Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-17
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Raids on gambling houses are all the
rage with deputy sheriffs at present.
Read the advertisement of the Board
of Underwriters in another column.
Adams street is to have wrought iron
bridge over the bayou at cost Of $l548.
HISeveral attempts were made at bur-
glary last night in Chelsea by two white
men.
The police made the loungers in front
of Calvary Episcopal church move on"
last Sunday.
The LEDGER Office job printing estab-
lishment is the best place to get business
cards or circulars printed.
Tonight Professor DeCastro, the il.
lusionst, will appear with his troupe at
the Greenlaw Opera House.
The alarm of fire last night was caused
by the burning of house over the river
in our sister city of HopeGeld.
Tomorrow night Rev. Father Meagher
will lecture at Assembly Hall on Social
Life in Ireland Forty Years Ago"
Jailor Jackson, day or two since,
while searching the cell of Captain White,
the horse thief found another kit of tools,
such as files, saws, etc.
In the Second Circuit Court Eva Nc
Call has fled petition for a divorce
against William Mccall on the grounds
of cruelty and inhuman treatment.
John I. Moss, attorney, while return
ing home during the rain storm last
night, fell into cellar on Jefferson street
and received several painful bruises.
The argument of counsel in the case
of John McCarty, the man who set fire
to the Louisville railroad shops, is pro-
crossing to-day in the Criminal Court.
The lawyers have library, consul
tation room and study room in the
new courthouse. All that is needed to
make the courthouse complete is a good
bar.
Sheriff Anderson carried thirteen pris-
oners to Bartlett yesterday for teh pur-
pose of having them tried before the
Circuit Court which is in session in that
village.
The only places of amusement open
in the city last night weresthe Jefferson
Varieties, the ball Of the Swiss Gruetli
Society, and the meeting of the General
Council
Last night the Swiss Gruetli Society
ball came off at Cochran Hall. Those
attending had pleasant time and the
festivities were kept up until late into
the night.
Owing to the inclement weather the
dancing exhibition which was to have
been given by Professor Mueller and pu-
pills at the Exposition tonight has been
indefinitely postponed.
A gang of burglars and thieves is in
the city at present, but so far they have
not attempted any work. These chaps
float in here occasionally as they travel
between St. Louis and New Orleans.
Tonight the German Casino Club will
give ball and banquet at Cochran Hall.
The club celebrates its seventeenth an
niversary. 1t now numbers several hun
dred members, who represent all nation
alities.
The steamboats, in port yesterday
hung their colors at half mast out of
respect to the memory of the late Capt.
Will Locke, river editor of the Appeal,
who was buried at Elmwood Cemetery
yesterday.
The alley running from Main to Shelby,
between Union and Gayoso streets, is to
be paved, provided the property holders
pay for the same and take from the city
an allowance in taxes in FIVE yearly in
stallments.
The General Council has its orators,
;ts nh losophers, its tragedians, its come
dams. its clowns, its ignOramuses, its
onera boufe performers, etc.; in fact, it
ia a collection of animals not equaled by
auy menagerie in the world.
Some days since BOs Williams, a no.
ted negro, killed colored brother near
Collierville. While the officers of the
law were searching for him Williams
surrendered himself. and on trial before
Esquire Irby was acquitted on the
grounds of selfdefense.
The Appeal man is still quarreling
over the question as to whether the ladies
wear monogram gsrters. Let the Appeal
man be appointed a committee of inves-
r;eation with power to send for persons
and papers, and thus bis mind will be
relieved of dreadful weight.
That same fellow has already com
mence getting ready to make bis one
hundred calls on New Years day. He
will eat one hundred times and take one
hundred drinks dsriRg the day, and at
night he will be one Of the jolly fellows
who won't 90 home till morning.
The gentle rain from heaven has been
ia ling for twenty-four hosrs. Shakespeare
saws of the rain, 1t is twice blessed
-. on Him that gives and him that