Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-15

VI pJ MS lTleuus AZ the lhhu 10 MI the
vacancy caused by the death Of United
States Chief Justice Chase.
Next Friday evening the oratorio Of
Esther will be given at the Theater by
way Of complimentary benefit to Mr.
Kirkland, musical director.
II. Ward Beecher thinks that doleful
hymns should be given as medicine, in
broken doses, and homeopathic at that.
He should visit this section Of the coun-
try.
The Christian Brothers College festi-
val at the Exposition building to-day
and tonight. Fine bands OF music
have been engaged for the Terpsi-
choreans.
Civil Engineer Newton Pharr has been
selected by the County Court Committee
to make a survey of the Selma railroad
work in which Shelby county is inter-
ested.
The ladies of Central Methodist
Church will hold a strawberry festival in
Rocco hall, commencing Monday eve
ming, the 10Th instant. Lunch every
day and night.
The reckless editor Of the Cincinnati
Times says: Memphis, Tennessee, can
furnish more cold-blooded affairs to the
square inch than any city of its proper
tons in this country"
The numerous but unheeded signs,
look out for paint" are among the
many indications of prosperity in our
city, which the fellow who rubs against
the paint can't discover.
The Avalanche LEGAL wishes the city
to build gas works at cost of two hun
bred thousand dollars. Two gas works
and third on the stocks are, we opine,
sufficient for the Memphians at present.
Two hundred new cases have been
brought in the First Circuit Court for the
May term, and in the Second Circuit
one hundred and fifty appear on the
docket. This is gratifying news for at
torneys.
The centennial committee met yester-
day and appointed a subcommittee to
prepare an address to tho Memphis pub
lie. The adjourned meeting of the
committee will be he Id ON the 9Th Of
June next.
Awriter divides men, according totheir
style of laughter, into three elasses-the
he, he, he, the no, no, mo and the ha, ha,
ha men; the shallow, the vulgar and the
refined. The three kinds are numerous
in Memphis.
A citizen was bitten by ferocious
dog yesterday. Dogs are getting en-
tirely too numerous about the city. The
approaching warm weather will cause
our authorities to collar and muzzle
the CANNES.
The Appeal asks, in reference to the
next successful Mayoralty candidate,
"who is the coming mann" We give it
up-to the candidates, who can come to
the LEDGER office and announce them
selves at the usual rates.
Who will be the station-house keeper
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of John Magevney, is the vexed ques-
ton with the Police Board at present.
Nearly thirty candidates are in the field
and desire to be in the station-house.
On such a night as the last the lovers
of suburban bellies had to hold sweet
converse with their beloved ones beneath
an umbrella and in gum-shoes and tep
boots. The umbrella paid double debt
it kept of the rain as we'll as the cater
pillars.
Quite number of invited guests took
an Italian dinner with Madame Vincent
yesterday. The wines, Italian cookery,
ravioli," ETC., were objects of interest
to those who sat around the festal board,
so well presided over by the accom-
plished hostess.
On Friday next memorial day will be
celebrated at ElmWood. It will be a
quiet affair, as no arrangements have
been made for a public celebration or
the delivery Of an Grafton, a floral tribute
to the dead being all that Is down on the
programme. As old Rip has it, when
we are dead We are soon forgottenl
And now comes on the grand rounds
the paragraph 70 the effect that sleep
ing rooms should always be arranged so
as to allow the head Of the sleeper to BE
turned toward the morrill, so that he can
turn over with the world right side fore
most. This will be indorsed by the en-
thusiastic Southerner, who, when he
rises, prefers TO look in the direction Of
Dixie.
There are in Memphis, belonging 10 /