Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-14


Tomorrow the Christian Brothers
festival will be held at the Exposition
building. The rains cannot prevent
the successful celebration Of this festi-
val. .8g.ntaH ain
The number Of divorce suits filed in
our courts during the past six months
speaks badly for connubial felicity.
Memphis will soon rival Chicago as
matrimonial separator.
Owing to the rains the great picnic Of
the Italian Society, which was to have
been celebrated at James Park to-day,
has been postponed to this day week
"wednesday, the 2lst inst.
The contract for the erection of the
Masonic Temple having been awarded,
work will be commenced Immediately.
The cornerstone will be laid ON st.
Johns day, the Gath Of June.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin in
forms the world that there are two and
half to three millions of dollars idle
and useless sunk in the cotton slowed
in the cotton warehouses of Memphis.
A special dispatch from GAINESVILLE
informs us that Brother George Mellersh,
of our city, was elected to-day Grand
Commander of the Knights Templar Of
Tennessee. 1t was good selection.
Bow BELLS for May has arrived, and
is to be had at Walkers news depot, los
Beal street. This magazine is the finest
ladies' journal placed upon our table,
and Walker has plenty Of them. Call
early and secure a copy.
Subscribing stock to an enterprise
that has to sell its legal life to the first
mortgage bondholders will we presume,
cease to be fashionable after while.
It was always a silly act. Stockholders
are the victims of the bondholders.
The broad and narrow-gauge fends
are at it again through the public press.
But while each disputant settles to his
own satisfaction the case Of broad VS..
narrow, the building of the road on any
gauge is as far off as ever.
The sale of the Gayoso Gas Compa-
ny's effects and franchise yesterday, has
created autter of excitement in stock
specializing circles. The local stock
holders are determined to make some
kind of legal contest in order to pro-
tect their lost rights and interests.
There is a general ignorance of the
law upon the subject of sending mer-
chandse through the mails. Merchan-
disc is limited to twelve ounces, and
must be wrapped so as to permit exami-
nation. Writing, other than the address,
subjects the package to letter postage.
One hundred and eight thousand dol
lars captured the Gayoso gas works yes
terday afternoon at public sale. The
purchaser Gaylord, of Cincinnati, held
a deed Of trust which swallowed the
works. The stockholders seem to have
lost everything. Gas is q dangerous
substance to deal with.
The chain-gang is about to petition
for spring suits. One of the most 80
ciable and enterprising members of the
gang proposes giving picnic in order
to raise fund that will discharge all
fines and costs on the docket against the
gang.
The Aldermanic contested election
case between Davis, of the Third ward,
and several American born Aldermen
who represent the contestant, or in other
words, the great municipal arithmetical
puzzle, known as FIVE Aldermanic
Americans and FIVE Aldermanic foreign
ers, is to be transferred for investigation
to the Supreme Court.
To-dsy's kilograms state that Major
General Jack and his Modocs have left
the lava beds and are moving rapidly
in southeasterly direction. This
course, If persisted in for a few weeks,
would bring the great Modoc chieftain
to HOpe6eld, in front Of our city, and a
massacre and sealping Of old buffers
would be the result. II such things
can-be" in the Northwest why can't
they be done also in the Southwest 2