Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-22
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Joe Locke, the great rewsman at 1854
Main street, has all the latest daily pa
pers, weeklies and monthly magazines.
Next week will be the last of Lent.
Our churches are making preparations
to celebrate the religious season known
as Easter. 4h
Next Friday evening, March 20, the
orphans from Lauderdale Miss. Or
phans Home, will give concert at the
Memphis Theater.
Aimee and Noe will appear in lie
Pont Des Soupirs," this evening. This
being the fashionable night, the theater
will be ablaze with beauty.
Item hunting was slippery business
this afternoon, the beautiful snow
having undergone a chemical change
and turned into intolerable slush.
Chairman Dorsey B. Thomas has call
ed meeting of the State Democratic
Executive Committee, to assemble in
Nashville on Thursday, the 28th instant.
The colored children gave a concert
at Zion Hall, on Beal street, last even
ing. The entertainment was conducted
in an orderly and creditable manner,
under the leadership of Professor Smith
Paul Wrights news stand is supplied
with all the late publications, weekly
pictorials and periodicals; also, a hui
morously illustrated exposition of Free
Masonry.
The Police Board at its session made
several removals from the patrol force.
The board is endeavoring to keep the
force up to the highest standpoint Of
utility and effectiveness.
A complete assortment of the leading
magazines and papers of the country
can be found at Mansford's news depot,
corner of Second and Monroe; also, all
the late and popular novels.
Fatty McGinnis and Crowley, the
alleged principals in the Atkinson Horn
Lake murder, will have a preliminary
examination before Esquire Winters at
o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
The "Purim" masquerade ball, next
Monday evening, at the Memphis Club
Hall, is the next attraction-and will be
followed by the Easter Ball of Our Fa.
vorites, on the evening of the LIST Of
April.
The Judicial Convention at Nashville
adjourned yesterday evening, to meet
some time this fall on the call Of the
chairman or secretary. A namber OIL
reforms were recommended to the LIE
gislature.
The oficers-elect of the knights of St
Patrick in this city are: President, J. j
O'Brien; Vice President, Fl. Davis
Treasurer, P. McNulty; Recording Sec
rotary, d. Lyon; Financial Secretary
Dan. O'Rourke.
The Second Circuit Court stands ad
journed over to next Monday, when mo
tions will be heard. A list of cases fol
trial will be published for Tuesday next
Jurors need not appear until the latte
day at the usual hour.
After Lent quite a number Of oul
well known beaux and bellies intend tC
commit matrimony, and by an union o.
I hearts and hands invite the dream o.
happiness without alloy to take posses
sion of their homes.
Emmons & Son, veteran newsmen, al
No. 10 jefferson and 40 Main, havetht
latest magazines, periodicals, pictoriali
and daily newspapers from all points
Everything in the news, reading anC
stationery lines can be found at EN-
mons.
The tonsorial artists Of Tennessee
propose holding convention in Nash
vile on Wednesday the 26th instant, fol
the purpose of considering various sub
jects, and especially to make suitable
provisions for the support and protec
ton of the widows and orphans of de
ceased members of the craft.
Colonel Millington, engineer of TIE
Memphis and Knoxville railroad, reports
that the road has been located between
Somerville and Wolf river, easy grades
being found along the route. The road
between this city and Wolf river will be
located Immediately, General Nicely, the
president of the road, being determined
to push the work through as rapidly al
possible. .....-...
The mercury fell rapidly in the bar
ometer yesterday afternoon, and this
morning our citizens awoke to greet the
arrival of winter in the'shape of snow
storm that enveloped this part of mother
earth's person in the lightest and whites
of drapery A few unromantic citizens
INDUCED in sleigh rides this forenoon
Snow balling was the order of exercises
on the streets. r. "a rnn
A company of railroad charter-seekeri
who managed to secure numerous char
tiers and grants from the Arkansas Leg
islature, has changed its base and now
seeks to procure railroad charters ant
grants in Mississippi. The company il
sneculativelv inclined and will promise