnausehek's jewelry will be on exhi.
bition tomorrow morning, at Barnum's s.
1t will be admired by every lady in the
city.
The Central Methodist Church con-
cert, at the Memphis Club Hall to- night,
will attract large and fashionable au-
dience.
Professor Perring, the organist of st.
Peters Church, has been selected as
Musical Director of the Mendelssohn
Quartette Club.
A professional vagrant was fined fifty
dollars at the Recorders Court to-day
The chain-gang viii receive him into
their fold tomorrow.
An infant Dolly Warden was found tied
up in bundle on Market street last
night. The deserted waif was cared for
by an old negro woman.
The Supreme Court Of the State has
decided that bank stock is taxable like
other personal property, but only at the
place where the bank is located.
The citizens of Bartlett will give a
grand concert and series of charades to-
morrow Ievening for the benefit of the
Methodist church in that burg.
A quarry of the finest quality of ledge
limestone rock has been discovered on
Horn Lake creek. The rock crops out
in vast masses of any required size and
thickness.
Rotten Row, the Arcadian resort, on
the corner of Shelby and Gayoso, has
fallen into ruins, upon which workmen
are now erecting two splendid blocks of
business houses.
A little pugilistic entertainment, on
Madison street to-day, resulted in few
bruises and scratch es. But one round
was fought, when the ring was broken
into by mutual friends.
The investigation of the Cameron
Jones homicide case before Esquire Mil
Ter this forenoon. was waived by defend
ants counsel, as the Grand Jury has the
case under consideration.
Fears are entertained that owing to
the surplus of candidates, no disiute-
rested voters will be left in the county.
Each candidate voting for himself will
be equivalent to no election.
The caterpillars, as in 1871, have given
evidence of their existence in this and
adjoining counties. Ere long some
genius will make the caterpillar theme
for humorous or pathetic poem.
Dolly Warden kisses are said to be the
most popular and sweetest of confec-
tionery As the Dolly Warden hats are
covered with roses and other flowers, the
thing must be done Of course sub rosa.
The Princess Pierre Bonaparte, in
order to support helpless husba nd and
three children, all pensionless on &C
count of the downfall of imp erialism,
has opened millinery establi shment in
London.
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