Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-24
BREYITIEs.

A.Sahb ANNAs
General J. B. Hood, of New Orleans,
is stopping at the Peabody.
The First Chancery Court adjourned
last evening over to next Monday.
The Baptist Convention concluded its
labors yesterday and adjourned sine die.
Filing divorce petitions in our courts
has become one of the spring fashions.
The Second Circuit Court stands ad-
journed to. Wednesday next, which will
be motion day.
The Police Board, at its session yes
terday, discharged several members Of
the force for violations Of discipline.
The box-ofice of the Memphis Theaterl
will be opened tomorrow for the sale Of
seats for the Janauschek engagement.
The accidental discharge of pistol
last night causes a young man in North
Memphis to carry his hand in sling.
The disagreeable smell Of escaping
gas parvades the city 1t may be dis
infectant, butt is undoubtedly offensive.
The Germans of Memphis will have
their annual Maifest. Why cannot they
get up Schutzenfest during the season
The river is stationary at this point at
present, and sudden fall is anticipated
by steamboatmen and meteorological
observers.
Some railroad man proves by statistics
that it is safer to travel on rails than lie
in bed. This must be a lie, either in or
out of bed.
ST. Georges Society banqueted at the
Park restaurant last evening. The usual
toasts were presented and responded to
by the Britons.
The city of Vicksburg proposes sub
scribing one hundred Thousand dollars
on the 22d prox. to the Memphis and
Vicksburg railroad.
Decoration day will be on the 4th of
May this season, instead Of the 9Th, as
formerly. The change of days destroys
the idea of an anniversary celebration.
The Fisk Mansfeld-Stok muddle has
been dranatized and produced on the
stage in New York. The papers regard
the representation as offensive in the ex-
IRENE.
The detectives are looking for Mr..
Sylvester NJ, Webb, who has been doing
a heavy business in this city. Chief De-
tective Cranmer is not in the city; hence
Mr.. Webb cannot be found.
Carl Schurz, the representative Ger
man of America, is called by his admi-
rers "Shurs, Skurs," "Shirts, !"
Skirts" "Shoorts, " Skoorts," etc.
Tcutons call the Missouri Senator
Shorts" o..
The members of the Mechanics Insti-
tute are perfecting arrangements for the
Mechanical and Industrial Exposition to
be held In this city. The report of the
committee will be presented at meet
ing this evening.
The courts of the city are locked up,
SO far as business is concerned, owing to
the absence of lawyers who are at Jack
son attending the Supreme Court. The
staid city of Jackson must be lively
place at present.
A paragraph has been going the
rounds of the press that meningitis and
smallpox prevail as epidemics in Mem
phis. The epidemics have not as yet
been discovered by our leading physi-
clans, Notwithstanding the sensational
item
Mr.. II. S. McComb, President of the
Southern Railroad Association, while
asleep at Grenada, Mississippi, last Mon
day night, was relieved of some valuable
diamonds, gold watch and eighty dol
lars in gold by burglar who regarded
railroad president as worthy such po-
lite attention.
A prompt correspondent answers our
query of yesterday, and says the name
must be pronounced Yau-knaw-sheck,
with the accent on the initial syllable.
Should this pronunciation be objected
ts you are at liberty TO vocalize it in the
most liberal manner, in fact, to take
your choice.
Former city administrations, and not
the present one, are responsible for the
debt of the city and the high rate of
taxes. The motto of the present city
government is that " the only way to get
out of debt is to pay out" If any genius
has discovered any better remedy for
these ills, let him come forward and be
immortalized
Our Union street neighbor declares
that the full-orbed moon bulged up at
the end of Poplar street last evening.
Hundreds of citizens on this issue in
sist that Luna made her first appear
ance at the head of Madison street, but
the lunatics must settle this controversy
among themselves. Whatever may be
the result of the discussion, it was clearly
apparent that the yellow moon was as
fall as if she had taken twenty horns
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