Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-17
LEDGER LINES.

MORROW. Inc uiegrhcelul scenes OF ihht
Sunday will not bear an encore.
The Probate Court, Judge Ray presid.
ing, will meet on next Monday for the
transaction OF regular business.
The tax-assessors OF tho different
wards of the city will meet at the County
Court room at 3 o'clock this evening.
The 0ratorio Of Esther at the Mem
phis Theater last night attracted an i'm
mense and fashionably religious audi
ence.
The ladies of the Central Methodist
church will inaugurate a strawberry
festival at Rocco Hall next Monday
evening.
Mayoralty candidates are beginning
to have a weakness for picLics and seek
to intermix with the sovereigns. This is
CONNIE il faut.
The new Masonic Temple will cost two
hundred thousand dollars, the lot sixty
thousand; total, two hundred and sixty
thousand dollars.
The graves Of the Confederate dead at
Elmwood will receive floral decorations
next Tuesday, under the auspices of the
Ladies Memorial Association.
On and after tomorrow Sunday, the
18th inst, the mail train over the Louis
vile and Nashville and Great Southern
railroad will leave Memphis at twelve
o'clock noon.
New York, Chicago and San Francisco
had hanging Of murderers yesterday.
1t is time for Memphis to swing up
half dozen or more who have been
Strengthening their brethren during the
past two years.
The Police Board will select an Adams
street station-house keeper on Monday
afternoon. Thirty-two candidates, in
GLIDING five members of the police force,
are mentioned in connection with the
little Office.
| Blanche Selwyn matinee at the Mem
phis Theater to-day. 1t seems strange
that the word matinee " is applied to
afternoon entertainments, when it liter.
ally means that part of the day from
sunrise to midday.
The engineers of Shelby county and
the Selma railroad will commence the
admeasurement of embankment and ex-
cavation on that section Of the Selma
railroad in this county on next Monday,
and will make report to the June term Of
the Quarterly Court.
The temperance men of Memphis
should subscribe enough of money to
erect fountain in Court Square, and
put few gold fish in the basin. II
would be suggestive not only Of. temper
ance but of fish diet which is phospho.
rus, and therefore brain power.
County Railroad Tax Collector B. F.
Duncan won the Wharfmaster Light.
burne rife at the Christian Brothers
College festival held at the Exposition
building. Mr.. Duncan was tied with two
strings of centers of FIVE each, but wo n
the rife in shooting of, making 10, Is
II, IL, l5-68.
A six thousand dollar marble statue Of
Wade Bolton can be seen at Muldoon
marble yard, on Madison street. 1t is
Iile-size and life-like, but the curious old
fashioned garments and brogan shoes, sc
indicative of Questionable Southwestern
American life of olden times, must have
astonished the Italian artist who "sculpt
the figure.
The Appeal is in error when it states
that Doc Wright, who sent Chief Athy 9
curiously carved box, is in the peniten
tiary under a sentence Of three years fol
robbing the safe in the Chief of Police
office. Doc Wright is in the county
Jail. He has never been tried in Mem
phis, and probably will not be, as he wal
used as the prosecuting witness against
Angelo Marie. That Doc, who is con
fessed and notorious burglar, ought to b'
in the penitentiary admits of no doubt
He is in Jail awaiting trial in Arkan
sas on some charge, AID will probably
be sent to the penitsntiary of that State
An Appeal correspondent desires that
the people of Memphis shall decorat'
not only the graves of the Confederate
dead at Elmwood but also the graves Of
the Federal dead at the National Gene
terry. The Federal dead have been gath
cred together in national cemeteries by
the government and are honored as
martyrs, while the Confederate dead had
to be cared for by the people Of the
South, and are from a national stand
point dishonored. Some years since,
when some ladies attending the Federal
dead celebration at the cemetery near
Washington, attempted to place flowers
on the graves of few dead Confed'
crates, a lieutenant and squad Of ma
rines drove them away at the point of the
bayonet, and scattered the flowers to the
winds. dead rebels should not be
honored," said the rufiRnly representa-
tive Of the government.
THE two colossal pyramids OF flowers
t to be voted for at the picnic Of Memphi