Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-03
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Memphis lost number of valuable
citizens yesterday; they accompanied
Sheriff Doyle 10 Nashville. and will be
the guests Of the State for several years.
The Changing is doing good service on
Main aud adjacent streets 1.-THE members
Of the gang get up aterrible dust with
their brooms and scrapers. Court
Square is becoming fashionable place
Of resort each afternoon il was visited
yesterday by quite large number OF
tourists who came down on the
Thompson Dean and other boats.
School Board meets next Monday week.
Masqueraders are preparing for the
fancy dress ball on the nth at the Elk.
position. The delightful weather to-day
brought the bellies out prornenading and
shopping, to the great delight Of the
Main street oglers and starers. The
General Council meets again tonight
The next term Of the United States
Court will commence on the first Mon.
day in May. Five days racing over the
Chickasaw Jockey Club course will
commence on Tuesday, the 29th instant.
A troop Of the Seventh cavalry leaves
today for the Northwest; tire remaining
troops Of the regiment will follow in
few days. The estimated expense Of
the city schools for the yea rs 1874 is
ninety thousand dollars. Tlie city ordi-
nances and the acts of the General As
sembly with reference to Meiuphis are to
be printed by the lowest bidd sr, but at a
cost not exceeding fifteen hundred dol
lars for one thousand copies. The re-
mains Of the dead in Winchester Gem
etery are to be removed, and additional
interments therein are interd icted.
Ssns-Souci and Stage Struck, with Katie
Putnam in the leading roles, at the
Opera House tonight A little veto on
an expensive bayou bridge contract GRE
ated some excitement in the Genera
Council last night. The Aldermanic
Board and Common Council are develo D.
ing fine crop of debaters, who are ra D.
idly becoming orators and masters of
parliamentary law. Handels "Cr,a-
ton " at St. Peters church, and the
oratorio of Esther" at the Near
phis Theater, are the prospective mu-
steal attractions for the present month
Hereafter in Tennessee when it is pro-
pesed to put politician on the shelf or
defeat a political opponent. the verbs
will be let him be funded" The.
Grand Juryis said to have found batch
of indictments against certain county
officials who will assemble in the County
Courtroom next Monday morning, when.
it is rumored, the capiases will be ex--
ecuted by the deputy sheriff. There is a
chap in Memphis who will go TO the vi.
emma Exposition with any gentleman
who is willing to bear expenses. The,
Signal Service Bureau man here still
continues to insist that fine weather
is among the reasonable probabilities.
Mr.. L. 4. Dyer has entered upon his
duties as Appraiser Of Imported Goods, |
vice Barbour Lewis, the former incum
bent. The house that Vanderbilt in
Tennessee with half million of dollars |
is controlled by the fifth article of the
which says: THE Uni
Versity is to be located in or near Nash
vile, Tennessee" give us a penitentiary
and an insane asylum and we yet can
be happy. The late Grand Jury report
exploded like shrapnel shell in differ
emit portions of the city; it caused
many to rise and explain, and
then explain their explanation. The
Mills, owned by Governor
Straw of New Hampshire. make twenty
miles cotton cloth per day; the Governor
is no man Of straw; he was delighted
with Memphis yesterday. Why is it that
when reporter speaks of steamboat
' gone up" he means that she has gone
lown2 The st. Louis Board of Trade
boasts that the st. Louis cotton receipts
ror 1873 would reach nearly one hundred
thousand bales, and the st. Louisians
latter themselves that their burg will
ere long become the dominant cotton
center of the United States.