Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-05
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theater last night.
The WEEKLY PUBLIC LEDGER can be
had at the counting-room to-day.
The United States Circuit and District
Courts will convene in the Waldran
block next Thursday.
Joe Locke, the great newsman at 1861
Main street, has all the latest daily pa.
pers, weeklies and monthly magazines
Mr.. j. B. Woodward, formerly county
attorney at this point, but now of St,
Louis, is on a visit to his friends in
Memphis.
The General Council meets tomorrow
afternoon. Many important questions
will! come up before this august body for
consideration.
The venerable society of Old Folks,
the members of which have been demi-
ciled on the bluffs for twenty years,
meets this afternoon.
The Mackerels are in trouble again.
The police made raid upon them last
night and safely landed school of them
in the station-house.
Aimee, with her fifty vocalists organ
lied into splendid opera bouf'e COM
pany, will appear at the Memphis The
alter next Monday week.
Paul T. Wright, at his news stand, 296
Main street, keeps all the leading pic
torials, magazines, newspapers and light
literature. The PUBLIC LEDGER can
always be found on his counter.
The first annual ball of the "Mystics
will come off tonight at the Memphis
Club Hall. The Mystics" get up ele-
CANT entertainments, and the affair to-
night will be no exception to the general
rule.
Seven hundred and sixty-three con-
victs are doing the State some service,
and they know it, at the Nashville peni-
Tertiary. Both male and female con-
viets are engaged in some laudable &C.
cupation.
Candidates for Office at the ensuing
elections are coming to the front al
ready. The number of aspirants to Of
fee has not fallen off, indeed, it is to be
hoped that Memphis will never fail in
producing men capable of saving the
country, and, like Barkis, willing to
do it.
Andy Jackson, arrested on warrant
charging him with carrying away from
the store of Harrington & Howell,
property of the value of one hundred
dollars, was committed by the Recorder
in default of bonds to the amount of
$4,000.
The latest dates of the Cincinnati
Commercial Chicago Times and Tri-
bune, St. Louis Democrat and Republi-
can, New York dailies, pictorials and
magazines, can be found at Mansford' $
news depot, corner of Second and
Monroe.
There were four runaway horses yes
terday on Main street, that made things
lively for pedestrians and drivers of We
hicles. Fortunately the flying steeds
did but little damage by colliding with
hacks, street-cars and lamp-posts. The
approach of spring has enlivened the
animal creation.
Overloaded drays, beneath which UNI
fortunate mules stagger and drag out
weary life, can be seen on Front and
Main streets every day. The poor brutes
are dashed up into trot by the yelling
drivers, who ought 20 be fined from five
to ten dollars for inhumanity. Have we
no Berg on the Chickasaw Bluff?
The printed marriage licenses issued
by our county clerk contains vignette
of an unfortunate pair standing up in
front of a solemn looking minister, and
number of celestial looking juveniles
standing around, forming a most sug-
gestive picture for three dollars and a
half, the price of the certificate of mar
riage.
Mr.. Peter Tracy, lecture manager of
this city, has engaged in correspondence
with Carl Schurz, for the purpose of in
ducing him to deliver one or more lee
lures on the political questions of the
day, in our city. No hall in the city
could hold the audience that would
greet Senator Schurz's appearance on
the lecture platform.
Nearly FIVE hundred doctors received
diplomas at the different medical col
leges throughout the couRtry last Thurs
day night. These would form a regi-
ment of Galenites, formidable, either
to protect life or take it. This intelli-
gent body of gentlemen, however, are, as
admitted on all sides, not only the or
aaments, but the chief "pillers of So
ciety.
A Washington dispatch says, on the
subject of the postal card system, no.
iced in the LEDGER last week; "Au-
thority for postal cards to go everywhere
through the mails for one cent will be
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